Hmm. Together with the protest of medical representatives against the planned central office for quality control in medicine, certain suspicions come to mind.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Hmm. Parliamentarian blocked by its own protection filter. Hmm. Would that be a sustainable concept? I mean, what if it were arranged so that all content of interest to Büssow were moved to servers listed in his silly blocking order?
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Hihi, I'm glad I caught the calendar thing early enough, I'm just a lazy dog
By the way, the esteemed colleagues could also simply consider switching to the Python Desktop Server, for which I even have a – very rudimentary, but certainly could be expanded – migration script from Radio. After all, I had to do it myself.
I'll solve the ping issue by simply ignoring it. It doesn't matter which of the last 5 articles I show up as a change for on weblogs.com, it pings based on the weblog rather than individual articles. And the weblog really doesn't need to appear 10 times in 5 minutes just because someone can type and read quickly.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Well, it's really alarming how a bit of theater before the UN can actually convince people that a war is now justified. The Union has jumped right on Powell's bandwagon. The question is what their true motivation is, because I don't think even Merkel is stupid enough to believe such hocus pocus...
If a little spectacle with nice slides and neat meaningless digipictures with impressive arrows on them are really enough to put tens of thousands of civilians in danger or simply murder them, then our world has truly gone very far downhill.
With its massive military research, particularly in the areas of bioweapons (in case anyone forgot: the anthrax attacks that made waves for a long time came from US-owned laboratories) and chemical weapons, as well as its refusal to uphold or ratify various treaties, the USA is a far greater danger to the world than Iraq. Especially since the sense of mission of some Americans (who unfortunately happen to also be in government power) is far more pronounced than that of most followers of Islam.
Of course, I can't accept terrorists and terrorist attacks either. But I still don't demand that the USA be attacked just because it provides cover for fascists and neo-Nazis in its country, or even grants them the status of a church.
I found the original article at TAZ here.
Hmm. Wasn't the Civil Service Union supposed to represent civil servants and not public budgets? I must have misunderstood something...
Somehow I have the feeling that the Civil Service Union itself has no idea whatsoever what someone at pay grade A6 or lower actually receives. But of course, all civil servants are teachers and in management positions, civil service postal workers are just a figment of imagination and anyway and so on.
Particularly alarming: the board of the dbb approved it unanimously. Which means civil servants at the lower pay grades are not represented in the Civil Service Union at all.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Why do some people actually believe that there must always be a greater purpose behind everything? What happened to the good old "the journey is the destination"? Can't these people imagine that it's simply fun to do something? Not to arrive, but simply to be on the way?
I make pictures on leicaesk.de and hugo.f-2.org., I write texts and comments here, I make software among other things on pyds.muensterland.org - sure, sometimes there's a goal behind it (like building my own blogging tool), but often it's simply the possibility that I can do it that moves me to do it.
Wow. Heise thinks it's newsworthy that Dell is now doing what Apple has already been doing for almost 5 years - not including floppy drives in PCs.
Meanwhile, at our company (totally PC-infected), it's already been very difficult for several years to find blank floppy disks when you actually discover that you need some. The floppy drives were probably only installed as a dust collection surface...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Wow. As far as I know, this is the first time there apparently is actual evidence. I'm curious to see what kind of comments come up, after all the mobile phone industry has always resisted the claim that mobile phones cause damage. Maybe this will at least lead to labeling requirements, so you can finally compare phone types. Right now everyone is staying pretty quiet about it, the customer shouldn't get nervous after all ...
At heise online news there's the original article.
Grumble. 10.2. I don't have it. But it's probably becoming more urgent that I do the update. But to be able to use the Zaurus under OS X and then also Apple's new X11 ...
At Zaurus Software Index you can find the original article.
Hmm. No snow, but beautiful sunshine and pleasant air. But illness here too - in my case diarrhea, which is why I don't dare venture too far from the toilet.
Still, get well soon to Irene.
At Irene's Notes you can find the original article.
Yuck. Strong, black cocoa (or hot chocolate). Black coffee. Chili powder. Gross. Perverse.
Poor chocolate.
The original article is at Ben Hammersley.com — here.
cFos - ah, that brings back memories. An ancient version is still lurking in my mailbox (Maus Münster 3) for ISDN connectivity. Those were the days ...
Though I can't imagine they still support the old Fossil interface (souped-up int14 in the PC)
At heise online news you can find the original article.
I'm seriously considering putting the Python Desktop Server under the GPL and using that. It would be worth an experiment. Hmm. At the moment the Python Desktop Server is under a BSD-like license. I'll sleep on it. Maybe I'll leave it as is.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Well, shoot the messenger of bad news ... just don't think about it, you might have to deal with problems ...
At Spiegel Online: Science you can find the original article.
Sorry folks, I bought myself a Zaurus today. It's eating up some of the time that would otherwise go to blogging.
