On “censorship”
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Life, Politics, Web | No Comments »So this is about a law recently passed in Germany and more specifically about the discussion. For those not in the know: This law dictates that ISPs must block sites with child pornography on it based on a list created by ...
D4 5lan6
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Posted in Life | No Comments »Inspired by someone telling me Your speaking nerdish again here is a small table with linguistic specialities you might encounter when chatting with certain people (including me ;) ). Pattern Explanation Example +word/letter Append word/letter somewhere in the previous statement Nairolf: I can barel type today. Nairolf: ...
I hold this truth to be self-evident, that the following is only my personal opinion
Sunday, February 15th, 2009 Posted in Life | No Comments »Ok, so I'm severely annoyed by the fact that some people have pretended that their opinion is the only correct one when it comes to matters of taste. So here are some statements that I think are correct, but YMMV: Jennifer ...
YAPWMF
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in Life | No Comments »YAPWMF? What's that? Well that is my stupid acronym for Yet Another Problem When Making Friends. So this post is going to be about something I recently (tonight) though/had to think about. It's late where I am, so bear with ...
Open Discussion Day: The aftermath
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in FreeSoftware, Jabber/XMPP, Life | No Comments »As some people might have noticed, yesterday was the Open Discussion Day. On that day people are encouraged to not use any legacy IM services (see my (german) reasoning, or google for more details). Of course you should tell your ...
Social Networks
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Jabber/XMPP, Life | 1 Comment »I just watched a very interesting video of the Panel "Die Zukunft der Social Networks" from the re:publica08 conference (MP4). Here are some things I learned: social networking really is only a replacement for not being able to design/write a webpage yourself Facebook ...
Making my day
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Life | No Comments »Sometimes even idiots can make your day. I was just listening to Friedenspanzer by Die Ärzte and that moment I got a spam mail titled "More rod, more action".
Feeling down
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Life | No Comments »I originally intended to not use this blog for any personal stuff, but I have to get this from my heart right now and it seems okay and general enough to write it in this moment. Maybe I'll withdraw this ...