I spent most of the weekend reading, as I got a lot of books as birthday gifts, and didn’t had the time to read them last month.
First Haruki Murakami’s “Underground”. A book about the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo Subway by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. It is very thrillilng to read especially when you are sitting in a subway. I like the philosophising eastern, a bit depressive style of the author, I think i will try to read more books from him.
The second book was “Spies” by Michael Frayn. Although most reviewers on the Internet seem to like the book, i found it difficult to read, as it is constantly switching between an old man remembering his childhood and the young boy who lives his childhood. The story is fascinating, but the end reads like the author went out of paper.
Today I read Willem Elsschot’s “Cheese”. This is one of the most important dutch books, but i didn’t like it either. According to the reviews it should be humorous, but i was rather bored and annoyed. Luckily it was rather short.
Now the only unread book in my bookshelf is a Terry Pratchett “The Science of the Diskworld”…
Month: July 2004
What’s your favorite FreeBSD Bugtracking Software?
Currently FreeBSD developers started a bikeshed about Bugtrackingsoftware and how much GNATS sucks. Time for the first poll on this blog.
The future of Systems Research II
Bryan Cantrill article “Whither USENIX?” I mentioned here last week got a lot of feedback.
MT Bug
Today I noticed a serious MT Bug. If i delete a spamcomment and then click on SAVE instead of REBUILD the blogentry gets replaced with the spamcomment. Argh. A reason to switch the blog software…
Comment Spammers are back.
Today I had to delete 6 comments from two sources. Obviously the spammers improved their software, so that they are no longer confused by the renamed mt-comments.cgi. Now I removed the Popup Window, let’s see if this affects the number of spam comments.
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Today I got the results from my first math exam. I belong to the upper third as the average was 4.06. I can’t believe it. This must be a mistake.
My first KDE Applet
I just finished my first KDE Applet, it displays how many minutes the students in our computer rooms are allowed to surf.
I was impressed how easy it was to implement the I/O and the timer, but I am still fighting with the GUI Layout. Here are two screenshots:
I haven’t managed to use a QVBoxLayout as I originally planned, so I am using static sizes, which sucks because if the taskbar height is reduced, the QLCDNumber keeps its size. The Code is here
Are you serious?
Horst put his blogtalk paper online. Unfortunately it is written in some Word-like Wordprocessor but the content makes it up as it is interesting to read.
Quiz time…
What’s your geek decade?
| I’m A 1990s Geek |
| Cool, confident, and very powerful, you’re the sexiest geek ever! Buckle in, your decade is one hell of a ride. |
| find your geek decade at spacefem.com |
…and why can’t these Quizauthors use XHTML+CSS?
Trackback spam works
Today I looked at the stats of my blog. The most read article by far (461 hits) was this one. A really uninteresting entry about my wisdom tooth (BTW he is still happily where he belongs, in my mouth). The reason it is read so often are the two trackbacks i send to the MovableType Blog and Tima’s blog because of the MT licensing debate. Probably a lot of people wondered what my wisdom tooth has to do with the MT license. To make it clear, my teeth are not available under any license.
Second is the Wikipedia article (179 hits), where I also send a number of pings to popular blogs. The third one is the first article, who is read because of search engine hits, BSD and USB Webcams (91 hits).