Skelaxin Can You Get High

The art of stylish failure (extended version)

A picture puzzle riddle: What is missing from the below photo?

right: there is no speedometer. At least large parts of it. The speedometer of my Japanese Präzisionskrades adopted on Saturday morning at half past ten, when I was with a speed of 120 dead straight on the A92 road towards Landshut was. I have not noticed at first because I was too busy trying not to freeze at temperatures from 1 to 2 degrees Celsius, while I tried to keep in contact through mist of drizzle around the airport Erding least rudimentary view of the road. Why in the world is a train that still has all his senses together, with the cold pig on a motorcycle to Landshut, where he could still take the car - or just stay home in bed?

Well, we - my Japanese Präzisionskrad and I - had a date with Eric, the screwdriver God. Erich screwed for years to Yamaha TDM, he knows every part of his first name, and after the service for which I have my workshop the other day over 200 € paid thrown into the maw, I'm inclined to say: Erich , the better.

My Japanese is Präzisisonskrad Yamaha TDM 850, TDM friends they can just call. The old lady is in February 19, since one has ever one or the other aches and pains. In October TÜV was due, no big deal, I thought and wanted to bring the machine to the workshop for motorcycle mechanics eV. The care is usually quite selflessly with the TDM, and it is also a good thing it works: on the SRC socially disadvantaged young people get an apprenticeship and learn something clever. At the moment they learn nothing, because the SRC makes winter break until January. So THIS MACHINE contacted one in the west of Munich and it is a TÜV-date calls. Appointment made, machine made, "If all are well?" "I think so?" "Okay, said Thursday it is ready."

On Friday I got my from TDM, the garage man told me that new brake pads forward received; and that the front brake piston "somewhat sluggish" were that we could but just take it. A TÜV report is explicitly stated that the brakes are roadworthy and that on the test drive, the road was wet (did you ever see once in a TÜV-read report) on the Nachhausweg I noticed three things:. First, the front brake had no reasonable pressure point more Second, the safe travel of the lever was at least twice as much wiedrei days ago when I had taken to the MOT and the third, after repeated brake pump was harder - a sure sign of air in the brake system.

bring you back again, that would naturally have been a method. Unfortunately, a lifetime of always has the possibility to build in new parts for an infinite amount of money if they do not come with the 19-year-old originals clear. So, once home, after all, she has now made a fresh TÜV seal and perhaps this is the air in the brake a little bit, too.

There was not. It was also not worse, but it did not make fun. So I made an appointment with Eric, waved me on Saturday on the TDM and rushed off to Landshut, about 100 kilometers of track one. I was cold, missing the rubber wiper on left index finger of my motorcycle summer glove, with which I can in the rain the visor kept free of my helmet (which is missing, strangely enough, the winter gloves from the same manufacturer) - and my TDM threw off her speedometer, God knows why.

When Eric arrived, we went straight to work. The bleeding the front brake a Yamaha TDM 850 is a task for one who has killed his father and mother, that's for sure. The entire brake line system from the Brake handle (TDM has two of them on the front wheel) to the two brake calipers must be completely evacuated, have an air bubble the size of a pinhead is enough to make the pressure point as soft as rubber. Unfortunately, the screws are to bleed down to the brake calipers. Air but has the unpleasant characteristic upward rise. What's more, the brake lines run from both brake calipers on a so-called connector, which is a compound that makes one of two lines. So, therefore, air bubbles from a wonderful hike to the other brake caliper, brake fluid fills in while up and down on it waiting to come out that at the bleeding nipple air bubbles. On that occasion, Eric noticed the way a difficult continuous bleed screw - so hard as to doubt that this screw dürfenob be allowed at the last shop visit was ever used.

There's quite a clever way to bleed brakes: You press the brake fluid from the bottom up through the lines. Any trapped air is pushed upward and appears on the reservoir from the handlebars again. You would need a large syringe and a flexible silicone tube. To the syringe but it gebrach us, and now was also difficult on Saturday after lunch. So we fiddled around until the afternoon by two and the ugly smell of complete failure was in the air - the DM at that time had no front brake pressure even more, the lever could pull up to stop resisting. Finally, Eric still operating on a syringe, spilling the oil for a chain oiler. After half a bottle of brake cleaner and a lot of attention was the manual syringe free of oil and almost virginal. So we managed the feat. Eventually, an air bubble bubbled big as a veritable Pfurz from the reservoir, followed by a controlled fountain pure brake fluid. And the pressure point was there: Clear, transparent, exemplary.

What has this got to do with the speedometer needle?

The Erich would have preferred to be repaired immediately, but we had no more time. He still said "Can you stick with super glue," he dismissed me on the cold way back to Munich - with a good draft front brake.

Today I have accepted me the speedo problem. The tachometer sits in an instrument cluster, and this is actually expanded quite fast: speed shaft, four special plug pulled, two # 10 nuts away, already holds one piece of the good in the hand. Okay, before you have to unscrew the three-part course, machine guards, that makes all the more fun, the colder it is. But today I was in good shape: After half an hour I held the instrument cluster in the hand, five minutes later it was unscrewed to our table and I trudged through the drizzle to the drugstore to buy glue.

