I lately got a bit into Tiki-coding again. And when I today decided to clean up the subscriptions in my aKregator, I also quickly decided, that it's time to create a blogroll-module for Tiki. You can see it in the right column at the bottom. It takes an OPML-file from a Tiki file gallery and renders it into the output, you can see there. I plan to make it available as a Mod for Tiki, but that can still take some time. I already once looked into mods, but still didn't do anything with them. So, for now, you can get the files from my file gallery here.

I subscribed to T-Mobile's (my cell phone provider) online invoice system some time ago. Today I then took the time to adjust it to my needs. And hey - if you want to get an itemized bill, then you'll need to upload your public GPG-key so that they send you the mail encrypted for privacy reasons!

Good job, T-Mobile!! :)

I would have never expected that from them, they usually aren't that smart. Well, they still aren't really smart - the standard bill still seems to be unencrypted and their website just plain sucks. But that GPG-thing really made me a bit happy! ;)

Today I wanted to do an 'aptitude update' to get the latest packages and it wasn't possible because of too many concurrent open files. After shutting down the mail-servers I could finally update the package list. But then at the 'aptitude upgrade' Debian again wanted to downgrade the MySQL (I once experimented with different versions of it and aptitude never recovered from it).

Well, enough is enough....

.. I ordered a root server today. It was too late on friday, so I will get it next week and then I'll have some time to install Gentoo on it (it gets delivered with SuSE) and make myself at home before the vServer gets shut down.

I'm really looking forward to it! :)
Wish me luck - I'm usually not that lucky with buying hardware. Perhaps it helps, that I only rent it.. ;)

There was just a BBC-documentary about Tetis on televison - and heck, that's the real story of cold war considering software.

Not only because the original inventor didn't get much money out of it due to the political system, but also because of the fighting about rights for Tetris. Nintendo won in the end against Atari - and it was about a concept. And the original inventor ended up working for Microsoft...

... a little bit I feel pity for him.

I just saw a TV-commercial for one of germany's leading news-magazines "Stern", with the title story "Global force Google".

And people still believe in "Don't do evil"? This headline sound more like "The new american army".

I dare to doubt, that the article will have stuff in it like: "The power gained from Google's network effects combined with it's altruistic attitude makes it the first humanistic global force."

Of course they could say, that access to information was never that easy... but centralized main-stream censorship for the whole of China never was that easy either....