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It's all about paying it forward. On Sunday evening, an 8 year old girl shared her feelings about the game of golf at the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, FL as part of the 8th annual EWGA Foundation Fundraiser to support LPGA-USGA Girls Golf. She shared softly, "It's fun. I really like it."
Accompanied by her very proud grandfather to the event, this adorable youngster from the Jacksonville,FL LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program charmed everyone as she lit up the room when asked how she likes playing golf. She really enjoys learning how to play, the rules and what's right and wrong (and her grandfather mentioned she's helped him with the rules as well....) Enabling her to meet LPGA Tour Players, like Julieta Granada who was with us that evening, was a great experience and an unforgettable one!
Providing tools to young girls through the sport of golf is the right thing for the EWGA to do. The EWGA has been serving as mentors to young girls through LPGA-USGA Girls Golf for nearly a decade and the fundraising element is the by-product.
I'm from the Quad Cities Iowa Chapter and will be the only person in our Chapter traveling to Lake Geneva for the Championship Finals. I have a room reserved with 2 queen beds at the Lodge at Geneva Ridge, which is only two miles from the tournament course. The resort is new and looks fantastic. They gave me a special EWGA rate, so they're not quite as expensive as the other options. I would like to find someone to share the room & expense. The room is reserved for the nights of 9/30 thru 10/2. Please send me an email at: email@example.com if you're interested. I can send more details. Barb
Documents as Objects
Shifting from writing paper documents to digital media is the subject of this third series Writing for the Web. Writing well is not only about words anymore but has become more about structure. Once hundreds of files or documents are created we need to give an assist to our viewers so they can:
When creating a tournament or game for your Chapter:
When reviewing our website with a critical eye it's important to know who we are hearing from and that their voices represent targeted, yet diverse and willing members. Active participation is a crucial factor. The feedback needs to come from people that have used the site! The Scavenger Hunt was an effort to gather active Member participation and yet it has been not as successful as the web team had hoped. Most of the feedback we currently get has been hearsay and from the same few voices.
Despite the explosion of social media in the last five years, the 1% rule first identified by research in the early 1990's (website research) still holds true:
New research has demonstrated that Community-based Websites tend to buck this trend:
As business professionals, we often confuse volunteer work with busy work. We talk ourselves into thinking that our workloads prohibit extra, non-work related activities. As professionals looking to add to your business related work skills, this could not be further from the truth.
As technology advances and social structures shift, the global marketplace becomes a rapidly evolving workplace that requires new forms of collaboration and productivity tools. The ability to collaborate online, learn critical virtual communication skills, post to online discussions, are learned through time and experience. Experts in future forecasting along with visionaries from diverse industries are shedding light on the rapid changing nature of work and work place skill sets:
For the second year, the EWGA Foundation has designated two PGA of America-inspired golf programs for its own 'Drive for Dreams' campaign … an opportunity for EWGA members to share their good fortune with those in need.
Salute Military Golf Association (SMGA) and Golf for Injured Veterans Everywhere (GIVE) are giving the gift of golf, its rehabilitative aspects, and the wonderful and needed sense of fun and normalcy to men and women who have returned from war to fight a new battle … a battle to resume their lives from an altered state … and a battle that we the citizens for whom they stood in harm's way owe our greatest effort to support.
Where would we be without Billie Jean King? Trailblazers such as Donna De Varona? Ann Meyers? That group helped spawn a modern generation of empowered athletes – gold medal winners such as Dot Richardson, Brandi Chastain and Julie Foudy, Kerri Strug and Lindsay Davenport. How about Pat Summitt receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Golfers like Dottie Pepper, Annika Sorenstam and Michelle Wie?
Yardage Books
If you are like me, you are a fan of Yardage Books and what they provide, but find that most books are such a disappointment. They not only lack critical information but they are focused on the Men's golf game, NOT the women's golf game. What I want, besides previous course experience; is a REAL yardage book. You can purchase the books the Pro's use for many coursed but I'm looking for one that Women Amateur golfers could use with local knowledge and options like: "take it up the left side to be safe or risk the over the lake shot for long hitters"; or Approach this green from the left side of the fairway—mounds protect the right side of the green.''
We don't need fancy color simulated photo graphics (you can't write notes on them). I want line diagrams in black and white or minor color with empty areas on each page to add notes. I also require a large area to map the curvatures and slope of the greens.
Many of us play the same course all the time or the course is so sedate (wide and or flat) that a yardage book does not make much sense. However, many of us like to play a variety of courses and tournaments. Sometimes we may repeat the same course a few times in one year or we do not know if we will ever be back, so making your own is not worth it. When the course you are playing is part of a tournament then a practice round can be used to create a golf aid that is legal, widely used and of great help!
Cramming more things into your head with swing thoughts and other concepts is not the best way to improve you game of golf. In fact, it can often hinder you game play. Match Play is a game of golf that is played one hole at a time. You can shoot a 9 or 10 on a hole and only be down one! Match Play allows you play much more freely and allows you to forget very bad holes. It values the mental game of golf and most pros value the mental game and realize it can often determine their success. It is amateurs that need these mental skills just as much! Most beginners do not realize how much of golf is mental.
Match play is a balancing act. You must balance the need to be aggressive enough to win individual holes against your component and you must control your nerves. Always assume your opponent is going to make his putt even if it's 60 feet! And don't panic if you fall behind you have time to make a turn around, but that does not mean trying every low-percentage shot that presents itself. It's easy to see why match play is a game of golf that many prefer to play.
Both my mother and father are left-handed and so was I born left-handed. At a very young age they switched me because they thought being left handed would be a disadvantage. Desks would not fit, lunch table seating could be awkward and many other issues that they both experienced in their lifetimes would present disadvantages to me throughout my life. So I was switched from being left-handed to being right-handed. In grade school sports it was a great advantage to me. I was a switch hitter in softball/baseball, in basketball I could go to the hoop from either side and dribble both ways. If seated next to a lefty I can also dine lefty. I have not viewed this as nothing but an advantage my entire life. I have also always been an excellent athlete but one that needed lots of practice and warm-up. I can also be somewhat clumsy and awkward physically unless I had an objective and challenge! I bump into coffee tables, trip over small ledges and I seem to always mentally be trying to catch up with my body. Yet, I am blessed with an athlete's mind and when I can align the physical and mental it is powerful. I can achieve and perform amazing athletic skills. But practice and training is always needed for this alignment to happen.
With the complexity of work life, social media is frequently over looked as a communication tool. The integration of social tools into our EWGA communication strategies has become critical for nearly everyone and can yield tremendous and unexpected benefits. A blended scenario of traditional and unstructured approaches to membership communication can greatly affect the relevance, retention, and overall success or failure of our communication initiatives.
With individual's short attention spans and the number of mobile devices and video's, communication between organizations will not be anything like the old single event PowerPoint presentations. Location is of secondary importance, as anyone can meet anywhere, any time through our website. Meetings and discussions do not need to be single events but can result from a series of relationship-building opportunities held within the social media space and the tools available: discussion boards and blogs; Facebook and Twitter.
The key to communications success is to blend the various social media technologies into a coherent strategy, using each for its unique abilities to communicate, build story and community rather than as a replacement for email. League coordinators' could start twitter accounts for participants so that last minute work schedules changes could open opportunities for replacement players. Weekend events could help arrange car pools and member engagement opportunities. Suzy and Deb successfully used an eGroup (a website tool) to help manage the Match Play ladder last year (great effort).
As an Instructional Designer I receive a lot of eNewsletters and subscribe to and write frequent blogs. Blog writing is a new EWGA website tool rolled out on our new Microsites. Blogs enable us to create more complex conversations between members, chapters, regions and our National organization. Writing for the Web is a relative new writing medium for most users. Even experienced (and most excellent) conventional writers may not be familiar with the tons of research on the topic. I thought I would share some of this research and will continue such blogs if interest warrants it.
