Time and again I am startled to realize that most people my age have never heard of some of the grooviest sounds of the 60s. Yes, sure, everybody knows “Yellow Submarine”, “Respect”, “Blowing in the Wind” and “Leaving on a Jetplane”. But folks, there’s more to it than that! Therefore I want to throw a few selected crumbs of musical general knowledge into [...]

Months ago I bought a little “painting starter kit” that was on special offer in the supermarket and, among a few canvases, also contained brushes, palette and acrylic paint. I rather wanted to paint with oil though, so I additionally bought some oil paints and a small bottle of linseed oil. Well, as I said, that was [...]

Lately I was sitting in front of the television, watching an episode of the 90s sitcom series “Step by Step” when suddenly and unexpectedly someone burst in who actually didn’t belong there: John Stamos, better known as “Uncle Jesse” from the series “Full House”. After his five second guest appearance had ended and Dana and Karen had stopped screaming the [...]

Actually I didn’t want to write about this at all, but now I see that some people googled for the very same error message that I recently got from FireStats as well: Wrong parameter count for debug_backtrace() Obviously Google combed through my site just at the time when it was littered with that unlovely error message, and [...]