The 2.85 euros, which I have spent on a bottle of UHU glue a flash ", proved to be unfortunately out a little later as a waste of money, because even though acted strictly according to regulations, the stuff stuck about as well as spit. The picture here is deceptive: Not ten seconds after receiving the pointer fell back on the dial. So everything is cleaned and a little epoxy glue found. The mixture is ready, so that everything stuck, of course not quite as smooth and seamless as with glue, fixed, waited half an hour set.

then bolted together the whole circus again, instrument cluster to the motorcycle fairing to the frame, while the other way threw the large ratchet box, 50 pieces of sidewalk geklaubt and re-sorted, shamefully cursed, while the stupid neighbor deliberately not greeted. Finally, once pulled on the brake handle. Somehow feels soft. Obviously we have

but does not catch any air.

Update: now seems to have dissipated the air. The pressure point is okay.

What Colour Goes Well With Light Grey

Merry Christmas, Alder!

Can one make of motorcycle riders who fall so winter time in a comatose state, waiting, cool Christmas advertising?

Yup, go!

Lamisil And Giving Blood

The Gadget gas station

current smartphone owners know what I mean: Those things draw electricity as a washing machine! You do not like a egomaniacal Liver on his iPhone or Google Nexus one (pictured) depend to get the battery within one business day completely flat. iPhone owners are particularly handicapped in this case, because Apple set the batteries has built. Users of other models could plug in theory at least carry a spare - but that sucks in practice, for a battery change is standing at a trade show is often not fun, it is also difficult to charge two batteries when only a mobile phone and only one charger the hotel has. As a rustic solution, some manufacturers already offer so-called jackets, sleeves with built-in extra battery, in which you put into it the smartphone complete and extend the run time significantly.

Energizer Xpal XP 2000 has a different approach: This energy storage is connected by cable to the phone and charges the battery so on. What at first sight - in terms of tailor-made Jackets - somehow complicated acts is, in practice, extremely practical, as opposed to a built for a single phone model, Jacket of Xpal XP 2000 loads just about everything on what can be charged with 5 volts DC: MP3 players, PDAs, Bluetooth headsets, e-book reader or GPS logger . For this purpose the device is a connector cable with six so-called hints at, plug adapter for USB, mini USB, micro-USB, Samsung, Nokia and iPhone / iPod. Thus one has ever about 95 percent of all portable gadgets killed, and the rest (eg iPod nano) you take when needed simply plugged the USB cable that came with the device, because the charging cable on Xpal in a commercially available USB port. Of course there are also gadgets that are supplied without a USB cable, but they are rare, such as the Motorcycle Helmet Headset Cardo Scala, the dabeilag at my Navi. But one would have to solder a cable, where appropriate, the fact that the tips stuck with a habwegs standard round connector on the charger is very helpful for such tinkering.

As for the charge power, which is quite tidy. The Nexus One, I've tested half turn attached to the Xpal had increased its battery capacity after an hour of 25 to 75 percent - while in standby before him, ran'd get mail and other mysterious things did. If I had to charge the cell phone off completely, it would have gone faster. Handling is foolproof: plug it Xpal, press the start button, good. When the connected device is charged, from the Xpal. With its 2,000 mAh

the battery is indeed set up as an emergency generator for a three-month expedition to the Amazon-thin. Said Nexus comes with 1400 mAh purchases at the start, the capacity of a Xpal enough in practice to a smartphone of this caliber once properly recharge. That is now no moon landing, but in practice a proper greeting. The battery I mentioned GPS logger has 650 mAh, then there are already three cycles it. In addition, you can just load with such auxiliary power source may be gadget even where no outlet is available - at the lunch break in the beer garden as it was in flight in an airplane or while riding on a motorcycle. Charged Xpal the XP 2000 is even the way via USB cable, which according to the manufacturer should take four hours. 500 charge cycles are on the Schactel, I have not tried that. And once full, promises this same manufacturer, the thing keeps its charge up to one year. At just 70 grams of live weight (Okay, with bag, cables, and one or two tips are then maybe 100 grams) can be the good part as a helper for an emergency in his briefcase / messenger bag / Prada bag . Insert Speaking of emergencies: Energizer sells the things pre-installed.

What really surprised me was the moderate price: According to the online merchant you are between 25 and 30 euros, a replacement battery for the Nexus one is more expensive, and iPhone owners ... well, that I wrote.

Whom the capacity of the XP 2000 is not enough, can also buy larger caliber: Energizer offers emergency batteries that keep all the notebooks running for hours. Only then the cost significantly more money, and they are so big and heavy that they just do not even put on a hunch in his pocket.