How our Members Read on the Web
Most Web viewers DO NOT read, they SCAN. Web readers pick out individual words and sentences. Seventy-nine (eLearning Guild) percent always scan and only 16 percent read word-by-word. Research also found that users read email newsletters even more abruptly than they read Web pages!!!
Solution: We author our pages for 'scanability':
In this session I will discuss creating better links. Our members are experiencing an information overload both in their work environments and personal life. We need to help our members navigate our complex new Website to access the information they need. Remember, our members are NOT here to read for enjoyment but to find information.
Don't Use 'Click Here' for Your Links
Celebrating their 2nd year as an EWGA Chapter – Fort Wayne had a birthday party. Over 50 of their 83 members joined in the fun at one of their favorite golf courses. Highlights of the evening included: Buffet dinner, birthday cake, golf awards, slide show, leader / volunteer recognition and lots of joking and laughter.
This group has integrated into the EWGA very quickly. They've sent competitors to the Championship Finals; they've had two summers filled with after work golf, weekend, golf, "get away" golf, lessons and clinics. They are excited to be a part of the EWGA and are looking forward to making fiends in other Chapters. They are an excellent example of a successful Chapter start up and their founding leaders should be very proud of their accomplishments – well done ladies!


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1 large egg
2/3 cup honey
1/4 cup oil
1 teaspoon vanilla and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
HEAT oven to 350°.
STIR together in a large bowl the oats, almond flour, flaxseed, walnuts, sunflower seeds, blueberries, cranberries, coconut, cinnamon, salt and allspice.
LIGHTLY beat the egg in a separate bowl, and stir in the honey, oil, vanilla extract and almond extract. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir until everything is moist. Divide mixture among 12 medium muffin cups and pack down tightly. Bake until the edges begin to brown, about 20 minutes. Let cool for several minutes before unmolding.
Granola Bars
This recipe is from "America's Test Kitchen D.I.Y. Cookbook" ($26.95). Makes 16 bars.
1/3 cup maple syrup
1/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon flake sea salt
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
1/2 cup raw pepitas
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup unsweetened flaked coconut
HEAT oven to 300°.
LINE a 13- by 9-inch pan with foil so it hangs over the sides. Spray with cooking spray.
WHISK maple syrup, sugar and salt in a large bowl. Whisk in the oil. Process 1/2 cup oats in food processor until finely ground. Transfer to the bowl with the maple syrup and stir in remaining ingredients and mix until thoroughly coated.
SPREAD mixture into prepared pan in a thin, even layer. Compress with a spatula. Bake 45 minutes, or until deeply golden. Let cool for at least an hour before cutting.
Apricot, Pistachio and Almond Flapjacks
This recipe is from "Kitchen & Co.: Colorful Home Cooking Through the Seasons," by Rosie French and Ellie Grace (Kyle Books, $22.95). Makes 24 flapjacks.
5 cups old-fashioned oatmeal
3/4 cup dried apricots, roughly chopped
1 1/2 ounces mixed seed (sesame, pumpkin, sunflower)
1/2 cup whole almonds, roughly chopped
1/2 cup whole pistachios, roughly chopped
1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter, plus extra for greasing
2 heaping tablespoons tahini
3 heaping tablespoons golden syrup or honey
1/4 cup granulated sugar
HEAT the oven to 325°.
COMBINE the dry ingredients except the sugar in a mixing bowl and set aside.
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STIR to melt the butter and sugar, then add to the mixing bowl. Turn well to mix the two.
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Business Activity Framework
The Business Activity Framework is a fully novel comprehensive solution for building transactional Web Services with accordance to the model defined in the WS-BusinessActivity specification. It provides a lightweight API that consists of a set of easy to learn and intuitive annotations and operations. It significantly facilitates development of transaction aware Web Services and releases programmers from mixing transaction related code with business logic of their applications.
Web Services must be simply annotated with a set of defined annotations and the framework transparently applies all necessary transactional mechanisms to enable participation in long-running Business Activity type extended transactions.
Business Activity framework has been built on top of the XTS (XML Transaction Service) component, which is a part of the JBoss Transaction Service. It uses JBoss AOP framework to transparently apply its mechanisms to Web Services.
Separation of Concerns | All necessary transaction-related mechanisms are applied by the framework in a fully transparent way. Programmers do not need to concern themselves with any low-level details and do not need to mix transaction related code with business logic of their applications. |
Annotation-based API | The core API of the Business Activity Framework consists of a set of annotations. Developers do not need to write any additional code. Most annotations have intuitive and reasonable default values to release the developer from the necessity of specifying all required annotation member values explicitly. |
Flexible data management | Framework's API enables developers to remember arbitrarily custom data, which may be potentially used for completion or compensation. The Data Manager component additionally provides operations to store and retrieve data within the application logic. |
Flexible ex | Completion and compensation actions can be executed both locally and remotely using different mechanisms. The framework can dynamically invoke methods on POJOs and EJBs. Support for remote Web Services will be added shortly. Custom mechanisms can be easily used without any code changes as well. |
Portability | Implementation specific parts of the Business Activity Framework have been well separated and it is possible to port the code to use any other AOP framework. |
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Project Community Details
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I adore LM eyeshadows and this was no exception! Pigmented, true to pan, and absolutely gorgeous. Now I just wish I could collect all of them.
I'm a member of the Laura Mercier Illuminating Eye Color! I'm constantly looking for an eyeshadow with a warm gold that isn't too brassy. This is it!
The only complaint I have is the eyeshadow is a little too compact and not powdery enough.
Great Pigment and the color is gorgeous! The texture is smooth and applies evenly. Fantastic eye shadow, I have always loved Laura Mercier products and this eye color is no exception.
I was hesitant on purchasing a different brand of eyeshadow. Normally I purchase mineral-based shadows but was tired of the fall-out and creasing. I saw some pictures of Earth Glow and decided to give it a try. It really is the perfect brown. For reference, I have fair/rosy skin, brown eyes, and blonde hair. It can be transitioned from day to night by building up the color. Easily blends. It has a nice sheen to it but definitely not metallic-y. It slightly creases by the end of the day even with a primer but that might just be my oily eyelids. I no longer have to put a tissue under my eyes to catch excess shadow falling out!


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Gearhart Ocean View 3 Bedroom Condo in Gearhart
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 6
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Gearhart by the Sea
rates (USD)
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$ 720 - $ 1,100 / week
vacation rental description
Beautiful 3 Bedroom 2 Bath Condo located in the famous Gearhart by
the Sea Resort with a good Pacific Ocean view.
property availability
Last modified on 03-3-2014 at 6:25 PM.
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Sarah Condon 503 330-2588
condo rental amenities
* Beautiful view of the Ocean and Tillamook Head
* Just a 2 minute walk to the beach.
* Three Bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The master has a queen size bed
and a full bath. The other two bedrooms each have 2 twin beds.
* The living room has a queen size hide-a-bed.
* The living room has a large fireplace (Long burning fireplace
logs are provided.), vaulted ceilings and an entertainment center
with stereo, Cable, VCR, DVD/CD player and a 25 inch TV.
* A good collection of video tapes are provided. However, other
video tapes are available for rent at the Gearhart by the Sea rental
* The kitchen is fully equipped with dishwasher, microwave,
garbage disposal, dishes, pots and pans, utensils, spices, toaster,
blender, coffee maker, grinder and filters.
* Linens and bath towels are provided, however, you should bring
your own beach towels.
* Games and puzzles are in the closet.
* An indoor, heated swimming pool is a short walk away.
* A children's outdoor play area and an 18 hole public golf
course are both only a 2 minute walk away.
* A Coin laundry facility is located a short walk out the back
* Gearhart has a small grocery store and several fine restaurants.
* Please, no smoking or pets.
* A small reading library is available for your pleasure.
activities and attractions in Gearhart Oregon
* 18 hole golf course a 2 minute walk away.
* Indoor swimming pool
* 2 minutes from beach
* 5 minutes drive to factory outlet mall
* 10 minute drive to arcade and shops in Seaside, Oregon
* Free High Speed Wi-Fi internet access available for your laptop.
vacation rental rates
October through May:
- $120/night - 2 night minimum
- $720/week (except Holidays & School Vacations).
