RaSchi’s Valhalla

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Del Frisco’s is an excellent restaurant/steakhouse. I’ve had one of the best steaks ever. The meat so tender that the knife almost slides through it by itself. I ordered medium-rare and the meat was just cooked perfectly. Plus, the dessert just topped that. Both were an excellent recommendation by the waiter. Generally the service was […]

Mannheim - Restaurants - Japanisch & Sushi
All den Lobeshymnen kann ich mich nur anschliessen. Die Auswahl ist wirklich beeindruckend, für den Sushi-Anfänger wäre vermutlich eine etwas grössere Auswahl an "fertig konfigurierten" Platten hilfreich, aber wenn man sich etwas auskennt bzw. einfach auch probierfreudig ist, dann findet sich auf der Karte bestimmt etwas, woran man Freude […]

Mannheim - Restaurants - Japanese & Sushi
This is really an excellent place to have sushi. The choice is almost overwhelming, the quality is just outstanding and the atmosphere in the restaurant is very well also. You can sit at the bar and actually watch the chefs prepare the sushi. Staff is friendly and very attentive, […]

In his blog on ZDNet.com, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has a report about a stealthy Windows Update. And apparently Mircrosoft has responded to his inquiry and confirmed. Despite the fact that the Automatic Updates service is set to not download or even install updates automatically, the updater does still download and install updates for the Automatic Updates […]

Well, well, well… It’s been a while since I last posted here and I had planned on getting back to blogging for a while already. Now, after coming back from vacation, I thought this might actually be a good time to do so. However, during my vacation my database ran over quota and everything here […]

Against my usual habit, this post simply has to be in German, it doesn’t make sense in Englisch.
Ich sitze gerade im Starbucks, Steinenvorstadt in Basel. Da ich den Schlüssel der neuen Wohnung noch nicht habe (und vermutlich der Internet-Zugang auch nicht die erste Installation sein wird), nutze ich hier den Swisscom Hotspot. So weit, so […]

Do you remember your parents telling you to sit upright in your chair? The largest German news service, Tagesschau reports about a study which found that acutally the angle of 90° between your upper thighs and your spine is not the most ergonomic position, even though most people consider it the ‘normal’ position. But then, […]

Seth claims that the chicken - egg problem (you know, the question which was first) is actually not a problem at all:
The quick background is that chicken and egg is a cliche for a (false) conundrum: which came first? [it’s false because the egg came first… the only thing a chicken can come out of […]

Every now and then I take the time to look into the akismet list of detected comment spam. Today there was an entry which made me smile. The spammer used the name “Bush”, the URL provided is just google.com and of course a fake e-mail address. The sender’s IP address is registered in a network […]

Yes, I know, it’s November already and we should have it expected it. It was nice and warm in the beginning of the week still, so the weather changed fairly quickly… So undust the snow shovel, get your winter coat out and be prepared for morning exercise again.