seeking immortality

An onomatopoeical adjective based on the sound emitted when something is “oh so tasty” (either through hunger or flavorological value) that one gnaws through it without regard to cleanliness or etiquette.

While cleaning up my harddrive i found an old .txt i used to keep track of what i paid each month for internet access. Back then i used a modem, maybe ISDN later to dial to a local ISP, so essentially i paid a local phonecall, mostly in the evening.

These Prices are in German Marks, which back then was maybe half to two thirds of a dollar (date is in MM/YY form and the comma marks the decimal point, so first entry reads 62 Mark and 3 Pfennig)

07/98: 62,03
08/98: 190,66
09/98: 193,22
10/98: 174,92
11/98: 176,06
12/98: 231,59
01/99: 179,12
02/99: 207,84
03/99: 237,94
04/99: 238,27
05/99: 226,31
06/99: 137,04

Back then you had 56kbit with a modem or 64kbit with ISDN later and you had to make every minute count ;) All of this was to play Ultima Online in the evenings and i was still in school back then … kind of an expensive hobby :)
Comparing this to today’s DSL market really makes you cry ;)
You get 16mbit down 1mbit DSL up for 20 euros flat or even 50mbit down 10mbit up VDSL for 70 euros flat. Kids today have it way to easy! :)

Annoyed by the fact that I was “forced” to upgrade Wordpress by a security vulnerability I decided to simplify the process by using the anonymous subversion access Wordpress provides instead of doing the manual “delete these, keep these” routine.

It worked fine, currently I set it to the newest tag, but in future I might switch to the trunk, maybe then finally something breakes that I can then fix ;)

Title is once again inspired by a song I currently like, which was used as the music in this lovely “hooping” video:

Well … i just updated to Wordpress 2.5. And it worked, just following the guide on the offical homepage.
How boring is that? I want excitement, something should go wrong and need fixing!


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For those that did not recognize the title:

Whatever this song’s genre is called … i like it … alot :)