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The Wikipedia Database Server is down. Just as I wanted to submit an update on the DMCA entry. People on the IRC channel pointed me to this test. I got 46 points. What’s your score?

Found via Horst. Douwe Osinga has written a nice program, that draws a map of Visited Countries.
My map looks like this:

According to the page, I have vised 4% of worlds countries. And they are all in Middle Europe :-(.
Especially I need to visit more countries from Eastern Europe. Slovakia is next door, only 60km, but i haven’t been there yet.

Spent the day with rewriting the rssfetch script.
It now uses XML::RSS::Parser which should be a lot smaller and more liberal than XML::RSS. I also replaced LWP::Simple with LWP::UserAgent, so that I can overwrite the UserAgent string :-).
Additional I tried to reduce hardcoded information, so that I can put it on my homepage one day.
Of course the new version will have bugs, so be patient.

Today I did a research on my broken trackpad. I read the Apple Support Forums. Obviously there are a lot of people with the same problems. The solution document from Apple was not satisfying.
Also the other annoyances were discussed there, like the not fitting battery and the lose left corner.

I am considering not to visit Berlin and the 20C3. The organization seems to be even more chaotic, and no interesting talks.
I could as well visit my girlfriends family in Salzburg….

Submitted my first Bugreport to Darwinports. The bug has been fixed in FreeBSD 9 months ago :-(. There is still a lot to do until they are comparable to FreeBSD ports.

Found this nice interactive Webcams of Chrismas Trees. You can switch the lights on and off via the Internet!!!!!1
Danovitch
woutermei.nl

Okay good news, got a 3 in my last exam. Now I just have to motivate myself to look into my Math and Digital Design material over Chrismas…..

Yesterday I travelled to Germany, to visit my family.
The ICE Vienna-Hamburg has new seats with more legroom. The TVs don’t show movies anymore, but only “Deutsche Bahn”-commercials and the power sockets don’t work. Additional the “Deutsche Bahn” has reduced the trainteams, so one german team drove us the whole way from Passau to Hamburg.
But well, I survived thanks to my iBook with its nearly 6 hours battery and an interesting Terry Pratchett book, “The Science of the Discworld”.
I just succeded getting a Netconnection with my iBook via the Windows98 box from my parents, which involved fighting with ZoneAlarm and Sysgate.
I already miss my ADSL line at home, ISDN is just too slow.

Talked to an old friend of mine on ICQ. Alex Deravis moved from Vienna to Switzerland a few years ago. Now she has found a new hobby: photographing airplanes. Visit www.7of9.ch to see a huge collection of airplane photographs.