[2003-05-30]
Oh, if only there was some sort of word in the English dictionary for a bird rising from ashes, I would use it now. Blogzilla – a blog about Mozilla
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2003
Feldforschung
Drei Fragen zur Feldforschung stellt man bei IT&W: 1. Warum schreibst Du ein Weblog? Ja, warum eigentlich? Vor Jahren habe ich eine Art »Wissens- und Ideenspeicher« gesucht. Eine Möglichkeit, Sachen, die einem so nebenbei einfallen eben zu notieren und später wieder verfügbar zu haben. Über einige Umwege geriet ich über »Webtagebücher« und deren -ringe zu...
MT-Do Test, MT 2.64
At first some test… 4th Dan Black Belt Your real career as a scholar of MT-Do, and an effective teacher to both experienced and novices have begun. MT-Do is now more a way of life, than a practice. Take the MT-Do test Via: Just a lascivious geek. Second: there is an upgrade waiting: Movable Type...
Dutch Coffeeshops no smoking areas?
Yes, smoking is allowed in german bars, but smoking marijuana certainly isn’t. So also the Netherlands will have to smoke their dope as well as their cigarettes at home. Via: Adam Curry.
Simon says
Simon Willisons activties for a better CSS powered world are well known now. The latest edition called Fun with links is again very helpful. It shows how to make a nice menu from an -list, with many effects and such. Using an -list opens the door for MT-User because we all know how to build...
Gates, AOL and some morning coffee thoughts
OK, since days the headlines about Micro$oft and AOL working together from now on are flying through the channels. Here are my sunday morning coffee thoughts about this, just noted between croissant and bagel: Who thought that AOL/TimeWarner could have been the counterpart of a unstoppable rise of Microsoft to total market reign, totally misunderstood...
[2003-06-02]
Michael Himsolt betreibt Paleometereologie: Vielleicht hatten die Einwanderer einfach auch nur Angst davor, die Neandertaler könnten Massen an Steinzeitvernichtungswaffen besitzen, und haben sie ausgelöscht. Diese Theorie ist allerdings wissenschaftlich unfundiert, denn solche Waffen wurden bis heute nicht gefunden.
Some Linux News (after too much talk about M$)
From Slashdot we’re send to an article in India Times where we learn that there is an IBM NetVista A30 Linux Desktop sold in some Indian cities, priced at about $850. Seems that there are other markets to enter besides our windows contaminated western world. Here in Germany the hardware discounter Vobis is actually selling...
Waste
Justin Frankel, Erfinder der populären MP3-Software Winamp, will sich von Nullsoft trennen: Everything I code is arguably owned by the company. The company controls what I do with my code [in the past, it seemed I had freedom, but it turns out all of that was not really the case–rather, I was somehow avoiding the...
Monopoly
On winterspeak.com there’s more discussion about M$ not releasing IE as standalone program anymore. Very interesting: When people say that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop PC operating system market, they’re referring to Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, and Win XP. But each of these operating systems are actually pretty good substitutes for...