I think it is time … MORE than time. Finally it is time to show some love to my hometown, which is the beautiful small town Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

I was watching an basketball game yesterday with NBA Leaguepass. To be more precise it was Portland TrailBlazers @ Cleveland Cavaliers, not an extraordinary game but still a good one in case anybody is interested.
Anyways, the game was over and normally I should have seen something like a blue screen saying “you game is starting shortly” as the games are streamed over and over again for 24 hours after the game has end. Instead I see the screen you see on the left.
So now I am wondering: Was that an …

The team working on Google Chrome announced yesterday, that the browser is officially out of beta status as this Google Chrome Release Note states. More information can also be found on the Google Chrome Blog.
While the official Google Chrome Download page only provides the download for the ChromeSetup.exe which then downloads the rest of the installer from the web, I was looking for an offline installer that I can share with other people on my network. As Google does not seems to provide an official link to this download I …

My MEST colleague Jareau Wade is applying for the Alternative MBA Program initialized by Seth Godin. I think he will be a great fit for what I can tell from Godin’s descriptions of the MBA program and especially from what I know about Jareau’s skillset and personal goals. Check out Jareau Wade’s Application for the program and give him some feedback/comments. I wish you all the best and a little bit of luck - that you will probably also need with the obvious abundance of other applicants.
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Just read The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple Productivity in 24 Hours by Tim Ferriss this morning. Eye opening, I have to admit.
Lately I realized more and more clearly that I am infected by a dangerous kind of information obesity. This includes reading/replying to too many emails, having too many browser tabs opened at the same time (easily up to 30) and having more than sufficient concurrent tasks at hand.
Link ListThe Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload & Triple Productivity in 24 Hours

I realized that the sound a dogs does is interpreted differently in different cultures. This also manifests in the words that are attributived to the sound in different languages.
Here are some examples I figured out so far:
German: wau wau
English: woof-woof
Bulgarian: bau bau
Russian: bau bau
Czech: haf haf
Korean: mong mong
I am interested in getting to know some others.
So please comment if you know any others.