June through September, Holidays & School Vacations:
- $160/night (2 night minimum)
- $1100 per week.
July & August available by the week only.
- $1100/week (Sunday to Sunday)
$75 cleaning fee.
Rates for 6 people. $10 per night per person for 7th or 8th person. 8 Maximum.
Sarah Condon 503 330-2588
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MOPS and MOMSnext at Immanuel Lutheran Church in MacombMar 7, 2014 - May 31, 2014This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). Registration is now open for Immanuel's newly combined moms ministry charter MOPS & MOMSnext. They provide a comfortable and informal setting, informative and motivational speakers, adult crafts, inspirational videos, spiritually based moms devotional, adult conversation and best of all fellowship and support from other moms just like you. They also participate in group fundraisers,... |
Hearing and Vision Screening at the Institute for Population Health-Northeast in DetroitMar 7, 2014 - Sep 26, 2014This event occurs weekly on Friday. The Institute for Population Health is offering hearing and vision screening for pre-school and school-age children age 3-18. Please call for an appointment. |
Alice Schneider Exhibit at the Carr Center in DetroitMar 7, 2014 - Mar 30, 2014Check out this exhibit in the Masco Gallery. Alice Victoria Schneider is a Detroit-based visual artist whose work is a combination of sculpture, painting, printmaking and filmmaking. She focuses on movement as a theme, highlighting motion, form and speed with effects of still-life painting in mind. Schneider is intrigued by the concept of film as painting. When making her filmed paintings,... |
'Let Me Show You What I Saw: American Views on City and Country, 1912-1963' Exhibit at the Detroit Institute of ArtsMar 7, 2014 - Jun 29, 2014This event occurs weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Some of the most evocative prints and watercolors by more than 30 important artists of the 20th century will be on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts in the exhibition Let Me Show You What I Saw: American Views on City and Country, 1912–1963. The exhibition looks at the way in which the artists infused their scenes with qualities that suggest the presence of feelings and forces.... |
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) Meeting at St. Kenneth Church in PlymouthMar 7, 2014 - Jun 20, 2014This event occurs monthly, on the first and third Friday of January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November and December. Are you a mother of young children looking to have fun, make new friends, find support and relax while your children are cared for in a safe and loving environment? The St. Edith/St. Kenneth Catholic Parishes' Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) group invites all mothers with children aged newborn through kindergarten to join in! At MOPS, you'll find other moms who are facing... |
Get Caught Reading Week at the Milford Public LibraryMar 7, 2014 - Mar 8, 2014This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). Intended for kids 3-12. March is Reading Month, and if your kid is caught reading at the library between March 3 and 8, they'll get a special prize. |
Truck and Bus Exhibit at the Buick Automotive Gallery in FlintMar 7, 2014 - Mar 30, 2014This event occurs weekly on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Partnering with General Motors, Sloan Museum will host a special exhibit at Buick Automotive Gallery featuring the workhorses of the automotive world – pick-up trucks. From their infancy as motorized versions of delivery wagons, these trucks have developed into essential tools used by farmers, ranchers, construction workers and firefighters. However, many people who rarely haul... |
Open Bounce at Inflatable Playspaces in Royal OakMar 7, 2014 - May 1, 2014This event occurs weekly on Wednesday and Friday. Don't let the chill outside keep you inside. Come to Inflatable Playspaces for open bounce or for a jumpin' birthday party. Bounce, slide and play while getting a little exercise, too. |
Space: A Journey to Our Future at the Sloan Museum in FlintMar 7, 2014 - May 4, 2014This event occurs daily, every 1 day(s). Space: A Journey to Our Future will ignite your desire for discovery, spark your imagination and inspire new generations of explorers to dream of the possibilities that lie ahead. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is one of the educational collaborators for the exhibit. Get an up-close look at a wide range of artifacts from the space program, as well as displays on the new... |
Passport to Israel Exhibit at Shalom Street in West BloomfieldMar 7, 2014 - Mar 31, 2014The local kids-geared museum Shalom Street opens this new exhibit focused on Jewish discovery. It's a hands-on exhibit that lets kids "tour" major cities in Israel – in honor of Israel's 65th anniversary. Times are as follows: Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. |


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Do you speak a foreign language? Do you like to volunteer? Join the Duke Volunteer program and let your linguistic skills help patients with limited English Proficiency. You will discover how empowering it is to bridge the communication gap between a patient and a health care provider. You can make a world of difference volunteering as a medical interpreter.
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The Chronicles of Professor Fliggins discovered at A.Okay Official
Shawnimals Creative Director Shawn Smith (aka – Shawnimal) has created an all new world within a world with the Chronicles of Professor Fliggins! Alongside the talented Shawnimals staff including partner-in-plush Jen Brody, illustrator Montgomery Smith and designer Eric Uchalik, this exhibit showcases a number of solo and group works inspired by this new storyline.
Story and character is always a strong component of Shawnimal's work, and the pieces in this show are no different.
In addition to the newly-released plush Sausage Cadet Discovery, the first public showing of the bad-bean trio known as the Three Bean Teens on hand! Also look for paintings, drawings, new plush sculptures, limited edition letterpress prints and even a DIY Fliggins Kit made of felt pieces! As if this isn't enough, you can also leave with the all-new Monocle Rain shirt.
* Opening reception: March 6, 2009 6-10pm
* Show runs through: March 28, 2009
* DJ and refreshments
* Artist will be in attendance
A special thanks goes out to our sponsors: NOS, FUZE and Colt45 for being a part of the show as well as DJ BizMichael who will be providing sounds for the night.
About The Chronicles of Professor Fliggins and his Kerchief Dirigible
This year-long project follows Professor Fliggins on his epic journey throughout all of Shawnimaland. During his adventure he will encounter many new species, good and evil! Will he ever make it home to Professor Island? Where will he end up next? The project showcases 12 all-new handmade, limited edition plush released monthly, a robust web site featuring the Fliggins "Blobby Log" journal, imaginative diagrams and illustrations, and plenty of odd hilarity. All at ProfessorIsland.com.
About Shawnimals
Shawnimals is a character design studio which promotes imagination and happiness by developing whimsical, often humorous characters and stories, and the worlds in which they live. These concepts are made into toys, apparel, lifestyle accessories, comic books and video games, among other fun products, for people of all ages to enjoy. With a penchant for odd and cute, the Shawnimals cast of creatures come in all shapes, sizes, colors and facial hair configurations. More at Shawnimals.com!
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Monday – Friday
11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
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This endearing frog hand puppet will become a fast favorite for your child. Together they can play, learn, tell stories and have fun. With a frog puppet, kids can stage fascinating puppet shows. Taking part in theatrical games with hand puppets, kids train their fine motor skills and imagination without even knowing it. Hand puppets for children are a powerful but unobtrusive educational method.
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Let me be the first the say: "ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?". The course of development for this technology could route through robot sports to generate development funds and get developers involved. It would also help to work out bugs in reliability and safety. Penalties for "intentional roughing" and stuff like that would help in developing the "three laws of robotics". The idea I saw was elder care but I have to think that the first time a servo or sensor failed and this thing fell on the elder they would be goners. And that would open up a whole new can of worms for crime and forensics. Robo Sports would allow goal directed behavior, interactivity and an absence of humans in the playing field. There are some robo sports for nerds already but they don't get the general public to buy tickets and fund the research. American football would seem to be a balance between what the military would be looking for and what the public would support. Rugby and Lacrosse seem good candidates.


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This is something different. It is something special. She is something special. I don't even remember how I stumbled upon her, actually. I think it was some suggested video somehow.
I feel deeply sorry for those who don't understand German. But that's the way it is, the text is in German. And it's touching. Take your time, listen to it in a relaxed environment, when you don't have any distraction.
