Down Speed

Insane speeds ! Azureus peaked at > 500 kB/s, my screenshot being a little too late.
In theory, my 5 Mbit-line should give me 625 kByte/s, so what do I pay for when regular throughput is 200 kB/s only ?!

James Porto

Just for a change, here’s a simple link: www.jamesporto.com has got brilliant visuals !

Baby Names Again

We’ve been through that Kal-El stuff, but naming one’s baby Google is a crime against human dignity.

Anyway, Swedish authorities seem to be cool about it…

50 Mbit

50 Mbit down / 5 Mbit up for non- business customers at wilhelm.tel for EUR 149,00 p.m. flat. (GBP ~105)

Fifty ! That is 781 x plain single- channel ISDN…

Charlotte Engelhardt Goes Playboy

Charlotte used to host German computer TV-show NBC GIGA, but as everyone knew was not picked because of her computer wisdom.
Too bad she’s doing something different now.

The Morris Thompson Incident

Yesterday, 15:25, this website got a pagehit from Google.de, referring to the query words “Morris Thompson”.
Well - I don’t know no Morris Thompson and I was pretty sure he had nothing to do with my site. But then I checked again, and found this old post.
But still: Who would search German Google for Morris Thompson, [...]

Spam Spam Spam

Als ich gestern nach Hause kam, hatte ich ~ 50 mails in meinem Postfach. Darunter keine “echte” mail, 3 (gmx-) newsletter und 47 x spam. Der ach-so-hochgelobte Thunderbird- Spamfilter ließ ca. 5 spams unerkannt in meiner inbox, und so hab ich dann folgende mail (aus London !) gelesen:

Dearest,
I am a staff of Natwest Bank [...]