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Municipal Elections Münster

So the mayoral election unfortunately turned out much as expected. However, Tillmann apparently didn't manage 50 percent, so it looks like we'll be going to the polls again on 10.10. Unfortunately, the mayoral election results don't give me much hope that it will be better then. With the council election it's exciting. Extremely close for Union+FDP. But I fear that won't stop them from continuing their reckless nonsense, even if together they only just scrape over 50 percent. Presumably these nutcases will now bury our tax money under the Ludgeri Circle and destroy the promenade in that area through clear-cutting in the name of upgrading it - as they call it. Fantastic. Particularly annoying: in part this will probably be due to the idiots who didn't vote as a protest against government policy and would normally have voted SPD. No, the municipal election is not the right place to protest federal politics, you blunderers. In municipal elections it's about what happens on your doorstep - and that's exactly where a completely pointless and overpriced parking garage will now probably be built instead of a green space with old trees. Thanks to you too.

However, the district elections for Mitte district are at least encouraging in the results. A strong advantage for Red+Green. That's how I would have preferred it for all of Münster.

Myriad: Gallery

Myriad: Gallerie - Yet another extended export for iPhoto - but freeware, and not a plugin

PHP/SWF Charts

PHP/SWF Charts - PHP tool for creating graphs in Flash format

T-Mobile with new management from 2006

Can only get better.

At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.

Big tours pull from ProTour

The End of the ProTour Before Its Beginning?

At VeloNews: The Journal of Competitive Cycling you can find the original article.

Chapter 2. Building OpenMCL from its Source Code

Building OpenMCL from its Source Code

OpenMCL vom Source erstellen (auch für die 0.14-dev)

Serious Security Vulnerability at Ebay

Haven't they fixed that JavaScript hole yet? Pathetic.

At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet there's the original article.

mel-base

mel-base - Base library for eMail handling in Common Lisp

Schily: More Power for the Federal Government in the Fight Against Terror

Federal authorities would need to have the final say over state authorities, according to the minister. He said this was necessary to act appropriately in combating terrorism. - yeah right, the omnipotence fantasies of a federal interior minister. You can almost imagine Schily drooling at the corner of his mouth while formulating his demands. If you have nothing to show for success and lack competence, then you try it with pure power accumulation. Doesn't help anything, but at least you can then cover up the debacles better.

Wasn't there something about federalism in the Basic Law?

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Bayescl -- cvs-prerelease - Bayesian Filter in Common Lisp

BDR President Sylvia Schenk steps down

Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the BDR's problems - there are other functionary blockheads there, things won't change much. Probably just a sacrificial lamb, the resignation.

I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.

Chronicle Mass Pileup in Space

The Universe - a classic bottom-up development?

Here you can find the original article.

CL-PREVALENCE

CL-PREVALENCE - In-Memory Database and Serialization as well as Deserialization for Lisp

GROKLAW - SCO never compared current sources

Well, that's really embarrassing when you have to admit in court that you haven't actually compared the current sources, but instead rely on an internal study from 1999 - not a bunch of experts constantly combing through the sources. All that time wasted and in the end you had to admit you did nothing. Embarrassing, very embarrassing. But the "we need help" from SCO is really amusing. Sorry folks, but nobody can help you anymore

Teufelsgrinsen

Also amusing is the fact that Kernel 2.4, which SCO was particularly targeting, was only started in 1999 - and wasn't available until 2001. In 1999, 2.2 had just been released, so SCO could hardly have had access to the 2.4 kernel back then. Yet they claim that precisely 2.4 and 2.6 are problematic - even though according to their own statement they never compared the sources.

Here's the original article.

heise online - IETF's anti-spam working group MARID strikes its sails

Since there is no prospect of consensus and achieving the stated goal -- a standard proposal by August 2004 -- he and the MARID chiefs decided to close the group. - yes, sorry, but if it's not until the end of September that one realizes the deadline in August can no longer be met, then perhaps one should put a calendar on the desk.

Otherwise, the whole procedure is an absolute debacle. I agree with the voices that the prevention of discussion about patent problems is a reason for the debacle. Patent claims on IETF algorithms should be cleared up early - because especially with such important infrastructure decisions, one must not hand over the reins to corporations that can then exploit it. And anyone who believes that Microsoft wouldn't have used such leverage to hinder the GPL is someone who puts on their pants with pliers...

And yes, it is a serious problem that there will now be no IETF proposal for the foreseeable future. Because this opens the door wide for Microsoft's unilateral action. Let's hope that spam prevention doesn't become the crowbar with which Microsoft cracks open the server market on the Internet.

Here is the original article.

Intel against 'Inside' websites

And the brand squabble continues. However, claiming the word inside as a trademark is already pretty audacious. At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.

Lispix Table of Contents

Lispix Table of Contents - Image processing system in Common Lisp

MetaOCaml Homepage

A very cool project: OCaml - already one of the most beautiful functional programming languages - is being extended with multistage programming. In principle, this is comparable to macros from Common Lisp or Scheme - but of course defined in a functionally clean way. Through multistage programming, OCaml now allows the creation of mini-languages for specific problem domains and code generation in these mini-languages - without the whole thing becoming inefficient due to execution overhead. However, I haven't yet looked into whether it comes anywhere close to the power of Common Lisp macros.

Here's the original article.

Persistent Lisp OBjects

Persistent Lisp OBjects - Persistent Lisp Objects - current version, client-server architecture

Pg: a Common Lisp interface to PostgreSQL

Pg: a Common Lisp interface to PostgreSQL - PostGreSQL client entirely in Common Lisp

Projects at Common-Lisp.net

Projects at Common-Lisp.net - Yet another bunch of more projects in Common Lisp

py2app builds its first .app

Bob Ippolito has developed a tool for the simple creation of Python-based OS X applications to the point where it compiles its first Python application. The advantage of his method: no compiler is needed and you work entirely in Python - for small tools certainly useful, since the development environment is often simply overkill for that purpose.