Archery Recurve Risers

fun with Telekom and The three with the cap


The few beads of TV journalism that bring the private broadcasting in his more than 25 years of history in Germany, could one consumer program "What?", the RTL broadcast in the years from 1992 to 1997. The concept was simple, but successful: Real existing events by the team of the mission turned into skits that were not only because of the comedic talent of the ensemble members screamingly funny, but above all because the sketches underlying cases seemed so Kafkaesque that we believe it with a sober mind few were normal. Particularly popular subject was "the three with the hat", three employees of the Telekom (recognizable by silly Caps of the telecom cycling team) that were just so stupid fall, they can not see straight ahead and at the same time a plate was spooning soup. In the episode that sent the image above, there is a case in which the Telekom managed to one and the same advertisement 38 times to send to an address in Oberhausen. The video you can not embed on other sites but here is the link .

The show "What?" Is there - at least in the original concept - not for ten years. But cases in which the team would have immediately made a sketch, it is still.

For example my case:

On 1 October I got by the company Strato an advertising mail in which I made the web host an interesting offer: I could upgrade my Call & Surf contract with Telekom VDSL, so now instead of the existing 6 Mbit / s with 50 Mbit / s surf. This could I of Strato an online drive to get that would work quickly, thanks to the super-fast VDSL connection, almost as fast as a hard disk in the PC. The whole thing was offered at an attractive price and sparked my interest - you can not get Bandbeite have enough.

So I followed the link that was specified in the mail and landed on a landing page, in which the offer was described in detail. With VDSL, but the problem is not the Price, but the question of whether one in the place where one has his phone line can get at all. Given on the website a test request was integrated: Simply enter the phone number, and suggests one of the telecom computer, whether you go or not. The result: in my port area is not more than DSL 6000 in it. Too bad I already have DSL was 6000 - so nothing with the will's VDSL, okay, you can do nothing. So side closed and well.

On 6 October reached me a letter from the Telekom with an order confirmation (!). I was confirmed the appointment of a DSL connection with 6000 kbit / s, an ISDN connection, a tariff package with ISDN Call & Surf Comfort three phone numbers (MSN) as well as five additional MSN. My surprise at this letter had no limits, because first I was not aware that they have recently ordered something with Telekom, and second, the order included the exact services that I use for years at Telekom. My ISDN connection I have since I moved in 1996 into the apartment, my DSL connection I have since 2001.

I should now order everything again? And willing to pay again?

So I called the hotline Telekom, was happy about the fact that my phone has a speakerphone, and the call does not cost anything as long as they hang in the queue: It is much more relaxed the dishwasher off and admit when one does not always hold the phone to his ear must.

After barely a quarter of an hour I had a woman of flesh and blood to the cable, which I explained in a very cooperative discussion that I wanted to order anything that I already did and that I itself is so far very happy with my phone line, the fit that way. The lady could not explain exactly how it had come to the order, but promised to regulate everything to my satisfaction.

On 9 October I received a letter of Telekom, signed by a certain Ralf Hoßbach, head of customer service. It begins with the words:

"They rightly expect that we accept an order for you
only with your consent. We are sorry that we have not fulfilled this expectation."

confirmed Later that wrote to me Mr. Hoßbach the cancellation of all services that I use for years. All gone: ISDN, DSL, my additional phone numbers!

"Yes, they are as fat booty of madness?" I think I'll call again and the hotline. Hardly a quarter of an hour later I have another friendly lady on the phone, which actually shows heroic dedication and goes into the Infight with the computer. I hear you five minutes committed during typing on the keyboard, and it has already done the impossible: My eight phone numbers (including the business section of my wife) before the closure and reallocation to other customers saved!

Wow, that was close.

On 15 October I received an order confirmation for five additional MSN. Those were the ones I have for ten years, but may include phone numbers so you hopefully will not order twice.

Today finally I received an order confirmation , alleged to 16.10. matures, so four days ago. It thanked me for my order, Telekom my entry for receiving data in their communications directory.

What is this? I have not given this job! I am 14 years in the phone book, my phone number is wrong. And I use the fax number has not in years.

Hello? It works yet? What?!

UPDATE: Today (21 10.2010) a confirmation of the order came for a (front me never issued) Contract for the entry into the communication register of Telekom, signed by Ralf Hoßbach, head of customer service.

Hoßbach Lord, one more time for you to Mitmeißeln: I ordered from you nothing! I just want to use my phone and DSL line and remember to change anything in it. Unless you give me an offer for VDSL, which is available to me.

UPDATE 2: On Friday (10/22/2010) I have taken on the advice of social media experts in Facebook contact the local telecom start-point. The me according to Google Analytics has brought a lot of readers, and I also was asked by e-mail to describe my case again ('I certainly do). Today (25 October) I got a call from a Telecom employee who went with me through the case again - and was clear: It'll be good, and maybe I'll get soon even a fast Internet. Great, now I can sleep better at night again ...

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Navis on the bike: test makes Kluch

The TomTom Rider was nothing short of a revolution: A navigation system for motorcyclists built. This meant Weatherproof, in the bright sunlight readable, to be operated with gloves and a Bluetooth interface for wireless transmission of the bids in the helmet. As the revolutions in most cases is so, even this was not without collateral damage from: The software lubricated from time to time, the motorcycle mount was a bad design - many devices are made independently at full speed - and the introductory price of 800 € was only for die-hards.

