Archive for November, 2006

Google Scholar

Google, everbody’s darling these days, has released a few really good and a few rather nasty web products (i especially distaste the whole GMail-Crap, its intrusive, its unsecure, it does not have that many features. Just get an IMAP-Account somewhere and use whatever client you wish, and don’t have your emails scanned and indexed…). Google [...]

It’s me, Mario!

Hammer Bus. Heute auf dem Weg von Vaals nach AC, mit viel zu viel Kaffee und Dosenbier auf dem Rücksitz ;).

Halli Hallö Umlaute

Meine Umlaute unter xorg funktionieren wieder. Yeah. Nun muss ich mir nur noch angewöhnen in deutschen Texten auch wirklich welche zu benutzen (das mit der Kommasetzung ist auch noch “suboptimal”). Egal. Wie ich das ans laufen gekriegt hab war eigentlich sehr einfach. In der ~/.Xmodmap einfach folgendes eintragen: keycode 113 = Mode_switch Multi_key keycode 39 [...]

Useful Firefox-Add-Ons

Ive found out what’s been causing my Firefox 2.0 crashes. It was the really helpful “Session Manager” Add-On, which hasnt been converted to Firefox 2.0 yet. I hope it will be soon. Anyway, ive a handful of different add-ons which id like to share with y’all: Hit-A-Hint which enables you to browse pages and links [...]

Much better now, thanks

So, i think i found a theme which really fits my current taste. Its nice and dark, not cluttered, has a lot of space for the weblog’s content (instead of just one thin column) and of course it looks very web-2.0-ish. Anyway, i dont think many people visit my site anymore, too bad, but oh [...]

Things that piss me off

Right now those would be: This weblog’s theme Firefox 2 crashing every 10 minutes (like in the middle of this very sentence, i suspect the flash player plugin) People trying to convince other people that Macs are great (im through with that, at least from the software point of view) The weather being freezing cold