Here is the original article.

Sam Ruby: Copy and Paste

A nice and detailed explanation of meta tags with character set specifications, the HTTP Content-Type header with character set specification, and what browsers do with it. I always say it: the web is a technical garbage heap that just happens to work amazingly well despite that.

The original article can be found here.

SZOn - "Sammlung Cremer" goes to Münster

The painting "Monochrome bleu" by Yves Klein and the "Cremer Collection" with more than 180 works of Nouveau Réalisme and the Fluxus movement will now be on view in Münster. - so if you're looking for a reason to visit Münster, this stuff is hanging in the Landesmuseum

Here's the original article.

VIPS image processing library home page

VIPS image processing library home page - Open Source Image Processing - an alternative to the usual suspects (Gimp, ImageMagick etc.)

AllegroServe - a Web Application Server

AllegroServe - a Web Application Server - Homepage of the original AllegroServe web server - with documentation that is also relevant for Portable AllegroServe

Bavaria Abolishes Free Learning Materials

Another step towards denying or making education more difficult for those with little money. Because whoever has little money will think twice about whether to send their children to a gymnasium - paying 3 years more in book fees hurts.

Education is far too important to be prevented through cost-cutting measures. When you then look at what money is squandered on in Bavaria and how funds are lost through dubious dealings, something like this makes you even angrier.

But that was already clear from the discussion about elite universities: today elites are defined only by how much money the parents have.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Clean Corpus

Clean Corpus - Cleaning the Popfile (from 0.20) corpus to remove unnecessarily recorded words

Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP)

Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP) - the classic Common Lisp HTTP server

Common Lisp Opensource Center

Common Lisp Opensource Center - diverse Allegro Open Source Projects - e.g. an FTP and an NFS server

Fall Hamilton: Vuelta B Test Positive

Sounds somehow like a career end.

At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.

Jenoptik Announces 22 Megapixel Eyelike eMotion²² Digital Back

Weird. Jenoptik is actually rather known for extremely cheap digital cameras that are preferably marketed through Aldi and similar retail chains. I associate high-end digital backs for medium format cameras much less with Jenoptik. But at least they love extremes

At PhotographyBLOG there's the original article.

Lisp news from Rainer Joswig

Very interesting. Unfortunately still no RSS feed, but I found quite a bit on it that wasn't on Planet Lisp or my other Lisp sources. For example, the fact that Loom is now open source (back then I had to put in considerable effort to get a license - though it was free). When I read through all this Lisp stuff, I'm really itching to do more with it. I just have no idea where I'm going to find the time...

Update: a friendly spirit dropped a link to the RSS feed in the comments

Here's the original article.

lisp tools for xml

lisp tools for xml - Yet another XML parser - this one is very comprehensive, supporting common models. It also includes a SOAP parser.

LyX WikiWiki - LyX.Mac

Great – there's a native Mac version of LyX. One of the most interesting word processors – the structured text entered is converted to LaTeX or DocBook and then processed into print output with correspondingly powerful formatting tools. Installation is a bit fiddly though, due to the additional required software (teTeX, Ghostscript and a few other things).

Here's the original article.

OpenMCL-McCLIM-beagle-backend.jpg

Very cool! OpenMCL apparently will soon have a CLIM based on Cocoa — a prototype is already in CVS. Now if only the tools from Genera were ported to OpenMCL and I wouldn't need to turn on my Symbolics anymore

Here's the original article.

Portable AllegroServe

Portable AllegroServe - Compatibility layer for Allegro CL network and threading code for the AllegroServe web server

S-XML

S-XML - Simple XML Parser for Common Lisp

S-XML-RPC

S-XML-RPC - XML-RPC for client and server in Common Lisp

Statistical programming with R

Part 1: Dabbling with a wealth of statistical facilities

For all number crunchers.

Here is the original article.

Search Engine Entry & Optimization

Suchmaschinen-Eintrag & Optimierung - Everything about search engines

TeX on Mac OS X

A distribution of teTeX and various useful utilities for TeX as an installer. This makes the installation of LyX easier, since all the installers are GUI-guided.

Here you can find the original article.

woodshed productions: Dialogue between web designer and search engine robot

Great! Definitely worth reading!

Here you can find the original article.

woodshed productions: Consulting: Search Engine Optimization

woodshed productions: Consulting: Search Engine Optimization - Nice short explanation of what matters when it comes to search engines and websites

XML/HTML parsers

XML/HTML parsers - XML and HTML parsers in Common Lisp - for Allegro, but possibly portable?

Disgusting ...

... when you listen to arrogant officials talking about how a man detained in Guantanamo lost his residence permit because he failed to report within 6 months after leaving the country - even though he was imprisoned there where he couldn't report. Because contact restrictions apply there. And nobody knows what he's accused of - sometimes it's not even told to the detainees. Even if he is released without being charged or convicted, he cannot return to Germany to his family - because the German authorities do not consider detention in Guantanamo to be sufficient reason to suspend the reporting deadline. Long live bureaucratic pedantry and red tape.

Office Frustration

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that is the Joersch

No, he doesn't have a blog. That was just a demo of the camera in the Clie and the web browser (and moblogging). The camera quality is still terrible |:-)| ![139-400-300.jpeg][P1]

ImageWell

ImageWell - small utility for image editing and uploading

Inventory: you have no tea

Cool, the Hitchhiker Infocom Adventure as a Flash application. I'm not really into Flash, but that's a funny application.

I found the original article at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft.