Swiss RFID Referendum: Nearly There!
We’re nearly there, but the referendum against biometric Swiss passports is still lacking 4′500 signatures, and there’s only a few days left. So if you haven’t printed, signed, and sent in a signature sheet yet, please do so now!
In short, again, the reasons why I think biometric passports as per the current proposal are not [...]
Twilight Imperium – Stop Motion Experiment
First off, sorry for doing this to you — it’s an experiment, and I’m not quite sure if it’s of any interest whatsoever for anybody except myself
If however you’re interested in Twilight Imperium, this little 2:19 movie that shows an entire game of it might be of interest for you (music probably not [...]
Good Old Games, Beta Launched
Yay! I was watching Good Old Games for some time now, was always looking forward to it since I first saw it. Today, I got the beta access key, a reason to rejoyce and share
First off, it’s awesome because you find games you always wanted to play but never found time to, then [...]
Installing LyX (LaTeX) on Windows Vista
So inspired by this blog post (German) and the therein linked, not uninsightful comment about how stupid Office text processing (and how awesome LaTeX) is, and generally being a friend of OSS, I decided to jump the gun and install something to that end.
Now, looking for reasonable GUIs (because I’m just too old to hack [...]
Cat Content!
It’s an utterly lazy weekend, and I so totally don’t feel like finishing the two more profound posts I have in the pipeline, or in fact doing anything productive (although I should).
So, here’s a little something to sweeten up your weekend as well: The ninja cat.
In all honesty, I forgot where I saw it first [...]
Help! Terrorists in World of Warcraft!
Avast, me hearties! I played me fair share o’ World o’ Warcraft, enough t’ know ‘t’s incredibly addictive, an’ enough t’ know ‘t’s nay good fer me when I do. Which, I guess, won’t avast me from tryin’ ou’ Wrath o’ th’ Lich King an’ th’ new Davy Jones’ locker Knight class anyway when ‘t [...]
Ste’s Self-Defense Blog
If there is one of my friends that deserves the title “martial arts guru”, it’s Ste – nearing his black belt in Jiujitsu, after he trained Shaolin Kung Fu for five years, with excourses in various other martial arts (Judo when he was a kid, Kickboxing, Vovinam, Capoeira, training with police instructors and some Wing [...]
Stack Overflow: Solutions for Coders
If you’re a programmer, you know the problem of solution googlability. It’s particularly prominent in mainstream languages (and one of the things I decried in my What’s Wrong with VBA series, as VBA is particularly bad in that respect); you have a problem, you google for it, unless you’re coding in a good awesome well-designed [...]
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