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Today I installed and tested the latest simicq version on my work laptop. I chatted with Henne, who went to school with me. He is currently located in Buenos Aires, Argentina were he is writing software for a bank (According to Henne there are still some left in Argentina). Before he built streets and oil platforms for an oil company in Ecuador and helped deforesting the tropical rain forest. Visit his page for nice pictures of South America

Sometimes, when I have solved an exercise or understood a proof, I think it would be fun to study Mathematics.
Sometimes I think Mathematics just sucks and that I am just too stupid to ever understand it.
At the moment the latter prevail. But maybe thats just because I am hungry, tired and another deadline is upcoming.

Okay added another feed. Godany has nice pictures of last night’s lunar eclipse. I discovered her blog through the Evil Horst’s blog and visited it from time to time last week. Second person in the feedlist that I haven’t talked to yet, neither in Real Life nor on IRC. She is living and working in Vienna.
BTW Now there 10 feeds.

Since last week my former bank was “integrated” into the Dresdner Bank.
Look at the Website and you can already see why I am looking for a new bank.
This Website is just ugly, especially the Online Banking portal. The charges will be expensive. And the service is bad too :-(. The most hilarious, they are trying to force me to use their branch bank in Munich which is 400km from Vienna.
Since all banks suck, I am looking for the one that sucks less.
I will need a preferable cheap 🙂 giro and custody account with good Online-Banking Interface that works with Konqueror and Opera.

Just in case you have come to this site looking for a stocks advisory,
I’ll start selling my Eastern Europe funds tomorrow. The russian political situation does not look promising.

I should listen to FM4 on Saturday night regulary. Today they are broadcasting a concert of Dave Gahan, the voice from Depeche Mode.
He is singing tomorrow at the Gasometer in Vienna.

Well I don’t think anybody living in Austria will read my Weblog in this hour, but just in case. Otherwise you have to listen to this Ogg-stream. FM4 is broadcasting a dZihan & Kamien (no I haven’t found their homepage yet) live concert. Great jazzy dancefloor music.

The last post for today to complete this Bloggingday points to a nice article Killing me Microsoftly with PowerPoint by Julia Keller. I have laughed a lot about the Robert Frost presentation.
I discovered it while reading about a university course about Weblogs and Powerpoint (Sorry page is in German).

RSS feeds are back again. le was guilty again. A not encoded Euro sign broke the XML-RSS perl module. Maybe I should switch the script to a less strict XML module, e.g. I found in my http log a python script that promises to manage every broken feed. While typing this topic I noticed that MT also has serious problems with encoding the Eurosign.
BTW the headline also fits to another news item from today. Jean Claude Trichet today replaced Wim Duisenberg as new governor of the European Central Bank.

Just listened to an interesting feature on FM4.
If you are planning to visit Austria check out this URL , which contains a lot of useful information how to cross the Czech-Austrian border without a visa.