Most of these problems were part of the introduction of the TomTom Rider 2 in 2008, the past: The software has been updated, the holder as well - and the price dropped gradually to less than half. Finally, the TomTom Rider 2 was included bracket and DACH-card sells for significantly less than 300 €. Who I adopted the "European" version, got the Navi for 350 €, the large map of Europe with 43 countries, a RAM mount and mount the Bluetooth Headset Cardo Scala.

Since mid-2010 the Rider2 is out of print, the successor to Urban Rider is on the market. Again, there is the basic version for 249 € and the Pro version with a headset and a great card for a hundred more.

I now had the opportunity to try the Urban Rider - and those are the differences:

The hardware

At first glance, the case of both units the same, which applies to the dimensions and weight as well. The Rider2 housing is painted silver, which is not necessarily an advantage can scrape off is required, because the color. The Urban housing is made of sturdy, black hard plastic and therefore less sensitive. The Rider2 has a built-in SD card slot and a charging socket for a plug-in charger. The Urban Rider of the cards memory is fixed, is charged only on the mini-USB connector, this is the only Rider2 for data transfer.

The two screens are in practice about the same brightness, then think of the difference in brightness in the photo. Internally, the Urban Rider to get a bit more memory, which means that the software is not on the Urban Rider2 running. In addition, the battery has increased slightly, so that should the Urban run up to 8 hours on one battery charge. when there are only five Rider2.

The delivery

The astonishingly low price of the Urban Rider is purchased by some lean supply. It is for the Rider2 a practical carrying bag made of neoprene, which is absent in the Urban Rider. The main drawback is the included bike mount: When Rider2 a so-called Active Dock is, therefore, a holder with electricity, where you can charge the rider while riding. The Urban Rider is supplied as standard with a passive holder, charging the bike is not provided. It is reported that there were problems with the active support, many bikers were not able to connect the power supply correctly. TomTom countered with the passive support and greater Battery. However, the Active Dock will cost 65 Euro proud as an accessory, which forces the price of the Urban Rider already have the 300 € mark. This is the software of the "small" version abundant than in the "small" Rider2: Instead ROOF is the whole of Central Europe on it.

The software

reveals the main difference between the two devices when they are switched: The user interface of the Urban Rider has been completely revised. This is not really desirable to send a particular configuration menus often in a giant loop, from which one does not comes out. For some configuration options have been more sensitive. That still applies especially for the "winding road", here you can choose how curvy you want it. Standing in front of the decision between the two devices, this option can only be decisive. Those who simply go from A to B, while having fun with your motorcycle, let him choose "winding road" and gets delivered by the Navi surprisingly creative suggestions. Even otherwise, the software was improved in many places: There are a motorcycle quick menu that leads you with two tap Eaters to the nearest gas station, also it is now possible to enter in addition to a QWERTY keyboard and a T9 keyboard select extra large buttons, with The deal, however I did not come. New additions are also a tracking feature and lane assist.

route planning and driving

also dispensed with the Urban Rider TomTom as the Rider2 to settle a reasonable tool for route planning. Here is TomTom not compete with Garmin, where the planning software is included with MapSource. However, you can help with other tools, such as the bike tour planners, the program TYRE or online tool from Point resin. It should be noted only that a route may have on the TomTom up to 48 waypoints. In programming there, enter destination and routing between Rider2 and Urban Rider little difference, once you of the really successful option winding road "apart. Still dominate both Navis no "text to speech", meaning that street names and directions are not announced. Also missing both the ability to say just "follow the road." Bent one way road to the right, is announced a turn to the right - but sometimes not. The Lane of Urban Rider is a matter of taste: On the bottom of the screen will display the tracks, and should use the one blinks. At motorway junctions even replaced an almost photo-realistic graphics of the road situation, the normal map view. This is not unpleasant - it is really necessary actually not.

The operation in the car

Since the rider has no built-in speaker, there are - for the handsome 80 euros - a car mount, complete with a built-in speaker and a charging plug for the cigarette lighter. On my Rider2 I have for some time in the car mount no sound anymore, I do not know why. When I put the Urban Rider in the bracket, there was another sound. This is sub-optimal.

Conclusion

The Urban Rider is on balance a successful upgrade of the Rider2, although it was stingy with the delivery. For those looking for a cheap GPS, anyway not so long tours and travels may already have a Bluetooth headset in his helmet, but the Urban Rider in the standard equipment a hot offer for a really reasonable price. If you already have the Rider2 must not look enviously at the Urban Rider: Basically, both devices are still very similar.

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Buugle - which is even better than

Okay, just because you mean paranoia, which is not that YOU are surely not after you.



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Street View Street View: This is funny

Just now I had an interesting conversation with A & O, the PR agency of Google through the new online form for a conflict against an image of one's own property on Street View. And I think there are some funny legal struggles to come to the guild.

The procedure is this: It contradicts online by providing their postal address. You must submit any "title", that is at all entitled to such a contradiction. Google then sends a confirmation letter with a confirmation code. This is to ensure that the person who filed the opposition, who lives there actually.

Once the opposition confirmed was, Google will delete the corresponding image data in the raw data. This process can not be reversed unless, by re-recording with a Google car.

