geek~ NSA.gov/Kids

The NSA has it's eyes on kids. Yours? Mine?

It got me at first sight, I wish I was a kid again and wanted to work for secret service.. 

NSA for Kids

fun ~ ein zu teuer erkaufter Erfolg..

bei Wikipedia drüber gestolpert: "Von einem Pyrrhussieg spricht man, wenn man einen zu teuer erkauften Erfolg meint."

Der Name geht auf den König von Epirus zurück. Nach seinem Sieg über die Römer soll er zu einem Vertrauten gesagt haben: "Noch so ein Sieg und wir sind verloren!"

 Well, I thought this is funny, bittersweet, nevermind :)

geek ~ linux on motorola mobilephones

New website http://opensource.motorola.com from the 2nd largest mobilephone company. Item found at german website heise.

We (the hackers) now finally have unlimited access to motos linux kernels, apis and all the other good stuff. (^o^)// Eat this Nokia.

Ain't it nice, the A1200 / MING device?? Want an OpenSSH account? =P

geek ~ What font to use?

While writing my project documentation I realised that I have to choose a font for my portfolio, but don't know anything bout fonts. I am working with OpenOffice on my Win2k Box here at work -_-; The problem ist that there are a lot of M$-only Fonts, which will not render correctly on non M$ supported platforms, which is unbearable. So, where are the opensource fonts?

The Free Software Foundation has a small list of licenses.

Actually, fonts can't be copyrighted in most countries. On the other hand, who wants to use M$ fonts? There are some lists on the web, but actual info on the subject is not that easy to find or understand.

The few fonts that I could find were kinda unprofessional looking, not very promising, strangely licensed or lack features like italics or serifs.

There's one font that cought my attention, Gentium (Latin: belonging to all the nations), OpenFont licensed, defining roughly 1,500 glyphs and has a really nice face!

The umbrella organisation SIL International is a worldwide non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document lesser-known languages in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy and aid minority language development. Great! Unfortunately, SIL has been accused of being involved in moving indigenous populations in South America from their native lands to make way for exploitation schemes of North American and European oil corporations. Their religious backgroud and missionary activities are also questionable. Well, this has nothing to do with Gentium, after being released as opensource. Anyway, it won't scale well below 14 pix yet, so after testing I had to go for another alternative.

The alternative is now the Gnome Bitstream Vera Fontfamily. I couldn't find any negative Press about the Bitstream company, and I guess I can trust the choices of the respected Gnome foundation. Looking great too!

If you have more info on this peculiar subject, I would be very interested to hear about it.

fun ~ Die frechsten Überschriften aus 25 Jahren taz

Already 2 weeks old.. Anyway, this is so funny. taz is a german newspaper, propably the one I would subscribe to, if I decide to read a printed newsaper one day.

Die frechsten Überschriften aus 25 Jahren taz

For those who don't know nothing about taz, read the summary at die tageszeitung – Wikipedia

Serpico

Serpico

Die Unbestechlichen (All The President’s Men), Die 3 Tage des Condors, Der Marathon-Mann… Serpico reiht sich beinahe nahtlos in diese 70er Jahre Classics des amerikanischen Spannungskinos ein.

selm: well, sounds like a great movie, soon to be released.. :) Have a nice weekend, my boys n girls. byebye

Why I moved to WordPress

Some may remember my days at Bloglines.com/blog/selm. I wasn’t really interested in posting stuff, but hey, bloglines was my newsfeedreader of choice, and they made it really easy for me to just post stuff I thought might be interesting for ppl. Bloglines was cool and all, I sent them feedback every once in a while, and they always answered and added stuff I suggested. Except one. They have a limit of 200 items per feed. I remember returning from holidays, and some sites had more then 200 updated items. They were lost. Bloglines told me, that the 200 items limit can’t be changed, and older posts were lost. :( So, besides nice people, great newsfeedreader and everything, I had to leave Bloglines.

Some research later, I had to decide between blosxom and WordPress. blosxom is really nice, but it needs manual configuration, which I decided not to have time for right now. WordPress is very nice too, and it comes with everything preconfigured by default. Additionally, my current newsfeedreader, Gregarius, has a plugin ready that allows me to post items directly to this blog. ^^ That’s it.

WordPress and Gregarius are free, webserverbased, social, pluggable, ajaxish, and actively developed. An intimidating symbiosis.

Hi people!

For my brothers and sisters

First Post!

Nice to see you here! You know what to expect from my posts, so don't be surprised if nothing really changed. :] Have fun!!

selm