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While driving through Austria we got blocked by …

Well – at least some them have recognized our intent – otherwise I would not have been able to write this.

If all people would live on earth as much as the Germans, we would need the resources of three planets.

Said in the German broadcast Monitor (07.01.2010).

Germans take much resources — and there are other countries “outperforming” us. Nevertheless every well situated people have to make at least one short step towards a sustainable life.

We are the World!

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Said by Rich Cook.

Alexander found a BBC news about how bad skilled programmers can cause global warming. Obviously we need a global warming bug tracker!

… handling mysterious error messages:

1. Delete the object being the root of your problem and…
2. Create a new object having the same properties like the previosly deleted one.

It is quite impressive how people build houses in a big city in germany…

© by Google Maps

A typical “tweet” is highly compressed irrelevance – 140 characters the world don’t need but served in real time.

(freely translated from German)
by Ulf J. Froitzheim in Technology Review, 3/2009, P. 86

While preparing our relocation which will take place in October I am currently tidying the shelves in my flat from outdated computer magazines. I found some loose pages from the (in the mean time abandoned) magazine “PC-Heimwerker”, issue 3-96. They contain a lot of transcribed paper mailings from users to other users – helping each other…

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I am back in the year 2008 – asking my self: “Why did I have kept the pages?” … Probably because of an article about Bresenham’s line algorithm in 16-bit-assembler(!).

Using search engines, news groups, forums or mailling lists  on a daily basis – life has become so easy…

OpenOffice improves the spelling of the German word “Nudelsalat” (pasta salad) significantly…