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    Here we have a post card from a P.O.W Camp in Halstead Essex, the Camps name is Hasford Lodge. It must be a friend (comrade?) from my grandpa that is still a P.O.W in England while my grandpa is already at home (he was a P.O.W in the USA).
     
    The postal system must be fairly ok at the time, because at the back it says, "got your letter from the 18th September" and this one is dated 29th of September... Other then that he only asks if he (my grandpa) already got married...
     
    This letter was a bit surprising, because i wasn
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    Austria wins Oscar

    By Viggen,

    Hmm, I am a bit late, but in case you missed it, Austria (my native country) won for the first time the Oscar for best foreign-language picture.
     
    The story goes something like this...
     
    The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen.
     
    Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. But while Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's allied opponents, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop Operation Bernhard's aid to the war effort. Faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions, which could prolong the war and risk the lives of fellow prisoners, are ultimately the right ones.
     
    You can read a little more about this fascinating movie at the Chicago Tribune and watch the trailer (with even more info on this true story) at the offical home page!
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    Getting Wealthy - Debt

    By Viggen,

    I managed to move all my current debt into a single low interest loan at my local bank. Which means Credit Card, consumer credit and overdraft (both with high interest) are on zero (and will stay that way). This move which took me less then 60 minutes reduced my monthly payment to service all my debt by 12% and shed a good year of paying back too...
     
    I am really cruising nicely along right now, i am ahead of plan!
     
    The interesting thing is that the more i think of getting rich, the more i think of money, the more i think of how to reduce costs, the more i think of increasing income, the more of all those things are happening --> a classic case of self-fulfilling prophecy?
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    Deutsche Musik

    By Viggen,

    Time to introduce some music from the german speaking world to the rest of the planet....
     
    one of my favourites is Xavier Naidoo (south african indian roots, but grew up in Germany and calls himself son of the city Mannheim),
     
    ...one of the best songwriter in Germany...
     


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    Well, eventually a usefull invention!
     
    A beer mat that knows when a glass is nearly empty and automatically asks for a refill has been created by thirsty researchers in Germany.
     
    Andreas Butz at the University of Munich and Michael Schmitz from Saarland University came up with the idea while out drinking with their students.
     
    full article at New Scientist
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    John Rabe

    By Viggen,

    I have to admit, till a few days ago i never heard of this man. Wasn`t it for the History Channel that brought a documentary about him, i still wouldnt know what this man meant to the people of Nanking.
     
    Why was he such a special person, you may ask? Well, John Rabe played the key role in saving the lives of more than 250,000 Chinese during the incident called the Rape of Nanking, i was so fascinated by this story that i had to look up more info on him and share this with you guys...
     
    You can read his biografie here
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    I am now just over a year without cigarettes, i stopped from a packet a day to zero from one day to the next.
    It is possible therefor i am one hell of a guy that i am able to manage that...
     
    this success story was brought to you by the mighty awesome Viggen, stay tuned till the next one comes..
     
    cheers
    chris
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    Dual Monitors

    By Viggen,

    I got myself a 22" Monitor and what a pleasure it is to have that big display in front of you. I did not get rid of my old 19" Monitor though, but instead set up a Dual Monitor display. My GeForce 7950 has two DVI connections and so it is a simple plug and play procedure. Within the Nvidia Graphic Settings it is a breeze to set up the two monitors the way you like. You can have both monitors display only one area (an extension so to speak) or you can have two seperate individual Desktops, which i have choosen. So right now i have in front of me the 22" monitor were i type this blog entry and on the right i have my 19" monitor watching a youtube movie. It is just wonderful. This will also help me allot when coding too, as i can code on the one monitor and browse, chat, watch on the second.
     
    I can only recommend to anyone to go Dual Monitor, it is such a time saver!
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    Unheilig (German for "Unholy") is a German industrial rock band with various pop and electronic influences. They are around since 2000 but only last year they had theire breakthrough, impressive dark voice by lead singer Bernd Heinrich Graf (only known as Der Graf (The Count)...
     
     


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    China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada's Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material. But China is just one of a growing number of states censoring the Internet, using primarily American filtering programs.
     
