After The Crisis: A Parody of 15 Corporate Logos

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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine

Absolutely insightful! How far has the US strolled from it's enlightened founding fathers...

Source using an iGoogle Gadget.

Sometimes I enjoy looking a bit around in my Apache server logs. It's a low-volume machine on a DSL line doesn't see much traffic in the first place.

Out of pure curiosity, I sometimes do a nslookup on the IP addresses. (I'm too lazy to install a traffic analyser, but if you know a good one that is easy to use feel free to make suggestions)

I found this gem:

root@mako:~# nslookup 65.113.40.1
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
1.40.113.65.in-addr.arpa name = little-black-box.vmware.com.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
40.113.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns4.vmware.com.
40.113.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns1.vmware.com.
40.113.65.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns3.vmware.com.
ns3.vmware.com internet address = 65.113.40.2
ns4.vmware.com internet address = 65.113.40.4

root@mako:~#

Cool name for (probably) the gateway server at vmware. (Before you flame me that I put IP addresses in clear text, think that if I simply would have said the name of the server, you could easily look the address up, so protecting it makes no sense)

Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them -- although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it. -- Christopher Hitchens

Now that is insightful and hilarious at the same time!

Those are not EURO bills, though they look almost like them. Those are prints of new social ad from Ukraine. If you look carefully on those bills you can see small depictions of young ladies standing near the buildings. There is a big problem of young women moving from Ukraine to Europe for better life but working as prostitutes there. These ladies on the pictures symbolize those girls, and there are also small the words like "This is how much you can get leaving abroad illegally" pointing to the nominal cost of the 5,10 or 50 EURO bills.

Ingenious!

My boss asked me to look at some PHP CMS thing they use in-house at the Berlin HQ. Here in Luxembourg we're pretty much a Java shop, but I'd like to see myself as polyvalent. Anyway, this thing is called "eCSM ContentManagement-Framework". No problem with that, but since I heard they only have one PHP guy over there in Berlin, I just wanted to check if it isn't some product that simply has been customized.

So, after a bit Googling and surfing, I find Evaria. Looking around to find their product called eCMS, I come accross this page (Don't click if you're a prude American).

The only thing I can say is: WTF?!?

Where are the whiners now who say they can surf on the net without risk being exposed to too much flesh?

Dell announces the Dell Inspiron Mini. Alas, not much technical or pricing details, but that tiny EEE PC sure started off a revolution. Note that the base edition of the Dell Inspiron Mini comes with Ubuntu 8.04 with customized Dell Interface.

That's cool: mainstream distro, but customized for the small size... Sucks to be an early adopter with my EEE 701 4G... All those new sweet machines that are way better. Oh, well, I still like mine ;-)

Is this finally the revolution Linux has waited for?

Richard Wright, the founding member of Pink Floyd whose piano and synthesizer work played a critical part in the pioneering British psychedelic rock band's ethereal sound, died Monday after a short battle with cancer, his spokesman said. He was 65.

A sad day for music....

A race to use less gas in the long haul

"In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, carmakers all offered super-high-efficiency cars," says Eric Noble, president of the Car Lab, an auto industry research and consulting group. "Now that consumers are clamoring for them, those cars are pretty much all gone."

With demand for efficiency surging, carmakers are racing to improve their lineups. General Motors Corp., which currently doesn't have any cars that top 30 mpg combined, said last month that it would spend $500 million to produce a new compact car for 2011, the Cruze, that would reach 45 mpg on the highway. That's about 13 mpg below the rating for its most fuel-efficient Geo Metro 14 years ago.

I'm laughing..... However, I to take offense on one phrase in the article: "Tarman's love affair with a slow, undersized Civic shows the tremendous effect soaring gas prices ".... Undersized for what, exactly? For him commuting along to his work?!? WTF?!? A Honda Civic is often used as a family car here when the kids are still small. Get some perspective, mmmmkay?

Foreclosed Home For Sale For Just $1. That's not even 0.70€! I can't even get a can of 0.5l of beer for that!

I guess the notarial costs are going to far exceed the buying price ;-)

(Of course, I know the house is just a wreck by now...)

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This Frank guy on Facebook is driving me nuts: Battle of the Bands bug I reported.. He's actually trying to convince me that the behaviour, which is inconsistent with user expectation and internally inconsistent is not a bug... It's not wrong because the developers made it that way!

Yeah, right: that's going to fly when I need to defend a bug next time at work!

So, what do you think? Bug or not bug?