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Is Jabber the future of Instant Messaging?

In Florian Jensen's blog, I found an article on AOL and ICQ working on a Jabber infrastructure. There's even a comment of an AOL techie that confirms Florian's note.

It looks like AOL and ICQ will move toward Jabber/XMMP which I...

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New keyboard

After having some issues with my old keyboard at home, I bought a new one yesterday: A Logitech Desktop Wave.

When I saw this for the first time on a webshop, I wasn't sure whether this is comfortable to have the keys aligned so...

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Happy new year!!

I wish a happy new year to all of you out there! May the new year bring you and your family only good things. I'm looking forward to meeting many of you soon again whenever possible :-)

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MacBook arrived

When Kerstin got her white MacBook, I decided to buy one for me, too. Then I had to wait a few weeks. But then I ordered it on Tuesday. And finally it arrived yesterday: My black MacBook :-)

No unpacking porn for this - I think...

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Converting RAW data into JPEG files

After our first session in the photo studio, we took home a DVD full of images - saved as RAW data.

Here's how to convert them from *.cr2 files to *.jpg.

#!/bin/bash (while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do dcraw -c -w $1 |...

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Having fun at the photo studio

Yesterday we (Kerstin, my brother Claudio and I) had some fun at the photo studio of the company where my brother works. As it was the first time to take pictures in a profi studio with professional equipment, I was amazed by the...

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Jean-Luc Picard's Style of Leaderhip

Thomas Shimana writes about Jean-Luc Picard and his Style of Leadership (sorry, in German only).

In short it's about how leaders communicate with their fellows regarding a decision that has to be taken. Thomas decides between...

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How to switch between HTML and plain text in Mozilla Thunderbird

I'm no fan of HTML mails at all: Emails should be short and informative. If I need something that is desinged, it can be attached as PDF. And so my Thunderbird is configured to compose/send plain-text mails by default.

The last...

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Survey about usage of OpenSource

Mario Aeby (eMeidi) wrote about a survey of two students that is currently beeing taken. Everyone is encouraged to answer the questions of this survey to deliver them some data to base their work on.

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Vacation @ Ticino

We're currently enjoying a short vacation in Ticino, the southern part of Switzerland. Until yesterday the weather was good-great and we made some 1-day-trips around the region. We're staying at the house of my parents in...

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