Picnic trifft den Zeitgeist
Vorgestern war es dann soweit – nach ca. 6-wöchigem Warten bin ich ganz offiziell ein Picnic Kunde! 6 Wochen warten? Ja, dieser Online Supermarkt wächst und meiner Vermutung nach sehr kontrolliert, um Lieferungen an...
Author: Volker Manns
The very last company car trip.
We’re done. My loyal companion for the past 2 years made his last trip to Toyota Allee in Cologne yesterday under my direction. A great car, this RAV4 with all the little amenities that...
New family member :-)
After ending 24 years of being on the road, the company car concept equally ends after those 24 years on August 4th. And so a mobility substitute was needed. In 1999 it was Car...
Wohnmobil mieten? Vorsicht Falle! (Finale)
Das Ende der Odyssee ist erreicht! Wir schreiben den 06.07.2020. Zahltag. € 1.468,63 inkl. Zinsen. In diesem Zusammenhang vorerst* der Schlussstrich unserer ersten Wohnmobil-Mieterfahrung. Es bedarf insgesamt einer Klage samt 2 Anwälten, 1 Richter...
Willkommen bei Vodafone.
…so zumindest darf ich das in den ersten Zeilen der Auftragsbestätigung lesen. Zu Beginn des Junis (wir schreiben das Jahr 2020) melde ich mich telefonisch bei Vodafone, um mich nach einem neuen Internet Anschluss...
COVID-19 – the Corona virus
Stand by – we’re in for a ride. The news in rapid succession. Politicians try to calm us claiming “everything is under control”. Reports from all over the world, infection, death. A media paradise....
Strato – thank you.
Today the total meltdown. While installing an additional database system, I am tinkering with the server guts, take a wrong turn in the instructions and install an incorrect version of the needed program package....
Byebye, HostPapa
It’s been just about a year, since I contributed a post titled “Vom Fahrradfahren auf der Datenautobahn” (riding the data highway on a bicycle), writing about my dealings with HostPapa. The circumstances have not...
Bissmarck92 in Herne – burgers with style.
Wednesday, shortly after 7 p.m. Once again we are hungry, but after what felt like a very strenuous working day for all the usual suspects and the lack of interest in culinary preparations from...
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