Even More Water Beneath the Martian Surface
Property with swimming pool anyone?
At Astronomische Kleinigkeiten you can find the original article.
Archive 8.2.2003 - 18.2.2003
And once more, because it's so nice
And again, because it's so beautiful
In winter, many seagulls gather on the canal in the harbor basins of the RCG and in the city harbor basins. When you see the hustle and bustle for the first time, it's quite surprising to see it so far inland. But it's even more impressive when you see the seagull swarm after the weekend market at Domplatz...
When in the evening in the harbor ...
When in the evening in the harbor ...
the seagulls go to sleep ... (okay, okay, rhyming is not my thing, I'll stop now)
02.17.03, 18:14 Uhr - That is Mr. Busch
Evil. Very evil.
I found the original article at kniebes.de.
Photo walk at the Dortmund-Ems Canal
With the weather today I simply couldn't resist and walked home early along the canal. Unfortunately too early, the sunset was only due in the city, with the usual problems of seeing enough sky between tall buildings. But otherwise the result isn't so unsatisfying. Except that I finally want spring so that a few more colors come into play. Yellow-gray-brown nature is somewhat depressing. ![5-100-100.jpeg][P1] ![6-100-100.jpeg][P2] ![7-100-100.jpeg][P3] ![8-100-100.jpeg][P4] ![9-100-100.jpeg][P5] ![10-100-100.jpeg][P6] Here you can find the original article.
iPhoto has stupid ears
As soon as you edit an image with iPhoto and export it again, iPhoto messes with the EXIF data. Afterwards, there are suddenly invalid tags and type codes in there, which EXIF.py (which I use to read the EXIF data) complains about. Stupid idea.
No lottery million with 'knitting pattern tip'
Ouch. Hopefully no one in their initial excitement over 6 correct numbers peed on their boss's desk.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Least Common Multiple
Gerhard Hofmann just on RTL from Brussels: "They are trying to find the lowest common denominator, but that will be difficult" - ok, if they're all as bad at math as he is, then that will really be very difficult
Microsoft in Second Deal to Sell Phone Software
And Telekom is dumb enough to go through with it instead of backing out and telling Microsoft to go to hell.
At New York Times: Technology I found the original article.
He was really that kitschy!
That really was so kitsch!
At least I left out the church tower silhouette, that would have been a bit too much. If the weather tomorrow is like it was today, I'll probably head out an hour later and hopefully capture the sunset at the canal.
It would be nicer if it were green ...
It would be nicer if it were green ...
... but that will take a while yet. At the canal today, everything was gray, yellow and brown anyway. Slightly frustrating, especially since the hedge trimmers apparently just marched through and did the spring pruning.
One could almost get wanderlust...
One could almost get wanderlust ...
... but unfortunately it's only the city harbor of Münster. Nothing distant, just nearby. But a wide-angle lens helps the imagination along a bit.
Ok, a few more splashes of color
Ok, a few more splashes of color
Not blooming, except in the imagination of the artist or artists. Unfortunately, all of this will probably be torn down soon. What a shame. For me, this is also art.
When the only splash of color ...
When the only splash of color ...
... is the industrial facilities, then it's high time for spring!
Weather Phenomena Up Close
Weather phenomena up close
You rarely see such vortices around here. I'm quite familiar with them from the north (though they're usually much larger), but such a mini low-pressure system is rather charming.
Apple's global pricing policy. Utter cobblers
Sometimes Apple really does have a screw loose...
Apart from the fact that QuickTime has always annoyed me anyway because you have to buy a new key for the Pro version with every new QuickTime release. And of course the upgrades are suggested to you, during installation you get an "Gotcha, if you're a Pro user, buy yourself a new key or forget about this upgrade". Annoying. Irritating.
I found the original article at Ben Hammersley.com.
Gaelic is dying
Sad. Really sad. But unfortunately not unusual for people in Europe. Many languages are dying out. I'm thinking of Frisian, or something like Münsterländer Platt.
At but shes a girl... there is the original article.
Ring Around the Earth
Cool. Absolutely Cool. An object tracking of all the satellites swarming around the Earth. With live updates.
I found the original article at PragDave.
Sunday Tinkering
Yes. A pointless gimmick. That's why I also did it with the Python Desktop Server: "When is actually posted here?". Pointless, but perhaps quite interesting since the macro source is included. It's definitely advantageous to have the full capabilities of Python at your disposal.
At WorldWideKlein - The Daily Durchblick there's the original article.
Weather
A small, interesting collection of links on the topic of weather. For all weather fetishists out there
At bbums rants, code & references you can find the original article.
Kate Bush - All albums
Hey, I feel the same way. My Kate Bush collection is usually the first thing I convert to MP3s and put on the disc. Hmm. I think I need a bigger memory card for the Zaurus after all so I can take it with me.
