"Moreover, the long announcement was only made in cases where the call center agents had the impression that the caller thought they had reached the German Railway. For all others, there was a short announcement." - fascinating, this call center operator has invented a telepathy interface? Because the price announcement comes before you speak to the agent (who is so expensive that you could gild the conversation time with him). More at 11861: Operator of the Bahn information number sues against shutdown - Golem.de.
Archive 28. December 2010
Study: Power companies demand two billion euros too much. More astonishing than the audacity of the energy companies is the (feigned) astonishment of the Prolethicians about this matter - for what do they expect when a de facto monopoly is left in place and no serious state regulation is introduced? Throwing Merkel's cotton balls is now proven to be useless and a government that is controlled in a banal way by the energy suppliers certainly has no interest in changing anything. We will have to pay again (we always have to pay, I'm not fooling myself about that, but it would be nice to spend money on meaningful things and not on the billion profits of an already much too fat electricity mafia).
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby. Looks quite nice, I kind of like the DSL. Reminds me in parts of Django's ORM.
MacRuby: The Definitive Guide. Book at O'Reilly about MacRuby. You can already read many parts, maybe interesting for one or the other.