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Allgemein English Ethik

… at least at Christmas time

I liked the thoughts of our Pastor about Christmas so much, so I decided to translate them into English.

http://nathanael.kirche-koeln.de/aktuelles_pfarrwort.php#English

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Bildung English Jura

The use of e-mails in Germany

Did you ever write an e-mail? Well, you probably used the @ sign then.

On the site, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign I just found the strange sentence

Since 23 October 2012, the At-sign is registered as a trade Mark by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office – DPMA (registration number 302012038338) for @T.E.L.L. Trading house for exclusive luxury labels GmbH, 69469 Weinheim, DE. From now on it’s illegal for other commercial interests to use the At-sign.

which does seem to be a strange kind of Wikipedia humour, doesn’t it?

Of course, a German patent only applies to a class of goods. In this case, the patent was not applied for the use in IT, so it is _not_ illegal for commercial companies to use the At-sign. Perhaps I don’t understand Wikipedia humour.

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Internet

Mozilla Thunderbird

Hab dieser Tage mal den neuen Thunderbird Mail Client installiert. Leider funktioniert der Abruf von Mails damit per Surfstick nicht, d.h. ich kann unterwegs Nachrichten weiterhin nur per Webmail senden und abrufen.

Keine Ahung, wieso die Telekom das nicht zulässt. Es kann doch wohl nicht am Datenvolumen liegen?

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Allgemein Transport & Verkehr

Pedelecs

Netten Fragebogen zu Pedelecs gefunden. Das wär doch mal ein passendes Weihnachtsgeschenk …