I knew it, it really is the light that makes me sneeze now and then! Nobody wanted to believe me, apparently everyone in my surroundings doesn't have this problem.
I found the original article on RP-Online: Wissenschaft.
And right another one to follow: Internet radio from the independent scene. Nice stuff they play there. And above all, the whole thing is available in really good quality as an MP3 stream, if your connection can handle it. By the way, I found this tip (as well as the one about Kris Delmhorst) at Phil Ringnalda. Here's the original article.
Came on TV again today - on NDR. Very much worth watching! I should get the DVD for it at some point Here's the original article.
SenderBase is a server that performs evaluations of email traffic based on senders and domains. You can use it to find out which organizations and servers use domains, what belongs to organizations, which servers are mail servers, etc.
Quite an interesting thing, based on log data from (according to their own statements) approximately 9000 companies that receive email.
So, he just let himself get dragged along. And everyone had been raving about his comeback, and then something like this ...
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Ouch, that's quite a motivation slump. And this at a time when Phonak is buying up louder-sounding names to compete in the Tour next year.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
So this is what de-escalation policy looks like today - open death threats against the president of a country one refuses to tolerate. The Americans are setting the example and Israel of course sees itself as legitimized to do the same shit. So that the madness never ends.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
New books from one of my favorite authors? Awesome!
The "Virtual Light - Idoru - Futurematic" cycle by William Gibson, which I read on vacation, was rather disappointing. It's possible that the translation had something to do with it, but somehow the first two books felt quite unfinished—a lot started and hinted at, but nothing really polished. The fact that everything was brought together in Futurematic was some compensation (and I think the third part is also the strongest), but the whole thing couldn't really excite me.
Let's hope Neal Stephenson doesn't fall victim to the cycle sickness known as "running out of breath, producing boring filler material." After all, he's only written standalone novels so far. But Cryptonomicon is such a brilliant thing that it deserves to be expanded.
At Telepolis News you'll find the original article.
Cool class. Great idea - making image uploads with Active-X controls under Windows and offering no alternative for non-Windows users. Idiotic
At MacGuardians there's the original article.
An important question is finally being clarified: where the lint in your belly button comes from.
Weird. Something like this was previously just something that happened to others. But today I had an email in my inbox from Amazon saying my credit card had been registered to someone else's account (and the email seemed authentic based on the data and similar details), and the account and orders were canceled due to abuse. It must have been flagged during data comparisons. So I had my credit card blocked right away and tomorrow I get to go through things with the fraud prevention department of my credit card company to see if anything was already purchased with it.
It's a weird feeling, after all these years of problem-free card use, especially on the internet, to finally experience firsthand what all that entails.
Fortunately, I have almost nothing fixed or recurring charged to the credit card, so it's not such a hassle if I get a new number. But if I imagine I still had all those foreign magazine subscriptions, that would be quite annoying.
The whole thing also produces a strange feeling because I only have an email as a point of reference, but no concrete data. Theoretically the email could be fake and this whole mess for nothing (okay, unlikely, because at least the email sender knows parts of my credit card number). It's just a weird feeling about the whole thing...
When it comes to the Töle, our labor market goes completely to the dogs.
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
From time to time you have to take another look at geourl, there are indeed occasionally new neighbors, even here in the provinces. When exactly is the critical threshold reached where someone voluntarily agrees to build a blogplan for Münster? Here's the original article.
And yet another neighbor I didn't know about yet. But he or she won't reveal exactly where in Münster they're located. And the light on the webcam isn't working?
Complaints department?
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
If you ever want to read up on everything that's so strange about the Star Trek universe and what explanations Trekkies come up with for it, here's the right URL for some areas. I came across it today while watching an Enterprise episode because I was looking up the relationship between Romulans and Vulcans (in today's Enterprise episode, humans meet Romulans for the first time on the timeline).
Ok, I know it's nothing that would really interest the world.
Is there actually still a limit to stupidity that Berlusconi won't cross? And how long will the Italians accept this? And most importantly: how long will the EU accept such an EU Council President? At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
This is quite a subwoofer that lives up to its name
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft you can find the original article.
