Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • World’s biggest Trading Floor

    The world’s biggest trading floor is in this building. I was there last week.. UBS – USA has a nice picture of the floor itself, see below.

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  • Thanks, Larry. Very much appreciated.

    Jonathan Schwarz writes in Rebuilding a Great Partnership: Thanks, Larry. Very much appreciated. What does it mean? I don’t know! Neither does Google News.

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  • Next weeks way to work

    Next week’s way to work is short: about 0.2 miles (50 seconds), according to Google Local. It’s going to be the first time in New York for me!

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  • Teen Sex

    Nat about Teen Sex and the Linux Desktop: These graphs report that by age 19, 69% of American males and 77% of American females have had sexual intercourse. In fact, by age 17, about half of all teenagers have taken a ride on the wild elmo. So, I don’t know if Matthew has teenaged children…

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  • Elevator Breakdown

    Yesterday I got stuck in the elevator at the Hardbrücke train station. 25 minutes till the firefighters saved us – luckily nobody panicked! Today I took the stairs…

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  • SGI Penny Stocks

    SGI Securities to Cease NYSE Trading. Was hier so nüchtern tönt, bedeutet für mich, dass ich plötzlich sogenannten Penny Stock im Portfolio habe. Im Prinzip wusste ich ja schon lange, dass das Delisting unausweichlich ist, aber ich habe die Augen verschlossen… tja. Der Inquirer weiss es auch: SGI shares suspended on NYSE, ebenfalls das Register:…

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  • Vokabeltrainer ohne Admin

    Es könnte ja sein, dass man den Langenscheidt Vokabeltrainer mal ohne Adminrechte ausführen will, nicht? Immerhin hat er letztes Jahr beim c’t-Test die Bestnote erhalten. Aber Nein, Langenscheidt rechnet nicht mit dieser Möglichkeit, auch 4 Jahre nach der Einführung von Windows XP ist das nicht möglich. Abhilfe schafft erst das Erlauben von Änderungen für die…

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  • Back to the Future

    Suddenly posting on wordpress.com didn’t work anymore, and the newest post was lost. Now I know why: There was a catastrophic hard drive failure on the central database server very early this morning, Donncha was on the ball and switched all the traffic to a recent backup so most things would work while we investigated…

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  • Bachtel – Sea of Fog

    Last saturday we fled the sea of fog and hiked onto Bachtel, a small mountain with a nice view from it’s radio tower. It was beautiful! Flickr tag Bachtel for more.

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  • Flock

    maol macht Flock, und testet auf maol.wordpress.com gleich die neuen Sachen wie XML-RPC, Flickr und del.icio.us. It’s a brand new world!

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