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Archive 28. February 2005
Boat vs. Little Boat
At Google, there are 2,250 entries for "Böötchen" and 6,030 for "Bötchen". We urgently need to do something about the double umlaut. Screw the opinion of the Duden editorial team.
GeoURL (2.0) - the other GeoURL, meaning the original one, is back. Not entirely original because it's operated by someone else, but it has the same URL and apparently the same database. Essentially, it's the same map and everything. So essentially everything is the same. Also the slow speed. Doesn't matter - geourl.info works just as well and a bit of redundancy never hurt anyone.
Nice Firefox extension: JustBlogIt with a simple right-click. And in the 0.2 version found there, it also works with blogging pages with umlauts in the title. The 0.1 version on the Firefox Extensions page is quite buggy.
morons.org reports: Kentucky Student Charged with Felony Thoughtcrime - his terrible crime: a short story about a high school overrun by zombies. $5,000 bail due to the severity of the accusation.
NZZ Folio: DIN A4. About the origin of the DIN paper formats.
Record labels considering price increase for music downloads - these idiots are only destroying their own industry. But then they cry about how the evil pirates are to blame. They'll probably never get it ...
Software patents: EU Commission officially rejects directive restart and our government remains inactive. It would be so simple: the state governments whose parliaments have issued the recommendation that the directive must not pass in this form, would only have to do what their damn duty is: to follow the wish of their national parliament. Instead, everyone plays the yes-man and hides or lies to themselves a perfect world, while EU democracy is trampled on. And all this for the benefit of multinational corporations and at the expense of the European middle class ...
speed up WordPress l10n
New php-gettext, speed up WordPress l10n describes two quite simple measures to give WordPress a bit of a boost. Specifically, the gettext support is suboptimal - which affects every user of a non-English WordPress installation. Gettext is used to load the translations. With the mentioned patches, these areas are significantly accelerated, especially noticeable on individual pages (where the number of database accesses is smaller), but also, for example, on my homepage, this has resulted in a measurable acceleration.
State Gene Controllers Promote Genetically Modified Corn
According to Report Mainz state genetic controllers are advertising for genetically modified corn:
According to investigations by the ARD magazine, Buhk also participated in organizing a major event for the German biotech company Phytowelt GmbH in 2004. Buhk had already been warned by the Federal Ministry of Health in 2002 about the "danger of a conflict of interest" and his "official duties."
We recently had the topic of the fox guarding the henhouse ...
Sales plan: Deutsche Bahn wants to offload its faulty ICE trains to Austria - ouch. Don't the Austrians have access to German media, or why do they want to be sold this stuff?