The German Federal Court of Justice joins the series of senseless and absurd verdicts and delivers its own version of judicial dementia. I'm sorry if the judges are too stupid to think of anything other than Telekom when they see Magenta, but why must it now be claimed at the highest court level that the rest of the German citizens are similarly dim-witted? I don't appreciate being insulted, not even by judges...
You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet and here.
Just in case anyone was wondering where I was (of course nobody wondered). Hamburg wasn't quite as wet as Münster and the model railway is absolutely top-notch. The rest of Hamburg is great too. Could someone not rent me a small apartment in Winterhude at a bargain price so I have something for the weekends?
Ah, 0.5.4 is out. I need to remember this for the Python Desktop Server so I can update it in the documentation. Because there are important fixes in there (especially the one with URL analysis).
There are indeed strange bugs out there. You can't use a password with a capital U on Apple machines. I mean, what the heck is so special about a capital U that this banal letter makes passwords unusable? I can't imagine any bug that would provoke such behavior. Weird.
Oh how wonderfully simple: Social welfare recipients are just potential freeloaders anyway, so what's the difference, let's strip away their every right to data protection, no big deal, they have nothing to say anyway. The fat cats who move their money abroad. The companies that don't pay taxes because they use enough confusing constructs to hide their real income. The parties that can ship millions abroad but still pocket party financing. All of that is perfectly fine, because after all those aren't social welfare recipients.
And as for the work requirement for social welfare recipients: Work makes you free. We've seen all that before.
Every time you think the populism of German politicians can't get any worse, these idiots come up with even dumber and more contemptuous ideas. And then they wonder about political disillusionment. But who's supposed to still have interest in this madness when it's all just about destroying everything we've created so fat cats can keep ripping us off? So shareholders can keep squeezing companies? So managers can keep showing off to those shareholders how they've tightened the organization and cut costs (and in reality destroy the livelihoods of employees and run the company so far into the ground that a foreign company swallows it up)? So lobby clubs and associations can keep feathering their nests? So corrupt politicians can keep pocketing their bribes for themselves or their party? No matter who you vote for, as a voter you're screwed.
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Oh great: a federal president who at times stirs up more hatred than an ultra-right CSU politician. And has gained experience with black briefcases. Excellent idea. We'll certainly become even more popular abroad with this.
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
I was quite astonished by that. Okay, I was certainly aware that real flu is dangerous. But that it claims so many victims was new to me.
I agree with the demand to strip German courts of jurisdiction over domain issues due to their incompetence. The whole thing is taking on increasingly absurd proportions.
I found the original article at dotcomtod.
It's interesting when athletes get doped by veterinarians - quite a mess, really.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Just as a tip, if you happen to be in the Datteln area: there's the Henrichenburg boat lift, which now serves as a museum facility. So far I've only looked at it from a distance, but hopefully we'll get there this vacation. It could also offer some nice photo opportunities.
What a bunch of utter nonsense Merkelnix is spouting again ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Good. Maybe the swamp can still be drained a bit after all ...
I found the original article at RP-Online: Politik.
More talk about money than about cycling again.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Wow. He's really gone nuts ...
At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.
Great. Another proof that these trademark law issues are anything but sensible. Nobody among us should confuse mobile Unix with fat Belgian comic characters anymore. We customers are too stupid to think and the court has now officially confirmed that. Wonderful.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Sounds like some people in the Pentagon have watched too many bad science fiction movies - unfortunately, they seem to mean it seriously.
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
The description sounds very interesting, it seems to be a very powerful tool. However, I have some concerns about the price: is a tool just for sharpening really worth 99 dollars? The normal PhotoKit costs only half that (and includes a whole bunch of useful tools). Sure, the sharpening functions in PhotoKit aren't as sophisticated, but somehow I'm reluctant to spend 100 bucks just for this one aspect.
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
Hmm. Does FaceSpan really make sense anymore in times of (free) AppleScript Studio? AppleScript Studio can also create completely AppleScript-based software, and with the help of Interface Builder there's also a very good GUI design tool, and the integration is also very high. And above all, extensions and performance-critical areas can be implemented quite easily in Objective-C. I don't know if FaceSpan really makes sense there anymore.
