Archive for April, 2008

Repository of the human kind

On April 28th, 2008 15:14 • In Ranting • By Oliver
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While playing around with my subversion repository it occured to me. If “female” is a branch (codename: Eva) of the “male” trunk (codename: Adam)… but was never merged back… “male” must be the latest stable version of the project human. This unstable version status of the female branch sure explains a lot. Oh sure, it [...]

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Comment Spam

On April 11th, 2008 10:02 • In Uncategorized • By Oliver
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Oh, this is something new. Comment spam is getting a little more creative. Now it insults people and is posted with more than just one line. If they’d just use less obvious mail addresses, website urls and use a few words from the context to make it seem like it would be actually on topic, [...]

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Petition: Stop Dr. Uwe Boll (and more of that kind)

On April 8th, 2008 17:46 • In Entertainment Media • By Oliver
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Uwe Boll will stop making (crappy) (game derivated) (horror) movies (like Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege, etc) if 1.000.000 (one million) sign against it. So, by all means, please sign the petition! I’m already scared of the AitD sequel… While we’re at it, can we stop the movie industry from raping good old [...]

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Different approaches

On April 7th, 2008 12:22 • In Uncategorized • By Oliver

Let’s say your walking down the platform at the train station to the farther end of the train and you wonder if you can make it there before the train leaves. My approach: I see a service wagon in front of train. It’s about to change tracks to make way. Adding some time for resetting [...]

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Abzocke in der Nachbarschaft

On April 3rd, 2008 19:22 • In Uncategorized • By Oliver

Laut einer Mail, die mir heute gestern ins Postfach geflattert ist, liegt eine Nachricht aus meiner Nachbarschaft bei einem Internetportal rum. Eine Nachricht für mich? Aus meiner Nachbarschaft? War der Weg bis zu meiner Tür oder dem Briefkasten zu weit? Oder ist das die neue Zustellmethode der Post, um einen Alternativplan für die Streikzeiten zu [...]

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