Images of Spring

In the picture blog there are a few images of spring. Yes, it's coming. Really.

miniSD

Yet another memory card standard nobody needs ...

I found the original article at Gizmodo.

"Morning Prayer" at CeBIT: "Go a-head, go a-head, Te-le-kom"

Ridiculous. Completely insane. Well, at least they make themselves look like fools with a stupid grin on their faces.

Not so funny is that at the same time Deutsche Telekom is supposed to cut 40,000 jobs. No matter how many songs and dances you come up with, that doesn't change things.

If you look at how many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been cut in recent years, you understand why unemployment can't go down: jobs are simply being destroyed.

No matter how many speeches the chancellor gives, if the economy is systematically running itself into the ground, there's no simple solution to that.

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Remnants of Autumn

Remnants of Autumn

Well. This one is anything but a herald of spring. Never mind. It's still pretty.

And one last

And one more

So, that's it for now. But they really are pretty. Besides, I got to try out the macro function of the Kodak. Usable.

And another pair

And another pair

They sure are pretty ...

And more...

And more ...

Yes, I know, it's getting tedious, but there's one more coming.

Pussy Willow

Pussy Willows

Here are a few pictures of the lovely, fluffy, and absolutely annoying (I already mentioned that I'm allergic to them) pussy willows. Ok, I accept the sneezing, after all they really are true harbingers of spring.

We in Hesse

I can recommend passing along the advice to read the Spiegel article. Electoral helper activities around Koch. With illegal data collection and evaluation and similar games.

At das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog you can find the original article.

America the gullible

Oh Man: A Hoax is Circulating

A hoax is currently making the rounds in which images from the film Armageddon show an exploding shuttle. The images are being passed off as pictures from a spy satellite, claiming to show the Columbia. The embarrassing part: apparently members of the American military and Homeland Security are also distributing this stuff. Very reassuring. When will they launch a first strike against the suspected terrorists who allegedly attacked the shuttle? After all, you could easily present the images to the UN as proof of Hussein's rogue state status. Sure, the images are fake, but better than the false evidence Rumsfeld presented to the UN.

The original article can be found at Workbench - here.

Customize Apple X11 1

Jutta continues to tinker with X11 and has written two posts about configuring XTerms and other details.

At Hexentanz I found the original article.

Möllemann wants to stay in the FDP

Hmm. I also question whether it's a good strategy to harshly attack both the former party chairman Genscher and the current party leader Westerwelle if one wants to remain in the FDP.

Mental dissolution of a boxer? I mean, he's often referred to as a boxer, and many of them have a soft brain after years of boxing, from all the blows ...

At tagesschau on the internet you can find the original article.

Monitor Report on American Diplomacy

Monitor is running a report on American coercion of undecided candidates in the UN Security Council. African states are being presented with a clear choice: either be left completely isolated economically or cooperate. Chile is being blackmailed with the failure of economic negotiations. Overall, a diplomacy of extortion and bribery. Crowned by the spying on UN diplomats. With the goal of killing people.

Also interesting (in a very horrific way) are the photos of war victims (by Stanley Green and others). Everyone should remember that precision weapons are nothing more than weapons that kill people - and that the precision is just a lie. Unfortunately, hardly anyone really wants to see that - people prefer to convince themselves that war is as clean as American military propaganda (among others) depicts it. Collateral damage could just as easily be us - or any other civilian who happens to be in the wrong place. Even if that wrong place is their home, and all they do is live there.

The Cathedral

The Cathedral

There are plenty of churches in Münster. And the cathedral has certainly been photographed often enough. Never mind. It's part of Münster, the weather was nice, so it goes in here. That's that.

First Signs of Spring

First Signs of Spring

The willows already have their first leaf buds, shimmering in light green and giving the weeping willows a beautiful yellow-green color. I always look forward to it, even though I really should be upset: willows are one of the tree species that I'm allergic to ...

St. Joseph''s Church, Church Tower

Josefskirche, Church Tower

OK, I may have overdone it a bit with the wide-angle lens...

Even More Church

Even More Church

The Josefskirche. I somehow like the church (as a building, really the function is quite irrelevant to me), it looks so out of place where it stands. Like a remnant of a bygone era.

Clutter

Cool. Absolutely cool. A bit buggy, but still cool.

You can find the original article at Ben Hammersley.com.

Memorial ride for deceased cyclist Kiwilew

That's a shame. But every now and then you're reminded that professional sports aren't as safe and carefree as they look on television. Kiwilew was a good driver. :-(

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Java 1.4.1

Reminds me that I wanted to try whether PyDS also works with Jython. Yes, I know, Metakit and a few other things cause problems. But there might be alternatives for that (no idea if that also applies to docutils, but you can find something there too).

At PragDave there's the original article.

Queen Beatrix threatens to file charges

Oops! Is the Dutch royal house trying to catch up to the British royal house's scandal distance at breakneck speed?

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Apples

Well. I've been eating only Danish hotdogs for years and with hamburgers, well, I'll just switch to Vikings or Bremen ones

At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.

Excerpt from a commentary by Bush Sr. to Bush Jr.

Anything but great approval, quite the opposite. Bush Sr. criticizes the President for his willingness to wage war even without a UN mandate if necessary, and points out that such a war would ruin any hope for peace in the Middle East. Very interesting stuff. Maybe Dubya will listen to Dad...

At [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][1] you can find the original article.

Peace appeals for Iraq banned

Well, as long as Büssow doesn't read this, otherwise he'd be all fired up right away and would quickly ban everyone in North Rhine-Westphalia from protesting or petitioning. And since he's already at it, he'd quickly ban everyone from thinking too.

