Bundestag passes higher pension contributions - why do you even vote for that bunch if they can't come up with anything better than reaching into the same people's pockets the way the others would too? The "Social" part in the SPD's name is by now just as much of a farce as the "Christian" in CDU/CSU. Well, there are supposedly still people who believe the FDP is liberal and the Greens care about environmental protection. Politics stinks. In the end, those who have already been skimming money off the top can set even more aside and we pay the bill. All lies. Found at tagesschau on the internet.
Stupid spammers. Three days ago I planted spam trap addresses in HTML comments on my pages here at muensterland.org. Very obvious spam trap address and in an HTML comment. These addresses are only on the web, nowhere else. Never used and nothing that could be connected through combination with other address parts. And what happens today? The first spammers are spamming the addresses. Ugh.
So if you really want to know why you're getting spam on your addresses: check out which websites your email address appears on. The chances that that's the reason are quite high. Even if it only shows up as author information in an HTML comment...
Well, websites on muensterland.org are spam-safe, another argument for a site here :-)
I'm doing an interesting project to backup a Radio installation into the cloud. - Yeah! Go for it!
That's exactly what we need. Data backup of client systems on the server in a form that can be synchronized and kept consistent across multiple clients. Then I can finally manage my weblog with Radio from the office, and most importantly, you can help users when a disaster strikes them. A feature that simplifies life for users.
Of course, the system operator would then need to provide disk space and backup to tape, but usually a server operator is much better equipped to do this than the average user, who often doesn't even have adequate backup facilities for their home system.
Found at Scripting News.
Macintosh Common Lisp 5.0b - despite its hefty price and what I consider to be the rather questionable way that recent subscribers were strung along with updates to classic versions for as long as possible until even the last of the free updates ran out and thus everyone has to pay the hefty prices, it's still one of the best Common Lisp implementations I know of.
Well, I'll refrain from the upgrade anyway and continue to rely on Open MCL - a free implementation of Common Lisp that is based on an older MCL version. What Gary Byers is doing there is really impressive and eventually there will be a GUI there too.
Found at VersionTracker.com - Mac OS X.
Does that "Are you on?" advertising from eon annoy you too? I find it just completely ridiculous. And they have no idea about web design either – on Chimera (a Mozilla-based OS X browser) you just see an empty red page.
I mean, sure, some web designers assume certain browser features, but we're talking about a damn advertising campaign here! Who's dumb enough to set up an advertising campaign so that someone gets absolutely no information just because they suppress advertising popups on the web? You can't be that stupid...