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» Search Engine merry-go-round
So Yahoo bought Overture. What's left on the market now? AllTheWeb.com: Belongs to Overture Overture: Belongs to Y! Inktomi: Belongs to Y! AltaVista: Belongs to Fast Search & Transfer Google: Available yet. Maybe MSN would like to give it a... Read more
» Threading Mail
About two weeks ago I entertained myself a bit with nested trees in databases. To get some experience with it, I imported a mbox file containing postings to a high-traffic mailing list into MySQL. (With the help of some PEAR... Read more
» Magura Trouble
The pressure point of my bikes' rear brake seems to be the polar opposite to constant, which tends to be pretty annoying. Now in order to get this fixed, I only need to figure out, if I want to apply... Read more
» Living at Starbucks
Yesterday I read something (I lost the URL) about business people from Manhattan giving up their expensive office space and instead relocation to the next Starbucks store and working there permanently. Obviously Starbucks does not have anything against this as... Read more
» IMAP: dovecot
Dovecot seems to be a nice IMAP server: Debian packages are available and it seems to work flawlessly with all my mbox files. More on this later, perhaps.... Read more
» "Lass mich die Nacht überleben"
An anonymous author writes about his drug addiction (German). The text is both haunting and shocking at the same time and it definitively belongs to the best stuff I've ever read on Spiegel Online.... Read more