BookmarksExtension - Mercurial - Mercurial always has surprises in store with its extensions. Bookmarks are nice for quick small maintenance fixes for which you don't want to set up your own repository, but also don't want to use an in-repository branch (because this makes the history overly complex).
Archive 3. February 2010
Court: E-mail cease and desist letters are admissible - every time a post starts with "The Hamburg Regional Court," I already know there's nonsense again from the technically most incompetent authority among the regional courts. How good that there are still higher instances that don't fall for such nonsense quite as often. The cease and desist lawyers will certainly be pleased that they will soon only need to write to outdated email addresses or wherever - it doesn't matter, it's delivered anyway ...
InfiniDB 1.0.2: Analytical Database Engine for Data Mining - Golem.de - hmm, based on MySQL - I don't know if I should consider this a recommendation or a deterrent. On the other hand, a DB specifically for data mining-like query profiles would sometimes be useful - so I should try it out.
Pollution in 1/8 | RIPE Labs - 1/8 and 27/8 are now normal IP addresses - and there are conflicts with people who specifically used 1/8 for various things because it has been "unallocated" since 1981 ...
Time Capsule Memorial Register - hmm, will I have to list my TimeCapsule there someday? I still have one from the first generation ...