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My blog has a face
27. April, 2010
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New theme
31. March, 2010The old theme was getting, well, old. How do you like the new one?
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At the restaurant
22. December, 2009After having been served a soup, the patron calls the waiter: “Please try the soup.”
The waiter is alarmed: “I will return it to the kitchen immediately!”
“No, no!” The patron shakes his head. “Please try the soup.”
W: “Is it too hot?”
P: “No. Please try it.”
W: “Too salty?”
P: “No. Please try it.”
W: “Is the taste not to your liking?”
Patron is getting irritated: “No. Just try it, will you?”
The waiter is confused and bends down, pauses. “Where is the spoon?”
Patron: “Ah!”
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Adopt a line of code!
24. November, 2009Why spend all your hard earned money on on-line porn when you can have an offspring by adopting a line of code?
Here are the three latest additions to my family:
Dobalina Digulla:
Oliver Digulla:
Maurizio Digulla:
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20K on SO
16. October, 2009Finally, 20’001 points on SO 🙂
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Two Jokes
6. August, 2009Announcement from [your-favorite-dictatorship-of-the-week]:
After years of scientific progress, we finally managed to turn a wagon load full of human waste into butter. A great day for our country and the whole world. Next, our scientists plan to work on the color and the taste.
A man suspects his mother-in-law trying to poison him. To confront her, he feeds the lunch to his dog. The dog drops dead instantly. The man, mad with rage, stabs the mother-in-law to death. As he stands over the corpse, breathing heavily, the dog jumps up and barks: “YES!”
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Infinity
23. July, 2009Every now and then, I stumble over something awesome. Infinity is a MMO a bit like EvE Online but attempting to avoid most of the mistakes. If the game is as great as the images, we’re in for a real treat.
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Taking Security Seriously
16. July, 2009Security of todays operating systems is slowly getting better, meaning that it becomes more and more hard for some fraud to get your credit card number by asking your computer. Asking the person in front of the computer still works. But I digress.
On the DailyWTF is a report how the military handled the problem.
While the idea to actually carry vulnerable parts of the computer away when someone not trustworthy comes close, the solution is really what the military is all about: Make it work, no matter what might go wrong. And be creative about what could go wrong but take the most simple solution (which is the main difference to geeks: we almost never pick the most simple solution).
Which also explains why they clipped parts away from the printouts: Just blackening them might be undone (just holding the paper against the light might be enough) but data, that isn’t there, can’t be abused.
A pity that this simple idea is shunned today. Instead of collecting as little data as possible for a job, as much data as possible is hoarded.
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10K on StackOverflow
20. May, 2009Just a little celebration that I finally reached 10K on SO 🙂
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Akaelae
28. November, 2009Don’t ask me how to pronounce that, I have no idea. Akaelae is a web-comic by Tiffany Ross. It’s one of those rare gems that warm the heart (and not only by raising your adrenaline level). If you like Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo or Elfquest, you’ll live this, too. It’s the story of a couple of childhood friends that get in all kinds of adventures at school, home, even space. The focus is rarely on the action but on the emotions and reasons of the characters. It’s about how people can hurt each other and how they deal with it. Here is an example: Darrik, a young, lonely black fox is moving to a new room and wants to say goodbye to a shy albino fox that’s living on the same floor. During the chat, she tells him that the wolves are only keeping them to sell them as slaves later. Which is why she is refusing to take the proficiency tests.
Darrik is confused. “Then aren’t you useless to them? If they’re running a slave trade? Wouldn’t they just sell you instead of feeding you, giving you clothing, art supplies, medical attention?”
Conclusion: Buy. You can find the whole story in the archive or support the starving artists by buying her books as PDF downloads over Lulu.
If you get confused with the characters and the names, visit the ComixPedia page: “The Cyantian Chronicles“.
Note that the Cyantian.net site has some technical difficulties (like images not showing up) now and then, but Tiff is always quick to fix that. Drop her a polite note if something lingers for more than a few days.
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