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.

Adobe gives away Illustrator 10

Well, if I understood that correctly on the web, it's only the Windows version again.

At heise online news there's the original article.

Court prohibits SMS spam distribution

If I had a chance to find out who's actually sending me all this SMS spam, I could sue someone. But of course there's no way to get to the actual sender. But what was even crazier was today's call from a 01908 number that rang exactly once. After that it showed up in my call list, waiting for a callback. So folks, check your call lists carefully — with some numbers you really don't want to know who's on the other end ... Does the Schockwellenreiter now want to feed the mobile spambots with faked mobile numbers too?

I found the original article on heise online news.

Hunters threaten the last lynxes

Ok. That Norwegians have a problem has often been noticed with whaling. But what the hell is the point of this nonsense, allowing hunting of lynxes? That's just simply stupid.

I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft in the original article.

Installing OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X 10.2

Jutta has compiled a guide on how to get Open Office running on Mac with OS X and Apple X 11, after encountering some problems with the existing guides (and tools).

I found the original article at Hexentanz.

Zabel Second at Murcia Tour

Yeah, the eternal runner-up

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Caffeine Software Suspends Operations

Too bad. Tiffany was a very interesting software that dated back to the NextStep era. It's really a shame when something like that disappears.

I found the original article on the Imaging Resource News Page.

The First Spring

Small graphical Linux workstation on old hardware

From the first real user of the Python Desktop Server outside http://muensterland.org/ comes a nice compilation of distributions and tools with which you can turn an old P75 with 16 MB RAM into a graphical workstation. And even though he contributes to the KDE project, KDE does not appear in the compilation. So go ahead, spruce up old hardware and put it back to use.

Here you can find the original article.

Möllemann entangled in 'Kirch affair'?

And I thought I would have to do without Möllemann scandals in the future. Thank you Mr. Kirch, thank you Mr. Möllemann, you make my day

At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.

Olympus E System from the show floor

It seems to be slowly becoming something, the Olympus box. But what it will really be remains to be seen.

At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) there's the original article.

Post without title

Just found this on [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][0]. Bush doesn't believe in evolution? Well, when I look at Bush, I also doubt some basic principles of evolution (something about evolution not going backwards - the American presidents apparently didn't know about that)

Found at [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][1] .

And the first spring...

And the first spring ...

... unfortunately only a blurry crocus, as something went wrong with the focus

And again a moss tuft ...

And once again a moss tuft ...

... but this time with the new camera! Settings for rich colors. Hmm.

Protest

No comment

At gnurps you can find the original article.

Still setting up the new disk

Short and sweet: Hard drive wiped and freshly set up. And now I have to reinstall everything that was on it and isn't anymore. Oops. This could take a while (right now a backup of the system drive is running).

Somehow I'm not really in the mood for blogging

The only comment I can make: Safari rocks!

Glub Gola Feelings

Wow. I was actually hoping that Boing Boing (where I read about this) had fallen for a rumor. What a ridiculous idea to build an East German theme park right according to all the stereotypes...

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

Minolta DiMAGE Xt

Minolta's doing it again, just like with the Dimage 7 (i and Hi). No sooner is the new model out than a newer model comes along a short time later - here the Dimage X, Xi and now Xt. Somehow, as a buyer, I'd feel a bit foolish if cameras weren't even current for half a year anymore.

At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you'll find the original article.

OS X 10.2 upgrade - all software sucks

Crashing like Winblows. This is stupid. If I want crashing systems, I install something from Microsoft. Unix-based stuff is supposed to work. Yeah. This stinks.

OS X Upgrades are fun - Not!

Well. I know OS X 10.2 installs smoothly. And nobody has any problems with it. No. Only me. Of course.

Somehow my machine still crashes constantly, not quite as much as at the beginning after the 10.2 upgrade, but still often enough. Of course without any reasonable indication of the reasons, because then you could actually find and fix the problem.

Somehow I feel like I'm in front of a Windows computer right now. Did that really have to happen?

secret document

Every dirty trick is being used to wage a war that nobody really wants except for the Bush administration. Even the spying on UN delegations is a means to an end. When will there finally be a UN resolution against the USA?

I found the original article at owrede_log.

Development Environment

BBEdit 7.0, SSHPassKey, Python and CVS - that's what I use to build the Python Desktop Server when I'm sitting at my Mac (which I clearly prefer).

Since the CVS server isn't running locally but out on the net, ssh is set up as the transport (that's what SSHPassKey is for - it integrates SSH password prompts into Mac OS X's Keychain!).

On Linux I use VIM instead of BBEdit. Well...

Trade union dispute: Westerwelle follows up

Well. And what about the membership fees from FDP party members that Westerwelle embezzled for absurd election campaign actions?

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Is This Thing On?

Silly. Put's up a weblog without comment functionality, without email contacts and without any form of feedback. Even no managingEditor field in the RSS feed or any sort of hint how to contact him. One could contact him if there was a way to contact him and tell him about the HEAD request used by most useable news aggregators, to prevent the problem he is talking about. But since he doesn't leave a way to communicate, he might still sit there, unknowing ... Bei ongoing gibts den Originalartikel.

Leica with new old camera

Just read that Leica is coming out with a Leica MP, an M6 with better finish, better build quality and finally fixed rangefinder flare problem. Nice. Although I don't really want to know what this beast will cost.

Unfortunately, no information to be found on Leica's own site yet.

Microsoft: We Have No Plans To Remove Linux Support From Virtual PC For Mac

Yeah. If you read further, it says that "Microsoft has no current plans to remove Linux support within Virtual PC for Mac" - but what about future plans? If Microsoft integrates Virtual PC more closely in order to present their Windows software more integrated on the Mac (without having to port everything), then certainly some compatibility will be lost. Of course, at the moment they have no plans for that, after all the whole thing was just bought.

I wouldn't bet on Virtual PC as a long-term solution for Linux anyway. However, Mac-On-Linux running under Linux on the Mac (natively) is the nicer solution anyway, and Microsoft doesn't make a penny from that.

Here's the original article.

New Nisus Writer OS X Version on the Way

Just read the Nisus newsletter. What they're doing there already looks pretty good. Nisus has been with me since my first Mac, so it's almost like coming home when something like that comes out for OS X. And it definitely has more (and especially more sensible) features than AppleWorks. Here's the original article.

Shit Spring

Hay fever. Sneezing. Watery eyes. Yes, spring is knocking on the door. Please bring a snowstorm, a deluge, or anything else that makes these stupid pollen go away ...

Does anyone have any idea what the heck is blooming so heavily right now? Hazel?