http://joelion.com Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:57:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Reading Lukas Mathis's latest post on ignore the code reminded me of a similar rant I let loose over 2.5 years ago on a LifeHacker.com "Mac Switchers Guide." The commenting system over at LifeHacker has become needlessly complex (I can't even link directly to a particular comment), so I'm reposting ... http://joelion.com/2009/07/mac-app-installation/ After a 3+ year blogging hiatus (mostly because nothing as interesting has happened in my life since living in Germany for a year. well, except for the whole "getting laid off" and company going bankrupt thing) I'm reviving this blog to post some random thoughts/comments/essays that I don't think or ... http://joelion.com/2009/07/revival/ For some reason (peer-pressure!) I signed up for the 10km München Stadtlauf (City Run) when I ran this morning. My company, Infineon/Qimonda, is a major sponsor, so they give free entry to all employees and have a courtyard reserved just for us for pre and post race, so I joined ... http://joelion.com/2006/06/laufen-in-munchen/ I went over to Hofbräuhaus last month with a couple guys for a going-away party for a colleague who was making a 2 month trip to our office in Portugal. While there, we ran into our work group's Team Assistant, who happens to be French, with her friends and parents, ... http://joelion.com/2006/06/politics-and-bier-of-course-at-hofbrauhaus/ So, unless you've been living in a cave.... or, uh.... in the USA, you know that the World Cup started today, or the WM, Weltmeister, here in Germany. The month long, 32 country tournament kicked off tonight with the opening ceremony and the first match in Munich's brand new Allianz ... http://joelion.com/2006/06/weltmeister-2006/ Grrrr..... All this talk about spring and eating outside and everything must have jinxed the whole city. We woke up Tuesday morning to 5 more inches of snow!! It snowed most of the day, but was very wet and most of it is gone now, at least in the city. ... http://joelion.com/2006/04/spring-time-is-bier-snow-time/ Finally, got some major changes done to the site. First, the photo gallery is back up and working. In the process of upgrading, I hope to have made the gallery more attractive and easier and more fun to navigate. One of the reasons it took so long was trying to ... http://joelion.com/2006/04/spring-time-is-bier-time/ So I spent much of my last post complaining commenting on the weather around here. Well parhaps I spoke too soon because this weekend has been great, hinting that Spring may be around the corner. By great I mean it's been sunny, at least, and temperatures have been above freezing. ... http://joelion.com/2006/03/spring-is-hier/ I think I read somewhere that something like 90% of the blogs created in the last 3 years are now considered dead; i.e. having no posts or updates in the past 3 months. If my blog isn't dead yet, it's certainly on lifesupport, so the goal of this blog now ... http://joelion.com/2006/03/st-patricks-day-munich-style/ Well I guess it's time for what has become my monthly update. To start off with several bits of exciting news. When we came to Munich in July with my company, the plan was to stay for 6 months then return to the US. But as I'm sure you've noticed ... http://joelion.com/2005/12/staying-in-germany-for-the-time-being/