Psyche - Yet another Scheme in Python. I think I've seen this before

schemon - Scheme in Python with good language integration

STUDY WHAT WE DO

Interesting anecdote. Yes, the Bush administration doesn't care about reality and doesn't think to study it - it acts arbitrarily and autocratically without regard for facts. Unfortunately, as the rest of the world studies the wonderful new world that the Bush administration has created through its actions, it becomes clear that the Bush administration has lost touch with reality.

I found the original article at Gibson Blog.

What is "Perspective"? (2) - ... and why telephoto lenses don't compress perspective at all

A Logging System for Python - Logging infrastructure for Python - possibly use in TooFPy?

Animal Planet :: Corwin's Carnival of Creatures

Ok, so I knew that these critters are unusual for Chinese bird's nests, but I didn't know that they're the only true cave-dwelling birds among birds - and especially the only birds with sonar. Weird.

Here you can find the original article.

Path ... where is my application's home dir? - How to find the user path in Windows

syslog.py - Syslog Client in Python

[Web-SIG] Draft of server/gateway base class now available - Webserver Gateway Interface Referenz Implementation

Bibble Labs - Professional Photo-Manipulation Software

I don't often link to commercial software, but I'll make an exception here. The reason: the software - a pretty nice image management and processing application - now runs identically on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. For Linux, you can even choose between RPM and DEB package formats. And as a Debian user, I naturally like that sort of thing. The only thing missing now would be for them to learn that Debian, like RPMs, make sense not just for Intel processors, and to also produce a PowerPC version of it - then you could manage images on Linux-powered Macs as well.

Update: after I installed the test version, I have to say the program looks very promising. However, the current version still seems a bit rushed - at least in the OS X version there are one or two problems. Dialog boxes (particularly noticeable with all floating toolboxes) occasionally have disabled dialog elements, even though they can normally be clicked. The main window sometimes just won't minimize or collapse to the title bar (WindowShade). The Preferences dialog hung when I moved the mouse around a bit over the tooltips of the options. The (switchable) docking check for tools makes the response very sluggish and jerky.

However, I was immediately impressed by the proper support for Canon's RAW formats and the good integration of image edits - every change is visible live, even with .CRW files. And the changes are only saved as .bib files, the original files remain untouched. The background conversion works quite well too, although there's a small pause when a batch conversion starts, but after that you can browse through the images quickly again.

I only tried the Pro version because Work-Queues (consolidation of images from various folders) and multithreading would be important for me - my images are organized on disk chronologically and roughly thematically, but to compile a gallery or arrange a printing job, for example, I need to consolidate various image sources. And without multithreading you have to wait for the conversions - which can definitely be annoying.

Bibble might actually be a useful complement to iView Media Pro. Because with the latter, image editing is rather meager and primitive (especially the possibilities for influencing CRW files), but on the other hand, searching in large image collections is brilliantly well solved. Both iView Media (you might even be able to skip the Pro version) and Bibble can access the same directory tree without any problems, and this way you can use the strengths of both programs. The use of Photoshop could then definitely be dispensed with in one or another case, because really it would then only be needed for possible effects or special sharpening.

Compared to Canon's own software, Bibble wins by a mile in any case. It seems faster and is much more powerful. And the image results can easily be compared.

Here's the original article.

F#, a functional language for .Net

Sometimes Microsoft produces something nice. Ok, it's Microsoft Research - if anything intelligent is produced there at all, then it's there. But it's pretty cool to be able to use an OCaml-like language in .NET.

Not that I would use .NET anywhere

At Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog there's the original article.

Photo Matt - Bizarre Windows Behavior

Matt Mullenweg is really having fun with Windows: an automatic security update just rebooted his computer and ate a few hours of his work. Somehow I understand why I prefer Apple's method much more, which just tells me that something is available instead of automatically pushing it to disk. Above all, it's absolutely stupid that an automatic update bypasses all application dialogs for saving open files. But all the Windows advocates will now surely provide a thousand reasons why this was all the user's fault. By the way, Matt is no novice or anything like that - he's the programmer of WordPress and normally you can assume he has a reasonable level of computer competence. If even he has his system eat his data just like that, then this feature probably isn't that easy or obvious to disable or document. Here's the original article.

10,000 jobs are being cut

And so the extortion of workers and the lies about the location's weaknesses continue - squeezing out whatever can be squeezed and a bit more. Until it doesn't work anymore - and then it will be too late, because then it will crash. This madness should better come to an end before it shows results that we will all regret.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

EU Energy Commissioner Failed

Hmm. Due to lack of knowledge about energy policy. 6. Sit down.

