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intellectual property fraud
IP fraud has been a top for quite a while for me right now.
It started in the early 1990s with a rather cheeky and perky “Ph.D.-ish” colleague of mine, that rather didn’t impose too much respect and esteem on my. Once in a couple of years I am quoting that case, and that’s rather helpful for my spiritual life then.
Sometimes I’m rather confusing, who actually causes the fraud. I guess like last night. Somebody was quoting somebody else, and it wasn’t quite clear at the 1st and also at the 2nd glance, who actually removed me on purpose from the literature list. Yes, I guess, I slapped the wrong guy last night, but he deserved it anyway. I mean, he easily could have added me to the other guy’s literature list, as he must have been aware of my article on a blog, that he must be observing, because on the other hand that blog harvests that guy’s blog in turn. This is the TF case. It actually didn’t start as IP fraud case, but rather as a TP doesn’t like JH / one rough Hun doesn’t like the other rough Hun case.
That other guy from the early 1990s was a rather existential case, which eventually and after some slowly rising escalation chopped my young family in pieces, son#1 being the most concerned victim of that, which I rather regret. I regard myself as not very much vulnerable, but I guess everybody has that area, as Sigurd, the dragon killer, had it, where accidentally a leaf had covered his shoulder, and the dragon blood had not sealed his body; that’s where he eventually got killed at. I don’t think I let this little vulnerability carry me away as much, as it must have been able ages ago. Still it keeps sitting there like a little demon, and needs serious observation. As I said: I keep writing about this guy now and then, I wonder, whether I will find my peace on that during this lifetime. This is the MH case. I guess, this one actually did start as an IP fraud case. But effectively it evolved into a German style multi-front war. And it came to its then final and maximal escalation, when my then-wife preferred to go on yet another holiday to her home country; get me right: she has been keeping doing that for like 20 times a year. And that’s rather beyond any reason. So I did miss her correction and blaming then in away. I don’t think, she ever understood it that way. But I did so from the beginning of that story’s peak.
To be continued…
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starting a busy Sunday quite early with …
… brainstorming and sorting lots of ideas.
Actually I got up at like 07:00, because of an acute case of senile insomnia here on my side. I don’t suffer from that too often, just like 2 or 3 times a year. I rather enjoy a heavenly sleep, I have to confess.I had neglected my personal and company book keeping for weeks, and I couldn’t delay that for yet another day.I felt rather fresh after 2 hours of sleep, having enjoyed quite a good part of The Godfather II with son#1 last night. He fell asleep in the middle, and I decided I would be more productive w/o the movie destracting me; I only watched the movie yet another time because son#1 had sought my company for that, which I loved.
So I got up, started brewing lots of coffee, enjoyed the new shower gel, emptied the trash, and attempted to clear my mind with brainstorming and sorting lots of ideas.Once I would be able to wake up son#1, I would let him teach me Computer Aided Mind Mapping and create my 1st ever computer mind map together with him. I have been rather looking forward to that since yesterday. Son#1 has grown quite a little and started being a man, sort of in a way. I am proud on him. Not that he and/or his mother let me contribute a lot, so clearly: I’m not proud on my contribution to raising him during the last couple of years, but rather just on him as my son. Whatever… – I hope: YKWIM.A couple of minutes ago mother of son#2 called and they are going to show up here for joining us for Sunday morning breakfast, so my mind clearing time is coming to an end right now.
To be continued…
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Thomas Fahle’s article on App::perlbrew
I seriously find Thomas Fahle’s article on his own blog (see the blog imprint!) on App::perlbrew a rather good piece of work.I always appreciate, if authors have an extensive literature list, by which they show, from where they know, what they know.
I also find it rather interesting, that Thomas mentions, how important it is to use “hash -r“, and I searched the articles, he mentioned in his literature list, but it wasn’t mentioned there.To be honest with you, I assumed I wouldn’t find an article, where that is mentioned beforehand.I can actually refer you to an article, where it got mentioned on 2010-07-02:App::perlbrew – Manage perl installations in your $HOME or wherever you want
That article certainly showed up on ironman.enlightenedperl.org.Of course I can’t tell you, whether Thomas Fahle had read that article at all, and he just forget or missed to add it at the end of his literature list, and whether his advice comes out of his own professional expertise. But I just thought, I wouldn’t easily let him easily get away with this bad attitude of his.
