Sun 9 Nov 2008
Some days ago I went to my dentist for the regular check up. They wanted me to sign a form about the transferability of claims to the mediserv GmbH and about inquiries about my credit score to rating agents. I declined my signature and put the blank form on the counter commenting that I will sign it on demand. They looked at me like I am the only one who cares about the wording in a contract. Maybe John Doe will sign it but that’s not my name…
Fri 18 Jan 2008
I don’t have a working telephone since last Sunday.
I’ve called my telephone provider to make it work on Tuesday. They answered that they created a service ticket and will call me back later.
Nothing happened.
I’ve called again on Wednesday. They wanted to call me at least the next day.
Nothing happened.
I’ve called again on Friday morning. They wanted to call me back.
Nothing happened.
I’ve called again on Friday evening. (As a remember - I am waiting since Tuesday for a call). They wanted to call me back. While answering I may have spoken a bit to tartly, but…
I’ve got a call within two minutes.
In this call I’ve heard, that there is no ticket, so they made one (guaranteed). It is unlikely that I will be called back before the weekend, but…
About one week later I’ve got a call on my mobile phone. Everything did worked except that the calls didn’t come through. There was a bug in a dumb telephony socket (not really - but it just did not work)…
Wed 16 May 2007
What I have learned today:
“platform-independent” is when two computers behave completely different using the same program.
Fri 20 Apr 2007
It is amaising what horrorable error messages g++ is able to generate…
error: could not convert ‘((Parser*)this)->Parser::words. std::map<_Key, _Tp, _Compare, _Alloc>::find [with _Key = std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, _Tp = Word*, _Compare = std::less<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > >, _Alloc = std::allocator<std::pair<const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, Word*> >](((const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&)((const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >*)(& sval))))’ to ‘bool’
The code to reproduce it looks like
if (words.find(sval)) {...}
where words is a std::map<std::string, Word*>.
The correct code is:
if (words.find(sval) == words.end()) {...}
Thu 7 Sep 2006
It’s about one month ago since I’ve read a flyer on the pinwall in the entrance of our house saying that the cable tv provider will change on the 10th of August. They made also an offer to use a telephone line and internet over this cable. After my Holiday (which was very nice (except for the loss of my jacket from my bycycle carrier)) I’ve made a contract to switch to the new provider with a seemless switch for the telephone line. Some days later was another flyer on the pinwall telling me that the provider switch will happen on the 31th August. Oh what a Happening - a service techniker told me that they need more than a week to switch. In the meantime my previos telephone provider just cut of my telephone line. I will get my telephone back when a new “multimedia plug” gets installed in my flat on the 13th of September - hopefully.
Sat 26 Nov 2005
After preparing a duck on Thursday for eating this evening - I found the tinfoil packet completely frazzled and “distributed” on our balcony. We have put it outside because our fridge is to small and it’s cold enough there. The picture shows what was left…
Thu 10 Nov 2005
The Big Brother Awards are regularly awarded to persons or organisations massively disturbing the rights of every citizen.
For the year 2005 the winners are:
I wish a happy spying…
