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Acting under high pressure/stress situations

Today I read an interesting article in the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” (Ausgabe vom
21.Juni 2009, Seite 2 der Beilage “Leben”) about how young people are living
a life of high expectations and high pressure that they put themselves under,
and how this might pose a danger to society.
What I think though is that it is quite feasible and possible […]

June 21st, 2009 · Tags Rant, Science | 4 Comments »

Ponoko, no more!

This is it, can anyone imagine anything more humiliating?

I never really liked the ideas on ponoko, but this tops everything, I can no longer support this artform, ponoko I am removing you from my feed reader!

March 21st, 2009 · Tags Rant | No Comments »

Lebensweisheit

Wearing a tie without a vest is absurd!

February 28th, 2009 · Tags Rant | No Comments »

Google Chrome on Linux

Stuff that matters:

For the Linux/X11 platform both GTK+ and Qt are “native”.
That was all of the arguments I saw against Qt, and neither was convincing.
Which is fine, that’s his choice
I just don’t see why he’s having to try to make up excuses after the fact.
What do you mean “good Qt browser”?
use Opera. It’s Qt
but […]

February 16th, 2009 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | 3 Comments »

Hey Feedburner,

if you are so clever about Feeds, how come that all feeds that you process screw up my feed processing software, because all posts have the same posting time/date?

February 16th, 2009 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »

How …

… can it be entertainment, if it does not educate?

January 10th, 2009 · Tags Rant | No Comments »

Linux is a way of life, not a clone of windows

Linux is a way of life, not a clone of windows
So True.

December 24th, 2008 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | No Comments »

91 Bahnen und Lifte

17 Übungslifte, 23 Schlepplifte
22 Sesselbahnen
14 kuppelbare Sesselbahnen
14 Gondeln - 1 Schienenbahn
“Wir normen den Massen den Haß gegen landschaftliche Schönheiten an”, schloß der Direktor, “doch zugleich auch die Liebe zum Freiluftsport. Dabei achten wir darauf, daß jeder Sport den Gebrauch komplizierter Geräte nötig macht. Sie benutzen also nicht nur die Verkehrsmittel, sondern auch die Fabrikerzeugnisse. …
Lies […]

December 17th, 2008 · Tags Rant | 2 Comments »

Lieber Bellerophon,

ich würde ja gerne auf deine geistreichen Ergüsse direkt mittels der Kommentar Funktion ebenso geistreich antworten, aber leider ist es kein Spaß sich schon wieder auf irgendeiner Seite extra einen Zugang mit User und Passwort anzulegen.
Schöne Grüße
-Richard

December 14th, 2008 · Tags Rant | 2 Comments »

FUD

People behaving ridiculously stupid scare me.
Novell is a cool company doing lots of useful stuff for open source software.
This kind of Hardcore-Zealotry that these protesters push for is definitely doing more damage than good. Being a bedroom-hacker, you might be able to live up to a truly enlightened software freedom asceticism. But everyone else, still […]

November 17th, 2008 · Tags Rant, Geek Documents | 2 Comments »