I was sitting at the desk, fixing a webform for my parents site (turned out quite well) when suddenly the phone rang. I usually check the caller id while i pick up, but it read “unknown” — but whatever — i always pick up.

• MM: Yes?
• MM: Who is it?
• Bot: Hello, my name is Rosentreter and i would like to return the computer i just bought from you on eBay.
• MM: You would like to do what?
• Bot: Yes, i would like to return it, because it doesn’t even have Windoo on it.
• Bot: I need that because i am a poet, i write poems with it.
• MM: What the fuck? What kind of computer did you buy from me? I didn’t try to sell one.
• Bot: I would like to return it.
• MM: He, you sound like a hoax, dude…
• Bot: So i just send it to your adress.
• MM: …
• Bot: …
• MM: Hmm, wonder what comes next.
• Bot: So i just send it to your adress.
• MM: Sure — Go on, tell me more.
• Bot: Have a nice day.

Now i am sitting here waiting for a friend to call me back and laugh at me, or what the fuck will arrive the next days via DHL.

Sounded like a bot though, like those callcenter retards that ask for menu numbers: “Press 1 if you would like to make a purchase, press 2 if you would like to sue us”. Weird, but kinda funny i have to admit.

We will go to Luzern for one night on saturday (12 hours by train from where i live (map), 2 hours from my girlfriends home) and visit Mt. Pilatus (2.128 m).

We will stay in the beautiful old town district of Luzern, directly at the Vierwaldstätter Lake. We will probably go to the summit of Mount Pilatus via rack-railway — the steepest railway on earth!

It might be a bit of an overkill to travel that far just for one night, but Desirée had to leave my island to go back home and start to study. So i am going there anyway and it’s just two hours by train from where she lives — and we have both been to Luzern before when we were kids and now we want to visit it together. Read more

The net is full of bad reviews about the Netgear SC101 saying that it is a piece of crap. It is, but only if you don’t run XP.

The SC101 is just a nice looking housing for up to two IDE harddiscs with a build-in ethernet port. So if all your computers in your network run XP (because you need to install netgears application to access it) — your fine, but as soon as you have an old w98 machine, or linux, or a sexy mac, then your screwed.

That’s what they say. Well, i set up the SC101 in the basement, and right next to it is a PC that is always on. So i just shared the whole drive from within this pc and whenever that PC is on (and it is always on), i can access the drive. Simple as that. Read more