This shows a few creatures I createt with the Spore Creature Creator from the upcoming game “Spore”. Hope you can enjoy them without further translation…
Lustige Sache jedenfalls, dieser Spore Creature Creator… Hier meine „Viecher“:
Für die erste Kategorie hab ich nichts, beginnen wir also mit diesem kleinen, irgendwie knuddligen Kerl – ich nenne ihn „Balli“:
Es folgt der unmögliche „Doppelkopf“ – mit Kopf an beiden Enden, könnte irgendwie Verdauungs- bzw. Ausscheidungsprobleme geben:
Mostly out of curiosity, I was just browsing through some notebook configurations at Dell (their German site, that is) and encountered these great options for a security solution which, however, somehow could be improved:
(1) First line: “without security/antivirus [included]”, without language mentioned, so probably English; second line: “without security/antivirus – German [plus 0.01€]” – So, missing security in German costs 1 cent, and those who don’t speak English have to pay! Or vice versa. Somewhat confusing. 
(2) But don’t give up hope, a few lines below you get the same, “without security/antivirus – German [plus 0.00€]”, for free! just 0.00€.
You know, I got my FritzBox and my ISDN telephone configured such that callers who do not transmit their phone number only reach a computer voice without ringing which says (translated):
“Good day. You are calling without transmitting your number. Since this is typical for unwanted commercial calls, you are directly – without audible ringing – directed to this answering machine. Please enable your caller ID transmission, or leave a message so you can be called back. Thank you.”
(I wrote about configuring it in this comment in German.)
In the last few weeks, this has proven more and more useful again, after some time with only very few calls – though there were never useful messages left on the answering machine, because except for the lottery call robots (which can’t tell a machine from a human), at most a few short call center background noises were recorded. Except for now:
Yesterday a probably little experienced female call center agent could be heard (*** mark incomprehensible parts from other people; my translation from German, of course):
*** — “If you- if the number is suppressed, you are automatically… put on the answering machine. Had… here I currently have a tape like that, I am to activate my number, or leave something on the machine” — “*** …a tape… ***” — “I don’t know!”
And this afternoon three in a row (by the way, all callers had no number transmission in the first place; no case-by-case suppression and no old analog line):
15:08: No recording.
15:09: Man 1: “What program or something like that does that one have installed?”
15:10: Man 2: “Is cool, huh?” — man 1 (same as before): “That is cool, isn’t it?” — man 3, maybe other conversation: “Maybe that is for him/you…***”
The topic of week 24 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Tools
Without further ado, let’s get right to the photo:
A photo that’s ambiguous in multiple ways: A little house made of bits, i.e. screwdriver head pieces with the same name as the basic unit of information storage, with a USB stick (containing even more bits) from our company which offers (mostly software) tools for PC diagnosis (and more) as door. Sorry for this little advertising…