In principle the rule Provatsphäre comes first. This means that if a contradiction out of the house, the house is cleared, even if others would like to have her home on Street View.

continued the facts.

Now we come to the contradictions: What if I own a building, this would not have on street view, but I'm not there by post to reach, because I do not live there? What if a tenant, the apartment can be deleted, and then he pulls to? What if a house is sold?

And presumably you could delete other people's houses can also: At the post office put online a forwarding request, in which one claims to be resident in a specific address and the post can be held to a different address. Then tap the confirmation letter code is the raw data and confirm already history. When I see with what a criminal reindrängeln energy, for example, spammers everywhere, I'm curious to see what comes ill-intentioned companion to street view. The competitor has a store? Out with it!

As I understand it, Google is committed, after the deletion of the disputed to delete images from the raw data and the data of the opposition donors. How Google will then drive upgrades? Finally, inner cities are changing so before.

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Motorcycling is dangerous!

who rides a motorbike, notes with wonder: for many of his fellow citizens he is as good as dead is obviously the potential danger on a motorized bicycle classified somewhere between Russian Base Jumping and Roulette . As much as I appreciate it when other people break my head (although I myself prefer to wear a helmet to prevent just that), the reality of something else. That the use of public transport Munich is not without risks, you know not only since the fall Dominik Brunner. But the real danger lurks at the curb. According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, in 2007 in Munich killed 24 people in traffic accidents. Of those, 16, or two thirds, pedestrians. Of these 16 deaths were in turn 12 seniors in retirement. To survive in Munich on the road, so you should better not old and not walking on the road. Public transport should be avoided, for not only the inmates are highly dangerous, but the vehicle itself (see photo).

So

Avoid Being young



2. not be moving on foot


3. public transport

As I point 1 with age less successful, I work on point 2 and point 3 Finally, I'm not suicidal.

Finding Hazards Worksheets

Saxi alone in the park

It is a question of perspective whether cars have a gasoline engine or a long future or whether we will soon go all electric. If you believe the versions of the car department at Spiegel Online, which already felt every second article from an e-mobile is, it can not last much longer. The utility give an honest effort in communicating the impression that the density of electric fuel pumps more steadily at the McDonalds outlets. RWE, for example, conjures up his past even as the operator of the gas station chain and DEA leaves the former advertising figures for its new network of power stations advertise .

The true distribution of electric cars and public charging stations, however, sees something different. Experts speak of approximately 2,000 currently in Germany for the road-certified electric car. In terms of statistics this means that on 24 800 cars with internal combustion engine is a power in the tank. Lamborghinis are judged as relatively everyday phenomena on the road. Similarly, sparse at the moment is probably still the stock of public power pumps, especially since the barriers to entry are not without. To fill up about it at E-On can, you should have good relations with the owner of the land on which the column stands. The large, rather bleak cobbled square in front of my office directly at Munich's main train station is for example such a column. Normally, only a few cars may at this place, retractable bollards keep perky courier or parking seekers back - and who dares to ride his motorcycle through and between the bollards there to stop, get a reprimand from the property management. As this column was placed there a year ago, it served only one purpose: To create a Mini-E charge, which had been the editor of the tabloid newspaper "tz" in the time test.

the electric mini I have seen there is not a long time. But recently I met an even rarer vehicle, a Horlacher Saxi. From the knobby part was built around 1996 in Switzerland, ten of them for a trade show and then sold. The sky is blue Saxi a Munich physician who alleged that goes to work every day. The top speed is 80 km / h, the range is 50 to 80 km. If you miss the picture, the doors for boarding: The Saxi has only two in the rear, the slide is like a subway to the sides and allow for virtually level access. Four passengers in the car like that, against which even has a smart stocky. As the owner of this rare car has been the property manager so that he may use the E-On-column, I do not know. But at least it is now about any longer so lonely and needs with their fluorescent tubes illuminate the dreary place.

Update: Since about two weeks away Saxi. And the column of E-On as well. So much for electric vehicles.

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advertising für'n ass

other day at the main station: It has just stopped by rain, I go to lunch, eat a bite. As they fall on me: Loud bikes with saddles of pink raincoat ceilings were covered. Author of the action was the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, which wanted to promote its programs and Florida has asked hard-working assistants together to protect bikes from rain standing around. Claim: "plenty of sunshine instead of butt wet?" Okay, the rhyme caught something, but many of the bike owners have been happy after their return very pleased that someone has given them a dry road connections. Great advertising campaign, which has earned it, that they extended to the web: www.miamiandbeaches.com

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A Bad Day Sailing ...

... is better than a good day working, says the English man and has it - as so often - quite right. So I took a day off today and most jib sheet in my entire circle of friends, paved with our preferred suppliers Navy and am a racing yacht out to sea. In the Ammersee, to be precise. Now it was just one moment calm, just long enough to enjoy a swim and to write this post. Now again a little wind, So the story continues.