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

No War in Our Name!

Exactly. Whoever takes no position tolerates it. You can take a position on Klaus Staeck's side.

At Hexentanz I found the original article.

New Exclusion Procedure against Möllemann

Hi there, if he had parried, he might have gotten through. Ok, fine, at least the FDP has a chance to make up for the failure from the last vote.

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

Nigeria-Connection

Hmm. I naturally picked up on the thing with the welfare recipient and his alleged million-dollar inheritance - Ennigerloh is, so to speak, just around the corner - but I wasn't aware until now that it was connected to the Nigeria connection. Well, I've never bet on the intelligence of rural political leadership in this area.

At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.

Crooked

Schief

It's true though. It is crooked. I suppose I'll have to work more with the display than with the optical viewfinder on the Kodak. Too bad really, the viewfinder uses less power.

Pasture by the Pond

Willow by the Pond

One of my favorite subjects - a small, smelly pond on the promenade. In winter it's covered with all the rubbish thrown onto the ice, in summer it stinks to high heaven. And the willows don't mind, they grow there and are as beautiful as ever.

PyDBC 0.2

Contracts for Python? Hmm. Could be interesting, especially since you can disable them to boost runtime performance later. Maybe that will help get a better handle on the problems that Python's highly dynamic environment presents. Let me take a look.

At PyPI recent updates there's the original article.

International Court of Justice begins work

Well. And the Americans wisely objected beforehand and announced that they would free American military personnel by force if necessary if they were to be brought to court there. China and Israel did the same. So much for acceptance of the court.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Guide to building an anonymous CVS server with Debian

The linked page provides not only the software, but also Debian packages and explanations for setting up your own anonymous CVS server, which runs under its own user and in a chroot jail. Nice thing. I use it for the Python Desktop Server.

Here you can find the original article.

Ari Fleischer admits Bush called from a prepared list of reporters

Oh man. Bush has his reporters and their questions pre-screened and still stumbles over them and blabs anyway...

At kuro5hin.org there's the original article.

Bush and the Truth ...

A page comparing various political statements made by Bush with reality. Not much remains of them...

Here's the original article.

Möllemann wants to stay in the Bundestag after all

Sure. He's still struggling. He'll make life hell for the FDP for a while. Serves them right, they fell for it too. Pretty dumb.

You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet here.

All Crazy on the Western Front:

Well, America is heading straight back to the darkest times of blacklists, denunciations, and speech bans. Great thing that this country of all places thinks it has to shape the world according to its will - by force if necessary. Led by someone who considers "Saddam is a bad man" sufficient argument for a war of aggression. At Zickenterror you can find the original article.

British Government on the Verge of a Breaking Point

Will this now convince Blair to back down? Or will he sacrifice his own government's power for his faith in America? Actually, he is a skilled tactician, so you would expect him to give in now. If he does, Bush loses one of his most important pillars of support. It would be hoped that the war might be avoided after all. At least if the UN Security Council doesn't flip.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

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Our little coffee trees are slowly getting going

At The Witch - Juttas Fotoalben you can find the original article.

Happy Hour for Specialist Retailers

Why's that bad? The slacker parties are meanwhile the only promising thing about Zähbit anyway

(which is why I avoid this mass event too - the information is available online more competently and faster)

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.

Roogle - RSS Feed Search Engine

Roogle is a search engine where you can register RSS feeds that it then indexes and makes searchable. Nice thing since you explicitly search in weblogs and only in relatively current content.

Also cool is the disclaimer

Here's the original article.

Eric Raymond on SCO's Lawsuit Against IBM

SCO's action is truly absurd to its core. Suing IBM because IBM, through support of Linux, has limited SCO's revenue opportunities is certainly a very strange move. You are our competitor, you support Linux, your solutions are more successful than ours, so we're suing you - as far as I know, there is no right to commercial success, even in the USA.

Here's the original article.

Erik Zabel's First Success of the Season

Hey, things are going really well this year!

You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

Make no mistake

An interesting collection of statements about what the Internet is or is not. Especially directed at all those who think they need to enhance the Internet, but only mean to make money doing so by presenting the same old stupid ideas over and over again. Read! Share!

I find the newly defined "Repetitive Mistake Syndrome" nice. But it probably won't be recognized by the occupational health and safety association either.

I found the original article at The Doc Searls Weblog.

Online database provides information on contact allergenic potential of chemicals

Actually only blogged here for Jutta so she finds out about it and doesn't miss it

The original article is available at heise online news (the original article).

Kult

Kult

Ok, I'm actually not a motorcycle fan, but I still find something like this kind of nice. But it does seem to me like it's missing at least one wheel ...

Ranchero releases XML-RPC client for MacOS

Noted and blogged. Could become interesting if I ever get the urge to dive back into Objective-C.

The original article is at Workbench under this link.

Westerwelle's Rockets

Now I've been thinking the whole time about what kind of nasty comment I should make here, but actually Westerwelle's appearance speaks for itself, you don't need any nasty comments on top of it. And with that, this has become one anyway

I found the original article at das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog.

Möllemann returns - in Bavaria

The evil is always and everywhere

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

And moss tufts again

And Again Moss Tufts

Yeah yeah, they're getting boring. I want flowers too. Or something else. But right now my commute is terribly dull. But I have to test the Kodak on something...

Terry Jones on the War

The text by Terry Jones is really nice. Hmm. My neighbors aren't suspicious to me, but some of the drivers show strong aggression towards me in Münster. Am I allowed to interpret that now as an attack and threat and already initiate a preemptive strike against the drivers?

At kuro5hin.org I found the original article.