... in Berlin, I mean: as easy as Berlusconi changing the electoral law - because maybe then it will actually be enough for the CDU to have its own majority, without hiding behind factional squabbles and other hypocrisies. Oh well, Adenauer's heirs have mainly inherited his stupidity and corruption, with election successes it's rather bleak. It's enough to just lie to yourself about the world with your pathetic 29 percent.
Got a question for those who feel the need to accuse my blog of being destructive: could you idiots please tell me why I should be constructive when dealing with the nonsense that politicians, media, and the economy are peddling? If someone takes a dump in your front yard, you probably take it quite constructively as rose fertilizer, right? Dreamers.
... just hearing that gives me goosebumps. This absolute inability of economic interest groups to imagine motivation without a business model is sad.
IE7 and the demise of CSS hacks is about the IE CSS hacks that have been loved over time and are urgently needed for IE6 to make CSS layouts at least presentable on the IEs. With IE7, a lot will change - and some of them will no longer work.
Urgent recommendation: Switch to conditional comments and move the CSS corrections to a separate stylesheet that can then be loaded for the IE. Unfortunately, with this you can only add CSS elements for the IE, not hide non-existent elements from the IE - possibly you can do something with overwriting elements.
In the IE Blog is a list of hacks that will be problematic with IE 7.
... say Merkel and other CDU bigwigs. Why are they then making Stoiber the Minister of Economic Affairs? Or is that now a different title for the court jester? They can, in my opinion, gladly dispose of the threatened horror cabinet to Madame Tissot right away.
According to Bruce Schneier, Blizzard Entertainment uses spyware to check compliance with their EULA - and it's one that looks at much more than just the data from their own program, but also additional data from other applications ...
Concerning because it doesn't just read the data from its own program - but even then it would still be concerning if it were limited to Blizzard Entertainment's software. Or did any of the users of the software agree to this monitoring? To the loading of code onto their own computer? To searching system lists for information? To sending this information over the Internet?
It is also questionable how such practices can be in compliance with data protection regulations, for example in Germany.
Tailor is a Python script that can exchange changesets between different versioning systems. In principle, you can also mirror repositories in other versioning systems with it.
Even a warmonger is being revered now, just because she turned 80. It doesn't matter that she started a war. Who cares what the media says - paying tribute is in fashion. Corrupt and perjured former chancellors are just as welcome as warmongers and other riffraff. Oh well, I'm probably just being terribly destructive right now, because breaking one's oath of office and sneaking around the law and starting wars, that's just so constructive.
I love Trac as a project tool - and I'm quite satisfied with Subversion for version control (or, more recently, with SVK as a version control tool based on Subversion). But darcs has also excited me because it's so beautifully bureaucratic - and now there's also Trac on Darcs - a patched version that works with darcs instead of Subversion. I think I'll take a closer look at that ...
The same patch also allows a Bazaar-NG backend for Trac - which is particularly interesting because both Trac and Bazaar-NG are written in Python. I think I should take a look at that part as well.
And just now I was pointed out in IRC that SCons is also Python - a pretty nice replacement for the already quite old Make.
This all sounds almost like Developer Nirvana.