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ride in the Tesla Roadster: The whispering

Munich, Flower Street 17, right on Old Town Square: We are facing the showroom of Tesla Motors, one of the youngest and most innovative car companies in the world. The place where previously was a designer furniture shop, is just large enough to present in response to three Tesla Roadster - so far the only product of the company, founded in 2003. The Munich office is already there since September 2009, although its address has not been included on the Tesla website . I am invited to a get-together. The occasion is the presentation of the improved model 2.5, Tesla is also just gone public. Exactly why I was invited, I do not know. Perhaps, because I follow on Twitter Zero Motorbikes , the California electric motorcycle pioneers. Maybe because I in spring 2009 during the lunch break Craig Davis, the European head of Tesla Motors, ran across the path. He stood in the parking lot in front of the Sofitel Bayerpost in central Munich, next to a Tesla Roadster, with British approval - and needed a power outlet to recharge his vehicle. We exchanged cards, I said I would love to test drive a Tesla, he promised to think of me when you have an office in Munich. He apparently has not forgotten me.

Sarah Zimmermann, the German press Tesla woman takes me in reception. She is very happy that I came am, two minutes we make small talk before I'm actually, I will do the rounds so I'm here. They looked me up and down and proposes a seat fitting. The demonstration vehicles parked next to the showroom and attached to a power-tank column, have they built the Munich city works here advertising.

The Tesla Roadster is based on the Lotus Elise (English cars are always female), it is also built in England by Lotus. But while the Elise is powered by a souped-up Toyota four-cylinder engine, the Tesla Roadster has an electric drive. Tesla founder Elon Musk, why for the crunchy - and largely freed of any practical utility - Elise sports car as a basis for his electric car has decided it is clear when you read something about the philosophy behind the project. Musk has analyzed that is quite true that all existing electric vehicles were not something you would associate with words like "fun". to name a City-EL or Twike to time two representatives of the current German electrical mobility, who namely a huge problem with it around: the price combine for a full car of the Gulf to the Passat class with the value of a motor scooter, the action radius of a tram. When rolling waivers similar to the above two models of the suspect standing in the room that they turn to people The drive basically do not like this car and would prefer to avoid actually. The Twike is no extra charge with bicycle pedals available - it's not politically correct anymore.

The car that Musk had in mind would look different: It should be fun while driving, and thereby prepare his (wealthy) owners an environmentally clear conscience. A Tesla Roadster in basic equipment costs around 100,000 euros in Germany. But you get about three Twike - but not even an Audi R8 , whose price starts at 120,000 euros well. I mention the Audi, not without reason, as one of the guests has parked his R8 in front of the Tesla showroom.

The 100,000 € are the Tesla is only the beginning, my wife explains to Zimmerman when we go to the yellow demonstration. "The home here costs more 130,000." underestimated her and refers to the many built-carbon parts. Then comes the seat fitting - and a bitter disappointment: The cars interior is definitely too narrow, as I could drive it. Anyone who has been in the Mazda MX5 has sat the first generation, know what I mean, to 1.85 everything goes fine, but for two-meter men the car is not made. With difficulty I fold myself together in the front passenger seat, not the actual roof is proving to be extremely useful for getting in and out. Mrs. Zimmerman takes over the control checks the state of charge - And is still rising at once, auszustöpseln to the charging cable. A warning light in the cockpit, they warned.

A ride in an electric car - especially at low speeds - a very quiet thing. When my driver threading in the traffic on the Old Town Square, you hear nothing at all simply from the drive. With slow city driving sounds of the Tesla as a normal passenger car in which you have switched off the engine while driving and disengaged. Mrs. Zimmerman then demonstrated the specificity of this car: You are full speed (one may say gas in an electric car?).

Now something happens that I have never experienced in a motor vehicle: The car shoots ansatzlos completely without any warning, forward. My head is pressed back against the headrest. The factory data shows an acceleration from 0 to 100 in about four seconds. Four! Potent motorized bikes accelerate in 3.5 seconds from 0 to 100, with a relentless test driver on the handlebars, which it does not matter how long do the tires and whether the coupling will soon be replaced. Woman makes the man just like that. She has a breezy summer dress, and contributes to high-heeled shoes. And now we are bent around a corner, it can be seen again 200 meters free road, and it occurs on it again. Zooom!

This acceleration seems completely surreal. If you were a motorcycle, a Ferrari or any other Device that draws even remotely as good, so violently accelerate in the city, but the roar of the engine would be to stamp an antisocial asshole. But the Tesla roars. Under load, a decent singing is heard, it is reminiscent of the official vehicle of Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones in "Men in Black ," the whistling ever so nice. Interestingly, these costs would spectacular driving style does not have as much energy as one might think: When Mrs. Zimmermann off the accelerator, the engine to the generator and feeds the electricity generated by the kinetic energy into the batteries. "I stand in the city just got on the brakes" noticed my blonde female driver unmoved "Brake pads last forever ".

