You know your baby child is a born Unix hacker when it starts writing termcap entries manually

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Angerwhale" is the name of a new blog software written in Perl, and its first official version "Angerwhale 0.02 was released%20Released.pod to CPAN~jrockway/Angerwhale-0.02/lib/Angerwhale.pm today. Features include guaranteed valid XHTML 1.1 output, social tagging, categories, syntax highlighting, RSS and YAML feeds for every article, comment, tag, and category, nested comments, intelligent caching of everything, space-conserving mini-posts, search-engine (and human!) friendly archiving, a flashy default theme, and lots of other cool stuff. The software is based on the Catalyst Web Framework and uses the file system as storage backend instead of a database like MySQL. Another interesting feature is that Angerwhale uses cryptography to map articles and comments to users: [Angerwhale] determines authorship based on the post's PGP digital signature. These posts can be in a variety of formats (text, wiki, HTML, POD), and new formats can be added dynamically at runtime. Posting comments is also supported, and again, authorship is determined by checking the digital signature. Finally, there's a contender for all the (great nonetheless) blog software written in PHP!

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Okay, now I'd like to play on the Alliance's side. :-) The blood elves may be as pretty as the night elves, but their attitude is much worse. You probably wouldn't live to tell about having seen one naked.

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German news service Tagesschau sings the swan song,,OID6385352_REF1,00.html about a storage medium I grew up with: the floppy disk. The article describes how the floppy gradually got replaced by ZIP disks, CD ROMs, DVDs and USB sticks. Today, computer manufacturers don't bother with installing a floppy drive any more. But the author not only knows about the reasons of the floppy vanishing but also about its emotional consequences: It's time to finally say good bye to the floppy disk. But whoever saw the moist eyes of PC nostalgics when talking about the 5 1/4 inch disk, the bigger, somewhat floppier predecessor of the smaller quadratic disks, knows: that won't be easy for some of the hardcore hackers. Oh yes, it's hard. Here's a picture of my first 5,25" floppy disk: It came empty with my Commodore C128, so it's 20 years old now. The label says "128: The First" and was written with a typewriter. Today, it's hanging on the wall at my desk at home. Above a Mac Mini that will never know what a floppy disk is. Or was.

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Although I keep trying to explain the issue to them, my colleagues seem to have a really hard time to understand that a Tauren druid is in so many ways different from a cow. And judging from the "enhancements" I got as a present last week, it's even more difficult for them to distinguish between me and my World of Warcraft character than it is for me.

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No, I didn't mean files". It's flies. Tiny, pesky flies (they're called "sciaridae). And our plant pots at home are infested with them. When the first ones appeared in our flat a while ago, Carolin prohibited me from swatting them; she found them cute and called them her little friends". Well, when she returned from a weekend at her parents yesterday, she had to sweep away "more than a hundred fly corpses, including the ones she had instantly swatted herself. She had been warned. Choose your friends wisely, or as Seneca said: Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.

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First, I don't think the iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread. Especially when it'll be closed for third party developers. That would be a really stupid move for Apple. At the moment, I'd rather add the Linux-based Nokia N800 internet tablet to my E61 if I wanted a multimedia and internet tablet with phone and internet connectivity. (And of course I do.) And second, I'm still far from writing love songs to a computer. [youtube=[www.youtube.com/watch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsqi2QHXaFI])

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And not only does it damage roofs and cars, but als wblog. Evn coplte sent

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In his S60 blog, Tommi explains why Google Reader rocks Google Reader and its mobile version rock. I find myself using it more than any other functionality on my Nokia N73. And I love the fact that I can access the same feeds via work computer, via home computer, and via mobile. In most other RSS readers, the items are stuck in that particular client. Having access to your single source of feeds everywhere really is great. There seem to be many great newsreaders like NetNewsWire, but they can't provide me with news when I'm on the train or on the toilet. It's obvious that Tommi doesn't subscribe to high volume feeds like Engadget or one from a web forum, though. Otherwise, he would know that it's a giant PITA to weed through dozens of product announcements or forum entry headlines on your mobile. That's why I still stick to Bloglines I can choose whether a feed shows up in its mobile version. It's a small simple checkbox in the feed settings, but it makes all the difference why in my eyes Google Reader Mobile doesn't rock yet.

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