    But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught.
     
    more at Toronto Star
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    This is a list in progress of color laser printer models that do or do not print yellow tracking dots on their output.
     
    Remember that a "no" simply means that we couldn't see yellow dots; it does not prove that there is no forensic watermarking present. (For example, the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series does not include any yellow tracking dots that we can see, but it may still include some kind of forensic marking, since the majority of earlier CLJ models did.)
     
    Remember that a "yes" simply means that we (or another source, as noted) saw yellow dots that appeared anomalous to us. Until we decipher the marking schemes or receive other confirmation, this does not constitute proof that any particular kind of information is represented by these dots. In a very few cases, for example, they might be the result of a poor dithering technique, rather than a forensic mark.
     
    the list of printers that track your printing can be seen at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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    Johann who?
    ...you might ask, well he was a great baroque composer and his Canon in D is well known and very often played, a classic so to speak...
     
    Now take Johann Pachelbel`s work Canon in D and add a brilliant taiwanese with a hot electric guitar and you get that!
     
    i only say WOW
     
    regards
    viggen
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    Well, my five year old daughter wanted recently desperately ABBAs Greatest Hits, so i listend to it too...
     
    My favourite 5
     
    5. Mamma Mia
    4. Voulez Vous
    3. SOS
    2. Fernando
    1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
     
    ...but to be honest, (just like my daughter), I like all of them (for example Take a Chance on Me is just such a great song), and back in the 80s when it was released for the first time the Rolling Stone Magazine summed it up for me...:
     
    "...there are more infectious melodies, grabby hooks, and danceable drum beats on one side of this two-disc set than in most artists' entire catalogs...
     
    Amen...
    (and yes, i am old)
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    Abbey Road

    By Viggen,

    Yesterday I found by accident an old Vinyl of mine in the basement. I had all forgotten about it. The last album from the Beatles. "Abbey Road"
     
    After listening to it for basically the whole of yesterday and today, i have to say. It sounds fresh, vibrant and you can hear at every tune that this is a true master piece. The ending medley espcially Golden Slumber/Carry that Weight/The End is probably one of the best pieces of music ever made. It includes features never heard before by the beatles, rough guitar riffs, one of the few songs to feature harmony vocals from all four Beatles and the only ever drum solo by Ringo Starr...
     
    I am all in love again with the Beatles...
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    The carinthian sheep is a fairly recent breed, it was around the beginning of the 19th century that local farmers were looking for a sheep with a better wool then what was available. This was rather difficult because the two best breeds were from spain and england and both did not allow to export rams at the time, so they looked south to Italy and crossed their local the old Landschaf breed with the Bergamasca and Paduaner Sheep. The hardy, frugal Brillenschaf can cope with high precipitation and is expert in climbing, therefore it is used for grazing high alpine areas which are inaccessible to cows. By the end of the 19th century this breed was very popular and yearly about 30.000 sheep were exported to France at the time.
     
    During WWI the Brillenschaf was very popular, due to its big size, (lots of meat), fine wool and being frugal. In the 1930
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    Spam

    By Viggen,

    Wow,
    lately i am getting flooded with spam mails, from pills to *or*, from poker to mortage, from diploma to software.....
     
    People I dont want your crap, stop it!
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    Google Loves Your Blog!

    By Viggen,

    We only have the Blogs up for a couple of weeks and Google already indexing and ranking it pretty nicely!
     
    Some examples;
     
    Ursus`Blog with the search phrase Another Day In Customer Service 1st!!!!! out of 90 million
     
    Primus Pilus`Blog with the search phrase A Cold in September 1st!!! out of 70 Million!!!!!!!!
     
    Pompeius Magnus Blog with the search phrase Latin Language Education 7th out of 27.3 million!!!
     
    Maximus' Blog with the search phrase Maximus' Blog is 4th out of 600.00!
     
    Zekes Blog with the search phrase Zeke
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    Psp Virus

    By Viggen,

    Well this is new to me, a virus for a handheld game console!
     
    The PSP (PlayStationPortable) has now its very own Virus/Trojan called Trojan.PSPBrick, which once installed deletes very important system files and won`t start again and is then as usefull as a brick hence the name of the Virus.
     
    More info about the Virus are availabe at Symantec
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