Now they’re already announcing ad leaflets with small ads…:
Translation: “Please regard our current Adler leaflet which will be in your mailbox next Saturday.”
(From yesterday’s “Pfaffenhofener Anzeiger”.)
Tabl can contain errors
How comforting to read this in the footnotes of a residual schedule for the railway strike:
Translation: “Despite attentive editing, the tabl can contain errors.”
Somewhat unpractical…
…but it’s supposed to indicate a good cause – and of course winning chances –, this sticker from today’s “Aktion Mensch” bulk mail (a social organization with a lottery supporting handicapped people) about a special draw day at December 6.
But if I do what they say and stick it onto my calendar, it looks like this:
As I said, somewhat unpractical. 
I wouldn’t have guessed that
PS. Halloween is over, if you still see remains in the header, just cliick Reload in your browser.
Is Microsoft living in the past?
A letter from Microsoft arrived today, kindly reminding me that my “Open License”
of Visual Studio/MSDN Professional (or whatever its current name is) will expire soon. On page 2, it says (translation and underline by me):
“Upgrade assurance of the licenses: With Open Value, thanks to Software Assurance, you secure for you already today future product versions like those coming in 2006: Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft “Office 12”.
[…]
Extended Software Assurance Services: starting March 2006, you have also available…”
Maybe someone at Microsoft should occasionally read through these standard texts…
Oh, and their 01805 phone number costs no longer 12, but 14 cents – when will the first official warning letter arrive? 