The End of the World
In parts quite picturesque - but nothing going on here. Nothing at all. ![150-400-300.jpeg][P1] ![151-400-300.jpeg][P2] ![152-400-300.jpeg][P3]
Archive 28.9.2004 - 4.10.2004
The Hotel at the End of the World
Not in Munich, not in Landshut as claimed either - instead in the industrial area of a small town somewhere near Landshut. Do you have any idea how boring an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere is? |:-)| ![149-400-300.jpeg][P1]
The Unwanted Voices
Why OSCE Observers at US Elections Would Be Entirely Appropriate.
At Telepolis News (03.10.2004) you can find the original article.
Erik Zabel is Vice World Champion in Road Racing
Not bad either. Sure, the world champion jersey would have looked good on him too, but finishing in his proven 2nd place at the world championship somehow fits him as well
iPod Information Center - the ultimative site @ http://www.cilly.dyndns.org/iPod/ - all possible information about the iPod
Munich Again
next week and the week after I'll be on the road in Munich again. So things might get a bit thin here - or terrible if I make good on my threat to moblog with the PDA
Pope beatifies last Habsburg Emperor
An organizational mass murderer and a crazy nun. That's fitting. Blessed are the poor in spirit, right?
At tagesschau.de - The News of the ARD you can find the original article.
Warez Raid: The FTPWelt Story
Buy the current CT, open page 62, read and laugh your socks off at Syndikus and his bandit antics. Or as the chocolate wave rider always says: Read! That's an order!
Judith Arndt World Champion: "A Great Day"
Yes, let's congratulate them!
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
Leica - a la carte
I saw this demonstrated at the trade show. Brilliant. I wish it had existed when I bought my M6. On the other hand: if it had existed back then, I probably would have paid double for my M6. After all, the MP/M7 has now almost reached in euros what my M6 cost in marks.
Flowers
Blumen
In the flower beds. For once, they actually chose a pretty witty - because naturally looking - planting.
Autumn - Time of Fruits and Seeds
Autumn - Time of Fruits and Seeds
No idea which tree this is - but the fruits look funny. The leaves somehow remind me of rowan.
and always more rain
and again and again rain
It's annoying when going for a walk, but it makes otherwise boring subjects more interesting.
US Government Shows Little Interest in Computer Security
Fits right in that the energy ministry gets hacked every two days
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
Argentine Rebellin not allowed to start at World Cup
All the effort for nothing ...
At Radsport-News.com I found the original article.
Instiki - Nice little Wiki in Ruby
Java Runtime Properties for Mac OS X - Tips on how to call Java in OS X - also with a custom icon
Merck recalls medication - stock plummets
I am not amused. The hospital had prescribed this stuff for me for the time before the operation
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find den Originalartikel.
PythonCard Home Page - getting better all the time - a GUI app framework for Python and wxPython
Red Robin - Jython - Install Jython in Eclipse
Pain patient not allowed to grow cannabis
The neighing bureaucratic horse that carried this judge along must have been on dope too ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.
SPE - Stani's Python Editor - complete IDE for wxPython built entirely on wxGlade
Sports doctor Ferrari sentenced to suspended sentence
Does Armstrong now apologize to Simeoni for his terrible behavior towards him?
I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.
TvBrowser and Mac OS X
Who, like me, assembles their TV schedule with TvBrowser and uses it on a Mac, might also be annoyed that no MacOS X startup application is provided. Sure, you can simply start the program by double-clicking the JAR file, but the resulting icon in the Dock cannot be pinned - it's just an internal Java application that is, so to speak, generated on the fly. Long story short: I've created a corresponding startup application. Simply download it and mount the disk image. Then drag the application into the same folder where the tvbrowser.jar file is located - the two files want to be placed together peacefully. By the way, the application can serve well as a basis for such starter applications for JAR files, because you only need to change the Properties (the .plist file) and the start.sh inside to get the correct application to start.
US Department hacked every other day
Ouch. But they're really doing everything wrong that can possibly be done wrong either.
At NETZEITUNG.DE Internet you can find the original article.
wxGlade: a GUI builder for wxWidgets/wxPython - a classic GUI builder for wxWindows and wxPython - in Python
3 ZEO - How to use a ZEO server in scripts
Arachnids and Pachyderms - How to build a simple blog system with Common Lisp
Blogmarks in the Weblog RSS Feed
From now on, the blogmarks (which are visible on the right side area of the websites) will also be included in the RSS feed. That way, even those who only read the main RSS feed will get to see my collected links.
Anthroposophists: 'The Plan of the World Unfolds Inexorably' - Archive - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Has anyone looked at the dossier? I'd be interested to know how it deals with racism and the authoritarian structure of anthroposophical ideological expressions. The headline, in any case, only brings the usual rose-tinted whitewashing...
About Dabo
Apparently a couple of people are writing something like Visual FoxPro - only in Python, with WxPython as GUI and Firebird or MySQL as database. Could be interesting for people coming from the (.*) Base environment - Visual DBase, Clipper, FoxPro etc.
Attack on Free Network Structures
How the far right attempts to eliminate unwelcome voices online through cease-and-desist letters.
At Der Schockwellenreiter I found the original article.
