2002

Lebenszeichen

Puh, nicht das jemand denkt, ich würde nicht am Rechner hängen den ganzen Tag! Habe heute den ganzen Tag mit Knoppix rumgespielt und bin überaus zufrieden mit den Ergebnissen, vor allem die HD Installation ist ein Knüller, bringt sie einem doch ohne große Probleme Debian auf den Rechner. Cool. Und meine Seiten gehen ja sogar... 

Investing in the war?

The Perpetual War Portfolio The Perpetual War Portfolio is an evenly weighted basket of five stocks poised to succeed in the age of perpetual war. The stocks were selected on the basis of popular product lines, strong political connections and lobbying efforts, and paid-for access to key Congressional decision makers. via: Jason Kottke 

Top 10

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 Google Doodle shows the holiday season google logos (nice so nice!). 

So this is christmas…

Bethlehem is in subdued mood as Christians celebrate Christmas in the traditional birthplace of Jesus. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has used a Christmas message to attack Washington and call on Iraqis to rally against US “aggression”. A prisoner has been killed and an unknown number of inmates and police injured in a riot at a... 

Scott beamed me up

I mentioned it before, Papa Scott helped me out by programming a little perlscript to reimport my lost entries, or better to make an MT-importfile out of the static backuped pages. And guess what: it worked like a charm. So I now have imported the lost content of november and most of october (there are... 

Extended Smarty Pants

Wilfried Wurch sagt: Smartypants wandelt einfache Anführungszeichen (“Quotation marks”) in Zitatzeichen (“ & ”) um. Das wusste ich schon. In Deutschland benutzt man jedoch eigentlich » & «, sagt Wilfried und hat das Skript umgeschrieben. Das stimmt. Ich hab’s ihm gleich getan, sozusagen “abgekupfert” (auch ein Begriff aus der Schriftsetzerei, oder?!). BTW: just listening und... 

Unemployed blogger

Slashdot : Are Blogging and Unemployment Related? It would be interesting to see if there’s a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. For me the unemployment theory is right so far as not related... 

Back on MT

Guess who’s back on Movable Type…(temporary?) This nice guy is helping me solving the reimporting-the-lost-entries-problem back into the blog… in real: he’s doing it for me cause I’m far too stupid to handle it myself. Hope I can give something back for that, someday.