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Preisbloggen bei Zeit.de · 29.06.04

Offensichtlich bin ich jetzt preis blogger per nominierung. Was macht man da jetzo? Man will ja bester sein. Eine Idee waere erstmal alle beitraege nur noch in haiku form abzufassen:

der frosch auf dem stein
unruhig sein auge
ruhig die fliege

Neee, so geht das nich. Eine weitere erfolgversprechende masznahme gibt uns belle de jour vor, die auch nominiert ist. Man sollte einfach das zweifelhafte sexualleben wortreich zu vortrage bringen: Heut frueh wieder eine erektion gehabt, aber wenn ich ehrlich bin ...

... verschont mich,
wie auch ich euch verschone

Was bleibt ist folgendes: Einfach ignorieren und sich vielleicht am gestiegenen 'traffic' freuen oder am gestiegenen verkehr.

Kdo neskace neni Czech ... · 29.06.04

Seit dem sieg der Tschechen geht ja dieser schlachtruf um, der laut Beckmann 'Wer nicht springt, ist kein tscheche' heiszen soll:

Kdo neskace, neni Cech, hop! hop! hop!

Beckmann hat recht, so oder so aehnlich heiszt das, auch wenn ich mich hier mangels ISO 8859-2 keiner korrekten schreibe befleiszigen kann. Anders als Beckmann behauptet hat dies aber nie nichts mit der typisch tschechischen doppelten verneinung zu tun. Die deutsche entsprechung waere jedenfalls ungefaehr:

Steh nicht auf, wenn du kein Schalker bist...

http://www.ffii.org/ · 28.06.04

Juergen has got a 'NO ePatents' logo on his blog. This is something I needed to have as well, har har! I took the GIMP and made me own:

Feel Free to link it, using the following code

<a href="http://www.ffii.org" title="Home of The FFII"><img src="http://tageloehner.de/epatents300.png" alt="No Software Patents" width="300" height="44" border="0" /></a>

'Deutschland ist Weltmeister' - die Reportage... · 27.06.04

...am 4. Juli 2004 ab 16:45 uebertraegt der Deutschlandfunk die originalreportage von der fussball weltmeisterschaft 1954. Kasettenrekorder aus dem keller geholt, denn:

Rahn mueszte schieszen! ... Rahn schieszt! ... Toor..! Toor..! Toor..!

Sydney Lumet · 25.06.04

Today we celebrate the 80th anniversary of Sydney Lumet.

12 angry men
Dog Day Afternoon
Network

Just to mention a few pieces of his work.

[feuerhake's li'l spam] thank you, ladies · 25.06.04

hola,
the link below is dedicated to all the ladies, who carried their guys home after Englands unlucky 'good bye' yesterday. Thank you:

http://www.wagenschenke.ch/
(it is flash, you need at least 1024x768 screen resolution, but you'll love it)

Sorry James, · 25.06.04

Dear David,
this time , Portugal:England(1:1, 2:2) 5:6 youve been great this time. I take back my remarks and appology. Good luck and see you in two years. We qualified already ... for no good reason.

Football Euro Market · 22.06.04

As long as the Euro 2004 will last, the Picture below will give you the expectations of attendents of the ribaldo7 soccer market

Schnittmuster Deutsche Version · 21.06.04

Ein erstes alpharelease von den pinguin schnittmusterseiten in deutsch ist raus ... au man, mal sehn was da alles falsch dran ist...

Es fehlen noch:

Franzoesisch
Tschechisch
Punjabi
Swahili
...

Programmers Curse · 18.06.04

I really hate this damned machine
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it.

On Software Development · 16.06.04

"Writing software isn't about doing cool stuff, it's about watching your back."

If this statement was true we will endure a huge slow down in innovation within the IT sector. That holds for pure innovation as well as for quality of software, because grassroot developers will step back from the business, leaving the whole field to the big players. While stepping back, they will take with them the very successful way of enhancing software quality by peer review. The big players in turn are not really interested in solving problems or enhancing quality further than absolutely necessary, but in licensing their stuff the 'take it or leave it' way. Furthermore the whole development can do a lot of harm to small project oriented IT service enterprises. They simply do not have resources to move safely in the minefields of patents.

But anyway, if software development isn't about doing cool stuff anymore, what's the use? Being payed for sitting in a cubicle, coding 3d animated cursors for office suites? Urghs!

Dear English Goal Keeper · 13.06.04

So sorry James. There is at least one job in the world that I would not like to have and that is goal keeper of the English team after the match versus France tonight. Oh man, so sorry. I mean, Barthez is still busy with his nose but that won't calm down the English press and, man, the English press has a certain name for being quite rude, especially if it comes to footy.

James, if you feel depressed and feel like talking with somebody not infested by the English tabloid. Man, here I am drop me a line.

Report Saturday Wizards of OS 3 · 12.06.04

This is a follow up of a prior article

The first session on Saturday was the best one so far. It was called 'wikipedia and friends' . Three guys presented how to deal with the topic from different points of view. Apparently, one of the guys was the founder of Wikipedia. (Though I liked the presentations of the others better). There was one sentence that I'll keep in mind. It went loosely like that: 'A Wiki used in an organisation will reflect the state of that organisation. Wiki can be a great tool in organisations that are determined to achieve a certain goal.' Yes, this seems to be true. In organisations that are lacking goals and determination a Wiki does no good. It always goes like this, Boss: "We need to collaborate. Lets set up a Wiki." The Wiki is set up, and it never comes to life. The boss again: "Wiki seems to be a lousy tool, lets get a real ContentManagemntSystem with all rights-, user- and approval management - and that will work." The poor boss doesn't even realise that it is his organisation thats in bad shape, and he just covers this shortcoming with repressive methods like approval procedures. There 's been way more in this session. Go and try to get the slide sets.