There you are. And I'm sorry for those who don't understand German, but I don't want to hold this back from the others. And I am definitely looking forward to hear more from her. Hopefully she helps me motivate myself to write something new for the upcoming debconf and hold yet another poetry night there. And hopefully it also motivates others to join in.
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It's almost a month since I last blogged something, and one of my new year's resolution is to change that, a bit. Let's see how it goes.
I've been listening a lot to this great band from Sweden recently again, put all their songs onto my mobile phone. It might sound weird because they have a rather aggressive style, both soundwise but also lyricswise, but it helps me to get things off my chest and stay relaxed in the rest of my life.
The band I want to present to you was already twice mentioned in some other articles of my blog I noticed, but this is the proper post about them: I'm talking about Clawfinger. They came up in the nineties during the crossover phase and did blend in pretty well, but it's mostly their direct and political statements they carry in their lyrics that did let them stand out.
One warning though: the direct language they use might be considered blunt and maybe even offensive by some. The message behind it though should rather get you thinking of your own doings if you consider it to be offensive. Here are the songs:
It's just a color and I'm color blind, the only color I know is the color of my mind. There's only one race and that's the human race, and every human being's got the right to feel save.
If you're so sure and you feel secure about yourself and your reality, then why do you need reject and refuse where other people stand sexually?
... and given the choice between your own life and death I suggest that you cherish the time you have left 'cause time waits for noone and we're all growing older.
Like always, enjoy! And maybe also think about it a bit. :)
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Tuesday was a really nice evening. A few weeks ago I found a poster about the concert of [dunkelbunt], and got my ticket only on monday. I was told by the ticket sellers that they still have plenty left. In the end when I turned up at the event at tuesday though the concert hall was fully packed with people and I was told that it actually was sold out. There wasn't much place inside the hall left, so I mostly stood in the doorway to the bar area and enjoyed the music from there.
If you listen to their songs you might get an idea why the music catched me and I started to let the music move my body, literally. It's a great feeling after a tough day, and there were some other nice people around which let the same happen to them so it did feel less awkward for me.
Anyway, if you want to find out if their music can do the same to you, here are some songs to listen to:
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If you have been in Vienna over the last few weeks, you probably have seen it: there was an URL crayoned throughout the city at several places. Noone standing next to it telling you anything about it, just the address. Plain and simple. The address said earthlings.com (or rather, earthlings.de, but it's actually the same).
Curious as I am, I wondered what it's about. And obviously, it wasn't too hard to find out. It's a documentary. But I don't want to say too much about it, I guess I let your own curiosity lead you. All that I want to say is that I consider it worth seeing. And especially worth seeing it through to the end. Definitely got me thinking.
Thanks to the unknown people over here in Vienna who made it possible for me to stumble upon it.
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Happy twentieth birthday, Debian! For the celebration at this year's debconf I wrote this litte haiku. I hope you like it!
Debian OS Twenty years, still relevant This is what we are The base of many But without our great work They could not exist It is an honor To be reused in that way Be proud of your work Enjoy the evening Celebrate with us all night There be poetry
Debian OS Twenty years, still relevant This is what we are
The base of many But without our great work They could not exist
It is an honor To be reused in that way Be proud of your work
Enjoy the evening Celebrate with us all night There be poetry
Hope you had a nice celebration, I truly enjoyed this year's Poetry Night. Enjoy!
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And now for something completely different. No, this blog entry isn't about the great Monty Python's, even though they definitely deserve to be brought to the attention of the still unenlightened. This is about something completely different music style wise.
This is about Caravan Palace. I was recently introduced to this band, and I must say, they definitely have the swing. Just listen to them and feel your feed starting to move along.
I hope you like the selection because I just started listening to them. They might not be the best options, but should get you started to get a feeling for the band.
Like always, enjoy!
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Today is T-Shirt Day. There are many sites supporting the day with special offers, and spreadshirt is no exception: they don't charge shipping (use "tday2013" as gift code).
I started somewhen last year to put together some shirts that I mainly did for myself, but in case you like my ideas, feel free to grab one or another shirt from my spreadshirt shop.
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There is still a lot of things going on inside me and turning, and I'd like to share two words that I grow attached to, one a fair amount longer now than the other, but both are terms that I seem to had lacking in my vocabulary which I tried to explain in a different way. After finding out about them, I noticed that both what I felt and believed were actual things that were not totally uncommon concepts, even though most people wouldn't know about them.
The first term that I stumbled upon years ago was the term of pansexuality. (Do not dare to read the German Wikipedia article. It's ridiculous wrong, insulting and shows that they don't understand the topic at all.) I always had issues to explain my intimate preference to others. Especially after they found out about me being female on the inside. Questions arose (if they understood that I'm open about these things when I post the poem publicly) along the lines of "what are you now: gay, lesbian, hetero—and if the latter, what does that mean?". My usual answer was that I fall in love with people, not with their bodies, and that things will eventually work out if meant to be. And thus even though I love my "Bi" shirt, it doesn't really describe properly how I swing, so to say.
The latter term I discovered just recently. A friend of mine with whom I chat every now and then told me about it, and when we met again last autumn, they wore a button of the Italian community for Polyamory (I so much prefer the Italian logo to the "widely used symbol", to be honest). It was an eye opening moment for me. I often mentioned to people that I felt like I have a big heart, being able to store multiple people in it. It always puzzled me that when I'm together with someone (and I always was faithful) why I should feel bad and especially keep it a secret when there is someone else who touches my heart, too. Society seems to see this already as a breach of trust, no matter whether it gets pursued or not, just the thought is enough. But it never changed anything with respect to the person I was together with, so what's the deal? Finding out about this term explained so much to me and made a lot of sense. It is about honesty and communication, which I see lagging in a lot of relationships these days...
So here you are, getting another inside view on me. And I'm sure that there will be again the one or the other person who considers to use this as ammunition against me, but you know, being open about it acts as a shield. It's not embarrassing for me, never was. And like always, I hope that I can help others feeling similar being lost for words or an understanding that it's not as weird as it might feel.
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I know it's been ages since I last blogged anything at all. To some degree I had a down phase, but I hope to get out of it. It's nice to see that there are people out there who give me a prod every now and then, and don't let me drown. Thanks, most of you probably know that I mean exactly you, and in case you are uncertain, you probably are meant if you contact me every now and then.
Anyway, if you remember that I blogged about Lindsey Stirling last year and you started to follow her you might have already stumbled upon the next band I'd like to present. I'm speaking of Pentatonix. These five humans have terrific voices that they use in a very special way that is quite unique.
I don't want to delay the songs I want to present to you any longer, so here they are:
this is freaking awesome
Like always, enjoy! And hopefully read me again more regularly again.
Dear users and supporters of the backports service!
The Backports Team is pleased to announce the next important step on getting backports more integrated. People who are reading debian-infrastructure-announce will have seen that there was an archive maintenance last weekend: starting with wheezy-backports the packages will be accessible from the regular pool instead of a separate one, and all backports uploads will be processed through the regular upload queue (including those for squeeze-backports and squeeze-backports-sloppy).
What exactly does that mean for you? For users of wheezy, the sources.list entry will be different, a simple substitute of squeeze for wheezy won't work. The new format is:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main
So it is debian instead of debian-backports, and offered through the regular mirror network. Feel invited to check your regular mirror if it carries backports and pull from there.
What does it mean for contributing developers? Uploads for backports are no longer to be pushed to backports-master but to ftp.upload.debian.org, like any other regular package. Also, given that the packages are served from the same archive install there is no need to include the original tarball in the upload any longer because the archive knows it (Squeeze and beyond).
Also, given that the upload goes to the same upload queue, there is only one keyring used anymore, so no more pain with expired or replaced keys. We though still keep the rule of adding your UID to an ACL list (this also includes DM additions). This is mostly only to give us the chance to remind you that uploads to backports are directly available for installation onto stable systems and you thus should take special care there. We carefully tried to take over the old ACLs, in case you can't upload anymore, please tell us so we can look into the issue.