At Megawatt: The Last Latent Appliance Fetishist there's the original article.

Journalists and Bloggers Are Not Competitors

Of course, journalists are not competition for me

I found the original article at NETZEITUNG.DE Internet.

Heyms & Dr. Bahr Law Firm: OLG Hamm: No Copyright on Websites?

Sounds like one source that only existed initially really exaggerated things. The information trickling in now sounds more like someone recreated a banal layout and the first one sued against it.

Here's the original article.

Merz: Withdrawal is final

Good. We're rid of a troll. Hopefully he won't be forgotten as quickly as Lafontaine in the end. On the other hand - if the Mad Hatter of the Union pisses in the soup just like Lafontaine did for the SPD, then it could still get fun ... At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Rel: an open source implementation of Date & Darwen's Tutorial D

Sounds kind of interesting - a language built on SQL orientation and working with relational operators and set data types.

And yes, I'm back from Munich.

At Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog you can find the original article.

SCO vs. Linux: Form Your Own Opinion

Freely following the motto: don't believe any news report you haven't faked yourself?

At heise online news you can find the original article.

ffmpegX a VCD, SVCD, CVD, VOB, DivX, XviD encoder for Mac OSX - Combo installer for all possible video format converters

Court approves nuclear transports to North Rhine-Westphalia

Great. The most brainless of all variants won. The court has decided in its favor. Completely irrelevant that there has long been a decision that atomic waste should be stored temporarily near the producers. Completely irrelevant that it is absolutely absurd to haul garbage from Saxony to North Rhine-Westphalia. Completely irrelevant that for this transport, due to Saxon stinginess, trucks are to be used whose transport security costs many times more than transport by rail. The important thing is that ignorance and stupidity prevail and are even confirmed in court.

You can find the original article at WDR.de.

Münster: Tillmann remains mayor

Well, unfortunately the people here in Münster are just too lazy to go out and show that guy where his politics belong. So the Union together with the FDP will be allowed to muddle through Münster for another 5 years with the gigantic majority of the mayor's vote.

At least this stupid hole in the roundabout has been averted. But unfortunately there are still far too many stupid ideas that can occur to them. But maybe the other city councilors will be unusually united enough to at least spit in the Union's soup where necessary.

At WDR.de there is the original article.

Parliamentary committee rejects EU Justice Commissioner

Sorry, but what the heck is a papal advisor doing on the commission in the first place?

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

Provider liable for domain loss

Hmm - could this perhaps also apply to this mess between Strato and Network Solutions? That could end badly for Strato though

At heise online news there's the original article.

Blow in the face of T-Online shareholders

Can you be more audacious in deceiving, cheating and ripping off shareholders?

At WDR.de there's the original article.

wxAcceleratorTable - How to make hotkeys for menu entries in wxWindows

wxValidator overview - How to transfer fields between form and dataset in wxWindows

Copy and Paste Judgment for Websites

If that really is in the OLG Hamm ruling - meaning websites with stylesheets and graphics have no significant level of creativity and can therefore be freely copied - then that would be a blow to all designers. I'm still hoping that with both websites it was really only about trivialities in the copy and not really about proper layout, but still - such a ruling would be an invitation to help yourself in the Internet.

At kniebes.net. you can find the original article.

FDP - Ifo Chief Wants to Cut Social Welfare by 30 Percent

Alarming demand. This would force social welfare recipients not only through economic hardship (which they already face de facto), but literally through life-threatening need to do anything to survive - if necessary also taking on illegal employment, accepting whatever they can get. An absolutely inhumane attitude is then the consideration that introducing people into work would be easier with a reduction in social welfare by one-third, and the saying that business leaders have plenty of work in their heads that just wouldn't be profitable is the icing on the cake of audacity. What he ultimately demands is the extortion of socially disadvantaged population groups and the introduction of serfdom - because people in such employment relationships as he envisions them are no longer able to defend themselves against abuse and misconduct due to their situation - for them it's about bare survival.

And someone like that is consulted to assess the business climate.

Here's the original article.

Daniel Barlow: Araneida 0.9 released

Exciting. This should be the first web server running in the CLISP environment - and thus can truly be ported to virtually everything that looks like a computer.

At Planet Lisp you can find the original article.

GEZ fee for internet PCs is coming

The Fee Extortion Central is really getting more influence then. Somehow absurd - the whole thing could simply be solved by treating public broadcasting stations as part of state infrastructure services and simply financing them through tax revenues. But of course that contradicts the idea of capitalism - and so the rules become more and more absurd.