Hmm. Python runs on the Zaurus, I know that. And the Python Desktop Server runs without problems under Linux. Will I soon solve MoBlogging simply by running the Python Desktop Server on the Zaurus? Once I have a usable network connection for the Zaurus, I can definitely do that. Weird
Dream dancer. He hasn't followed the rules the whole time, so he won't voluntarily give up his mandate now. Pfffft. So the parliamentary group has failed. Hopefully they'll at least manage the party expulsion ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Exactly that is the problem. The SPD doesn't take care of the problems within itself that led to the debacle; instead, they kowtow to the opposition. What does that accomplish, except further loss of identity?
At TAZ I found the original article.
Can fit in nicely alongside AmigaOS and Mint
At WorldWideKlein - The Daily Durchblick you can find the original article.
I like AppleScript well enough to take a look at it ...
You can find the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter here.
You stand there punctually at 19:35 at the bus stop, and what happens? The bus at 19:39 doesn't come, the one at 19:49 doesn't either, and neither does the one at 19:59. And then at 20:18 one finally arrives, and the bus driver confronts you, insisting you show your ticket because controlled entry has been in effect since 20:00.
And of course the snow and ice came as a complete surprise, nobody could have possibly seen that it was snowing outside.
And the best part: two empty buses passed by during the 45 minutes I was standing there freezing my ass off - they could have easily been rerouted from the central office. But no, that would have been a hint of crisis management.
The municipal utilities work quite well under normal circumstances, but if anything goes wrong, it goes really wrong. When it comes to crisis management, they're simply incompetent.
So, and then I turn on The X-Files late (because of the bus) and can only watch as the three from the Lone Gunmen are buried. Something like that.
Yo. Wolf-Gang is being put into retirement. No more destroyed hardware. No more DAU comments and incredulous amazement at a double-sided 3.5" floppy anymore. Yeah. Nirvana.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Ouch. That image doesn't look good at all...
At Spiegel Online: Science you can find the original article.
Hmm. I could take a look at that, lush sounds quite nice in particular. scsh is useful for scripts, but as an interactive shell it's not really the best ...
(Using CLISP as a shell, on the other hand, I find a bit perverse )
I found the original article at CLiki Recent Changes.
Ouch. Could they really have risked the astronauts' lives out of greed and stubbornness? I wouldn't be surprised at all.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Well, what's visible from the initial projections is that this will be a terrible debacle, and for me, yet another proof of how ultimately stupid voters are. Kings of corruption, wheeler-dealers, and liars win the elections. Great.
But what's almost even worse is the disgusting self-aggrandizement of politicians from all factions, even those who are losing decisively and clearly. No matter what comes out, politicians have been incapable for many years of admitting their own incompetence and stupidity.
Federal politics in view of the results can be written off for the rest of Schröder's term—the conservatives' blockade politics will intensify even further. Especially since the federal government shows no sign whatsoever of having any concept for how to deal with this massive obstruction policy.
Squeezed between corruption and lies on one side and incompetence and hesitation on the other, the citizen and thus the entire country gets left behind.
And I once believed things couldn't get any worse after Kohl...
And I thought I was the only one who considered Anastacia's music rather as harassment ...
At Zickenterror you'll find the original article.
Everything you want to know about bananas (or maybe not).
You can find the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
The Python Desktop Server can be extended with macros that, for example, can repair broken RSS feeds. This is a feature that was added in version 0.2.6. An example is the repair of the Dotcomtod feed at http://dotcomtod.de/backend.php - it has quite a number of bugs. The macro for this is here: "DotComTod is pretty broken when it comes to RSS".
The main problems with the feed lie in incorrect encoding of umlauts and special characters, which causes most XML parsers to either refuse to cooperate or, like the Python Desktop Server, simply produce strange results.
Another application is simpler: many feeds have no GUID, but use the link tag on the item for the same purpose. For example, Tagesschau and Telepolis. Now many of these feeds have the problem that articles are edited later - then there are problems because the articles keep reappearing in the aggregator. The following macro fixes this: "the link of an item is entered as a guid". This transfers the link to the GUID and the Python Desktop Server then uses this to identify articles that have already been seen.
I always knew it – lightning is nothing more than part of the great programmer's security concept. Heavenly flight safety?
You can find the original article at Spiegel Online: Science.
Has Clement been digging too much in old East German documents? Job obligation? Are we now turning this around so that young people are themselves to blame if they don't have a job? Because if that's not the case, then there's no need for a job obligation, but simply and plainly just jobs for young people. And you simply can't ordain those by law.
How about instead of a job obligation for young people, a training obligation for employers? Combined with drastic penalties if training doesn't happen, which would then go to the employment offices for support measures? But that would probably have been too logical to get to the root of the problem ...
When I look at how few training positions large companies have set up here in Münster, I do sometimes wonder what absurd ideas are in the heads of managers about where trained skilled workers are supposed to come from. And then I run into some of them again and listen to them talk and then I know where from.
Certainly not from the brain, those ideas ...
