… that was the motto for the long weekend!
Heike was around and we started with some nice originally French dinner at a friends place (thanks to the hosts). On May 1st we walked through Geneva and enjoyed some international food at some offshoot of the labour demonstration party thingy … whatever. The evening was crowned with a visit to my favourite restaurant in the area … hmm … I love this place! Saturday was reserved for some hiking in the French alps near Megeve (this time without getting lost in snowslides). Finally Sunday was for relaxing and checking out the little market in Thoiry … which turned out to be quite nice!
IIHF World Cup 2009
The preliminary round is over, the first 24 out of 56 matches have been played AND bet on!
And we already have quite some spread between the best and the wor… well non-optimal better … 27 to 16 points or 1.13 and 0.67 points per game, respectively.
Still nothing is decided yet … so keep up the good bets ;)
All details under http://honourandglory.mehlhase.info
EU Profiler
Hello my fellow Europeans!
In case you haven’t decided which party you should vote for (and you should vote for one) in the European Parliament election (July 4th/5th/6th/7th), here comes your geek tool to find out …
The EU Profiler (blessed by the European Union Democracy Observatory) is your solution!
A Jaunty Jackalope on my Laptop [Update]
I got a Jaunty Jackalope on my laptop since Thursday …
In case you woonder … what the hack? … click the link and get your own new Ubuntu/Kubuntu release ;) … I got myself the one with the extra K!
And by today I actually have almost everything running again … puha!
It’s not always straight forward to do one of these upgrades, but hey …
Jaunty comes with the new KDE4 desktop which seems nice but still freaks me out sometimes, due to the changes compared to KDE3.5.
[Update]
I had to remove the intgrated Network Management tool by wicd and disable the desktop effects, but otherwise I hope to have solved all issues by now …
In case you want some guidance for the setup, here’s a nice webpage with a lot of information about Jaunty …
“Fat Tax”
There are things in this world you wouldn’t believe … Ryanair is having an election on what kind of “Fat Tax” they should introduce in their price scheme … be aware of the fact that the question of whether to have such a tax at all has already been answered by a previous election …
Feel free to read more and vote here.