Archive for February, 2005

Open source = standardized?

Monday, February 28th, 2005

In the online version of the german magazine technology review, I read an article about open source software: Finally free. When you read this article, you can arrive at two conclusions:

The writer doesn’t have a clue about open source
The writer is ideologically dazzled

You can compare open source sofware development to the car industry. For decades, [...]

Sokolovs universe

Monday, February 28th, 2005

is a book by Leon de Winter I just finished reading (actually, this is the translation of the german title - it seems this book has not yet been published in english) My book-seller recommended it to me after I told him that I like Marten t’Haart and Amos Oz.
The story is about a [...]

Closed

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Today, the web master of climbing.de, the most pupular german climbing web site, closed down the discussion groups on his page. He was no longer willing to accept the sustained misuse of some users, that use the discussion groups as their personal virtual battle field. Although it’s really sad to be no longer able to [...]

Winter passing by

Saturday, February 26th, 2005

This photo has been taken out of the train yesterday morning, somewhere in between Karlsruhe and Rastatt.

Style

Friday, February 25th, 2005

As you may have noticed, the colors of this blog are dark ones. You may have expected this if you ever seen one of my previous web pages. So increase the brigthness of your display! And don’t complain about readability: I am a fan of David Carson .

Time

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Now that I quit my current job but am still payed for quite a while, there is plenty of time to start odd projects - like having a blog.