So we'll forever pay GEZ fees on silly devices, have increasingly arrogant GEZ employees on our backs if we think we want to defend ourselves against it, have the ridiculous discussion about this topic over and over again. Meanwhile, tanks and bombers are still being built from tax revenues - those are of course much more important parts of infrastructure than broadcasting.

At heise online news there's the original article.

awaretek.com :: Python Tutorials - diverse Python Tutorials

gmail atom feed - Address of the Google Mail Atom Feed - unfortunately only Atom, no RSS

Laszlo - Products

Laszlo is the premier open source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web. - what? This thing just got put under an open source license and is already supposed to be the "premier open source platform"? Zope, Drupal, Mambo, Typo3, Plone, Brickolage, Scoop, Xoom, Slash and all the others - are those all figments of imagination? Apart from that, LAMP is probably (unfortunately - I like neither MySQL nor PHP) the leading platform if you interpret platform in the usual sense.

Marketing hype has moved in with the companies into open source as well.

Here's the original article.

SQLite 3.0.7

Very nice - the new version has Unicode (UTF-8) support and rudimentary data types. However, PySQLite (the Python interface) still seems to work with older SQLite versions. The original article is available here.

And another small change to the RSS feed

My latest images are now being included in the main RSS feed. Otherwise they got a bit lost in the pure image blog. So for the first time there will be a small batch of images as new items, and after that of course only what I've newly created. And I don't add new images as often as I would like...

Farewell to the Industrial Estate

One last look at the magnificent panorama from the hotel room's skylight and then back to Munich. Next week then in a different hotel in a different business district ... ![154-400-300.jpeg][P1]

CIA Report: Iraq Did Not Possess Weapons of Mass Destruction

Don't bother anymore. War is repeatedly presented as important and correct, the supporters have talked themselves into the mess so many times that they believe their own lies. What do facts matter then...

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

Debacle of Chess Grandmasters Against Chess Machines

It's always funny how humans want to prove their superiority over the machine specifically in a game where humans have to become machines in order to win ...

You can find the original article on heise online news.

Customer liable for PIN misuse

Yeah, great. What total idiots handed down that injustice again. With manipulation of an ATM, the PIN can be stolen - and definitely without the customer necessarily noticing. And then the thief can happily start withdrawing money - and the customer is screwed. Because now they have to first prove that such manipulation is taking place. And once again the burden is placed on the weakest person in the group, because the banks simply aren't willing to provide at least a minimum level of service for all the money they're ripping off from their customers.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Microsoft Chief: Stolen Music Mainly Lands on iPods

Well, whoever rages around like a monkey probably behaves that way otherwise too - and then makes a fool of themselves on other topics as well

At heise online news there's the original article.

Net activist convicted of fine for hyperlinks

And yet another mindless court ruling. Beautiful Germany, where people as devoid of understanding and knowledge as the Düsseldorf RP can bend the law and even get confirmation for it in court.

At heise online news there's the original article.

NRW Prisons Test Partial Privatization

Omni Consumer Products?

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

Rollei Announces Rolleiflex MiniDigi

Dreadfully bad display, terribly slow, fuzzy operation and at best a joke. The image quality is accordingly poor. Well, at least you can swap the memory card. Still: a real reflex viewfinder wouldn't have shown the digital image, but would have had at least some style. Oh yes, and it promptly crashed during the presentation at Photokina.

At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.

Season Over for Zabel

Of course. He fights his way through every sprint forward, battles to the bitter end for his position - and where does he get injured? Climbing up a ladder.

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

Terrible Lizard in Feather Dress

Surprises again and again.

At NETZEITUNG.DE Wissenschaft you can find the original article.

SCO vs. Linux: Motions Rejected, Deadline Extended

Well, let's see if they finally have something to show for it in 30 days - but I wouldn't bet on it

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Business leaders demand swift tax reform

Clear. Exactly. Corporate taxation is too high. Of course. You can imagine what a bold reform should look like. Rip-off mentality at its finest. At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Censorship in Germany

It's so beautifully simple, really. A cease-and-desist letter, horrendous costs, and you've already squeezed small private projects out of existence. And you pat yourself on the back for showing those left-wing punks or whoever happens to be in the line of fire. Maybe you even brag about it at your fraternity meeting. Or at the regulars' table. Because it's so great to throw your money around and assume the arrogance that the world belongs to you...

At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.

one of Landshut's landmarks

Got shown around the city this evening. Pictures of the castle and the highest brick tower in Germany didn't work due to lack of light. ![153-400-300.jpeg][P1]