Dear friends and visitors, We have gathered here today to mourn the loss of a truly reliable friend. Not even two years of age, my loyal companion Matrox, nickname 250 GB Disk, passed away two days ago. Without any previous symptoms he lost his life under rather mysterious circumstances. Let us all remember him, and my precious [...]

When I went to elementary school, we discussed things like children do. We said what we liked, what we didn’t care about or what we flat out hated. Then I went to secondary school (at least I think that’s what Americans would call it). There the teachers wanted to teach us to discuss issues like grown-ups [...]

Could anyone please tell me where blogcatalog.com went? Yesterday it was up, then down, then up before it went down completely. Now www.blogcatalog.com forwards you to siteproplus.com. Not that I can’t live without it, but I grew rather fond of it, especially after they introduced their forums. Does anyone know what happened there? Any announcements I missed? A [...]

I just read an article about Google on the Financial Times Website. What peaked my interests were these quotes from Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt: We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation. The goal is to enable Google users to be able [...]

Yesterday I watched the last episode of “Gilmore Girls”. One of my favorite TV-series - over. Then a friend sent me a link to a site that said that there will be no 4th season of “Veronica Mars”. That kinda pissed me off. After that - to follow the theme of the day - I read that [...]

The country Germany’s territory covers about 137,850 sqm (slightly bigger than Montana). The biggest city is the capital Berlin with 3.4 mill inhabitants (Hamburg: 1.74 mill, Munich: 1.26 mill). Germany consists of 16 states, 3 of which are city states (Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen). Germany shares borders with Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland. One of [...]

A couple of days ago the Pentagon started it’s own YouTube channel. As it says there: “Multi-National Force - Iraq established this YouTube channel to give viewers around the world a “boots on the ground” perspective of Operation Iraqi Freedom from those who are fighting it.” “Those who are fighting it” can’t watch it, though. Along with [...]

Disclaimer: I’ve never “played” Second Life and I don’t intend to do so. Ever. This rant is not born out of dissatisfaction with the product. No, I’m overcome with extreme annoyance whenever I hear someone mentioning Second Life. Especially if it is referred to as a game. Second Life is not a game. It’s a giant 3D [...]

If you have enjoyed the ViraLink, I bet you will love this. Think of it as Viralink with anchor Text. ========= Copy and Paste below this line ========== Instructions: 1.) Copy and paste the matrix of “ViralTags” below courtesy of Founders Cafe (to support Jimmy’s quest of launching his own Internet Startup with a shoestring budget, please consider [...]

I’ll tell you why: They see videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAAjdfIMwDY Edit: Or this one, apparently from the same show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlXfCZTeQI

Your company hired a new accountant just to keep track of your expense account. Five years ago you had a lot of friends in the company. Today you have the same friends, but they are all unemployed. You’re wife is worried that you’re working too much, but relaxes after you tell her that you just had some [...]

I received a couple of mails with questions about the results of the Viralink. After 10 days I think it might be the right time to have a look at the results so far. Before: Technorati Ranking: ~ 136,000 Authority: 35 After: Technorati Ranking: 38,518 Authority: 121 iWebtool is predicting a Pagerank of 5 (4,5) now, up from a 3 (3,3) two weeks [...]

A lot of Germans pronounce the English “th” as an “s”. I love this ad *g*.

1. Don’t smile. You don’t want to make a sale, you want to look German. 2. Fake a creepy accent. If you don’t know what a German accent sounds like, do an Arnold Schwarzenegger personation. 3. Don’t say “hi” or “hello”. Use “hallo” or “guten tag” instead (the a is pronounced like the u in “us” for [...]

Preface: This post is in no way intended to insult anyone, hurt anyone’s feeling or put anyone down. I’m just asking a question out of curiosity. I’d like you to take it as it is meant - a simple, factual question for a historical date. I was talking to a friend of mine about the election [...]

As announced on monday, “Tobsy says” is now hosted on a new server. I hope you didn’t experience any problems and it stays that way. If you come across any bugs, please let me know. Thank you

Do you have a website that, as soon as you open it, jump starts your imagination and gets you daydreaming? I do. Mine is Vladi Private Islands . As you can tell from the name it is a real estate broker, whose specialty are islands. I’m kind of a loner and have a sentimental attachment to our [...]

Someday this week “Tobsy says” will move to another host. I hope you will not notice it, but just in case - sorry in advance. After the move this site should be faster and able to withstand a digg effect. The new host also provides enough resources for me to implement some other ideas, so [...]

Google updated the public Pagerank - nice. As expected “Tobsy says” got a PR2, which isn’t bad, considering it’s not even 2 months old and it’s not about blogging. I had a look at the different datacenters over at oy-oy. I entered www.tobsy.de, saw the PR2 and then, just for fun, I entered http://www.tobsy.de/?p=22. It got [...]

Linkbuilding can be a really cumbersome task. When I read on linkrambler that Andy Coates came up with an interesting concept for viral linkbuilding, I couldn’t resist. The System is pretty easy: Copy & paste the grid and instructions in a new post, add a link onto the star of your choice and publish it. [...]