Monthly Archives: Dezember 2005

Dangerous Firefox Extension

Posted on 29. Dezember 2005 by admin

Searchstatus, a useful firefox extension for search optimization, can easily help to exploit your web application when you don’t take security serious. Here’s why. Some Background Before Christmas I was working on some invites for a private beta of one … Continue reading →

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Which Action Hero Would You Be?

Posted on 27. Dezember 2005 by admin

You scored as James Bond, Agent 007. James Bond is MI6′s best agent, a suave, sophisticated super spy with charm, cunning, and a license’s to kill. He doesn’t care about rules or regulations and somewhat amoral. He does care about … Continue reading →

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You say you want an evolution?

Posted on 23. Dezember 2005 by admin

It’s deeply depressing how creationists’ intelligent design theories are evolving from the nothing. The better I feel when serendipity leads me to a web site about evolution: Welcome to Evolution 101!. Recommended!

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Herbstliche Pirouette

Posted on 23. Dezember 2005 by admin

Die Antwort gibt es bei Zeit-Wissen. Hmm …

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Merkwürdige Methoden der Terrorfahndung

Posted on 22. Dezember 2005 by admin

Die Tatsache, dass immer mehr willkürliche Massnahmen nach den Anschägen des 11. Septembers 2001 von Politik und Machthabern eingesetzt werden, wird uns nicht nur unsere geschätzte Freiheit und damit auch Lebensqualität sondern vor allem Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre und Privatsphäre … Continue reading →

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Quotes in strings with python

Posted on 15. Dezember 2005 by admin

AK has a rant about python and why it’s not his favourite language. He writes: 1. # replace *text* by ”’text”’. 2. p = re.compile(‘*([^*]+)*’,re.MULTILINE) 3. text = p.sub(r”"””’\1”’”"”,text) So many quotes, just awful, and so absolutely un-intuitive. First of … Continue reading →

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Migrating bookmarks from furl.net to del.icio.us

Posted on 11. Dezember 2005 by admin

Problem All my bookmarks are stored at Furl.net and I would like to migrate them all to del.icio.us in one single step. I think this is a good idea, after all because del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo some days ago … Continue reading →

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Pre-X-Mas-Bratäpfel

Posted on 4. Dezember 2005 by admin

Auch zu finden in meinem Rezeptarchiv. Also, man nehme: 2 Äpfel (oder je nach Portionenzahl mehr) Wal- und Haselnüsse, fein gehackt (nicht gerieben!) Honig, ein paar Löffel (es geht auch Rohrzucker) etwas (Inländer-)Rum oder feinen Whisk(e)y Rosinen optional etwas Rohmarzipan … Continue reading →

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CopyAllUrls 0.5 released

Posted on 2. Dezember 2005 by admin

Download CopyAllUrls 0.5 for firefox 1.5. For now I have not updated the CAU mozdev page (copyallurls.mozdev.org).

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