Archive 20. July 2003

Image of Joseba Beloki after the bad crash and the surgery

Wow, bandaged and wrapped up, but at least laughing. That's something. By the way, a really nice Tour 2003 blog where I found the image.

More tour blogs (or related):

Here's the original article.

Vinokourov's day was today ...

... in any case, his attack towards the end was top-class. Well-placed and well-executed. With that, he made an impressive showing and reiterated his claim to a podium place in Paris. And Armstrong now has to fight on two fronts. That will take energy, even if he has something planned for tomorrow - he will have to work hard for it. The main rivals now just 15 and 18 seconds behind the yellow jersey - the Tour hasn't been this exciting in many years.

Neotonic ClearSilver

Hmm. Sounds interesting - a high-performance template engine in C, with bindings for various scripting languages including Python. That could be fun to play around with - Cheetah is great, but can be a bit sluggish sometimes. An efficient template language could make it possible to provide templates to users in the Community Server as well. Let me take a look.

Here's the original article.

Controversial public oath in Berlin

What is this militaristic shit supposed to be anyway? Why do we need this crap? We should actually have overcome this nonsense in Germany by now.

You can find the original article at tagesschau on the Internet and here.

Unusual Product Names #2

This must be the most absurd reason for a product name I've ever heard

At PhotographyBLOG there's the original article.