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looking forward to a Rosh HaShana service at the Berlin Rykestrasse synagogue
This will be son#2’s second “event” in a synagogue. I think Rykestrasse is quite a wonderful place for that, and I hope he will like it (the shofar and the chasen and all that), and it will have some kind of long lasting effect on him. I hope, his ancestry will have some influence in the background on him as well. I am really happily looking forward to this.
To all of you out there from Berlin: Chag Sameach! Shana Towa! -
“Your nerd knows very little about a lot”
From: Michael Lopp’s book Being Geek – O’Reilly Media
In chapter 23, the author addresses the nerd’s significant other.
Here are a few pretty significant sentences:
Your nerd knows very little about a lot. For many topics, his knowledge is an inch deep and four miles wide. He’s comfortable with this fact because he knows that deep knowledge about any topic is a clever keystroke away.
I would seriously appreciate, if prospective clients and employers shared this perception. I think, he is completely right with this. After more than 25 years in IT, do you think, that any module in Lisp, Perl, Ruby, or whatever is slightly close to rocket science? -
how to test procmail rules?
This may sound utterly silly, but within all these years, that I have been using procmail, I never came around to find a way of testing procmail rules other than by testing them in production for my incoming e-mail. The problem is, procmail gets called through sendmail and they deliver the messages. If I resend messages, sendmail changes the Return-Path header field, on which my rules are based. All other relevant looking header fields can get tweaked and faked, Return-Path seems alright (???).
I’ll try to find out on the procmail list, ie. on http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail .Update / 2010-12-26:
Setting “VERBOSE=on” within your .procmailrc shows a lot of helpful output.
Yes, a message, that my .procmailrc does not deal with, as I think it should, must get copied to another IMAP folder; from there I copy it back to the IMAP folder, which I direct fetchmail to. I can repeat that endlessly, until I find out what’s going on. Maybe that also works somehow with formail, but I haven’t figured that out yet.
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a recruiter asked for some changes in the style of my CV, and I changed the XSL stylesheets
Quite a couple of years ago I picked up xmlresume as my way of maintaining my CV.
A while ago I had to recognise, that xmlresume should be regarded vaporware nowadays. I started looking around, considered to migrate to HR-XML and its CV resp. profile style, but that didn’t really convince me either.
In the course of the changing economical situation I decided to regard XSL no longer as rocket science. It’s not more powerful that attribute grammars in compiler construction, so why should it be more complicated?
So now together with the pressure of that recruiter I dared to have a look into xmlresume’s XSL stylesheets, and I actually achieved, what I attempted to achieve:- I changed the order of per-project details,
- and also changed the indentation of the project period,
- and all that for the FO and also for the HTML output.
I was rather satisfied with that success, and that encouraged me to also announce an XSL course quite soon.
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Sunday late evening some guy dragged me into an absurd emacs/vi/textmate war
OMG, I decided long ago not to waste any 10 seconds time on any such foolish thing, but sometimes the devil comes in disguise …
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AVM – FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390 (20002448)
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