Archive for December, 2007

Schwarz-Weiß-Denken hat keine Zukunft

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Viele von uns - und ich nehme mich da gar nicht aus - haben sich schon so sehr mit dem Begriff "Stasi 2.0" als Synonym für Schäubles Überwachungsmaßnahmen identifiziert, dass sie die Relation, in der die damaligen Überwachungsmaßnahmen zu den heutigen geplanten oder auch bereits eingeführten Maßnahmen stehen, nicht mehr ...

Zen Master of Programming

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

I started with computers pretty late, around 1997, at the age of 15. I was totally ignorant about them before back in the day. I had a pretty good typewriter with which I did all my homeworks and I was satisfied with it. On the other hand many of my ...

Final BRM for Office Open XML

Friday, December 7th, 2007

The BRM - the ballot resolution meeting - for Microsoft's office "standard" DIS-29500 is set due on 25-29 February 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland. On this meeting all the different local standard bodies can discuss and resolve the 662 comments they've send in with their vote on September 2nd. A webpage ...

Text advertisements?

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Yesterday I got an email from a guy who was apparently "Interested in Purchasing Text Advertisement" on this blog. The English he used was a bit half-baked and the sender address originated from GMail, but since it didn't look as the usual spam I get almost daily, I decided to ...