“Freundschaft erlaubt einem nicht automatisch, dem anderen unangenehme Dinge zu sagen. Je näher man einem Menschen ist, desto wichtiger werden Taktgefühl und Höflichkeit.” by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I consider it a bad habit if you leave a rest of food or drink everytime you eat or drink.
I also consider a light gaming addiction to have a more negative impact on your life than any other light addiction (well don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about illegal stuff here!)
The Parkinsons Law (also revisit the “Student Syndrome”) says: You can do things quicker than you think, you mostly take a long time because you just give yourself too much time and fill the “spare time” in between with useless stuff (like writing blog articles or being on twitter). Nike translates: “Just do it“. After all, you get cought by Hofstadter’s Law after that: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
I think if you really want something, it might be worth changing yourself to get that. In fact, many people don’t want to change. The only way not to want that is to assume you’re already perfect - or out of laziness. So, is everyone lazy?
Smoking is a bad habit too. Nobody wastes more money on earth to destroy their life than smokers.
If you get followed by someone with a lot of followers on Twitter, don’t be flattered. They use scripts that follow everyone they can get and will unfollow you if you don’t follow back. In my opinion, you should follow those who have something interesting to say, not those with a big follower count.
The german government wants to censor the world-wide-web. They want to provide barriers to stop people from being able to view child-porn on the web, but we all know that this is not possible as its easy to circumvent. But given they get their laws, they may get a tool to monitor web-communications like in china in our so-called democracy. A passage for german politicians and readers (it’s in german as they might not be talking english):
Ich schlage vor, in den Routern der Politiker eine Kindersicherung (URL-Filter für Youporn & Co.) einzubauen - denn dann denken Sie vermutlich, jegliche Pornografie im Internet sei besiegt, und man müsste nicht über Netzzensur diskutieren. Etwa das diskutieren diese Politiker für Deutschland.
Ich glaube nicht dass es auch nur einen Prädophilen gibt, den die Internetsperre stören würde und dass nicht eines der ausgebeuteten Kinder durch diese Internetsperre geschützt würde. Es handelt sich hier um ein pures, geldverschwendendes Wahlkampfthema, dass lediglich dazu dienen kann, Zensur gesetzlich zu rechtfertigen. Die Kinderficker dieser Welt werden über Zensursula lachen - und der Wähler sollte das auch tun. Oder für jemanden wählen, der Geld in entsprechende Strafverfolgung investieren will. Man soll die Server aufspüren und die Täter dingfest machen! Dort muss investiert werden, spezielle (geschulte) Internetpolizei soll solche Seiten untersuchen und die Täter fassen! Eine nicht-öffentliche Zensurliste ist keine Lösung!
Well the net is full of comments about this censorship-plans. I didn’t believe they were really trying to get it to work - so I just needed to comment about this. Sorry folks, but if child-porn was so easily banished, we wouldn’t have to deal with it anyways. Its just a big buzz so they can collect the votes of everyone who doesn’t have a clue about technology (90% of people) and who hates child-molesters (99.9999%). 90% of the votes should be enough to in an election, right? And if you’re one of the 10% of tech-aware-people, couldn’t you be one of the 0.0001% too?
There’s another linkjuice-win-me-some-hardware-if-you-link-us-game for us german bloggers (sponsored by a bank called creditplus) that I’d like to take part in. If you’ll also try to win an Android G1 or a netbook, just follow the link and write a blogpost like this one. Those guys ask to write about a rather interesting but relatively unspectacular question: What would you do with 20.000€?
I think most people would get rid of some debts, buy a new car or some new furniture or a kitchen or something like that. I in fact would do the opposite: take another debt! Or to put it in other words: make my next big debt easier to afford.
Me and my girlfriend are actually searching for a flat or a house to buy, and that stuff comes with debts in ranges of 150k-200k€ … and even if you know a house costs 170k€, you’ll most of the time have to pay 10% (+17k€) for feeding the bureocrats and the real-estate agents. So I’d have to take a debt of about 187k€ if I wanted to buy a house thats worth only 170k€, and the debt for the last 17k€ is usually more risky for the banks as that money has no direct safety (say, if you died, the bank could take the house to make up for the 170k€ you won’t be able to pay them anymore, but they can’t take back their 17k€ you needed additionally). More risky debts mean higher interests, and that means it all gets more expensive.
Therefore I think I’d take that money and feed it to the real-estate-agents. Who get way too much money for the work they do anyways. The remaining money … well, I think I’d buy a kitchen and a new computer like everyone else.
Another video that demonstrates a human enhancing device that could be called an exoskeleton (the second half of the video is more interesting where they show the lifting abilities and the trial-and-error-skeletons they used before):
The possibilites of this thing should not be shown by the “pilot” lifting heavy stuff but by letting a disabled man walk. I mean what would Steven Hawking get constructed if that worked? If they show that to work, I understand that as a successful technology. Well by the way, it again shows that sci-fi films might be correct after all (think of the film Aliens and their lifting-exoskeletons).
AssertTrue(this) is a great blog. Its about programming in general and also a lot about (W)CMS-systems. The author Kas Thomas writes in a very nice way and regularily makes me laugh. I even envy his superb blog-title.
I might be writing the same stuff in 10 years - but as I’m still learning a lot, I more feel qualified to talk about little gadgets that I can understand to a reasonable extent. He blogs very actively and when I just started my feedreader and read some of his latest posts, I just needed to point your programmer’s noses to this blog.
This reminds me that I need to rework my blogroll and seperate it in something like recommendedreading, friends and just links (that link points to a very good blog too btw, just don’t try to read it without a feedreader, the design is pretty ugly).
As I’d like to win a 3rd-generation iPhone, and this might not mean a lot to anyone out there, this article is in german.
Nur mal kurz zwischendurch: Das Apple Magazin Sevenmac (inclusive Mac Community) verlost in einem Gewinnspiel iPhones der dritten Generation. Sevenmac hat eigentlich auch immer interessante Facts in Sachen iPhone parat, ihnen auf Twitter zu folgen oder den RSS-Feed zu abonnieren macht daher Sinn, wenn man sich für sowas interessiert. Da dieser kleine Blogbeitrag zur Teilnahme reicht und ich (wie ihr wisst) auf das iPhone stehe, nehme ich teil. So kommt meine Freundin vielleicht auch endlich mal in den Genuss eines futuristischen Telefons.
Danke Sevenmac für solche hübschen kleinen Werbemassnahmen, von denen wir evtl. sogar etwas haben :-)
After Updating to miranda-im-v0.7.18-unicode.exe I experienced ICQ send problems. Version 0.7.17 also had some quirks, therefore I moved back to v0.7.16 … this solved the problems.
