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  • an X-Windows GNU emacs on Mac OS X

    Is there any such beast?
    The emacs, that comes with Leopard’s X11 optional package, seems to be an alphanum only one.
    To be continued …

  • the Latin word “vindicare” and its descendants like “revanche” and “vengeance”

    I was recently communicating with “somebody” on a revanche-seeking person,
    and “somebody” was creating the German word vingativ from the Portuguese word vingativo.

    It actually took me a moment to find out, what it really means and where it derives from. Initially I had not clue at all, to be honest.

    The English wiktionary entry on revanche did not help at all,
    but the French one on vengeance
    and the Portuguese on vingar did.
    They both refer to the Latin vindicare (which is actually a pretty empty entry),
    but that word in fact means going to justice (maybe somebody wants to replace this English phrase).

    So that word made quite a way from going to justice to do-it-yourself justice, didn’t it? What dou you think?

  • I trust Tagged

    There has been some news today that NY’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo will sue Tagged for doing bad things like identity theft.

    I do care about my informational identy and privacy,
    but I frankly want to tell everybody,
    I have got not worries WRT this and Tagged.

  • the english hazard vs the portuguese azar

    both the english word hazard
    and the portuguese word azar
    sounded so similar to me, when I first heard that word used by my Love,
    so that I considered them to mean the same.
    that’s incorrect, as I had to find out very soon,
    when we looked up the dictionaries on Sunday evening.
    what a time for looking up dictionaries?
    but what else would adults do beyond 23:00 on Sunday evenings?

    but me being a little strongheaded I finally found out,
    that both words go back to the same root,
    which is the arab word “az-zahr” resp. “al-zahr” meaning “the dice”.
    weird, isn’t it?!? same root, opposite meanings. wow.

  • Asus developing Android netbook




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  • Kurt Cagle’s article “Tech Nomads”

    Perhaps you consider yourself to be a tech nomad,
    perhaps your friend is one,
    you will find this article worth reading.

  • a weekend away from Berlin

    The customer’s project (the little lightweight green car) is a little delayed, and the boss wanted a few guys including me, to spend some time on Saturday on fixing a few problems and adding a few minimal features.

    The customer’s site is 400km away from Berlin,
    the family (version 2) is actually currently traveling in Brazil,
    so I spend the weekend in that fabulous town in Western Germany,
    facebooking, office working,
    listening to Frank Sinatra’s music,
    shopping, working out in the gym,
    chatting with Rolf,
    …

    Actually, that music is copyright-cleared, I think,
    so if anyone is interested in it,
    I can put the MP3-s on a disk attached to my router,
    and you can download it from there.

    My friends know how to contact me,
    and I am quite willing to give away the appropriate URL.

    Can you imagine,
    that Frank Sinatra’s music is quite in conflict with pidgin, the instant messenger?
    Well, both of them use harp chords,
    So I keep wondering, who is entering and/or leaving …

  • a recent book acquisition: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

    You can’t avoid coming across Git these days,
    so instead of closing my eyes before it,
    I decided to better get involved.
    I used PragProg’s 5 years anniversary discount coupon for purchasing the PDF.

  • a recent book acquisition: Programming Amazon Web Services

    My main Internet provider is quite good at certain services,
    and they provide with that awfully nice IMAP server;
    they even allow me to run procmail with my own rules to sort my e-mail into IMAP folders.

    I made terrible experiences with them,
    when I made some Rails experiments.
    Essentially with ruby and its GEMs as well as with perl and its CPAN
    you need to be able to run a C compiler yourself in order to get those nice modules built.
    They don’t allow me to run a C compiler there,
    so I was searching for a different solution.

    Sooner or later I came across this book,
    and with its help (and also with openSUSE 11.1’s new features)
    I want to set up my openSUSE EC2 image.
    My ideas go towards Catalyst (the perl MVC framework),
    a web presence for my girl friend, who is a fine arts professional,
    and of course a few web sites for my own purposes …

  • a recent book acquisition: Building Embedded Linux Systems

    I am quiet curious to use busybox in one of our cars,
    or just to understand better, how I can make advanced use of the busybox in my DSL router.