January 18th, 2010

Customize Excel color palette

Since we had this topic for several times within our team and people kept making fun of me because I like it nice & shiny…even in my spreadsheets…herewith a short explanation on how to customize the color palette in Excel 2003 and re-use adapted palette in other workbooks. [Read more »]

December 25th, 2009

Hey there…

788681429f1f6a7ac66dfc8216716e41So, same procedure as every year over Christmas: After quite some chaotic holidays which were not planned at all in this way, I finally found some time to get my screwed WP installation back into working mode.

As I am still trying to get my old posts back from archives, this just a playground with snippets & galleries from the past. And since this site does not really fulfill any deeper purpose except for giving myself some time to play around and use my webserver as a backup for my local disk, this is permanently “under construction” anyhow (BTW: Do you remember this?).

Cheers, jörn

October 7th, 2009

*Hmm* Something went wrong

I am on a training this week about ITILv3 stuff, spending my time again in a boring hotel all evening (BTW: Real old-fashioned Holiday Inn in Neuss. Think they had their best days back in the 70ties). So, I thought I’ll use the time to clean up my webserver and play around a little. Unfortunately I know now that I should have spent more time studying what I learned throughout the day: Service Transition… [Read more »]

October 3rd, 2009

Rio de Janeiro won the dispute for the Olympics 2016

September 19th, 2009

Brazil...Rio de Janeiro...*damn* i love it...

rio_32Since I haven’t been on holidays for quite a while and Levka finally started her first “real” job with regular income, we thought we need to spend this money ;-) and decided to really go on holidays. After struggling a bit with possible timeframes (BTW: I hate official school holidays…), we finally booked a kind of a roundtrip to Brasil – at least fixed destinations and pre-booked flights. [Read more »]

August 20th, 2009

I wanna work at TS Brazil...

Last two day of our holiday, staying in the Iberostar Praio do Forte in Brazil and guess what happens? Yeah, a conference about latest IT trends is being held in our hotel. And it is even getting better: In the entry hall of the hotel a huge sign shows the conference program and conference sponsors…amongst IBM, HP also T-Systems. [Read more »]

December 22nd, 2006

On our way to a new apartment

2006_priv_seeblick1After one year of permanently being on the run, Levka and I finally made the decision to give ourself a try in a shared apartment. So we started back in August looking for possible apartments that suit Levka’s and my needs and it turned out that it was not as easy as expected. [Read more »]

December 16th, 2006

Levka’s Examen and Night at the Prom

19f62424428a37e5d71928fd08144a8d“[...] – Nach der Anspannung in den vergangenen Wochen war jetzt nur noch Tanzen angesagt: Lauter gelöste Gesichter sah man beim Examensball in der Mensa – zufriedene Lehramts-Examinierte, stolze Eltern und Freunde, die bei der Übergabe der Zeugnisse übermütige Sprechchöre anstimmten. [Read more »]