Month: August 2010
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two cantors at Berlin’s Rykestrasse Synagogue
Rykestrasse Synagogue – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia says it’t Germany’s largest synagogue. I was surprised to read this. I had not thought so. This was another rather enlightening time at the synagogue. Will have to go their more often. Two cantors and a choir, perfect. Pulled me away from rather sad things happening around…
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an event scheduler – my latest perl helper
The need for a new helper script in Perl arose recently. I called it JHschedule_courses.pl. I wanted to create weekly events, given a start date, given the number of weeks, given the offset of the registration deadline, and given the offset of the end date of that event. The output of JHschedule_courses.pl would be the…
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how to convert a rectangular image into a square one using a command line utility?
Most of the images I download from LinkedIn or Xing are not square ones. But I want to make use of them in my Google Mail address book, which allows me to select a square sub-section of those rectangular images. I know how to transform rectangular images into square ones using Gimp, but that takes…
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SUSE Studio: Build openSUSE 11.3 appliances now
SUSE Studio: Build openSUSE 11.3 appliances now The interesting topic here (for me) is: how to build appliances for AWS? And apparently SUSE and AWS use incompatible versions of Xen. But sooner or later they are going to solve this.
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Wibiya: a Better Toolbar for Your Blog | All About Our Web Toolbar Wibiya Blog
Wibiya: a Better Toolbar for Your Blog | All About Our Web Toolbar Wibiya Blog I personally use AddThis, and I think, it’s really hard to beat.
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Engine Yard CLI Now Open Source | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog
Engine Yard CLI Now Open Source | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog
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Did weak copyright laws help Germany outpace the British Empire?
Did weak copyright laws help Germany outpace the British Empire?