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.
Exactly that. It's all about a lobby wanting to secure the opportunity to skim money without any real performance of their own. Anyone who thinks that all these copyright and digital rights management debates are about the rights holders hasn't been paying attention.
The steps that the music industry and publishers have been taking recently to secure or expand their perks without having to adapt to reality or even respond to customer demands with their prices are truly unacceptable.
Or has no one noticed that, for example, with technical books the prices since the introduction of the euro correspond almost 1:1 to the old DM prices? That can hardly be normal price increases due to rising costs.
Combined with the problems that arise when trying to self-publish works (especially the difficulties that self-published works have in reaching normal retail channels), the behavior of the major publishers is really no longer acceptable.
And as a customer you have almost no way to do anything about it, since all the book and music publishers are nicely showing solidarity.
I found the original article at Telepolis News at this link.
What? Are you serious? Can it get any more ridiculous? Demanding copyright fees for nursery rhymes squawked by toddlers? They're completely insane.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Ok, I'll really dive deeper into this now and see what works with it. Because with Python 2.2 on OS X and Objective-C bindings, I could create an XML/RPC-based client for the Python Desktop Server that doesn't always require a web browser for all activities. It could certainly be faster, and the editor for posts and texts could get more features. Hmm.
I found the original article at bbums rants, code & references.
Well. Will Bush now also dismiss Blix as "old Europe" (after all, Blix is Swedish)?
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
It is indeed remarkable that our pharmaceutical industry constantly complains about how cumbersome it is to get new methods and medications approved in Germany, when apparently it's much easier for foreign companies here. And it's quite outrageous, the whole thing.
But it's been a long time since it was about the patient in such matters, as shown by the increasingly exposed fraud schemes in recent times (Chinese dentures, inferior heart valves, ...)
So who ultimately pays the damage? We do. And then we're told that the healthcare system is unprofitable and we have to accept further service cuts while simultaneous premium increases.
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft.
Ok folks, pay attention to break times, occasionally get up and walk around! Don't spend hours surfing the Internet, otherwise you'll collapse on me...
At Telepolis News I found the original article.
Hey, quite an interesting revival for Mumps - I could have come up with the idea of transforming it to Perl too, you could probably use tied hashes well for that. Might be quite fun to take a look at it sometime.
At search.cpan.org there's the original article.
And once again Munich. After the regional court showed first signs of properly handling silly trademark lawsuits (at least they immediately recognized mobil and also granted the average citizen the ability to recognize the same thing), the appellate court has now decided exactly against that. So according to the opinion of the appellate court, we are not capable of distinguishing between Mobilix and Obelix.
Of course, something mobile and transportable is exactly the same as a fat Gaul who lugs menhirs around.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Somehow quantum cryptography is progressing quite rapidly. When will the first practically deployable solutions arrive? And whether they - given the current hysteria - will even be permitted to be used?
I found the original article at National Geographic News: Science & Technology.
Just because I've read it in other places too: nice that you mention the Python Desktop Server, but it's not planned for Linux, it's already been available for Linux for a long time. And Mac OS X. And BSD. Honestly.
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
A couple of links to interviews with Guido about Python, its origins, etc. Very interesting. The interviews are to be continued on further topics.
At Kevin Altis Radio Weblog you'll find the original article.
Well, Munich is just ultra-conservative and completely out of it ... (why was I there anyway? Oh right, I was forced to ...)
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Hmm. There were times when I would have found that a pity. But to be honest: with Omniweb, iCab and Chimera there are already three very good browsers and Safari is also developing accordingly. For a rather half-hearted port like Mac Opera, there probably really isn't room anymore ...
At The Macintosh News Network there's the original article.
Hmm. Together with Coast's restructuring around Ullrich, the next Tour will really be exciting. Not necessarily because I expect serious attacks on Armstrong, but the two teams against each other and compared to the others - some of which have also undergone major restructuring - will be very interesting.
And yes, I'm back from Munich. Conclusion? The weather there is just as foggy as here ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
So, until Wednesday there's a broadcast break. I'm in Munich and remote blogging isn't implemented in PyDS yet
I'm sorry, but I had to laugh out loud at that title
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.
So, what will the reaction be? Insults? Ruin the election campaign? That would be fitting with the government's current strategy if the most stupid conceivable reaction came about. But maybe it will get one or another person thinking. Oh come on, they're politicians anyway, sorry. What am I saying. At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Well, that's a typical frustration name for an HTML macro compiler that only a programmer could come up with after editing ugly HTML code for long enough
At freshmeat.net you can find the original article.
Hmm. If the effects of SQLSlammer were like Code Red, the Internet definitely wouldn't have been paralyzed for several hours. Besides that, what important Internet functions run on Microsoft SQL Servers? Sounds like a lot of hype again. The effects of transferring domain control of .org from NSI to PIR have had much more severe impacts (constantly having problems with nameserver resolution for domains).
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.