Apart from the non-existing space, the ride is surprisingly dresser. A manual transmission, the Tesla has not, therefore, no jolt. And the weight can be from 1240 kg to the flat Roadster slide pretty sick of the frost shatter-plagued Munich's old city streets. For Compare his gasoline counterpart Lotus Elise weighs 740 kg and springs popping hard as a race car at a traffic light has actually a cyclist next to us and asked where we had this car since he smiles interested

The Tesla goes Roadster not only.. circles around all the bashful eco-Mobile, which was previously with electric drive, he also has a surprisingly rich range, which is controlled by various energy modes. The cruising mode, for example, there to be 'if you want a ride from Munich to Zurich "- according to Google Maps are the 320 miles. The energy storage of the car consists of thousands of conventional lithium cells, such as those used in laptop batteries use. Most of the corporate know-how is in the method of how these cells are cooled and balanced in their charge. Takes its name from the company by the way the newly developed engine of the car. It runs on AC - invented by Nikola Tesla .

The test drive is over, a last acceleration boost, then Stoppers woman man the charging cable. 32 amp supplies the power station of the city works with a completely empty battery after eight hours is back - on a normal, with 16 A Safe House socket takes a full load 16 hours. If you want, can be put in his garage has a special power connector and then fill the Tesla battery pack at 64 amps, then the car is already ready in about four hours for a trip to Switzerland.

The Tesla Roadster is a toy for rich people - since starting production in 2008 were 1200 cars delivered worldwide. VW do such things in one morning, but would certainly be happy about such Maybach sales. And in Monaco man with a Tesla probably better position with the opposite sex than in a twice as expensive Ferrari. All rich people who buy this toy now finance to Tesla's next project: The Model S, an electric sedan with up to seven seats, the price of a properly-equipped BMW 5 Series.

ladies man, if that is there, then call me, okay?

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Beast Re-Targeting: The method Paranoid

"If you're paranoid, it means does not necessarily mean that they are not thee behind her" is an old saying from sociopaths circuits. People with susceptibility to Paranoia need these days in any case, a thick skin if they are in power on the go. participated in a forum in a discussion about a product, one of the co-panelists post a link to a web shop where the product in question is advertised, you click on it - and followed one of the providers of the product with advertising banners, no matter whether Spiegel Online calls it now or motor Talk.de. And indeed for weeks.

practical example? Some time ago I took part in a discussion on Usenet, where it came to rebuild a mobile phone so that you can use it as a remotely controlled switch. I suggested that one could alternatively use an IP socket, the one via Unternet controls. Another panelist was not sure whether he had understood what I mean. He searched the net for IP-port fully, and found it at last by Conrad Electronic. He wrote a post, placed there, the links offered for sale in and asked, "Do you mean something like that?" I opened the link, saw the product, closed the site again and answered, yes, I should have thought such a product.

Then I met all kinds of banner ads on Web sites of Conrad, which I otherwise rarely see. And from its extravagantly large assortment of this electronic shipper I have always offered exclusively IP sockets. At least two weeks went that way. I found this annoying. Should I - what I tend not to think at the moment - in my life ever buy an IP socket, I'll be careful not to do this with Conrad.

The principle is called retargeting. An Internet user calls in a shop on a product and then leaves the store empty-handed again. When you call the product of the computer of the user is identified (presumably via a cookie), and subsequently played on this computer advertising that promotes products of the type that the user is viewing in the shop. The thinkers behind it: "He was so interested in the product schonmal Perhaps he considered it so again." On many Internet users does this one-sided ad-bombing ridiculous, annoying or even disturbing. And the company proves Neckermann.de that you can use the tool in itself is borderline re-targeting also completely stupid.

stupid yet? How is this possible? It goes like this: Today I Neckermann.de with a navigation device for motorcycles ordered. I bought it, now I baruch no second more. Still takes me via Neckermann.de since re-targeting under fire. Whether online or mirror motor Talk.de (see photographic evidence above left), suddenly all hang out Neckermann-Banner, where my GPS is available for sale. Interestingly, by the way also what I have 've bought. What is this?

If Neckermann would be clever, they would offer me now to my new sat nav accessories, they would believe that I like to ride through the area - and give me appropriate offerings. But instead patch up my attention with advertising for a product I just bought? How stupid is that?

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"I want an iPhone!"

Bernie Maupin works for the U.S. electronics retail chain Best Buy. More specifically, he worked there until his bosses that video got face:



Then he received a warning. He will probably lose his job.

learn what we from that?

1. If You buy in Amiland any electronic gadget, you must buy it not necessarily at Best Buy.

2. Apple has no sense of humor.

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Do not want to rain more

With a little imagination, the tropical house of the Botanical Garden is good, at least as a small summer replacement.

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Although no summer, but at least summer music

Okay, the weather said currently the least, not world class. On Monday solstice, then the days are getting shorter. If there is to tear out in the summer this year, it's about time.

After all, a proposal for the definitive, ultimate summer music I already had: La Brass Banda. Very ingenious.



sound is of course imperative.

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Who is this really Joachim Gauck?

I can remember any President since Karl Carstens, who was with his choice of the people as controversial as Christian Wulff . Carstens at the reasons were obvious: He was a member of the Nazi party had, also in SA - it was then unthinkable for many in Germany, a man to provide with such Nazi career, the country's highest office. However, Carstens met several conditions that Wulff is not true: Carstens arrived at the end of his (party) political career, and he had proved his fitness as President of the Bundestag for completing cross-party political offices.

