Archive for 2006

  • Favorite x of the year: s/x/Star Trek book/

    During the last week you probably saw dozens if not hundreds of posts about what various people thought were the best things in 2005. Since the year now officially ended I also want to be part of this series ;) So let's start with books. Ok, this category is probably mis-titled since all I read or some technical and many many Star Trek books, so I think it's better to call this category "Star Trek books". This is about books that I read this year and doesn't necessarily mean, that they were released in 2005 ... just wanted to clarify this ;)

    This decision is quite hard since I read many great books starting with the "A time to..." series and also the SCE paperbacks, as series that I really started to love esp. thanks to the completely new set of characters. Then Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin wrote two books about the new command of former Enterprise's first officer William Riker: The U.S.S. Titan, which really suprised me with its mixed up crew and old and new friends.

    During the summer holidays I needed some books for my trip to Denmark , a time were I read most of the "A time to..." series and also the "Homecoming" miniseries telling the story of what happened when the Voyager finally came home.

    Star Trek Books: Books read in 2005

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    2006/01/01 at 19:37:39

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    2006/01/01 at 22:44:41

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  • SPAM in the VIM tip archive

    Argh... now spammers have also found the VIM tip archive for their dirty work. I just hope that this won't happen on a regular basis otherwise Scott Johnston will have to re-think adding some spam protection.

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    2006/01/01 at 22:45:55

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  • Favorite x of the year: s/x/Podcast/

    I'm still quite new to the whole podcast stuff, but started to enjoy my daily audio feed. I have to admit that I barely have time for 2 or 3 podcasts per week since I still also want to listen to some music on my way to work or to the university. So what podcasts to I currently have in my iTunes subscription list?

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    2006/01/01 at 23:03:06

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  • Virgin learned nothing from SonyBMG drama?

    Seems that way. According to http://www.netzpolitik.org/2006/virgin-rec-kopiert-sonybmg/ Virgin appears to be putting some auto-install stuff on the current Coldplay CDs.

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    2006/01/03 at 06:07:56

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  • First Star Trek books of the new year

    Today I got my first Star Trek books for the new year: First the new Star Trek:Titan book "Orion's hounds" and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "The Lives of Dax". I can barely wait to start reading each of them - I haven't yet decided though which will be the first - but first I want to play a little bit around with Drupal ... partially to get me away from Amazon.com to not order more books ;)

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    2006/01/04 at 22:49:57

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  • How to build yourself a MAMP environment

    I normally have a server somewhere standing here which I use as my development environment for all webbased stuff (with a focus on PHP/MySQL) so I had not yet the pleasure to install a *AMP system on my new Powerbook. But a few days ago I was at the University and simply wanted to do some minor testing, but couldn't becasue my server was at home and behind some other machines and firewalls. So I decided to give it a try and install a MAMP system (MacOSX Apache MySQL PHP ;) ) on my laptop which should offer only the real basics. I don't need SSL here because the whole thing should only be available from localhost. OK, there is for example XAMPP for MacOSX which is ... kind of outdated. And since I don't really fear the shell (actually I decided to get a Mac instead of giving Windows a try again after 5 years of Linux because I could have a full UNIX system in the background with all its shell magic ;) ) I decided to go with doing it using the source packages and not something someone else has compiled ;) In the following short article I will describe exactly what I did.

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    2006/01/05 at 21:31:19

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  • The language dilemma

    As all of you should have noticed by now: English is not my native language and I somehow doubt that I'm even good in it. So why do I blog in it? Quite simple: Whenever I search the web for information I'm looking for articles written in German or English simply because I can't read anything else.

    And this has also become my main motivation for writing my weblog in English. This way I can reach much more people ... not that my content is really that intersting but anyway. But this approach also has its downside, esp. for me: I'm far better in expressing myself in my native language (who isn't?) and I often think twice before I write a new post in English simply because it's not as easy for me as writing the same post in German would be. Sometimes this might be a good thing since it's like a filter pushing some crap back into the queue, but sometimes not.

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    2006/01/05 at 23:41:16

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  • Wordpress 2.0: The Love or Hate edition

    It's strange. Normally when a new version of a web application enters the net you see basically a general opinion about it. With Wordpress 2.0 you get both, good and bad reviews judging from what perspective the reviewer looks upon it.

    When I first tried it, I actually found nothing really special about it. Good, it had TinyMCE integrated, it has the upload form now directly under the posting textarea and other neat stuff, but nothing that I thought would be useful for my own blogging needs and habits. Then I suddenly really liked the TinyMCE integration and the upload feature just to disable it altogether just a few days later.

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    2006/01/06 at 09:07:19

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  • valthorens.com's German website

    Allan Odgaard just wrote in a mail on the Textmate mailinglist that he will be on vacation in the Val Thorens ski region in France and also provided a link to their homepage. This ski region is between France , Italy and Switzerland (on the French side of the border). It seems to be quite nice there but this isn't really my reason for writing all this. Well, I entered the german website and found quite a lot typos and error in the translation. So I did something I will probably start doing everytime I come across faulty translations: I picked some subpages and started to look for typos and wrote a list of them. Since burrying something like that somewhere under all that snow out there won't help anyone, I also mailed this list though the contact form.

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    2006/01/06 at 22:02:43

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