From the monthly archives:

February 2004

von Beust!

29 February 2004

The polls are closed in Hamburg, and both major networks are projecting an absolute majority for Ole von Beust and the CDU. FDP and the two Schill parties have fallen short of 5%. As would be expected, ZDF is predicting a better CDU result (48-42) than is ARD/NDR (46.5-44.5) over SPD/GAL.

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Subversion

29 February 2004

Pardon me while I dance a jig in the living room. I finally got subversion working on Solaris 8. It doesn’t work out of the box, you have to know the proper incantation.

Of course, you have every right to ask what I am doing working on Solaris at 7 am on Sunday. It’s because I [...]

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Sense of Humor?

28 February 2004

PRESIDENT BUSH: “(Chancellor Schröder) has got a good sense of humor, and therefore, he is able to make me laugh. And a person that can make me laugh is a person who is easy to be with. And a person who is easy to be with means I’ve got a comfortable relationship with him.”

Since [...]

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Telemarketing for Schill

28 February 2004

As reported in the Abendblatt and personally experienced by Jimmi, Pro-DM candidate and former Judge Merciless Ronald Schill resorted to recorded telephone messages 2 days before Sunday’s election in Hamburg. It’s the first time I’ve heard of such telemarketing techniques in a German election campaign, and I imagine most voters were confused or angered by [...]

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The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story

28 February 2004

The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story

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John Kerry is a Communist Dupe.

27 February 2004

John Kerry is a Communist Dupe. And a North Korean Stooge. Which probably explains the funny hair.

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D Rex?

26 February 2004

Christopher has become a fan of the The Land Before Time cartoon film series. He particularly enjoys No. 8, with the snow and the mean ‘Dinosaurus Rex’, as he calls it.

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www.schwule-fuer-ole.com

25 February 2004

www.schwule-fuer-ole.com

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Who Should You Believe?

25 February 2004

Sunday is election day in Hamburg. If you believe the NDR, the race is neck and neck. If you believe the Springer press, the CDU has a clear lead. Mayor Beust has cancelled a TV debate with SPD candidate Mirow scheduled for this evening. Spiegel Online thinks Mirow’s Kindergarten poster made him look silly. And [...]

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BBC: Swiss hunt air controller’s killer

25 February 2004

BBC: Swiss hunt air controller’s killer Swiss police have launched a hunt for the killer of an air traffic controller who had been on duty at the time of a deadly mid-air collision in 2002.

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Blame Janet Jackson

23 February 2004

Why else would the Karneval floats in Düsseldorf show both Chancellor Schröder and CDU Leader Merkel naked as jaybirds?

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Chicago Boyz: The European “Mood”

23 February 2004

Chicago Boyz: The European “Mood”

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Burningbird: Ralph Nader: Unsafe at any speed

23 February 2004

Burningbird: Ralph Nader: Unsafe at any speed “I think Nader is closer to Bush in outlook than not. Both believe that everything boils down to corporate interests.”

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Knight in Shining Armor

22 February 2004

Christopher is set for his Fasching party tomorrow.

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The Fear Mongers

22 February 2004

Now that I’m taking the train to work, I have time to read things like an article on populism and the Bild newspaper in Die Zeit. It makes a number of good points. Bild is now the most important media outlet (Leitmedium) in Germany, having replaced Der Spiegel. True… if I were to imagine a [...]

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Let Him Run

22 February 2004

MSNBC: Ralph Nader to run for president, this time as an independent. And the Democrats have already begun to gnash their teeth. Didn’t Nader cost them the last election? Since I voted for Nader in 2000, I can answer that with no. To think otherwise is to believe that voters are dumb. They are not. [...]

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AmericanCandy.de – Sweets, Drinks, Snacks, Dips & More

21 February 2004

Via Couchblog: AmericanCandy.de – Sweets, Drinks, Snacks, Dips & More

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trainedmonkey: brian wilson is back in the studio completing smile, the followup to pet sounds

21 February 2004

trainedmonkey: brian wilson is back in the studio completing smile, the followup to pet sounds

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Four Weeks for the Cat

20 February 2004

Today concludes a 4 week period in which Mama was out of town 11 out of 20 working days, 12 if you count a day when her boss was in town and she was home only in body and not in spirit. Usually she’s gone just 2 or 3 days each month. I find just [...]

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I Have No Friends

20 February 2004

Nobody has invited me to join Orkut. But now it’s too late. My feelings are already hurt. Sniff.

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LaughingMeme: How to make a patch file

19 February 2004

LaughingMeme: How to make a patch file

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Davids Medienkritik: German-American friendship in Huntsville, Alabama

18 February 2004

Davids Medienkritik: German-American friendship in Huntsville, Alabama

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Linux rc scripts and lockfiles

18 February 2004

When I powered down one of our Notes servers running Linux last month to replace a bad drive in the RAID, I noticed that Notes was not powered down cleanly, even though we the stop script correctly set up under /etc/rc.d. Our Notes admins have various log rotation and safety commands in their server scripts, [...]

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Transblawg: Thanks to a semicolon, gays and lesbians keep marrying in San Francisco

18 February 2004

Transblawg: Thanks to a semicolon, gays and lesbians keep marrying in San Francisco

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German Engineering

17 February 2004

The tech project from hell: the German transport ministry today announced the cancellation of its contract with Toll Collect to build a satellite-based toll and tracking system for trucks. The system had been scheduled to go into operation in August 2003, less than a year after the project was awarded to the consortium led by [...]

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Fly Into Kerry

16 February 2004

Google ad seen at Wonkette, where you can get the latest scoop on Kerry’s intern. One scoop that’s not there… according to Spiegel Online she was in Nairobi to interview with the German news agency dpa.

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A Manual for Germany

16 February 2004

Via SWR: A Manual for Germany

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Tobias Schwarz, A Fistful of Euros: Reforming Germany is not just hard. It is harder

16 February 2004

Tobias Schwarz, A Fistful of Euros: Reforming Germany is not just hard. It is harder

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Fear and change

15 February 2004

Jeff Jarvis: Fear and change. I may not agree with all of his conclusions, but I do agree with his reasoning. Blaming the voters or the media or blaming anybody is not the answer. Voters are by definition always right, and if the Democrats want to beat Bush this fall, they have know what the [...]

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Square

15 February 2004

My home town in Minnesota is exactly 1 mile square, so it almost completely fits on this 1500×1500m picture from ACME Mapper (as seen at Don Park). Outside the town are just prairie fields. I spent pretty much my entire high school years within this square. (Well, not entirely… otherwise I never would have [...]

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