Federal Court of Justice examines right of withdrawal in eBay auctions
Hmm. On one hand, it wouldn't be uninteresting for the buyer - but for the (at least private) seller, it becomes tricky, because what about the right of withdrawal if payment and shipping have already taken place? The reversal would then be rather annoying, especially if you're left holding the shipping costs. Let's see what decision comes out of this.
It's also interesting how the eBay selling fee would be handled - in the event of a buyer's withdrawal, the payment of the eBay fee would also have to be waived, at least the portion dependent on the selling price.
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there is the original article.
CLiki : Araneida - Yet another web server in Common Lisp - this one is very small
Commodore 32 - Standalone Z-Machine
Funny. A machine that executes Z-Code directly - the nice text adventures from Infocom. And in design they're modeled after the old Commodore machines. And now there's a programming competition for text adventures for it.
I can't really imagine it will appeal to a large market, but it's funny anyway
CSU does not want to abolish free learning materials after all
Wow. Even the CSU in Bavaria is still capable of learning ...
At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD there's the original article.
Frontier Open Source is here
Complete with a weblog about news, download page with sources and binaries. I'm curious to see how the portability turns out - the whole thing was created with CodeWarrior, which already limits those who can build it. Especially on OS X, hardly anyone would have bought CodeWarrior anymore.
Well, there is still something positive sometimes ...
From the WDR Münster ticker (unfortunately neither RSS nor permalinks): The CDU in Münster has abandoned its plans for a parking garage at the Ludgeri roundabout. With this, the party drew consequences from Sunday's election. It became clear that the CDU would not find a majority with the parking garage. The incumbent CDU mayor Berthold Tillmann just missed the 50 percent hurdle in the municipal election and must now go to a runoff.
OK, what they didn't quite reveal: the Union+FDP has no majority in the council, but rather has equal votes with the others. Only if they get their candidate through in the mayoral runoff do they have - but only with the mayor's vote! - a voting majority. Could well be that something like that pressed their decision button a bit.
Regardless of why and how, the main thing is that this idiotic hole - in landscape and city coffers - doesn't come ...
The usual economic hand-wringing crowd - summarized in our Münster Business Initiative - of course immediately started complaining. And immediately got pushback: The Münster Business Initiative reacted irritably to the CDU's decision to abandon plans for a parking garage at the Ludgeri roundabout. It was a fatal knee-jerk reaction that would harm the city. Sparkasse Münsterland Ost, on the other hand, reacted calmly. The shopping center that Sparkasse is currently building in the city center will flourish even without these parking spaces.
This business initiative, by the way, has an impressive homepage - if you search for them, you only find cases for the Under Construction Club. Well, they're getting nervous too, I think: the retail trade is for the most part not in agreement with their position - all the merchants around the Ludgeri roundabout have anti-parking garage signs hanging in their windows.
And if anyone wonders why they pulled it off the table so quickly: on 10/10 there's a runoff for the mayor and the opposing candidate is running his campaign mainly on the hole at the Ludgeri roundabout. So don't just believe that the Union suddenly discovered its heart for the citizens, they're just nervous that they might lose the runoff and then lack a majority in the council to do anything. Even so it will be exciting enough - just takes one Union council member or FDP council member to get sick and there's trouble ...
Hasselblad to Distribute New Zeiss Ikon Camera System
That's quite interesting then - Hasselblad getting involved. According to the rumors, there's a Voigtlaender body behind it. However, the images look quite different - the usual remnants of the mirror box from the Bessas are missing (the Bessas are based on an old SLR housing from Nikon). So if this is actually a new body and Zeiss is really involved in the design and both Hasselblad and Zeiss want to stand by their names for quality - then this could become an interesting M-body. Especially since the M7 body doesn't really offer many advantages over the M6 body, an alternative body with automatic shutter speeds could be exciting.
At PhotographyBLOG you can find the original article.
Mamiya ZD and digital back
A few more details. I think the price should be somewhat higher for 22 megapixels than for the usual KB digital SLRs.
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
Mamiya ZD datasheet at digitalkamera.de
Completely flew by me: Mamiya has a digital SLR for their 645 system in their lineup. Could be interesting.
More Space for .Mac
Well, with 1 GB it costs 149 euros per year. Still not cheap, but at least you can now get iDisk sizes where Apple's backup program could actually make sense. The earlier 100 MB was rather ridiculous — and now even with the standard account for 99 euros you at least have 250 MB that can be freely distributed between Mail and iDisk.
Still, I prefer to stick with my own server. It would be nice if Apple gave .Mac an open interface so you could use the .Mac tools with your private server. Because some functions are quite limited — especially in the iLive program suite.
At MacGuardians you can find the original article.
Leaning Tower of Cologne
Doesn't always have to be Pisa, especially since it reminds us of our poor school education
Leaning Tower of Cologne: Investigation
The 44-meter-high tower of Cologne's St. Johann Baptist Church tilted about one meter to the side during the past night and threatens to collapse. Now the public prosecutor's office is investigating the responsible construction manager. - yeah, but that's definitely going to be difficult, investigating the construction manager of St. Johann Baptist Church. Or should the WDR have forgotten to copy an essential piece of information in the summary?
Lawyer Denies Knowledge of FTPWelt Operator's Actions
Sure. The syndic doesn't know what his clients are doing on a server. And sure, he simply believes that taxation isn't necessary - after all, there's an aspiring tax advisor involved. Yeah. If the syndic really believed so much nonsense, then he should be thrown out of the bar association for stupidity.