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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa

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- Belated: "Merry X-Mas!"

  I hope all of you geeks out there had a contemplative and cheerful X-Mas!
  Because my parents net connection os borked I did not have the chance to get
  online over the christmas days and sadly will not be online much time in the
  next days. Because of this, I wish all of you nice hop into 2005! Cheers! :)

- Enhancing firefox... -2-

  Seems like I currently have an affection for continuations. After the sequel
  to my entry "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM" now a sequel for a much older
  entry follows.

- Call for papers: Linuxtag 2005

  As usual, the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Germany, will take place in June next
  year (22nd - 25th). This time, it's the anniversary 10th Linuxtag. Since
  yesterday Linuxtag expects talk proposals from open source developers on
  topics around the free operating system and other open source projects.
  Until now the call-for-papers website is German ony, which will change in
  the near future, I guess.

- Call for protest: Against software patents

  That's the original text of the announcement of Linus, Michael and Rasmus,
  which I pratly stole to quickly setup a protest webpage for the following 2
  days. All entries for my website (main, blog & gallery) now show that page
  by default. If anyone likes to, please just download it and upload it to
  your website. It should more or less work with any PHP driven site (using
  index.php as the index page).

- Linus Torvalds and Rasmus Lerdorf call against software patents

  Linus Torvalds and Rasmus Lerdorf call against software patents

- The hell on earth...

  It's really horrible. I moved my home last weekend from Schwalbach to
  Darmstadt and calculated to be offline for about 1 or 2 days. Indeed, I've
  been more or less offline for 1 week now, because of some technical issues
  in my new home.

- More Gmail spam

  Those Gmail invitations really become a kind of spam. If anyone needs any,
  feel free to mail me on schlitt at gmail dot com to ask for one... There are
  still 5 of 6 left.

- Trackbacks everywhere

  I fully agree with Sebastian who wrote in "On Blogs, Portals and Conference
  Websites" about something which I would count to the category "semantic
  web". Sebastian says, it would be a good idea for (e.g.) portal websites to
  implement trackback APIs. The benefit for you is to be able to comment on a
  story of that portal in your own weblog.

- Back in action

  Yeah, true, to begin with, I'm back from vacation and holidays. Although
  I've another month of spare time, I returned to Frankfurt yesterday. Surely
  I will take some more time at my parents home during the upcoming month for
  some more relaxing and meeting with all of my old friends. Nower days I have
  to take care on some issues here in Frankfurt, like moving to Darmstadt and
  maybe some freelancer job for my study time.

- Liking regular expressions, loving regular expressions

  During my vacation I finally found time for some literature and read the
  book "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl. I first saw
  that book while grubbing around on Amazon and I got a glimpse of it, when I
  visited Arnaud in Paris. The latter experience finally convienced my to buy
  it and I can say: It really was worth it.