I've mentioned wheezy-backports (and squeeze-backports-sloppy) a few times here already, and you might wonder when it will be available. Technically, it is available from now on. Practically, while you could already upload to it, the set up of the buildd network is more painful than expected, so please allow the Buildd Team some days for setting them up.
The upload rules for wheezy-backports are the same: packages that are in the next suite are accepted. Given that Jessie isn't created yet, we want you to think about whether the package you want to upload will go into Jessie final, and that you are taking a closer look once Jessie is created and the package entered there about the upgradeability. For the time until the suite is available, you can see this as relaxed upload rule.
The same goes for squeeze-backports-sloppy: packages from two suites after Squeeze are acceptable, which turns it into the same relaxed rule as wheezy-backports above. Please also keep in mind that uploads to squeeze-backports-sloppy usually should be accompanied by uploads to wheezy-backports so people are able to upgrade from squeeze-backports-sloppy to wheezy with wheezy-backports.
Finally, we want to thank the FTP-Master Team for their fine work on making this happen.
The documentation on backports-master has been updated, and in case of any doubt or question, feel free to ask them on either the debian-backports mailinglist, or in case of sensitive topics ask us directly.
Enjoy! Rhonda for the Backports Team
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So it happened: the Bug Squashing Party in Essen is done. And depending on your point of view at least I would call it a success.
We had in total fourteen participants. The number of release-critical bugreports touched and processed is not clear, but over 100 bugreports were looked at and either got comments added for clearification, maintainer pinged, unblock requests filed or already filed ones noted down, or NMUed. Given that we are in freeze since a while now and many easy bugreports already squashed by those who aim for a daily fix, I consider this impressive.
There is also the point that we managed to get some people involved that didn't consider themself techy enough to be of help. On the contrary, they were a great help on checking these bugreports with analyzing the discussions in some lengthy bugreports and upstream bug trackers, or trying to reproduce some issues. I can just hope that the weekend left an impression deep enough to keep them in the boat.
All in all, I'm quite pleased of the outcome, especially in the light of several other events catching the interest of potential participants which were going on at the same weekend. Thanks to all the people that stumbled by, and I am looking forward to maybe having another BSP at some point, but then I hope to not clash with so many other events. Thanks!
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Sometimes one stumbles upon artists by accident and immediately falls in love with them. A link to a video from Lindsey Stirling was dropped in a chat I was paying attention to at that time, and it immediately touched me. She's got style, and she's got great videos.
Speaking of videos, here they are:
Dubstep Violin
I hope her plans to come to europe might work out soonish. Enjoy!
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This poem was triggered by a discussion with a special person—not special in the sense I address in the poem though.
My life's hating me But it is not a one-way: I'm hating my life Hate being special I know I can help others But what about me? All quite supportive Respect for my openness And encouraging Though, no step further No clue how to handle me Afraid to ask me Hooking up with me? Suddenly embarrassing Just scolding words left Want to be normal Maybe I'll lie to myself Though that won't work out I am what I am And sometimes it just pains me: Hate being special I'm hating my life But it is not a one-way: My life's hating me
My life's hating me But it is not a one-way: I'm hating my life
Hate being special I know I can help others But what about me?
All quite supportive Respect for my openness And encouraging
Though, no step further No clue how to handle me Afraid to ask me
Hooking up with me? Suddenly embarrassing Just scolding words left
Want to be normal Maybe I'll lie to myself Though that won't work out
I am what I am And sometimes it just pains me: Hate being special
I'm hating my life But it is not a one-way: My life's hating me
Please refrain from asking whether I feel fine, I am in good mood. :) But I haven't written anything in a way too long time, I noticed how little actually during selecting poems for the International Poetry Night during debconf. So I picked up the idea and caressed it until I came up with the above piece about with which I am quite happy. Think about it, and ... try to enjoy.
Potential interesting sidenote, if you wonder: the title refers to this snippet from the first Futurama episode: I hate my life I hate my life I hate my life. :)
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Wheezy is coming closer to the release, there though are still way too many release critical bugreports outstanding for it. Squeeze has already been released, but it has collected even more release critical bugreports than wheezy since. To be able to reduce these amounts I will be at the Linuxhotel in Essen at the weekend from 23rd to 25th of November, and it would be a great pleasure if I could convince you to join me in this effort.
As readers of my blog might assume, my main aim will be those RC bugs affecting squeeze and I would be happy if some people interested to work on those could join me, I plan to give a quick quick explanation about the version tracking of the BTS and why we should care about stable too, but the event will definitely not be limited to squeeze RC bugs. Also, it will be a good chance to improve your key stats for the web of trust in case your GnuPG key hasn't got enough signatures yet or you want to transition to a stronger one.
Please read the Community page of the Linuxhotel for what they offer for accommodation in case you want to use their lodging. Personally I'll go for the two-bed room with breakfast option, but you are of course free to bring your own sleeping bag and mat if you want to cut short on the expenses.
In case of any questions, feel free to ask me right ahead. It would be great if we could help both our stable release and the next stable release during the weekend, and if you could join in! Please add yourself to the wiki page about the BSP.
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I'm not sure if you followed the schedule of this year's debconf closely, but there was an International Poetry Night happening. Given that Mermaids still is quite important for me, but also, that I like to write poetry every now and then, I had the idea spinning around in my head to present Mermaids there. The simple thought of that made me extremely nervous.
Things happened as they liked to happen: the video streaming setup for debconf still was giving me a bit of headaches, and suddenly it was too late to print out the poem because I didn't even had CUPS installed on my new laptop. Also, having reread it recently I noticed that it wasn't flowing too well, so I was uncertain whether it would be possible to properly perform it.
I attended nevertheless. It was rather cosy in El Panal, but still a fair amount of people there. And to my surprise, quite a lot of Debian people were presenting poetry. Some in Spanish, some in English, but also one in Japanese, one in German and even one Esperanto. I had the feeling that I really should present something too. I still was extremely nervous, but during the day I had opened some of my poems in the browser, so I started to write down The Girl and the Boy, and when Fito called me to the microphone, I think most people were able to tell how nervous I was about it.
But it went well. It even went so well that I felt the need to perform another poem. I chose that's what friends are for, quickly scribbling it down in bad light. The choice was easy, given that it is one that means a lot to me and that an haiku already got presented. It was really a nice experience to not only write these poems and publishing them on deviantART and in my blog, but also to present them to a live audience.
Then there was a break. Actually I thought it was over already, but they started a second round. And I somehow liked the way it worked out, so I started to dig for something else to present. I settled for Strange—and Jonathan insisted on translating it into Spanish and present that version, too. His version wasn't in Haiku style, but I think it still was a very nice idea. It seem to have been received well, but given that I don't speak Spanish I can only hope he was able to catch the feelings that I did put into this short piece. I am confident he did well. :)
As final piece I settled for another short piece, this time it was in German, Wahre Liebe. I think I was able to transport the feelings of it with adding pauses in certain spots, although I fear most people didn't get it because it was ... well, in German.
Again, a fair amount of the people who presented poetry were from Debian, actually more than half of it I think. And I am wondering: When will the CfP for next year's debconf open so we can try to establish this event as regular debconf event? And who knows, maybe I'll find the courage then to perform Mermaids.
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It's almost seven years now since I wrote/published Mermaids. It was an important step in my life, confessing publicly what I've found out about myself, how I feel and identify myself. It definitely has been a certain turning point in my life.
A year later, there was the Debconf6 in Mexico, which was just as important. I was wearing a skirt for the first time, and that for the whole duration of the two weeks. It was an enormous feeling of freedom, and I knew I was feeling at home. That was also the time I shaved off my beard.
And since? Well, I sort of limited myself to these two weeks every year. Debconf is my haven, Debconf is my home. Here I allow myself to be myself. Debian is my family. And like in every family, there are people who won't understand, but that doesn't matter. I feel comfortable to express myself in this crowd in the way I feel.
