Category: English
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The Great Game in Central Asia
With the advent of China’s Belt and Road Initiative I found it necessary to learn about the involved regions and histories. I’m curious. Grown up in Germany during the Cold War I was teached that Russians were always mostly the evil ones and people from the West are usually the “better ones”. I never believed it but […]
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Need Help … #blockchain #healthcare #questionaire #family … please share
My daughter Phyllis asked me today via messenger if I could participate in a questionnaire she needs for her Master Thesis. I did and you should do so too, wherever you are on this planet! WHAT IS IT ABOUT? Master Thesis at Maastricht University with the topic “Blockchain Technology in Healthcare”. WHY? You support interesting […]
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United Kingdom
The Wikipedia page for UK starts with this sentence: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain. After visiting the country for the first time for a longer time (2 weeks) I learned so much about the history (William the conqueror, Oliver Cromwell, the parliament, …), that […]
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Why Twitter blocked and deleted our @ibcoco1 Twitter Account
We are running the not for profit iron blogger project. The aim of the project is to motivate people to blog once a week. If you are interested in the project (and you should ;) ), have a look at our website https://ibcoco.net/we-want-you-to-blog-because/. Beside the website, the project had a Twitter account. Last week I received […]
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Joomla and CloudFest
As I mentioned two weeks ago I became a kind of “partner happiness volunteer” in the Joomla project (CloudFest: Become a Partner for the Joomla Project and I’ll make you happy). My first task was to find partners for Joomla at this very unique conference in an amusement park in Germany. The conference itself has […]
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CloudFest: Become a Partner for the Joomla Project and I’ll make you happy
Next week I’m going to CloudFest. CloudFest itself is not easy to describe. It is an event and the successor of the World Hosting Days. Thus a large part of the world’s hosting industry will be “there”. The first time I was there in 2016. I’m writing a weekly blog post for NovaTrend, a hosting company […]
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WordPress Single Sign On … aber wie/but how?
Sorry for the language mix but I thought it’s better to have it in both languages :) Heute habe ich mal keine Lösung, sondern ein Problem. Ich will in WordPress etwas programmieren. Eine Authentifizierung gegenüber einem Altsystem. Today I have no solution, but a problem. I want to program something in WordPress. An authentication to […]
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Building a Central Bank – Part 1
Last week I asked if someone has an idea what Ethereum is about. Dick Olsson told me in a comment that it’s possible to create a kind of blockchain for our iron blogger project. What I know so far is the wikipedia article about Ethereum, some content of the website of the Swiss foundation Ethereum.org and a few videos from 2014 […]
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
It’s “the biography” about Elon Musk, his family and the story behind PayPal (make banking easy) Tesla Motors (about cars, super chargers, production plants and batteries) SpaceX (about reusable rockets that can start AND land) SolarCity (about creating electricity). After being disappointed with so many dark dystopian Science Fiction stories he basically decided to make the future bright again, […]