Duckiputz´ account of the World at large: June 2005

Monday, June 27, 2005

German smokers are under fire. No pun intended.

So I am happy to relate a (German) site that promotes smoking for fun [German: Genussrauchen, smoking for pleasure], as opposed to succumbing to an addiction.

smokerscorner.org :: Rund um das Genussrauchen

Labels: smoke

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

And another toy

I have just enlarged my collection of computers by a venerable HP Kayak XU, with a 300 MHz PII. I will probably speed it up a bit, then decide whether to leave it on Linux or promote it to Solaris (Hiss, boo) or NeXTStep or Openstep.

This is what it looks like:

Labels: toys

Monday, June 20, 2005

The Linux event in Germany, this is a "do-not-miss"

If only for all the other old farts I can liaise with.

LinuxTag 2005: Home

Blast from the past, anyone?

Another cool person´s blog, a man that had a name to him in German internet before there was in fact one:

click the heading to meet "dowjones"!

... now with a working blog, too!

another toy

... albeit a more serious one:



Witness my trusty 1911 .45 ACP , frame made by Norinco, tuned up with Wilson replacement parts and lovely Pachmayr Signature grips, and amended with a change barrel in 9x19 mm aka 9mm Parabellum.

Needs a bit of trigger work but shoots ok, no trouble at all in the first couple-of hundred shots.

Keep your powder dry,
Yours truly