Being abroad seems to help with the confidence, and it seems like it also shines through. I haven't had lots of strange looks. To the contrary, when I went with a skirt to a homosexual acceptance event at home in Vienna, there was a group of gays who were pointing and laughing. Quite an interesting experience, one would assume that people who are wanting more acceptance would be more acceptable and tolerant themselves...
But, I don't think I will ever take the step toward actually turning my body into a female one. It was an important step for me to find out about my inner self, and it actually managed to make me accept my male body; even though I can totally relate to people not being able to understand this—both people not in the situation and people being in the situation and needing the physical adjustment to be able to be happy again. But this is what and how I am: Contents may vary from packaging.
This though has an inherited problem: as I am not (usually) heading for a female appearance (besides my skirt during Debconf), people keep addressing me with a male pronoun, even, or rather especially when using my nick Rhonda. This is something that I consider a fair bit disturbing, especially when it comes from people that I consider to address with the term friends. One would assume that people who you share a fair bit of private life with would be the ones who can understand and relate better than others. But that's where we are, and I also can understand the troubles: I'm not giving them much visual help for fixing their thoughts.
I found the confidence in my body, and like most of you know, I have a son I dearly love (and miss like hell these two weeks), so I know how to use the tools it comes with, frankly spoken. But I won't go the road to adjust my body to be a female one instead, just to convince people that I really am the female person that I identify as. It might be hard for you to understand that, it might be hard for you to accept it—it is also hard for me, to fight for the acceptance that I thought are an inherent part of the term friendship.
I have deepest respect for the people who feel the requirement and have the strength to adjust their body to their mind. It though just isn't the road for me. I already have enough uncertainties in my life to cope with, and I don't need another one to deal with, related to that I might not be able to accept my body after the transition than I am able to accept it now. It's just not important enough for me to find my place. My place is here, my home is Debconf.
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This is the third summary of my squeeze RC bug squashing. If you take a look at the bug graph you will notice that the blue line went up a bit over a two week's period. I would like to claim that confirming the samhain RC bug 618728 did cost me the time (I actually gave it the time to finish), but the real reason was that I was looking at other stuff. I came back with a vengeance though, so here is the list of the bugs squashed for squeeze since the last report:
Current stats: 119 bugs in 93 days, still got the margin up by five more bugs. :)
This is the second entry in my series about squeeze release critical bug squashing. In response to my last blog post it was asked whether this is proper release critical bug squashing. Indeed there haven't been any patches or upload involved in this, only BTS handling, but this doesn't mean that these bugs weren't considered to be affecting squeeze. You can see this effort currently as weeding out the "wrong" bugs so that the list gets more useful and actually be able to ask maintainers to address the real issues.
You can at least see in this graph that the blue line is going down constantly since the year change instead of rising up like before. And I hope I will be able to keep it below the green line for a while still. Also thanks to the release-team and ftpmasters that it was possible to keep the massbugs about waf binary blob not being preferred source for modification out of affecting squeeze and ignore it for the current stable release—the required changes for those would rather be a fair bit intrusive for a stable update.
I am glad that I managed to keep it up and even have a nice margin in case I can't put any effort into it some day but still have more bugs squashed than days there are in the year so far. Currently I am at 60 bugs in 39 days. This gives a warm feeling. :)
The following announce is lazily copied from Paul Wise's announce. There is only one thing I like to add: the screenshots that are submitted and collected on screenshots.debian.net are visible on the packages websites (both Debian and Ubuntu) and are also used by the software-center package, so they help people to get a first impression of the package they might want to install.
Have you ever wondered how to start getting involved in Debian/Ubuntu? Do you enjoy discovering new games and playing them? You might want to come to the games screenshot party! We hope that the party will be a fun, easy, low-commitment way to get involved.
The Debian/Ubuntu Games Team is organizing a half-day screenshots party on the weekend of 25th-26th February for creating screenshots for all the games that are available in Debian/Ubuntu.
If you are interested in attending, please add your availability to the poll linked from the announcement so that we can get some idea of attendance and when is a good time for the people who are interested.
Look forward to lots of game playing, screenshots and merry time, hope to see you all there!
As sort of new year's resolution I started picking up the habit to work on release critical bugreports for squeeze again. The number is way to high to be healthy, but at least it is (still) below the amount of release critical bugreports for unstable.
It will be an uneven fight because it seems that there are quite some people working on weeding out release critical bugreports in unstable, but those who are interested in weeding out releasing critical bugreports in stable seems to be limited, even though it is one of our supported releases and thus should receive quite some attention, at least by the corresponding package maintainers themself.
So here is the list that I managed so far:
That makes 29 squeeze RCs squashed so far, I hope I can keep up with it.
No, my blog isn't dead, and neither is me. It's just that way too many things happened since this year's debconf that got me a bit off tracks. I managed to do daily business like keeping my packages in shape and the backports queue low, and that was mostly it.
No clue if that will change anytime soon, but I guess I would like to keep you updated with an event where you can meet me next week: There will be the Global 2000 Birthday Party going on in the WUK on Thursday 20th, so if you happen to be in Vienna at that time, drop by and enjoy some great bands.
... which brings me to one of the local bands from Vienna: Heinz aus Wien. They are around for well over 10 years now and are still rocking quite well. Here are some examples of their songs, like always:
Another month, another Games Team IRC Meeting happening. This time it was decided to have it again on Sunday, the time was set to 10 am UTC. To find out the time in your localtime, issue date -d '2011-06-26 10:00 UTC' in your shell. The agenda can be seen as always in the wiki.
date -d '2011-06-26 10:00 UTC'
If the time or agenda doesn't fit your ideas, feel free to join our mailinglist to be informed about the discussion of agenda and time for the next meeting and raise your voice at that time. Please notice that the agenda isn't final yet, you can still drop your ideas for that.
Enjoy, and join if you care about improving games packaging in Debian and influence future development!
Martin Pitt announced packages of PostgreSQL 9.1 Beta 2 in his blog. Following this, I am hereby announcing the availability of pgadmin3 version 1.14.0 Beta 1 which amongst other things has added support for PG 9.1. You can find it in Debian experimental and backports for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10 and 11.04 in my pgadmin3 backports for stable Ubuntu releases PPA.
This is a very special person. He is a very well known songwriter, at least in German language countries because he sings in German. He was that special kind of person with his lyrics when I was still a kid, and is still around continuing to write his songs in his very own special way. This person is Reinhard Mey, and if you understand German and have missed him so far, you have missed a lot.
The songs that I present to you are special in the way that they are all contained in the special compilation titled Mein Apfelbäumchen. The dedication he wrote for the album is also very special:
Mein Apfelbäumchen
Ich glaube, Kinder zu haben ist das aufregendste Abenteuer, das wir erleben können. Es ist der schwerste Beruf und die größte Herausforderung, die ich mir denken kann, und die glücklichste Erfahrung zugleich. Ich bin dankbar dafür! Dies sind die Lieder, die ich bis heute dafür geschrieben habe. Mein Anteil aus dem Erlös dieser Schallplatte gebe ich der Hilfe für krebskranke Kinder.
Hilfe für krebskranke Kinder
Rough translation: I believe that having kids is the most exciting adventure that we can undergo. It is the hardest job and the biggest challenge that I can think of, and at the same time the happiest experience. I'm thankful for it! These are the songs that I wrote up to today for it. My part of the revenues of this record go to Help for children with cancer.
Help for children with cancer
So here are the songs:
Enjoy! And if you feel like it, support these kind of special people.
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Whenever someone asked me about a calendar application, especially for the textmode, I always encouraged them to give pal a try. I always loved the looks of it, the interactive mode is helpful, it has HTML output format to inject the calendar into a webpage, mail output format for a daily reminder cronjob, and other useful features. I even created a file with the Austrian holidays for it which got included in the original project for the benefit of all its users. If you haven't tried it yet and are looking for a calendar tool with support for very flexible recurring events and categories, this might be a good look.
