Archive May 2014

EU-Chefposten: Parliament wants Juncker, Cameron does not | tagesschau.de. Why do the EU states still let themselves be fooled by the island kingdom? Are we the EU or are we just an appendix of the British? Juncker is certainly not my dream candidate, but if the heads of government let themselves be fooled by the British again and propose another candidate, they might as well skip the next elections.

Generalbundesanwalt: Kein Ermittlungsverfahren in Deutschland zur NSA-Überwachung - Golem.de. Doesn't this come dangerously close to obstruction of justice?

click - Just stumbled upon this, this finally looks like a real time saver - many other libraries for command line integration were so cumbersome that I couldn't see many advantages over the standard library provided stuff. But this already seems quite compact.

Photos from four days of short vacation in Leiden. Yes, just vacation photos. Hey, I'm just a snapper, you can't expect more. Just click on the link and scroll through, or click on a photo for a large view. And yes, I revived Koken. At the moment it seems to be working quite well.

Here's what I found worth reading this week, collected and uncommented: