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Dear authors of travel booking systems...

...will you please implement proper queueing and retransmission mechanisms that do not claim that a mail is undeliverable on a Transient Negative Completion (RFC 2821, section 4.2.1), as this response does not mean that the mail has been
rejected, but only that it cannot be delivered at this time. It is used by the Greylisting service of my mail server and significantly keeps down the amount of spam coming from spam bot networks.

Last week...

...was sort of busy.

20,8 GB later...

F8K TV was a blast! I'd really like to write something about it; for example that it was the party of the year, or that it was done in an amazingly professional way, or about all the technical stuff, or the wonder ful impromptu pawpet performances (thanks fairlight_, lynard_, aragontigerseye and the band -- I knew you could do it, and I was right!), nachtfuchs and Jaryic being so wonderful hosts, cheetah_spotty as a director and producer, Eisfuchs and akeela as presenters, rollenspiele and sandwiches, Jumpy ordering pizza for the whole gang, decorating a christmas tree, 100m CAT3 cable, cocktails, balloons, how to overrun a DSL concentrator, the band, breakfast at Kralle's place, defective VCRs, bigbluefox's on air design, some strange American caller "Fluffyfox" who tried to order pizza (whoever that was *g*), ...

New music on the shelf...

For the first time after a couple of month (or was it years?) I bought some newly released CDs. None of the following CDs have any apparent copy protection in Germany (other markets may vary).

Roundup on last week's events...

Last week was rather eventful, for my standards. We had our first furry regular's table at the O'Sheas on Tuesday night (with six participants if I remember correctly), had a drink with colleagues on Wednesday -- actually, it was far more than just one drink -- and drove to Herbstcon, a small furmeet in Darmstadt, on Thursday afternoon. I originally planned to start at 3 PM. But not only because of the amount of beer I had consumed at the night before, also because I'm fighting a cold, I barely managed to collect my stuff and get into the car at 7 PM.

PISA...

Lizensierter Radiosender

Heute bei IKEA (German text)

"Wo find ich FINSE"?
"FINSE fin'se in Regal 30, Platz 47"

Guess what...

...another one of these questionaires!