Sunday, July 10, 2011

Google+ and / vs. Google Buzz

How do they think, these two will co-exist? What's really the difference between Posts and Buzz?

They don't even support the import of my my blog RSS / atom feeds (AKA syndication feeds)

Saturday, July 9, 2011

somebody without caller ID tried calling me at 20:15 on Saturday night and gave up – somthing I hate terribly

I actually preferred, if my telephone system wouldn't tell me that. Why don't they have such an option? I would even love it, if my telephone system would tell callers without caller ID, to call again later with caller ID and that calling me without caller ID is (technically) unacceptable.

Update 2011-09-09 23:41 :
Happily identified ;-)

Thursday, July 7, 2011

early return from my holiday

That b*tch was far too stressful + manupulative + authoritarian.
German? Hmm, yes, with these qualities what else?

Lesson learned – hopefully.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

off for h-o-l-i-d-a-y (AKA holiday)

I am still not sure, whether I am going to survive this holiday because of massive nearness anxiety (in German: "Nähescheu") :-)

I hope,  my target area will not be within one of T-Mobile's white spots, otherwise: disaster mode.

For son#2 (who is going to serve as company as well) I hope, we will have a few sunny days with as few mosquitos as possible. I do take almost all possible mosquito protection with me.

how do I point my iReport to a JasperServer?

On OS X: Window > JasperReports Server Repository.
In the Repository Navigator there is an icon with a "+" (white on green) with the hint text "Add new server".

Building Web Apps for Google TV - O'Reilly Media

Building Web Apps for Google TV - O'Reilly Media

ISO extends PDF/A standard for long-term archiving - The H Open Source: News and Features

ISO extends PDF/A standard for long-term archiving - The H Open Source: News and Features

GNU Awk gets major tune up in version 4.0.0 - The H Open Source: News and Features

GNU Awk gets major tune up in version 4.0.0 - The H Open Source: News and Features

Browser market share sees Chrome growing, Firefox stalled - The H Open Source: News and Features

Browser market share sees Chrome growing, Firefox stalled - The H Open Source: News and Features

TextMate: I finally purchased a license

TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X

I call it "The MacroMate Commercial Emacs for Mac OS X".

Why did I spend the money today? Jan L. SQL application on OS X better interacted with TextMate than with GNU Emacs, and don't bother whose fault it is.

Time was simply ripe for this decision. I never seriously needed TextMate before, but as for GNU emacs Mac OS X is not really the main platform, occasionally you reach points, where you prefer more perfection, and at least on OS X TextMate is a reliable and also feature rich text editor.

TextMate Blog » Tabbing Shortcuts on Mac OS X

TextMate Blog » Tabbing Shortcuts

TextMate: Forward Incremental Search

That's emacs's isearch-forward, and for both the keyboard shortcut is C-s.

is it worth migrating from Blogger to WordPress?

WordPress 3.2 brings Zen editing to blogging - The H Open Source: News and Features

Google recently announced to discontinue Google Health.

Having this in mind, shouldn't I migrate to more reliable services on a long-term basis for my blogging and address DB platfoms?

Google Health discontinued by 2012-01-01

Official Google Blog: An update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter

Microsoft HealthVault

Microsoft HealthVault

They only allow registrations from the U.S. and the U.K., and they check  your IP address, and your location within your Live or Facebook or OpenID profile. I ran out of time faking all this (right now), but I definitely will occassionally, as I do want to have such an account in order to upload my Google Health CCR profile and maintain my health data online.

Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard - Medpedia

Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standard - Medpedia

Skype and concurrent logins with multiple

I love using Skype IM from within Adium. As "everybody" knows, that needs the Skype utility to run itself in the background, and just with Skype itself you can only have exactly one login on a "Desktop" (Desktop session per computer). So if you want to be available for your friends and family throughout your awake time (i.e. also at work) with one Skype ID, you must also allow business contacts to make use of exactly this Skype ID. But then business contacts will also attempt to contact you during off-office hours, and you will have uncomfortable situations during evenings and weekends, if you are not able to serve them as requested.

So Skype / Microsoft are kindly asked to support such concurrent logins. You can have concurrent MSN / XMPP / … logins, so why not concurrent Skype logins?

Sunday, July 3, 2011

FLV, MP4, 3GP, VOB, WMV Player - Final Media Player

FLV, MP4, 3GP, VOB, WMV Player - Final Media Player

A nice utility to watch downloaded Flash files.

jaspersoftstudio : JasperForge

jaspersoftstudio : JasperForge

From JasperForge.org/projects/jaspersoftstudio:
Jaspersoft Studio is a new, free, open source report designer for JasperReports. A full rewrite of iReport on top of the Eclipse platform.

movie2k.to – the replacement for kino.to

Watch movies online for free movie download at movie2k.to

apress.com: Beginning Relational Data Modeling

Beginning Relational Data Modeling



ISBN13: 978-1-59059-463-6

They don't let me register my paper book, so that I can order the companion e-book for just USD 10.

Learning UML 2.0 - O'Reilly Media

Learning UML 2.0 - O'Reilly Media

UML 2.0 Pocket Reference - O'Reilly Media

UML 2.0 Pocket Reference - O'Reilly Media

got it as paper and as e-book

O'Reilly Media book: UML 2.0 in a Nutshell

UML 2.0 in a Nutshell - O'Reilly Media

got it as user paper book,
still want it as e-book