Next week I will be in Buchholz for business. That is to say, blogging will be even more delayed than it currently is.
In other news, I’ve got some pending posts that wait for their final finish. Unfortunately I’m so busy with other things at the moment, that I’m unlikely to publish them anytime soon.
All lame excuses. I know.
Update:
My business trip was canceled and rescheduled. Most likely it will be in two weeks.
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
On Sunday, January 17, 2004 Patrick introduced …. Too Far Afield. And you saw why 2004 was not like “1984″.
You can still look at my first post. My weblog has evolved into a whole new experience for you, fellow visitors, and for me. I’d like to thank you all for sharing with me the great experience of 1 YEAR blogging and I wish the good feeling lives on for some time. We’ll see what time brings!
Again, I made a switch. I switched from XMMS to Beep Media Player. BMP emerged from code of XMMS, that was ported to GTK+2 in 2003. XMMS is stuck with GTK+1.2 for almost two years now. Apart from that is is actually the same user interface. However, as BMP approaches it’s 1.0 version I expect other wise additions and changes in the future. Due to the newer graphic library it uses BMP looks much better and appears to inegrate much smoother with the rest of my GNOME desktop.
Getting GNOME to open music files with BMP instead of an other application was, however, rather complicated. I had to uninstall a number of other music players before GNOME accepted my choice to play music with BMP. There should be better mime/application management in GNOME in general, because I use many applications that GNOME somehow doesn’t want me to use (read: that are not GNOME standard applications). Let’s see what next releases of GNOME bring in that area. Otherwise I’m quite happy at this moment.
Again, I’ve got tickets for an event I’m unable to attend. In the Altonaer Theater, they stage Hamlet. I’ve got some tickets left for acts from 20th to 23rd January 2005, each time starting at 8 o’clock. The price is 8 € per ticket. Drop me a mail if you’re interested.
Announcing Apple iProduct™ Buy it now!
The Guardian sheds light on The man who lost his past. Merhan Karimi Nasseri has spent 16 years living in Charles de Gaulle airport. The true story behind Spielberg’s The Terminal.
Well, no one invests more in security of their browser than what we do on IE.
Bill Gates in an interview with CNET News.com on January 5, 2005.
I’ve got a voucher from DFDS Seaways for a journey I’m currently unable to attend. The voucher is valid for one person and a journey from either Cuxhaven/D to Harwich/GB or Amsterdam/NL to Newcastle/GB. It is valid only in January, February or March 2005. Taxes of 7 EUR are due at time of booking. If you’ve got some time and would like to get a free 3 day mini cruise including a round-trip ticket Cuxhaven-Harwich or Amsterdam-Newcastle, 2 nights accomondation on board, bus transfer Harwich-Colchester or Newcastle-Newcastle City and back so as a city map of either Colchester or Newcastle, just drop me a mail. And remember: First come, first served.
It seems like all pending issues will be sorted out later today. That means I will probably be back and availlable again from tomorrow 6 p.m. MET. Again, sorry for any inconvinience caused. Those developments going on are completely out of my control. Thanks for your patience.
The title of this post is the rough translation of the title of a book, which was recently recommended to my by T. and which I therefore bought as a personal Christmas present. The book is written by Norbert Juretzko, who worked for one of the German secret services, the BND (foreign intelligence agency of the German government), from 1984 to 1998. General attorney Kay Nehm has recently instituted legel proceedings against Juretzko for writing this book. He is accused of breaking state secrets and thereby betraying the Federal Republic of Germany.
I recently read the book cover to cover in about a day and I have to say it is both inspiring, thrilling and alarming at the same time. However, you get to see only one side of the medal, as we say in Germany. So you also need to maintain critical distance, especially because Juretzko somehow obscures the legal case that deals with his own failures. Only one page of the book is dedicated to the case, in which he was sentenced to 11 months in prison with probation.
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