Archive for December, 2007
A good friend took ill three weeks ago: he suffered from lack of air and pains in the chest. He was immediately hospitalized, and a lung cancer diagnosis was confirmed on December 27th. I made a date to go and see him today. Ten minutes before we arrived at the hospital in Koeln Merheim, we [...]
Two words I can't bear hearing any more:
Awesome. Only used by Americans. They use it when things don't quite totally suck. Then it is awesome.
Community. Wikipedia defines the word as a social group of organisms. The big deal seems to be to form a community for project abc, join and then forget about it. Quite [...]
My candidates for top notch utilities in 2007:
Exim and OpenLDAP remain high on the list of enterprise utilities; they are both unbeatable.
VMware continues to be a daily lifesaver.
I've probably spent more time with a text editor in the last six months than in the last several years. All the more reason to appreciate vi.
2007 marks [...]
Diese Firma erhält von mir den ersten Preis für die dämlichste Werbung des Jahres:
Wann immer ich Fernsehe oder Radio höre muss ich mir anhöhren, dass es "aber nur bis Montag" 20% auf alles gibt (ausser Tiernahrung). Glauben die etwa, dass mein Erinerrungsvermögen nur eine Woche hält?
Photo: Hataiiia Hataa
In 2007, this site served over 138,000 page views to 66,800 unique visitors. Most of you (55.93%) used Firefox on Windows (79.66% followed by 10.94% Linux), and you came from the US, Germany, UK and France in descending order of frequency.
Thank you for being with me.
Father Christmas seems to expect me to be even more punctual than I usually am. This radio-controlled Junghans Mega 1000 was under the tree.
Methinks it suits me well.