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Euruko 06 T-shirts		13 Oct 06
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Stefan updated the traditional Rubychan painting for this year’s conference.

Nice piano improvisation on Forrest Gump		08 Oct 06
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Forrest Gump: That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going. When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go... you know... I went.

OSX filesystems		02 Oct 06
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Great link at kernelthread.com. I am playing with webdav in rails these days .. so I had to learn about webdav :-)

Altered Carbon

29 Sep 06

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Altered Carbon is a highly recommended SF-book.

Scientific development has always learnt a lot from SF. Maybe boody-sleeving will be next.

Download videos from youTube, Google, etc.		28 Sep 06
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Smart firefox plugin.

Average Salary of Lisp Jobs is greater than that of Java, C# or Ruby coders		28 Sep 06
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Interesting statistic. A Lisp coder earns on average $85k, while a Java-guy $76k. I wonder whether that statistic would change if one takes out the age-factor. :-) Let’s admit it, Lisp coders are on average very smart, but so are the early ruby adapters .. and they get only on average $60k. Sniff ..

Update on Euruko06

27 Sep 06

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Short update, before the conference on Nov 4 and 5.

We are still evaluating whether we should get a bigger room. Sofar we have about 30 people that confirmed that they will show up. We have space for 50 people and might simple close the conference registration once we are fully booked and overbooked by 5% like these airline companies.
O’Reilly might give a free book to every speaker. Please add to the wiki what book you want. I will send off our wish list o O’Reilly around Oct 5.
Please put titles of your talks in the wiki, so that some structure will emerge. In the worst case we do a "planing-game" at the start of the conference and quickly produce the program as we did last year.
Get-Togethers will be announced in the wiki till Friday this week.

Looking forward to see you all again this year!

Towards a more efficient computing infrastructure		27 Sep 06
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Interesting Google blog entry

What is your favourite "programming musiuc" (non-technical question)

27 Sep 06

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I came across this insane Dilbert-like posting in the comp.lang.java.programmer group.

> Hi all,

 > When you are programming, what kind of music or which song you love to
 > hear? Is it classic music, piano, or pop music? Is it by male singer or
 > by female singer?

 I don't listen to music as such; I listen to an 8-second mp3-loop of my
 manager screeching, puce-faced, at the top voice, "WTF is taking you so
 long?!?! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! RELEASE THE CODE!!!! WTF AM I PAYING YOUR
 SALARY FOR?!?! RELEASE THE F%#KING CODE, YOUR WORTHLESS, DISGUSTING,
 INTOLERABLE PIECE OF S@&T!!!"

 > I think sometime hearing music would be helpful in
 > our productivity, right?

 I find that this mp3-loop truly helps <TWITCH> my productivity. I love
 <TWITCH> my manager, and dream of him <TWITCH><TWITCH><releases safety>
 often ...

 > Regards,
 > Sam Huang
 .ed

Tyger - a great short film

23 Sep 06

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A great short film about William Blake’s poem "The Tyger".

www.guilherme.tv/tyger

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