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With friends who I know since many years… here is one.

I am still alive, but it seems facebook and twitter won over my blogging.

Today I found it odd that a 10 line newsletter mail had 848kb in length.
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Together with Ingrid, we were tinkering in the living room . I am quite proud of the result, behold what I now call the “cocktail curtain”:

Finished yesterday, it consists of a bulk of LED chains, wood, color, and string curtains. All parts were on supersale, so we came out on a budget and on one week work.

In February 2010, I wanted to get rid of a stack of CDs I will never listen to again. Such precious music as “The Eraser” by Thom Yorke. I don’t listen to it anymore, and will probably never, but I don’t bother putting them on ebay or on a fleamarket. So, CD and Book reselling services come to the rescue.

I checked out a few, such as www.seller.at and www.momox.de and collected some articles and links about CD selling in Germany and Austria on delicious. After reading some good reviews about Momox, and checking that they pay “ok” for the stuff, I sent a pack of 14 CDs worth eur 16,43 (accordingt to them) to Momox, and – alas – some days later the 16,43 plus some money for sending them via post landed on my bank account.

So, I can recommend momox!

http://www.momox.de/

A month ago, stressed at CeBIT, in a small break of flowing through lolcatspace, I ordered two excellent Glennz.com TShirts:

http://store.glennz.com/directline.html

and

http://store.glennz.com/goforlaunch.html

There was a minor problem with shipment, but Glennz answered to my customer request and handled it excellently – I can only recommend this shop! and their shirts. Good nerdware.

As mostly no one of you may know, gnowsis.com is moving out of our offices in two days, because inits.at, our incubation company, is moving to nicer offices, and so are we.

But that is not why this blog post: its instead about “I am legend – the Yoghurt”. As we are moving, the refrigerator of the startup companies also has to be emptied. And as in any shared kitchen (as in shared appartments), this means legendary food items coming to light. And here, startups have to leave after 18 months, so we have a lot of history in this fridge. I will not talk about the obviously molding italian pasta in glasses from 2008 or the piccolo champagne bottle I just nicked (it has “Smart” written on it and is dated 2004, but sparkling wine can’t go bad I guess, so probably thanks to the smarties, har har). But instead I will talk of the untouchable “I am legend – the Yoghurt”.

Of course, as old Burning-Man-use-what-you-find enthousiast, I was cherry-picking through the leftovers to find some stash for myself. After picking up an excellent Red Bull Can which was already glued to the shelf by dried-up-whatever-liquid (and expired in 2009, so safe for me to enjoy) and behind glasses from 2006, there I found it: “I am legend”.

A Yoghurt saying it went bad in Dezember, but I don’t know which year. Here is a picture of its heavily dented top, which I leave for someone else to pierce.

btw: our new address will be: Bürocenter Wienzeile
Graumanngasse 7, Stiege B, Stock 5, Tür 5
A-1150 Wien, Österreich. Thats here:

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Nachdem wir kräftig auf der CeBIT gerockt haben, grüße von dem besten Kumpel mit dem man trinken kann: Mec Allemand.

Mec Allemand ist der brillen-nerd-pop-indiehouse shit der stunde .. footage online!

http://mecallemand.de/videos/

Wenn wir genug fans in Wien zusammenbekommen, kommen die Jungs zu uns. Also, brav Videos gucken und twittern was die finger hergeben.

The german city “Mannheim” is suing the twitter user “Mannheim”, a guy living and working in Mannheim. CAN YOU HAZ TWITTER?

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Mark has now received a letter via registered mail from the City of Mannheim, which says that he must sign the letter and give up the Twitter account, or suffer the full force of a city’s legal team as they try to drag our a**es through the courts.

In my opinion, the city of Mannheim can fuck off. If they forget to register their own name on twitter, they are clearly years behind. And they will always be too late in all the good services, so if they start doing this with Twitter, where will it end? The german legislation allows you to sue for DOMAIN names, which is kind-of-ok, but with web 2.0 accounts? Anyway, I am with the small David here against Goliath.