A couple of month ago the german linux magazin asked known guru's of a few different programming languages to solve a little programming task in their preferred language. In the article readers were encouraged to contribute their solution of the task and the redaktion would look them over, pick a few subjective winners and publish an article on the results.

I decided to have a shot at it using my language of choice, Python. Needless to say I didn't get a pick for the article.

I've just released my first open source application RDIViewer. Well actually I made the code available online under the GPLv2, the first build will follow. It's not web based and doesn't do anything cool. It's there to help me get my work done without going mad. It's an application to view RDI spool files from SAP systems.

Across his face the scar streched tight, and for a moment it felt as
though his head would burst with rage.

from "A strom of swords" by Geroge R. R. Martin

Now it your turn:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open it to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Saw this via Eric Florenzano's Blog.

Other Book Memes: James Tauber, Greg Newman, Justin Lilly and Brian Rosner.

took a while but comments are now available. next on the list is rss feeds.

oh and maybe some content would be good as well. :)

got some time on the train to update the site. added blog functionality and link posting. link posting still needs to be fully integrated and comments are on the way.

since I'll get some more time on the train on tuesday I hope to get more stuff finished.

I am using PuTTY as my ssh client (which is probably what most people use) and ascii line drawing has never worked. Some time ago I had enough of it and one search and 10 minutes later I found the solution.