While trying to copy a printed vocabulary list into LibreOffice, I stumbled over a rather wide tilde character that was used as a placeholder as in ~を楽しむ which means “to enjoy something” (namely, the thing represented by the tilde). Now I had quite a hard time typing “~” using Anthy ...
Typing Japanese on a Western keyboard is rather easy to setup, be it on Linux, Mac OS or Windows. One can usually type the Romaji version, such as “kyou”, and will obtain “きょう” if the input method is set up properly. Katakana/Kanji versions can usually be obtained by hitting the ...
Telegram is a project by David Pollak, the creator of the Lift web framework, that provides hosting for websites using the Hoisted Content Management System. Hoisted takes a set of input files in HTML, XML, Markdown, RTF …, plus (optionally) an HTML template, and transforms them into a static website. ...
Wie kürzlich in einem Artikel von Sascha Lobo beschrieben, liegt ein Problem der zunehmenden Nutzung von Facebook für Kommunikation nicht nur im Datenschutz, – wer hat Zugriff auf meine Daten und was macht er damit? – sondern auch in der Datenverfügbarkeit – wer stellt die Erreichbarkeit meiner Daten sicher? Wer ...
At the Revision 2012 demoparty in Saarbrücken, my entry “Fun with [0,1]^2” was awarded a third prize in the category "Web Browser Intro"! The demo with a total file size of 4088 Bytes shows a number of classical surfaces – namely, the cylinder, the sphere, the torus, and the Klein Bottle ...
Over the Easter weekend, I'm going to the Revision Demoparty and will, for the first time, also participate in a competition, the Web Browser Intro competition, i.e. there's a size limit of 4KB for the HTML/JavaScript handed in. Of course, the demo itself will be shown at this place afterwards.
Currently, many webmasters feel annoyed by Google's decision to completely switch to SSL for users logged in with their Google account (and we can expect this to apply to all users in the near future), as this switch makes it impossible to get the keywords a user was searching for ...
Wer sich vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen „Bundespräsidenten-Affäre“ fragt, ob es überhaupt eine Person gibt, dessen Leben die Presse nicht von heute auf morgen in eine Hexenjagd verwandeln kann, dem sei wärmstens die Lektüre von Heinrich Bölls „Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie ...
Gerade im Tatort „Ein ganz normaler Fall“: Der Rabbiner benutzt das Barbier-Paradoxon, um seinen Studenten zu zeigen, dass man mit Logik die Existenz Gottes nicht beweisen kann. „Wenn Gott allmächtig ist, kann er jeden Stein heben. Kann Gott nun aber einen Stein erschaffen, der so schwer ist, dass er ...