TyskJohan’s random thoughts

Susanne challenged me and I shall reply, even if there’s been a slight delay.

4 jobs I’ve had in my life:

• lavender salesman
• progammer
• student unionist
• emergency call operator

4 movies I don’t mind watching over and over again:

• Heat
• Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
• The Longest Day
• Night On Earth

4 places I’ve lived in:

• Hamburg
• Brussels
• Lund
• Oslo

4 tv series I watch

• The West Wing
• Commander in Chief
• Vanished
• Veronica MarsThe Gilmore Girls

4 places I’d like to visit:

• St. Petersburg
• The north of Norway
• India
• Southern Spain

4 web pages I visit on a daily basis:

• Dagens Nyheter
• Engadget
• Der Spiegel
• Heise Newsticker

4 favourite dishes:

• Bife de chorizo mariposa
• Fårikål
• Wiener Saftgulasch
• French saucisse à l’oignon

4 public places I enjoy being in

• Sitting outside any parisian café, traffic right in front of me and café crème in hand
• On Hovedøya, an island outside Oslo
• La Cale, where the world’s best mussels are served
• I guess I’m not that fond of public places…

4 friends who just might not answer this blog pop quiz:

• Frédérique
• Olga
• Tommi
• Bertolt

I pulled myself together and fixed up another plugin I have been working on: a Plugin to Clean Up Scandinavian Umlauts. It’s based on the o42 plugin that comes with the German WordPress distribution.

I have updated and modified the SimpleTags WordPress plugin to support several tagging styles. I will post the updated plugin in a few seconds.

This is also a sample post to check whether Technorati and Bloggar.se tags work.

The plugin can be downloaded here: More Simple Tags

Someone at 43 Folders has written a good part about writing sensible email messages. I’d hold off on the “functional headers” bit, but the rest is very true.

(Via Weblogs tools collection)

…and I never got it.

Today, I got an envelope from Post- och Telestyrelsen with a letter Lene sent me in January 2004. Apparently, it had gone missing in the big mail theft in Lund.

I’m quite impressed that they managed to match my new address in Oslo to the address in Lund!

Dies ist ein praktischer Test.

Ich habe mich für die schwedische Variante, ÅÄÖ -> AAO entschieden (statt Å Ä Ö -> AA AE OE)

I have a tailor in Hong Kong. I went a little bit crazy, so I now have 3 tailor-made suits and 6 tailor-made shirts. And he has my measurements, so more supplies are just an e-mail away!

New Famous Fashions

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On Wednesday, we went “down south” to Pemberton for a couple of nights.

Rachael cooking aussie-style breakfast on the barbie

We also did some wine tasting and shopping at Salitage and the excellent Lost Lake wineries.

Is it just me, or does “salitage” sound like a french word related to dirt?

I love French words for new technology: clavardage (chat), courriel and, now, balladodiffusion (podcasting).

Diesen neuen, tollen Studiengang bietet die “Dresden International University” (mit der Kalauer-URL www.di-uni.de) an.

Master of Physiotherapy—wenn’s denn Englisch sein muß.

Master der Fysioterapie—wenn schon Neudeutsch, dann aber bitte auch mit neuer Rechtschreibung ad extremis.

Oder vielleicht doch Physiotherapeut (M.Sc.)?

*kopfschüttel*