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  • Facebook does (not) import my Google Buzz public feed

    First it didn’t, what surprise 😉

    Update / 2010-06-23 17:00:
    Works now.

    I actually first tried that through Import an External Blog“, and you can only name there a single one. But they seem to reject that because of some details in the XML, that they don’t like 😉
    But you can always use NetworkedBlogs for more letting other streams like blogs and whatever RSS feeds flow into “your” Facebook (wall).

  • some old funny Python anti-Perl and Ruby anti-Python propaganda

    Have you ever come across this

    this piece of Python anti-Perl propaganda
    ? The article that referred to it is actually Ruby propaganda and dated 2004-07, so that anti-Perl propaganda is even older than that. The Ruby now found a followup. Look and enjoy!

    By any chance: isn’t there any gifted artist around, that the Perl community can make use of in order to create some Perl-minded stuff?

    Update / 2010-08-05:
    In response to my re-share here more sweet perl vs. ruby vs. python propaganda got created by Mark Keating:
    http://mdk.per.ly/2010/06/25/propaganda/ :

  • debugging my .procmailrc

    It’s usually not really big fun, if you find a message like this in your procmail log file: “procmail: Missing action“.

    Well, I don’t yet know of a procmail syntax checker, which is rather a pity, so the debugging is of a dynamic kind.

    Just add “VERBOSE=on” in the beginning of your .procmailrc, enjoy the flood of “procmail: No match on …,”, and find your “procmail: Missing action” occasionally in the middle of it. You found the corrupted rule then. The rule in question might actually be a very rarely used one resp. one pretty at the end of your .procmailrc, so it may take a while resp. a couple of incoming mails, until it gets used and shows up.
    Once you found and corrected the offender, I am quite sure, you will remove “VERBOSE=on” very quickly.

    Update 2013-01-07:

    This article attracted far too much SPAM, so I had to disable commenting.

  • FIFA worldcup on my Google Calendar

    I just wanted to add the games to my calendar, now there are so many game events in my calendar, that I don’t really see anything any more. And as there is one calender per team (and I only selected a couple of teams), it’s not even easy to see the calendar wi/o FIFA worldcup. What a mess! 😉

  • correcting red eyes on pictures

    Looks like Picasa 3 for Windows seems to be the appropriate tool
    for
    doing that. Free and easy to use — these reasons are good enough for
    me.
    Update / 2010-06-22:
    Alright, alright, I can simply use iPhoto on OS X for that. Silly me!
    Did quite a few snapshots, uploaded them to the relevant places …
    Life seems to be far easier with the right tools, i.e. on a Mac, esp. if it’s running a Unix derivate …

  • to proselytize

    For those, that don’t trust me (again), that there is no such word: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proselytize . For some reason I prefer this word over the similar http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evangelize . Right, they don’t actually show the some progress of the process (ROTFL!!!), but they go to the same direction.

    @szabgab: I had to think of you and p-e-r-l, when I wrote this. (Using the dashes, so this article does not get picked up by the “respective” blog article grabber, as szabgab occasionally is soooo embarrassed over what I say.) In German we also have the phrase “Proselyten machen“, which in this context sounds really, really funny – therefore ROTFL.

  • a new wonderful book on DocBook by Norman Walsh: “DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide”

    Norman is an excellent writer, and it’s good fun reading his books. If you are interested in DocBook, then get this book:

    http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449389604 = DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide – O’Reilly Media

    I purchased the PDF recently from O’Reilly, and I just printed a single page for a friend, who looks like being my newest DocBook proselyte.

  • duplicating a tab in Firefox

    Came across this recently whilst browsing one of those magazines.
    What would you need this for?
    Well, if I have my Google Mail Contacts open and I want to write a message to one of my contacts, but I also still want to keep … Contacts open – you never know, how long it takes to complete a message, but you still want to be able to look up contact details – then at least I need it.
    On OS X you drag the tab to another place with the mouse or whatever and the Alt key pressed. On Linux and Windows it’s the Control key instead.

  • using curl for “streaming” Flash movies into a file on your hard disk




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