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Nagging Security

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Just stumbled over this fine comic strip. While I am not exactly what one might call a dedicated Microsoft fanboy, those Security Essentials do tend to keep to themselves. Incidentally, that is the reason why I banned Antivir from my Windows installation. It is not that I really need anti-virus software, but beeing a western citizen, they are like freeware (well, mostly nagging shareware) insurance policies that help keeping me feel safe. Mhh. And Cozy.

Well, but surely you have had stranger things happen to you today.

To England it is!

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Actually, I’m already here. I nearly managed to let two years pass since my last entry. I don’t know why I even bother. Anyway, my pursuit of a bachelor’s degree led me to Bath. For the next five weeks I will perform acoustic model measurements at the local university under the wings of a well credited acoustician. We will see how that goes.

The trip Oldenburg – Bremen – Stansted – London – Bath was pleasantly uneventful (ignoring the delay of my flight and my alarm shooing me out of my snugly bed at 5 o’clock) and despite the rumors relating to the obscurity of London’s tubes, everything went smooth. Not considering the waiting periods for planes and trains, the trip was considerably faster than a travel to visit friends and family in the south of Germany.

For some reason I can’t recall why I always assumed that GB and Germany share the same timezone. Instead I gained an hour today. Surprise! Not a day goes by without learning something new.

Not freshly learned but painfully confirmed is my prejudice about student accommodations. It will have to do. It just will.. the fridges are not very trustworthy, there doesn’t seem to be a spare set of dishes, the overall impression is rather bleak. Well. I’m going out for something to eat and a beer.

There will probably be more updates on this. Maybe.

Youtube code-snippet for embedding video not XHTML compliant.

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

According to the W3C Markup Validation Service the snippet suggested by youtube to embed video isn’t valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Google to the rescue! A quick search revealed the following compliant alternative:

<div style="text-align:center">
  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px"
data="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VIDEO_ID">
    </param>
  </object>
</div>

(Source: http://www.wildbits.de/2006/04/02/youtube-xhtml/)

*tap*, *tap* err, hello, is this thing on?

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Today I felt the sudden urge to reanimate this place. It has been a while since my last post and that while was well spend, kind of. I went back to school and started studying and moved to the other side of the country. And as far as productivity goes, that was pretty much it. The rest of the time was wasted with music and beer, wine and cigarettes. Besides that I’ve been crawling through dungeons an hostile landscapes for ages in an (in)famous MMO. Honestly, that’s pretty much it. Anyhow, today I updated WP to the latest version and although the layout of my sidebar is a bit mixed up, all essential functions are up an running.

If anyone is actually stopping by, come back anytime soon for there probably will be, well, things and stuff.. ;)

Anti-Spam measures

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

Just installed Spam Karma 2 which makes a good impression when it comes to functionality.. on the other hand, usability is another topic (As I mentioned some days ago, I might be just stupid as well. A third possibility wold be that I wasn’t paying much attention for I played EQ2 on the other box.. but I guess that counts as being stupid, too). I just deleted all comments.. somehow I thought I’d have to re-aprove the already moderated comments by selecting them within the SK2-plugin and click ‘moderate’. Guess I thought wrong. A nice clean cut..

Lesson learned (jah, sure.): think before clicking, read before guessing, make a fscking backup of the fscking database before screwing around with your blogsoft. What’s ‘backup’ supposed to mean anyway?