Zuckerbrot und Peitsche Knüppel

Now the iPhone really is called “iPhone”. Not iPod Phone or something like that. Despite what was somehow predicted before and also sounded reasonably logical: iPhone was a overused name, to the point that it had become a cliché, the symbol for the infamous rumor sites, the descendent of the notorious “real Video iPod”.
Why then [...]

Enjoying John The Revelator by Depeche Mode while the end of these way too short holidays comes near.

The »we-take-photos-of-huge-Apple-ads« business is huge here in Germany. Mainly because there are hardly any of them to find here.
In fact, the first one I saw, was a cool new nano ad, and I saw it two weeks ago in Berlin. Even localized (with German CD covers), and pretty darn huge. It was put up some [...]

I have to write about that. Ten pages.
At the end of one’s career as pupil, everyone (at least in Bavaria, don’t know about the other states) has to write a paper about a topic, that has something to do with one of the two main subjects you have choosen to write Abitur in.
I’ve choosen to [...]

Today, the Bundeswehr and I agreed that I would be a lousy soldier. Now we both can happily go on and see us never again for the rest of time.

I’m obviously pretty happy about that. But the big problem remains. It may have worked out well for me (because the Bundeswehr and I are talking [...]

Uhm, no. I’ll have to go to the physical examination of the Bundeswehr (at least they have a great Coporate Identity) tommorrow, and if I’m unlucky, meaning healthy enough, I’ll have to become a soldier for nine months in a little more than one year after I finished school (yeah, I know, I’m even somehow [...]