oh no, my internet is not working today, blizznet seems to have some DNS problems, almos al .at domains are being resolved, and .. heise.de …. strange. anyway, this gives me some time to relax and forget about computers, go smoke a cigar, drink some cuban rum and write a blog. write a blog? without a internet connection? well thanks to my neighbor which hasn’t set up his wireless router correct I do have internet but I won’t abuse it, I will only use it to read my mails and write this blog, I promise

oh my good …. I never would even imagine that I would do more the 100gigs until the end of the month … and today is only the 07th !!!

ipacsum -s 200607010000
IP accounting summary
Host: foo.bar / Time created: 2006/07/07 12:48:36 CEST
Data from 2006/07/01 00:00:00 CEST to 2006/07/07 12:48:36 CEST
  forwarded incoming GREEN (eth0)                 :             75G
  forwarded incoming RED (eth1)                   :             44G

this means 119 Gigs of transfer this month ! Blizznet is going to kill me for this

yes, Blizznet has offered it’s customers as a kind of “thank you” a real flatrate for July and August and this with normal Blizznet speed ( 10Mbit ) The result after the first weekend ( Today is the 3rd as some might have noticed ) is this:

ipacsum -s 200607010000
IP accounting summary
Host: foo.bar / Time created: 2006/07/03 13:38:19 CEST
Data from 2006/07/01 00:00:00 CEST to 2006/07/03 13:38:19 CEST
  forwarded incoming GREEN (eth0)                 :             23G
  forwarded incoming RED (eth1)                   :             13G

that would be 13G of download and 23G of upload … in only 2.5 days!

hurray mister “I-am-as-stupid-as-amonkey-but-leader-of-the-us” has left Austria, but not without leting the people know and feel that mister “I-am…” you know the rest …, is on the way. The complete city was packed, the freeway A4 and S1 where full because mister monkeyface went to the airport. Oh here a short message, not that I think that anyone would ever read this, to mister monkeyface ( yes, Bush ! ) but since the english language doesn’t have the words I need to express my self … I will write my message in romanian.

This would be funny, if it wasn’t real 

Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him; a good guy when Cheney did business with him; and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion.

Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

Once again I had to talk on the phone with one of my favourite German company, the big, bad Magenta coloured T-Com. I had to pay a bill, but since I have a Austrian bank account I need IBAN and SWIFT/BIC for the transaction but they wrote only the IBAN on that bill, now this is the first real stupid thing! So what should I do … call T-Com, the ones responsible for bills, so I assumed they have at least a clue about banking.

So here I am, my last in berlin and I had to move to my favourite hotel, hotel panorama. Do you know the beds from the 80s, with a radio clock in the middle? Thats exactly what I have here. Anyway it could have been worse so I will not complaint. The worst thing was the amount of baggage I had with me in berlin. It took me about a hour to get all my stuff in the car and the guy from the reception looked a bit strange. But after this week I will finaly have holiday, beach, sun and fine cigars.