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Öko-Arbeitsplatz
Zu gut, um es nicht schamlos von vowe via whocares.de via contentschmiede.de zu kopieren. Geht am Ende ja eh alles in eine Tonne ;-)
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If I should fall behind
We said we’d walk together baby come what may
That come the twilight should we lose our way
If as we’re walkin a hand should slip free
I’ll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
We swore we’d travel darlin’ side by side
We’d help each other stay in stride
But each lover’s steps fall so differently
But I’ll wait for you
And if I should fall behind
Wait for me
Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true
But you and I know what this world can do
So let’s make our steps clear that the other may see
And I’ll wait for you
If I should fall behind
Wait for me
Now there’s a beautiful river in the valley ahead
There ’neath the oak’s bough soon we will be wed
Should we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I’ll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me
Darlin’ I’ll wait for you
Should I fall behind
Wait for me
Bruce Sprinsteen 1992
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MTU sold: Who need defence industries anyway?
Some minutes ago, DaimlerChrysler announced to sell jet engine maker MTU to the American investor KKR Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It has been clear for a while that DaimlerChrysler wanted to get rid of MTU, but it was unclear who would be the new owner. More on the implications of this deal later on this frequency.
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Deutschlands größtes Filmplakat
... ist elf Meter hoch - und 190 Meter lang. Zu sehen am Blohm und Voss Pier Dock 10 im Hamburger Hafen - und in der Fotocommunity.de.
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Lightning strikes twice
The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become
Ashley Montagu
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Brothers in arms
[George W. Bush] did not move anywhere. They drove him from one place in [Buckingham] Palace to another in a car. Too dangerous to have him outside. And this is in a country he calls his greatest ally.
vowe in his field notes on his recent London trip
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All Weblog API you can eat
In an ApacheCon presentation, Mark Pilgrim with 70 pages on the Atom API and earlier models (PDF link). On the front page, note that this is 2003: IRC presentation and conference backchannels are hopefully here to stay.
And in unrelated news via Heiko, you now can also make your blog LOAF compatible. A first PHP implementation is available. SENF, the the localized German version, has been announced.
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ColorMatch Remix
Well-known ColorMatch 5k has been greatly improved: ColorMatch Remix not only works in Mozilla and Opera and offers nine instead of just six matching colors, but also lets you export your colors as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator color tables. Nifty. Via webgraphics.
ColorMatch Remix >
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Friendly Filtering
Will a company that fears open standards and open systems be able to provide search results that reflect the knowledge on the net, or will it make search easier for users as it just returns a handful selected and unbiased results even on most generic search terms?
vowe has some details >
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20 Jahre c't
Die c't wird 20, und zum feierlichen Anlass gibt es die erste Ausgabe im PDF-Format zum Download (PDF-Link, 58 MB). Und wenn das nicht reicht, gibt es die kompletten ersten sechs Jahre auch auf DVD.
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Public Service Announcement
It will never cease to amaze me how thoroughly some people can mess technical things up, especially those who would swear by their next to kin that they haven't touched anything. Remember: always use single fire, two rounds. Results in burst mode might be too messy for most uses.
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Local news
A fire broke out and some detonations took place in the local Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology / Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie this evening around 1900. The institute moved from other parts of the city into new buildings right next to the campus of my university just one year ago. Firefighters left the scene a few minutes ago around 2150. Details to follow as soon as they become available.
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What a surprise
"The White House yesterday drew up emergency plans to accelerate the transfer of power in Iraq after being shown a devastating CIA report warning that the guerrilla war was in danger of escalating out of US control. [...] 'It says we are going to lose the situation unless there is a rapid and dramatic change of course,' the source said."
The Guardian story >
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Harvard Business School Entrepreneurs
"HBS Entrepreneurs is a video archive that captures insights from leading members of the HBS entrepreneurial community. Entrepreneurs speak on a common set of themes including their development as entrepreneurs, strategies for identifying opportunity and leadership."
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Tiny Danish elves, right?
"Everyone knows where Lego bricks come from. They're scraped off the inside of magic trees by tiny Danish elves, right? Wrong! The truth is both more ordinary and much, much stranger. Take an interactive tour of a typical Lego factory and learn how Lego bricks begin the long journey that ends up under your couch."
Popandcompany Lego company tour >
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What a nice family
A new company I am in contact with not only has a generally laid back and fun staff, but also two employees that bear a striking resemblance to Kiefer Sutherland and Natasha McElhone. They even work in the same team. Now that is more than one could ask for.
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Customer service, definitions
I
This morning, 03:52, amazon.de distribution center Bad Hersfeld: "Your parcel has just been shipped"
This morning, 10:08, my place: parcel arrives, books are OK, customer satisfied
II
This morning, 10:30, my place: the DPD distribution truck pulls up, driver fills out a form, puts the form into my mailbox, drives away. "We were unable to reach you. We will try again later. If you want, you can pick up your shipment at our distribution center." Sucker.
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One of my first LPs, back on heavy rotation
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XUL-Channels is dead
In not so good news, XUL-Channels is dead. XUL-Channels has been an online RSS aggregation service that used Mozilla's XUL capabilities for its GUI. MySQL perfomance requirements exceeded what the author's web hoster allowed for, so he took it off the net. I followed XUL-Channels' growth from its very beginning and really liked its basic concept and many of the ideas in it, but it has been clear that at some point, a code rewrite and heavy optimization would be necessary. The existing souce code has been released under the GPL license, so everyone can work on it (thanks, Tim!) - I am sure some of the code will fit into the XUL-based blogroll aggregator I am working on.
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Linux landscape changes: Novell to buy SUSE, RedHat Linux to be discontinued
CNet: "Longtime Microsoft foe Novell has signed an agreement to acquire SuSE Linux for $210 million in cash, while IBM, the most powerful backer of the Linux OS, will make a $50 million investment in Novell. The moves, announced Tuesday, could boost the fortunes of SuSE, the No. 2 seller of Linux, increase the competitive pressure on No. 1 Red Hat, and provide a new direction for Novell's rivalry with Microsoft. The three-way action also highlights where much of the power in the Linux realm resides. 'IBM was a very important broker in the deal. It's prepared to be the kingmaker to counterbalance SuSE against Red Hat,' said RedMonk analyst James Governor."
The move takes place eight months after Novell decided to adopt Linux as the NetWare migration path, exactly four month after Novell announced to acquire Ximian, and just one day after RedHat announced to discontinue RedHat Linux: there will be no new releases and maintenance for RedHat 9.0 will end in April 2004. Users are asked to migrate either to Red Hat Enterprise Linux or the free Fedora Project.
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quirksmode.org
Paul-Peter Koch has redesigned, updated his content and moved from http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/ to quirksmode.org. If you are seriously into CSS and DOM/JS and have to care about all those browser differences, it still is your place to go.
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