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Author Archives: Daniel Tiggemann
Dennis Ritchie, RIP
Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX, has passed away. The work he has done was tremendous: devising a powerful operating system that was still understandable to single humans. The Unices of today have nothing in common with that. Those monsters have … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
244 Comments
Steve Jobs, RIP
His one deed that affects me personally: he brought a full UNIX onto the laptop, and it just works. A full UNIX with the power of the command line, if needed; and with a well-integrated GUI. Even the MacOS X … Continue reading
Posted in Apple
250 Comments
Leo out, Meg in
HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer: Ray Lane appointed executive chairman; Léo Apotheker steps down as president, chief executive officer and director. Dear HP board: Are you nuts?!? Seriously: ARE YOU NUTS?!?
Posted in Palm
299 Comments
Structured Procrastination
The funny thing about Structured Procrastination: you get a lot of things done, but not the stuff you set out to do. (116 characters)
Posted in qwitter
244 Comments
Royale Hochzeit
Und weißt du, wie die eine königliche Hochzeit in Deutschland nennen? Die nennen sie nicht eine königliche Hochzeit? Nein Mann, die haben das metrische System, die wissen gar nicht, was ein König ist. Wie nennen die sie? Die nennen sie … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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First orbit
Fifty years ago, mankind opened the door to the stars. What have you done today?
Posted in History
311 Comments
We are at war with Libya
We’ve always been at war with Libya. I wonder what the French dwarf is trying to compensate. Napoleon at least had the decency to accompany his troops.
Posted in Politics
270 Comments
Earthquake in Japan
Two types of people are happy about the earthquake in Japan: anti-nuclear crusaders; and Gaddafi and his minions. (114 characters)
Posted in qwitter
328 Comments
I’m a #qwitter
I’ve quit Twitter. Their big fuck you to independent developers really angers me, so I’m voting with my feet. I’m currently mass-deleting all my tweets. Apparently, this takes some time, Twitter isn’t known for being fast. @megalonyx is now an … Continue reading
Posted in qwitter
255 Comments