I am still happy with pal, though someone recently suggested a different tool on IRC, and that was wyrd. From a quick glance it looked promising, so I started to dig into it. My first task was to convert the former mentioned pal file for the Austrian holidays into remind format. remind is the backend for wyrd, and its definition language seems to be extremely powerful. It though took me a while to figure out how to put in Easter date related events into it, the examples weren't really hinting me in the right direction. This is part of what I am using now: REM [trigger(easterdate(current())-47)] +6 TAG noweight MSG Faschingsdienstag %b
REM [trigger(easterdate(current())-47)] +6 TAG noweight MSG Faschingsdienstag %b
The look and view of wyrd is different to pal in several ways. Where the granularity of pal is a pure day view, wyrd scales in hours (or half, quarter thereof). Also, wyrd offers the possibility to color the days differently by busy level. Of course it's possible to exempt tasks from adding weight to a day. pal on the other hand is able to color events differently by category.
Decide yourself what you actually need, test it, and ... enjoy!
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Sometimes people will tell you what you should do. Sometimes they will even shout at you for simply asking a question on why they want something done because it isn't clear just from itself. And others likes to jump the boat and join in just for the fun of it...
Gladly, this is MY life, and I choose how much abuse I'm willing to take, especially for a voluntary work that I didn't even enroll for but got put into. Sometimes through my dedication to getting quality into things and seeing that others simply neglect these areas, but they need to get addressed anyway, no matter how little respect is shown for people investing in these boring areas.
The topic of It's MY Life is an old one and thus it is no surprise that a fair amount of songs surrounding it popped up over time. In my previous blog entry I wrote about different interpretations, some responses seem to hint that I wasn't clear enough about that I really meant different interpretations of the same lyrics, not just regular cover versions.
The following set of songs is special in a different sense: It is about the same song title and thus does also cover different bands.
Like always, enjoy! And think about how you interact with others. I know that I'm sometimes crossing a line myself too, no one is perfect. What though makes the difference is the willingness to learn, and especially: To excuse. But in the end: It's MY life!
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Mostly everything in life boils down to the same troublesome issue: people are reading different things into what they read, and interpret them regularly in a way it wasn't meant to. It seems that in certain areas a culture of interpreting things in a bad way instead of good or asking how they were actually meant has established the rules of (not) working together but rather against each other and around each other. At times I would like to account it to language barriers, or cultural differences, but it happens with people from all areas so that reasoning would be too easy.
Even artists manage to do that, and in that certain area it creates something extremely creative and thoughtful. This blog entry thus contains three songs—and six videos: Two different interpretations of the same lyrics. Maybe this is able to stir some thinking process whether the interpretation that one found for a given situation might be biased or even just looking from the wrong angle.
One thing I'd like to mention, and that is two cross references to former blog entries. For the first song, James Iha played as guitarist in The Smashing Pumpkins before he joined A Perfect Circle. The second cross reference is with respect to my former blog entry about the Wise Guys: They did also cover Mad World, in the Gary Jules' interpretation but of course in a capella.
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There is a whole business around books with worldly wisdoms. They get bought as gifts for friends to cheer them up, they are meant to help one through hard times. I though see a big issue with them:
This chicken-egg issue is a real pain here.
As Evgeni Golov already blogged, there is going to be the next round of a IRC meeting of the Debian/Ubuntu Games Team on the upcoming Saturday. This time it will be held at April 30th at 12:00 UTC in #debian-games on irc.oftc.net, so if you are interested in bringing the Games Team up to pace again, want to join and wonder how you could help, please attend. The agenda contains a fair amount of leftovers from the first meeting, please see Meeting Page about it.
My brother did invite me to the concert of the Wise Guys, a German acapella group. They are one of those special groups who are able to give a cheering live show and have this special cheek-in-tongue humour in a fair amount of their songs. This is the selection that helps me keeping my mood up though, you are invited to dig further.
Hope you are able to appreciate them as much as I am. At least they are able to cheer me up a fair bit.
If you weren't online last Friday you probably have missed the big news announcement on the various community distribution websites. The main pages of them got replaced by a placeholder announcing the birth of The Canterbury Project. People started to wonder whether it is an April fool's prank or for real. This blog post is meant to shine a bit more light on it and address one comment received about it.
If you go to the news item on the Debian site you'll get your answer about that it indeed was an April fool's prank. The idea for doing something in coordination with other distributions came to me when I thought about last year's (or was it already two year's ago?) prank that the various web cartoon sites pulled: they replaced their main page with the page of another cartoonist. My original idea was actually along that lines. So I started to dig up website contacts from different distributions, I was aiming at the big names in the community distribution sector.
Given that my time is pretty limited these days with renovating the house we plan to live in soonish I knew I had to let in others in within Debian. I though didn't want to involve too many people, for several reasons: it should be a surprise to as many as possible, but more importantly, I didn't want to shy away other distributions by an overwhelming Debian involvement. That's also part of the reason why I didn't contact many Debian based distributions.
So first contacts where made, a dedicated IRC channel used for coordination, and people involved joined in. Then the thing happened which the Free Software community is so well known for: additional ideas came in, two people independently addressed me whether it wouldn't be better that instead of a circle replacement of the frontpage, why not display the same page on all of them. And one of them added that a corresponding news item might make sense.
So there we were, having to think about text to put into two things: the news item and the replacement page itself. At this stage Alexander threw in a project name with a background that was adopted. Francesca started with an idea for the news item, I started to put quotes in and asked for ones from the other involved people that fit their distribution well. Klaas came up with a template for the replacement page that we tweaked. Fortunately we ended up being five distributions and the colors of the banner did match the distribution ones rather well (except for one, we had to tweak the color of one banner).
We were all set, and actually everything went fine. And it definitely caught the attention. This blog post goes out in thanks to the following people:
I hopefully haven't forgotten anyone. There surely were some more people involved in the other distributions, and I guess the named people weren't aware of all the ones involved inside Debian. Feel free to drop missing names in the comments.
Finally, let me address one concern raised: someone claimed that the real joke with this prank was that we would consider collaboration to be a joke. Actually, the total opposite is the case here. That it was possible to pull it off should be proof enough that Collaboration Across Borders actually is possible. And the background information put into the news section of the replacement site is real. Also, my personal quote in the news item was meant dead honest. I do believe that DEX has a limited point of view and only tackles part of the problem.
Collaboration Across Borders
Unfortunately, for such efforts to really come to life it takes people with a really long breath and dedication to it. Efforts like the VCS-PKG and the Freedesktop Games effort are more or less stalled. Even though a lot of people do believe in stronger collaboration to be a good thing, the basis is not working out too well. I'm in the fortunate position that for some of the packages I maintain there is exchange between packagers from different distributions to avoid common troubles. If it can't be done in the big it should at least be tried in the small.
I want to specifically highlight again one part of the updates in the replacement page: the CrossDistro track at this year's FOSDEM. This one was more than fruitful, on several levels. From what I've heard a lot of discussion happened besides the talks too, and connections got established. It doesn't sound unlikely like this might be done again next year.
So again, thanks for enjoying this April fool's prank, thanks to everyone who helped to deliver it, and especially a lot of thanks to the people who this might have got thinking of possibilities to improve on the collaboration front!
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Yesterday I was hinted towards lxc when I wondered what happened to openvz in unstable (which unfortunately isn't documented at all in the kernel changelogs, but that's a different story). So I started off taking a look. From a bit of experimenting around with it I consider it something that I want to play more with, and I want to share the problems I stumbled upon with you so that you don't have to figure them out on your own.
First of all, LXC uses the cgroup kernel facility for resource management. The according file system isn't mounted by default, and LXC doesn't care for where it is mounted, it just needs to be. It seems like /sys/fs/cgroup seems to be the proper place (see 601757), so add the line cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup defaults 0 0 to your /etc/fstab file and sudo mount cgroup it.
