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  • “double taxation treaty”, that’s not the only term for it

    In English they call it

    • double tax …
    • double taxation …
    • double … agreement
    • double … convention
    • double … treaty

    So there are abbrevations like DTA and DTC.

    In German the word is Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen, and it is abbreviated as DBA.

  • yet another UMTS/HSDPA modem for my FRITZ!Boxes: ZTE INCORPORATED K3565-Z

    Vodafone had a campaign with my gym (FitnessFirst), they gave away free UMTS / HSDPA modems, and you won’t believe that: they are SIM lock and net-lock free.

    The modem presents itself to my 7270 as

    • ZTE INCORPORATED K3565-Z.

    It works fine with my 2 SIM cards (with dedicated tariffs) for use with UMTS modems:

    • one from T-Mobile
    • one from simyo

    This is my very 1st HSDPA modem, and it works with my FRITZ!Boxes – that’s great!

    Now I got one modem per SIM card, and I don’t need to swap SIM cards on my 4G UMTS modem any longer.

    Thank you, Vodafone!

  • my blogs, Facebook, Twitter, “NetworkedBlogs”

    Most things I write and that I want to share, I usually write and publish on one of my blogs.
    But I like to see them on my Facebook wall, in my Twitter stream, and also in my Buzz stream as well.

    NetworkedBlogs.com offer a Facebook application, that picks up the (new) articles on my blogs and creates resp. entries on my Facebook wall and also on my Twitter stream.

    Now the tweets, they generate also appear on my Facebook wall. That is a little annyoing. And I don’t know, how to stop this. Is it NetworkedBlogs.com, that pulls my Twitter stream onto my Facebook wall, is it Facebook itself. For sure, it’s me, who configured that somewhere at some stage in the past. But as I said: I don’t know, how to stop this.

    It’s pretty similar on my Buzz stream, but that’s not directly because of NetworkedBlogs.com. I want to have my blogs articles included there and also my tweets. But then most tweets got created from blog articles. It’s rather rare, that I write a tweet manually. I got my Buzz stream to include my blogs and also my Twitter stream. That is easy to handle.

    Sometimes I remove duplicate Facebook wall and Buzz entries, but not very often.

    I am a software developer, that’s true, but so far I have been a little lazy, and I did not create an application myself, that would smartly derive Facebook wall and Buzz entries and also tweets, avoiding redundancy. I am sure my readers get pretty annoyed by that redundancy. It’s simply, that I have no time to fight this redundancy. This is rather sad.

  • Bible (World English) – Wikisource

  • Old English Hexateuch – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Old English Hexateuch – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    First I got a little confused, as so far I have only been familiar with the term Pentateuch (Greek for five books), somehow synonymous to  Torah.

  • PDF::Extract – search.cpan.org

    http://search.cpan.org/~nsharrock/PDF-Extract-3.04b/Extract.pm

    A Perl module, that you can find on CPAN.

    I have not used it yet; this article here is only my bookmark for it.

  • PDF::Burst – search.cpan.org

    http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/PDF-Burst-1.19/lib/PDF/Burst.pod

    A Perl module, that you can find on CPAN.

    I have not used it yet; this article here is only my bookmark for it.

  • PDFsam – PDF Split and Merge

    PDF Split and Merge

    Software implemented in Java, it comes as a GUI, that calls misc. utilities. The author latest goal is to implement a web hosted version of this software.

    I have been using this software for a couple of years.

  • MP3 tags and file names

    • IMHO file names should never ever contain anything else but only “printable ASCII” characters.
    • letting music file names reflect the contents is sometimes just too much work, so sometimes I abbreviate them to just the track number

    I just came across some Glenn Gould albums, and now the file names all look like 99.mp3. I first tried something better than that, but that was just PITA and I stopped it. I did improve and clean the track names themselves though. Maybe they are too long for the iPod now, but they display well in iTunes.

  • RCS vs. Apache Ant – **/*.java vs. RCS/*.java

    Looks like the exclude tag also works well within the javac tag.

    I like having at look at Roseanne Zhang’s “questions and answers on Apache Ant” now and then.

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