Archive 26. June 2006

30-Billion Donation for Bill Gates - one can certainly appreciate that. If one day all that remains of Bill Gates is his foundation, that wouldn't be such a bad outcome. For that, one can also swallow this perversion of operating systems, as a large part of the economy is involved in humanitarian projects.

58 professionals involved in Spanish affair - the Spaniards are probably running out of cyclists this year ...

Brown bear Bruno killed by hunters - the problem bear just didn't want to respect the no-go areas ...

The State Disempowers Itself

The state disempowers itself:

If you follow their arguments, you get the impression that the country is being ruled by criminals, unscrupulous people, and the mentally ill, who are renovating public property to the detriment of the citizens and in the service of private companies for their own benefit.

Well noticed.

Exploring Cocoa with F-Script - interesting article about the object system of OS X

Freenode hacked - Operator account compromised. If you have passwords there, better change them and make sure the passwords used there are not used elsewhere ...

Hartz-IV fraud: 'Our image of man was too positive' - well, my image of Struck was probably too positive. So he is just as much of a fool as the other proletarians in Berlin ...

Microsoft buries WinFS - which turns the hopelessly delayed Vista into a pure farce.

Python Cheatsheet : saprfc 0.08 - another SAP-RFC module for Python.

Despite rising sales, industry is cutting jobs - and yet prolethicians still believe in regulation by the economy.

Sale of NRW University Hospitals? - oh yes, privatization. Alleged panacea of our time. In reality, just as much quackery as snake oil.