At welcome to macscripter.net | applescript and script resource there's the original article.
Exactly that - a purely populist decision. With this method, you're giving the Bild newspaper a free pass to make politics. And all this just for very few special cases that could have been left for courts to clarify. Of course, one doesn't need to mention that the Union (at least Stoiber) believes that this is far from going far enough. Politicians are not above letting themselves be made a fool of in such ridiculous ways by a trashy tabloid like the Bild newspaper.
I found the original article at TAZ.
It's quite amusing when a manufacturer calls itself (or rather, one of its own campaigns) the most important IFA novelty. But things get really ridiculous when the homepage for this project is entirely built in Flash. Marketing gimmickry to get press coverage, that's all this is. Yes, the Website is only Flash. No skip button, no alternative presentation, nothing. Just Flash. But don't worry, even if the browser can't handle Flash, this silly website still sets a cookie. And don't even think that this Flash stuff has realized any special usability – quite the opposite, I've never seen such a pointless structure: a movie that plays, the menu items are points on the movie's timeline. After selecting a point, the movie continues from there.
Well, it seems Tobit really doesn't care about people with disabilities.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Of course, people like us were active in mailbox networks (yeah yeah, those animal nets, first Fido, soon then Maus) and of course we didn't have any fancy pictures, no chats (ok, the Fidos had something like that, but they were hardly better than the BTX folks), no commerce and therefore it was all better.
Or so.
At heise online news there's the original article.
A small AppleScript that jumps to the link to Popfile in messages that were filtered by Popfile. Unfortunately for Entourage, I think I'd need to rewrite it for Mailsmith sometime. For that I'd probably need to know a bit more about AppleScript ... Here's the original article.
At the WDR it says that even though the ruling will have no direct consequences for the state government, - please, what? So the state government violates the state constitution. But of course that has no impact. Weird. Well, if I look at the vultures of the Union who also want to run down NRW, then it might actually be quite good if it has no impact. It's quite scary when you'd rather have the constitutional violators than the alternative that's (not really) up for election.
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.
Oh come on, 10,000 euros, SCO will certainly notice that. Ridiculous. They try to get money through extortion and coercion (for which any respectable mobster would end up in prison if he applied the same behavior in the restaurant business), but from the court they just get slapped with a small fine.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
... hand me a cup of whisky, a cigar and the right (smoky) dive bar
Yikes. That's not good, stuff like that. But it's pretty crazy what performance athletes will do to themselves. Us ordinary folk find infusions disgusting and unpleasant, and they're having protein run straight into their veins.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
That's what I like about Zabel: there's no fatigue, no talk of giving up before things have really started, and no complaining – just hard and good work, great performances, and – almost always – a grin in interviews.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview you can find the original article.
Financial aspects were placed above human suffering. Drop bombs on people, who cares, as long as the cash register rings
And of course no one will hold the war profiteers accountable, no matter how dubious their connections to the US government are.
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
How great - people are dying en masse and the pharmaceutical industry continues to secure its profits. At the expense of the dying people, of course. It doesn't matter anyway, money is much more important than human lives
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Oh boy, is Ullrich already thinking about quitting? And what's this about him saying he wouldn't give up so much to save a team - wasn't Coast in trouble, and wasn't he too? Has he already forgotten about that? Well, I'm not sure that's the right attitude...
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht you can find the original article.
Damn, just a reset for brief perception sequences. I was already hoping we could finally boot a few colleagues
At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
Yes, that's quite practical. Together with the Web Developer Toolbar, Firebird is already a really great tool.
Addendum: The Toolbar used to be good - version 0.2 ran well on Firebird under OS X, version 0.3 doesn't work at all. And the author has such wonderful HTML on his pages that you can't find an email address anywhere and the contact form is of course broken (validation with JavaScript code that won't accept my email address). Idiotic communication prevention. Another addendum: ok, that was only with Safari and Firebird 0.6.1, not with Firebird 0.6 - at least sending an email works with that. But the toolbar still doesn't work...
At Markus Kniebes Journal you can find the original article.