As Carstens finally was in office, he fulfilled the hopes placed in him in the best sense - as he essentially did nothing. It is not for his rousing speeches made famous, such as a Richard von Weizsacker, or a Roman Herzog. He stood out because he had traveled in the Republic. No worse faux pas famous - but not a political impulse is stuck.

Also from Wulff we can probably expect at best that he makes no trouble. But seriously expect someone that brings Wulff as President of this country forward? He's been prime minister barely noticed by prominent political ideas. He simply has a candidate until the Lower Saxony had adjusted to him and the SPD finally, no real opponents in the quiver had more - he has become Prime Minister. At just 50 years, Wulff even at the end of his political career. Even if - which may prevent the political circumstances surrounding - Wulff two terms as federal president is behind him, he is still only 60 years old, too young to cede the political stage. This Wulff is an active state politicians and the CDU-Bureau member - because bipartisanship is hardly to be expected. It germinates in the uncomfortable suspicion that Angela Merkel wants to secure their party's candidacy Wulff's a power base, as long as it still has the power. So, Mrs Merkel, is this office but not really meant.

The people have formed a clear opinion about Christian Wulff: The magazine Stern cited a poll by the Forsa Institute, that 32 percent of Germans would vote for the Christian Wulff President - Can be as much as the CDU is currently achieve in elections. Joachim Gauck , the candidate, the SPD and the Greens have brought into play, meets all the criteria that a good, fulfilling a trend-setting Federal President must. He is (even though the CDU attached) and non-party must prove politically any person. It is selectable for each upright Democrats without problems - and that the left does not help him fall back to the Left rather than harmed.

Angela Merkel has to seriously question what she has actually ridden to propose a soldier for the party office, if only she had experienced personalities as Gauck can ask.

I would be happy if Joachim Gauck would our next President. The Czech Republic had the size to make a dissident to the presidency.

to see how this Joachim Gauck ticking, here is a speech he made on the occasion of the 20th has kept anniversary of the Berlin Wall fell. The speech is long, unfortunately, about an hour, and the synchronization is somewhat out of step. Nevertheless: Imagine me, what Christian Wulff had said on the subject.

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Why is everything always so shitty? (Part two)

If I'm not just rumplage with 18-year-old stainless scrap, I go sometimes even a car, that already in the 21 Century was built: our little Fiat Punto, built in 2001. The car has done to my knowledge a few years ago in the ADAC breakdown statistics for the last seat, and my feelings towards this car are very ambivalent. If he runs, then the little prima: Running easily, has enough room is beautiful agile, does not need much fuel. If it myself but let you down, then I fall back on holding the two formulations, for the FIAT is really is, "Fix It Again, Tony" and "errors in all parts" Fortunately, he does not even lie so often. Where

- "not so often" is relative. We have had the car for two years now, and in time even the battery out, once the exhaust has fallen off (on the ring at the Luise-Kissel Bach-Platz, left lane, Rush Hour, very cool), the holiday was the air conditioning because they flooded the passenger footwell with condensation - and now has left the car in front suddenly ill started the rumble. If you drive south European cars, is learning to ignore chatter until it can no longer ignore, so off to the screwdriver with the furnace.

He was totally relaxed and thought that was probably because the coupling rod out or broken a spring, neither of the great things that would happen before. Was left behind by the burnt-lamp, I asked him to change to be done. Sure, he does.

This evening we picked up the car, it was the spring.

The tail light he had forgotten, so I've even bought a gas station in the bulb, can not be so hard.

is yet difficult. The Fiat Punto was one of the first small car tail lights, go through the entire carriage height, which extends into the roof bars. This lamp units are internally bolted with four screws and two screws attached to the car. To get hold of these bolts, you have two openings in the inner lining and openable with a special tool (a gun with a 17 mm nut's does) unscrew the nuts. This going to do nothing wrong, otherwise disappear in the nuts on Nimnmerwiedersehen rear of the car and take one for the rest of days with intense clatter to the last nerve.

Now that would be not all that difficult, if not the first owner of this car would have had the good idea to order from the factory sound package including a subwoofer. And the subwoofer sits - exactly in the trunk, on the side. And he covered the hole in the cladding, Durc must, if one wants to unscrew the tail light, because a bulb is burned out. That would be yet not really a drama, after all, but you can also unscrew the subwoofer. Not really: A screw is visible, not the second. After all, the subwoofer can after removing the one visible screw press so far as to side, that one gets to the nut for the rear light. Well, at least if your name is Luigi, is violin maker, and has received little fingers. If your name is Frank and something solid is built, it is unworthy of tinkering. Anyway, after about 45 minutes, the bulb replaced and everything back in place. And I had no bloody fingers. I make them that is only if one lamp burns out front.

who constructed such a shit?

UPDATE: The Fiat has a warning light that turns on a light bulb when the light is burned out. Laudable everyone should have. But: Even though I have replaced the broken tail light now, the warning light is still going on. Hmph.