Massive oil slick drifting toward Spain - when will we actually learn from these disasters? When will tankers without double hulls be banned? When will finally a stringent control of tankers be introduced, a mandatory TÜV for ships, regular checks of officers and better monitoring of crews? Such disasters are preventable. But for every meager profit, everything that can be sacrificed is sacrificed. And nature has to bear it. "The authorities hope that the heavy oil will quickly clump in the cold water and not reach the sea surface."
Yes and? Do they believe that solves the problem? Let's just leave the mess lying around on the sea floor, it doesn't bother anyone. Are they completely insane?
Found at tagesschau on the Internet.
Schröder supports EU accession of Turkey - well, great, religiously-conservative oriented forces are winning elections in Turkey, the Kurds are still being flattened with (German-made) tanks and torture is a tried and tested means to an end, as you can read every year in the Amnesty International report. And our government? Wants to help this state into the EU. Anything else?
Found at tagesschau on the internet.
If everything works, this should show up on lifejournal and in my own sysadmins corner and so make my life easier, as I only need to edit one system to replicate posts to several hosts. Footbridge rules.
Anyone who wants to populate multiple weblogs from Radio can do that with the Manila-Blogger-Bridge. But it can only handle Blogger-API and only one category, namely the homepage. However, if you'd like to selectively post one article here and the next one there, you should take a look at Footbridge. Very interesting tool, you can specify for individual categories whether they should be copied to Livejournal, Advogato, or to a Blogger-API system. Separately for each individual category. Very practical.
DR-DOS lives - sometimes they come back. Only - who wants that now? I mean, except perhaps the fans of Pet Sematary and other horror movies ...
Found at heise online news.