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Archive for November, 2006

November 30th, 2006

Wow, just got a call from VISA ( ), they detected that my credit card was abused. I never expected that I’ll have to face Credit Card Fraud . Someone purchased something first at Yahoo ( ) UK and then at another place. First a very small amout - some cents - then more than 300 Euros.

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November 28th, 2006

I’m going to change my most excellent webhost: I decided to move over to Dreamhost. Their pricing and feature list is excellent and overwhelming (Jabber/WebDAV/streaming/ssh …. for every domain). Their support works fine most of the time and it’s an employee-owned business.
I can recommend it definitely. So if you decide to move use this promotion code: 19RAND64 to get a guaranteed discount of 20% on your hosting plan (and I get a share of it too).

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November 28th, 2006

I’m looking for a WordPress designer/theme developer that is also able to work on existing/new plugins. Please contact me.

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November 22nd, 2006

Fine compilation on what makes a knowledge worker ( ) work. The conclusion reminds me of the philosophy classes I took years ago: everything is mediated, which means there is no difference between the head and the tools. The concept of the head (brain) and it’s inner workings is tool-like.

What Knowledge Work is about: “But if we just think of ourselves preparing a report or writing a text, our work includes constant switching between modes and creation is not only taking place on our computers or with a writing pen, but is happening almost constantly in our head.”
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