Those riots in Stockholm
You could do worse than read this interesting op-ed by a Swedish pro-immigration campaigner explaining why a minority of youths in Husby are torching their neighborhood: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323855804578509210305407152.html?mod=rss_Opinion?mod=hp_opinion
Champions League Final
Bayern v. Dortmund. As a lapsed Cologne fan I can’t make up my mind.
A man in his lab
Taken 18 May 2013 at the Olympus Photographers’ Playground in Berlin.
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Baustelle Berlin
Jetpack plugin
Have installed the Jetpack plugin, but still struggling to implement comment, share and auto-tweet functions. Could be clashing with other plugins. Apologies if there are problems with the site.
May 1
Ernst Thälmann celebrating the Workers’ Revolution. Picture is (c)
Merkel’s ‘tache
Is it a coincidence that French-dominated Euronews shows a still of Merkel that appears as if she has distinctive Hitleresque facial hair on her upper lip?
Scan in progress
A weird item to restart the blog with, but here you go: I’ve just loaded the new Samsung scanner with an inch of old letters exchanged between me, T-Mobile UK and a debt collection company called Buchanan, Clark + Wells. They’re a few years old, I won, and I’d like to get rid of them. But you can never be too sure, so they’re now being archive electronically, just in case.
Upgrading Asus EeeBox with a Samsung SSD
I’d been toying with the idea of buying a new computer for a while, but realized recently that the money just wasn’t there. So after a bit of research I decided to do the next best thing: replace the regular hard drive in my computer (an Asus EeeBox) with a Samsung SSD of the same size. All the reviews I read said it would give the old machine a significant boost.
First the good news: the procedure was relatively simple, and it worked. Working on the EeeBox is much smoother. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s equivalent to getting a new computer, but it’s definitely breathed new life into the old one.
The bad news is that it wasn’t as cheap as I’d hoped. A Samsung SSD of the same size as my HDD (250GB) cost €159 on Amazon. What I didn’t know is that I’d also have to pay another €10 for an IcyBox USB adapter cable and €39 for Norton Ghost, so I could attach the SSD to the computer while the old drive was still inside, and clone it before swapping the two. All in all the upgrade cost me €208.
Still, given how easy it was to do, and given I didn’t add to the world’s pile of discarded computers, I’d say the procedure was worthwhile.
If you have any questions about upgrading your EeeBox with an SSD, drop me a line.
Istanbul fruit seller
A fruit and vegetable seller prepares his wares in Istanbul’s old town
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Musings of a wire reporter in Berlin. Feel free to contact me with your questions about journalism, Germany, or anything else I write about on this blog.