The second session covered securing quality of opensource software. The arguments were within the expected parameters, which means, this session was a very good one as well. Go get the slide sets again - especially if you are a 'project manager' and you did not code a lot lately.

The last Saturday session, or rather, the keynote was presented by Ross Anderson and dealt with the future of P2P networks. A whole lot of information in 45min time. Ross actually referred to the Condorcet-Paradoxon by Kenneth Arrow, so Ross can't be all bad, though I'm not sure whether 'distributed hashtables' will become an outstanding breakthrough in the near future ;-) I guess I'll follow this topic.

I got me a t-shirt. Isn't that embarrassing?

Report Friday Wizards of OS 3 · 12.06.04

I don't know for what good reason, but this Saturdays sessions have been better then those on Friday. The conference as a whole, as far as I can say, was again very good. The presence of experienced programmers and developers and young wannabes at the same time always gives me hope that semiconductor driven technologies do something good to mankind, after all. I have to preserve this feeling till next WOS.

OK, Let's begin chronologically and therefore start with Fridays sessions. First, I went to a session about 'software patents in the EU, current developments' That's been one of the hardest sessions I've endured so far. The whole thing covered only really dry law stuff and no PERL. I still didn't want to leave early, because I think the topic is highly relevant for European economies since, in contrast to the US, we have a lot of small business over here. Their business models rely entirely on open source software. In summary, it's been quite hard to follow, but I hope I got the main ideas, and at least I got a couple of contacts to refer to for getting more information.

My second session on Friday was called 'Beyond the UNIX Paradigm'. Ha, that was big fun. There where guys discussing whether to further improve UNIX derivates or do an all new system from scratch. While generally being interested in such architectural topics, I had great fun watching the guys discussing. Nerds in the very best sense. I thought neither the overweight, nor the small nerd with a ponytail and glasses wouldn't exist like that anymore. Respect guys, stay as you are, throwing bottle caps at each other right in front of the audience.

After all, I also learned something about geekcorps.org , being an organisation which is trying to bring means of communication to the least developed countries. Very good approach: 'Give us a phone! So we can call the government.'

The Saturday sessions will be covered in a different article ...

Wuermer und Viren · 11.06.04

Heute hatten wir eine kleine feine konversation beim mittag:

A: "Der Systemadmin hat heute frueh eine mail rumgeschickt, dass ein neuer wurm kaeme. Der wurm ist bei mir noch nicht angekommen."

B(an sich runter schauend):"Ich hab auch noch meinen alten wurm."

Mister Wet Business Suit · 9.06.04

Today I became 'Mister Wet Business Suit 2004' in two categories: 'volume of water soaked by suit' and 'awful hairy beer belly'.

IKEA vs. European Parliament Elections · 7.06.04

Last night while watching into other peoples windows indecently we, me and a friend from abroad, noticed that IKEA does more to harmonise the conditions of living all over Europe than any other organisation does.

Isn't that cute, all the awfully well off ministerial officials at the European council, the European parliament and i don't know who else ... apparently do not achieve what a bunch of underpayed shop assistants can do. Now, what does this teach us? Refuse paying taxes while taking all your money to IKEA?

Wizards of OS 3 · 5.06.04

I just realized that we have the Wizards of OS 3 conference down here. It's going to take place from the 10th of June to the 13th of June. That could save my next week. I went to a predesessor and they really discussed topics that became really relevant later on. I really look forward being there.

You cannot be in Berlin for this event? Doesn't matter I'm going to comment using this blog. So, hang on.

Current Topic of Discussion · 5.06.04

"Pooh is a big topic of discussion in London."

short note · 4.06.04

we have a nice visitorfor the weekend. That takes some time usually left to writing blog articles. So, they 're going to fall short a little... sorry

Unions and Striking in Germany · 1.06.04

I have just heard a feature at Deutschlandfunk concerning unions and current political trends in 'developing' social security systems in Germany. At first, you have to know that strikes for political reasons are not legal in Germany. That means you may strike for higher wages, that your employer will have to pay but you may not strike for a different social security system, which your employer is clearly not responsible for. Since your employer is not responsible for political decisions he cannot be punished for them. This rule seems quite fair.

...but experiences show that the big employers here in Germany can influence political decisions by arguing that they will migrate jobs to somewhere else. This threat has proven to be quite a big one and it is a threat against those who work as well. The Unions argue that this is some kind of reciproce political strike and therefore strike as a threat to those who run companies as well as to those who make political decisions must be used level the playground again.

I was a defender of the abolition of strike as a means of political struggle but considering the arguments above I'm not sure anymore. I know the reasoning above is quite simple and does not take into account that most of those running businesses actually cannot influence any political decision for they lack size. On the other hand there are the big ones who do 'reverse striking' and therefore break the abolition of political strikes in Germany and they cannot even be sued for doing that.

What now?