Dick und satt gefuttert bin ich nach meinem Wochenende bei Markus “Koschi” Koschnike. Es war cool, mal wieder bei einem alten Kumpel vorbeizuschauen und seine 6(!) Flipper zu quälen.
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Swiss traveler club
I changed my “Qualiflyer” membership into a “Swiss Frequent Flyer” one. This took 6 e-mails and three days. After a week I got a nice plastic card with my name on it… but no PIN to log in :-(! After calling to the hotline, they told me that they would send me one, it would take up to two weeks! Oh my God, don’t they have some automated processes there? (Besides, they had managed to get my address wrong into their system). IDIOTS
Update: By 2006 this has been converted to the Lufthansa miles’n more system.
Update 2009-07-07: I just rediscovered this blog post and find it interesting that I disliked their customer service even back then. By the way, my colleague Stefan Haefliger had even much more horrible experiences in getting his card (it took several months).
Proposal for dissertation
Today I have to defend my proposal for the dissertation (a plan of action for the actual dissertation). Although it is supposed to be a pure formality, I am quite nervous. I hope everything is going well. Darn, I should better read it again now, so at least I know what’s in there…
Stefan got his own blog
My colleague Stefan Haefliger got his own blog now. Hopefully we are going to use these things for more than just sending us silly messages…
UPDATE 2006-01: changed URL to his new blog address.
Warblogging.com
Warblogging.com has an interesting article (Speaking of empire) about the recent tendency of the US towards an empire. Very interesting to read.
UPDATE: Warblogging is dead by now, however the archives still seem to be up.
UPDATE 2009-07-07: Even the archives are dead by now.