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I moved my blog to http://blog.bookworm.at . The most up-to-date RSS feed is http://blog.bookworm.at/feeds/posts/default Please... read more

What Google is thinking about me.

One problem when you make guesses about one's interests is that you can insult him by making a wrong... read more

Zooming and Drawing with Emacs

Two useful pieces of emacs lisp code I just found Firefox-like zoom in/out for emacs. artist-mode... read more

Web 2.0 in 4.31 minutes

Social software, explained in a nice 4 minute video [via Axel] read more

I remember that moment...

[via Dilbert of course] read more

java.net.URL is horribly broken. Since 1995!

The equals method in java.net.URL is so incredible broken you will not believe this. We programmers... read more

Mihi introduces Haskell

Mihi is currently publishing a series of articles about Haskell (Parts 1, 2, 3). read more

Welcome to ferrari.mind.publish, reddit

I guess for the next few hours, I could replace every "you" in my texts with "Dear visitor from reddit.com". So,... read more

Ruby, Python compared

I wrote this as an answer to "querstrom" from informatik-forum.at, who asked about opinions on ruby and... read more

Are you Sagittarius enough to work with us?

Some german company has extraodinary skill demands. This job offer looks like your typical job for a... read more

Software: So Bad, It Can Only Get Better

Software can easily rate among the most poorly constructed, unreliable and least maintainable technological... read more

Books and their Movies

Miso writes about books <> movies: In the past i quite often had discussions about whether a... read more

Dangerous integer optimization in gcc 1.4.1

Current optimizations in gcc could create severe security holes in lots of current systems. In gcc 1.4.1,... read more

Ruby reaches TIOBEs top ten

January Headline: Ruby declared TIOBE's Programming Language of 2006! The TIOBE index, which tries to... read more

Google’s gone evil?

An interesting rant about google promoting its own services above search results. Some of you might... read more


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