But you now have at least two articles, where you find this good advice – so don’t you forget it!Nota bene:
I do know for sure though, that Thomas Fahle doesn’t really like the style of »the author« of that other article. You’re not suggesting I should add a comment on Thomas Fahle’s blog, telling him he might have missed an article in his literature list, are you? You might actually do so, if you think that’s a good idea.Getting carried away a little – leaving perl grounds…
Another nota bene:
I also do happen to know, that »the author« of that other article has made a similar experience back in the early 1990s: he had had a rather cheeky colleague then, calling himself a Ph.D. (gained in the U.S.S.R.). »That author« had used Finite State Machines within their company for the implementation of GUIs, not really making a secret of that. You are certainly right in that Finite State Machines are not rocket science, Finite State Machines for GUIs aren’t rocket science either, but you will probably not be able to create a long literature list for Finite State Machines for GUIs. That’s the issue.
All of a sudden then that U.S.S.R. Ph.D. mentioned Finite State Machines to their management and to their company board – and without giving any proper respect to »that author«. The name of that U.S.S.R. Ph.D. is Martin Hartwig. As usual within the GDR system than he was a very proper and very long-term member of the GDR communist party. Actually as proper, that he was able to organize a visit permit for a Western visitor to rather sacred places of the GDR research system. So presumably he wasn’t quite an ordinary member of the communist party then. You shouldn’t consider the GDR communist party as just a colorful shiver of younger European history, which didn’t create too much harm to the GDR population. O, no! The GDR communist party did actually create a lot of harm then. But we don’t want to go into detail on that here. Martin Hartwig always wanted to appear as a solid and trustworthy member of society. We doubt he is. A big “thank you!” to Thomas Fahle for giving us the opportunity to create this little shock to both these guys. It’s all about bad attitudes.Strange memories appearing at strange times. Together with more experiences of the bad kind they did cause nightmares and long lasting harsh difficulties once. And in the end they destroyed a family, and a boy grew up without a close father.
Pls excuse this author for getting carried away at times, but I guess you sort of enjoy it occasionally.
Update / 2010-07-26:
A furious commentator confused members of the GDR communist party with Russian spies. I’m not sure, whether that’s just because of a low IQ (but then low IQ guys don’t follow the ironman blog or this one) or is that out of lack of basic political education? -
THE industry calls the iPad the porn-pad, why would that be???
THE industry loves the iPad, iPad owners make THE industry’s
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The Fault Tolerant Shell
Found this through one of Yukihiro Matsumoto‘s tweets.
You know him as the co-author for The Programming Language Ruby and also as the inventor of the language itself. -
son#1 teaches me mind mapping – I’m so proud!!!
During my last conversation with my lawyer (she is cute and pretty tough, I hope she is not going to take too much money, but we are going to see; she e-mails with me and she sends me the communication with the other party as PDFs, I am amazed!!! she is a digital native!!!), I asked myself, how often I would have to explain her that situation. Afterwards it came to my mind, I should have created a mind map together with her, and just for fun I did a little research and I also involved her there. And you know what: she told me the names of the software, she has already been using. I was embarrassed, at least a little. Alright I installed Free Mind, and I am a little stuck with it.
Weekend comes, son#1 shows up again, …, I ask him, whether he know the term Mind Mapping, and yes, he knows it, I am kidding with him, asking, whether he can show me (and teach me), how to do it, and you know what: he said: yes. Yes, he will do it. That was last night or so, around our watching Godfather I.
Now today I set up an account for him on my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard (and of course he loves that, who wouldn’t, it is a hot Mac!!!), I dragged Chrome in his dock, removed a lot of the unnessary stuff there, explained him, how to use the “right mouse button” with the mouse pad and how to scroll with the mouse pad, a few things. And now he gets into that, and I am looking forward to son#1 teaching me mind mapping. I am really amazed. That will be good for the two of us.
I’ll keep you updated, watch this location!Update / 2010-07-24 18:28:
Although son#1 and son#2 are actually hard to confuse, this is actually about son#1.
Son#1 is 13 years old (he learned mind mapping at school, I guess with a teache from SW Germany as well), son#2 is 3.9 years old, I am >40.
And another thing I should add:
Whenever they started calling that sort of stuff mind mapping: one of my teachers on high-school actually taught us that sort of stuff ages ago. And I guess they also did at the Agora of Alexandria.
What a luck, this sort of stuff cannot get copyrighted!!!