Archive: February 2006

Dear Duesseldorf Airport

Duesseldorf Airport apparently doesn’t get it. Read Christiane’s In Pantoffeln zum Gepäckband (in German). A translation is below.

Dear organizational geniuses of Duesseldorf airport:
Imagine an airport where passengers are required give up their shoes at check in, and wear slippers to their gates. Additionally imagine, that the slippers are one size fits all, everyone must shuffle [...]

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Hair pics

Here they are:

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Hair

Three years ago, my hair was below the shoulders.
Two years ago, after I lost 40 pounds, I got it cut in a chin length bob.
Last month I got it cut in a kind of bushy mid-short cut that I couldn’t really get used to.
So tonight, I went and got it cut very, very, very short. [...]

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Dillard’s alternative

This town has got to get another department store.
Once again, I went to Dillard’s, to pick up some tights. Once again, my blood pressure started going up at the sight of the insulting feel-good signs outside the double glass doors:

DILLARD’S CARES ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE
If you have any difficulty in our store because of a [...]

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Blog links?

Have the blog links in the sidebar (under my del.icio.us) outlived their usefulness? I originally put links there so that I would have a handy list of the blogs I like to read. Now I use an RSS reader. Would anybody care if I removed them?

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Still trying to grok del.icio.us

I’ve managed to figure out that I can subscribe to my del.icio.us bookmarks as an RSS feed. What I can’t figure out is whether I can use this to do my daily blog reading. Let’s say I’ve got a bunch of bookmarks tagged “blog”. What I want is not the list of blog links in [...]

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