Several million people demonstrate in Spain against the war
And the Spanish government continues its hardline course. Against the will of its own population. With the hypocritical excuse that governments must also demonstrate leadership qualities. Has leadership quality recently become a synonym for ignoring the voters' will? What has become of the idea of politicians as representatives of the people? Oh, sorry, that was already thrown overboard in the 70s, I forgot...
I found the original article at Telepolis News.
Moose Tuft
Moosbuschel
Nothing exciting, not even particularly good. I really only posted it to test the feature with JPEG information.
Designing Reusable Classes (PDF)
Very interesting text, everyone working with OO languages should read it.
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Exorcism
Every time I read about black-green in the Standard online, an image of Chancellor Roland Koch and his Vice Chancellor Joschka Fischer appeared in my head - not really pleasant. No, really not pleasant. Thanks. And how do I get this image out of my head now?
At Irenes Notizen you can find the original article.
Google, google, once more
Worth considering. Definitely. No matter how practical Google is, it's a potential problem waiting to happen. Of course, any other search engine with a quasi-monopoly would be the same. A search engine in particular is a very convenient place where a lot concentrates and where a lot can be learned about the behavior of surfers. And Google's somewhat strange approach and collection practices are certainly to be viewed critically.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Keith Haring Exhibition Opens in Hamburg
I don't know why, but I like Keith Haring, even though his images have been somewhat overrepresented lately.
I found the original article at tagesschau on the internet.
Picture blog as a supplement to photo blog
I've now - purely by chance, because my software can now manage images - created an image blog alongside my other photo posts. There's not much in it yet, but I've decided to use the digital camera more often and slowly fill it up.
Now the stressful search for titles begins again ... and all of this without a value chain!
Chimera needs a new name
What nonsense. Don't these people have anything better to do?
The original article can be found at Ben Hammersley.com (here).
Here We Go Again with the Value Chain
If anyone finds a value chain there at myBlog.de, please let me know. Then I'll finally have one for http://muensterland.org/ - that's basically free too (unless you want a fancy name). But we don't create value here, I can only offer a word creation chain.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you'll find the original article.
Apache vs. Yaws
I could observe a similar effect with the Python Desktop Server as well: the Medusa web server, written entirely in Python, is easily capable of keeping up with Apache in terms of performance, and even in the main domain of a web server when serving static content! And Medusa doesn't even need threads for this; instead it works with multiplexing via the select() call. Quite impressive...
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Is Stonehenge a 'Stone Henge'?
Oh wow, so an existential crisis for the British is pretty much guaranteed ...
At Spiegel Online: Science you can find the original article.
FDP faction throws out Möllemann
STRIKE At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
PerlPad 0.1
Got it. Could be quite fun if you want to spruce up marked text with Perl.
The original article is at blog.scriptdigital.com.
First Disadvantage of OpenZaurus
So one downside I've noticed: the package manager isn't very communicative, you don't know what's actually happening. No output for many minutes makes you quite nervous ...
Addendum: installing the Konqueror from the CF card to the SD card takes a good 30 minutes, during which the software provides no feedback. Ouch.
Monday, 10.02.2003: I'm joining in too! :)
I just want to point out that the Hugo mentioned there is not identical with me! At photo-blogg.de .:. die Photounity mit dem Blogg you can find the original article.
Why Sun is right that Java sucks
It's quite funny when internally at SUN there's a document circulating that explains why Java shouldn't be used internally at SUN
At Advogato there's the original article.
Dentists only drill on invoice
Didn't I recently establish that Bavaria is somehow different from the rest of the republic?
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
Nikon Uncovered
Ouch. Nikon was really very clever there
At photojunkie you can find the original article.
Tangled Up in Spam
I'm flabbergasted. An article about spam in the online version of a major newspaper, and the article is competent! Things like SpamAssassin and Bayesian Mail Filtering are even explained correctly. It also addresses current case law and sheds light on some of the problems explaining why it's so difficult to take legal action against spammers in the USA. Remarkable.
It would be nice if Der Spiegel took an example from this and finally moved beyond its computer club level.
I found the original article at New York Times: Technology.
Switch Zaurus to OpenZaurus
Well - you should take the note about CF card formatting very seriously! Because if the card is formatted differently in any way, you'll run into problems and it won't find the zImage and initrd.bin, even if they're in the main directory and have the correct names. I had formatted the card in the camera, but it didn't work. Only after reformatting on the Zaurus with FAT16 and copying the files (first zImage, then initrd.bin, then the terminal program just to be safe) did it work. Pretty finicky process, I would suggest always using an empty CF card for flashing and always formatting it. Better safe than sorry. And now I'm curious how OpenZaurus works.
Constructing an efficient prime number detector
Hmm. Prime number hunting was once a hobby of mine. Back when computers took forever for that sort of thing. It was quite exciting to juggle with numbers that almost filled the computer's main memory. Not that there was much main memory to fill back then ...
At Mathematische Kleinigkeiten there's the original article.
In the Neighborhood
Hey, my direct neighbor blog (ok, on geourl two more now show up with even smaller distance, but that's rather because one of them is sitting in the next room) finally has an RSS-Feed. Great!