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup defaults 0 0
sudo mount cgroup
Next, it seems like bridging is the defacto standard for networking with lxc, but given that I want to use it on my notebook while being mobile I can't bind the bridge to any specific interface. To make this happen, one needs the bridge-utils package installed, and secondly, this is the path that I chose. I've added to /etc/network/interfaces this snippet:
auto br0 iface br0 inet static bridge_maxwait 0 bridge_ports dummy0 address 10.80.80.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
This will bring up the bridge and act as gateway. For the running system, call sudo ifup br0. To make the host universally being able to work as gateway, of course ip_forward needs to be enabled. For this I added the line net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 to /etc/sysctl.d/local.conf (and for the running system, echo 1 into /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward).
sudo ifup br0
As I am using ferm for configuring the firewall on my notebook I have to add some parts into its configuration. This is the raw part that needs to get added, mix it into your existing configuration:
table filter { chain INPUT { # allow DNS queries from LXContainers proto (udp tcp) dport domain source 10.80.80.0/24 ACCEPT; } chain FORWARD { # allow LXContainers into the net source 10.80.80.0/24 ACCEPT; } } table nat { chain POSTROUTING { # NAT LXContainers source 10.80.80.0/24 MASQUERADE; } }
For DNS I installed dnsmasq so that I won't have to touch the /etc/resolv.conf inside the containers whenever I switch networks.
So far for the host part, now to the actual containers. There is the /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian helper script which uses debootstrap to create you a lenny chroot—at least in the squeeze package this is hardwired, likewise with using cdn.debian.net. Copy the script and edit it to your likes if you feel like it. From what I understood it expects you to store the containers below /var/lib/lxc, I haven't yet tested for different places. So this was my commandline for that: sudo /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian -p /var/lib/lxc/vm0
sudo /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-debian -p /var/lib/lxc/vm0
A while later you'll end up below that directory with two entries: The config file and the rootfs subdirectory which is actually the bootstrapped distribution part.
Now comes the configuration of the container. Open the config file with your favorite editor and add the following lines to the end:
lxc.utsname = vm0 lxc.network.type = veth lxc.network.flags = up lxc.network.link = br0 # lxc.network.name = eth0 lxc.network.hwaddr = 00:FF:80:80:80:80 lxc.network.ipv4 = 10.80.80.80/24
The network.name part is commented out, it defaults to that name internally; you though can change it to whatever you prefer. Caution, even though this is the documented approach, it does not work for Debian containers. It will always try to get its IP address through dhcp, lxc.network.ipv4 has no meaning for us. We need to change inside the rootfs the file etc/network/interfaces to read like this instead:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.80.80.80 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.80.80.1
I suggest to keep the config and the interfaces file aligned with respect to the ipv4 setting so if this gets fixed upstream you won't stumble into any surprises. Also like mentioned before, we need to change the nameserver entries inside the rootfs file etc/resolv.conf to read nameserver 10.80.80.1.
nameserver 10.80.80.1
Now it's time to start it up and log in! sudo lxc-start -n vm0 -d will start the container in the background, and sudo lxc-console -n vm0 will give you the login to the container. The default password for the root user is root, obviously you want to change that before you install any networking services into the container like ssh-server. In case you want to quit from that console notice the message upon starting it, it's bound to <Ctrl+a q>.
sudo lxc-start -n vm0 -d
sudo lxc-console -n vm0
<Ctrl+a q>
One more issue that I had: The default route wasn't set. I had to manually call ip r a default via 10.80.80.1 dev eth0 to be able to use the network inside the container. It seems to be related to that netbase isn't installed by default. If you install it the default route will be set upon starting the container automatically.
ip r a default via 10.80.80.1 dev eth0
This should get you started, there is of course more to explore and experiment with. Actually it is also suggested to create a tarball from your vm0 after you did the basic setup and installed the basic components you want to have around so you won't have to bootstrap over and over again. Do this after you have shut down the container, either through a halt from a container shell or through sudo lxc-stop -n vm0. The tarball can then get extracted to a different directory and just needs minor tweaks in the config and rootfs/etc/network/interfaces file to not create any clash with other containers (lxc.rootfs, lxc.mount.entry, lxc.utsname, lxc.network.hwaddr and ipv4 address).
sudo lxc-stop -n vm0
About limiting the containers, you can do it dynamically through the cgroup file system, and set it permanently through the config file. See man lxc.conf about these settings, amongst others.
Enjoy, use, experiment. With sudo lxc-checkconfig you will see what your kernel actually supports for your LXCs. You will most probably notice the missing for the memory controller, this is tracked in the Debian bug report 534964.
sudo lxc-checkconfig
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As Paul Wise already blogged, there is going to be a IRC meeting of the Debian/Ubuntu Games Team on the upcoming friday night. It will be held at 18th of March at 21:00 UTC in #debian-games on irc.oftc.net, so if you are interested in bringing the Games Team up to pace again, want to join and wonder how you could help, please attend. The agenda isn't final yet, the doodle poll about it is still open, if you want to put your preferences in.
Another week, though this one wasn't as fruitful as the last one. My excuse here is that I was overwhelmed with private stuff like acquiring a house and starting with cleaning it up so it can become a home.
This is the list for my second week of my stable RC bug squashing:
I know three isn't much, and actually it doesn't impact the list of stable RC bugs not much, we are at 172 open RC bugs against squeeze now. I can only attribute it to that new bugs were filed since, because I am aware that I'm not the only one working on this front, I've been contacted by at least two other people in the last week that are investing some time into this, too.
Mostly for self-reference, the highest reported squeeze RC bugs in the list is 618295. This should help me to get a number of newly reported issues (ignoring severity-bump in lower bug numbers).
Read you next week!
Alright, the stress of the release and its aftermath with respect to the New Website is getting lower. We even were explicitly mentioned for that during the introduction to the category Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software at this year's Linux New Media Awards.
Outstanding Contribution to Open Source/Linux/Free Software
Given that the Webmaster Team is much more energetic and lively these days I will shift a bit of my efforts to stable RC bug squashing again. I came to the conclusion that working on lenny RC bugs doesn't gain much of appreciation or real turnaround, and given that my time is limited I started to switch over to work on squeeze RC bugs. This is the list of bugs that I squashed last week (actually, marked them as invalid/not affecting squeeze):
I hope to be able to keep up that pace for a few weeks (currently there are 168 RC bugs in squeeze listed), and hopefully being able to motivate others to also support our stable release instead of only working on unstable.
I guess it won't be very many people reading this blog to know the name, even though he was without any doubt one of the biggest entertainers. Lots of movies, his own TV show, and an enormous amount of albums made him well known far outside the borders of Austria, his home country. Last saturday he died in the age of 84, yesterday was his funeral. This is a special dedication to him. Peter, you will be missed.
Debian unstable is not conceived as a product for end-users, and for very good reasons. There seems to be some misunderstanding and people trying to push end-users to use unstable. This blog post tries to address the claims raised and put them into proper light.
The critical part here is the term mainly. Yes, developers are advised to only upload packages to unstable that they deem to be suitable for the next stable release. This is no hard requirement though and no one actually playing a gate-keeper enforcing this recommendation. Also, there is a fine amount of packages that follow either VCS snapshots or development branches, and only time can tell how stable those releases actually are. That's actually why there is a delay of several days before a package can transition over to testing.
That's right—but if you look at it, it also means that it does break badly eventually. And if you don't know how to move on from there, including knowing the location of maintainer scripts and how to edit them in those cases, or even resort to a rescue system, you are in troubles.
That's right in itself too, but it doesn't address the fact that those other distributions do put a lot of effort into quality assurance to work around the most nasty and annoying bugs that do affect unstable every other day.
It's not inherently more secure than stable or testing either. And this is also ignoring the fact that some security bugs don't even get into stable or testing, they only affect unstable and have to get addressed just there.
This is the reason that you should ignore as most. People using unstable are often enough deeply involved into Debian maintenance, know how to write maintainer scripts, know where they are located in case of troubles, know how to use a rescue system in case of bootloader or kernel troubles. Just think about whether you would consider yourself to be at the same knowledge level than the person who wrote the blog article you read that used this as a convincing argument.
Conclusion: Stories always have several truths attached to them. If you feel adventurous, like to understand what's going on and have a tendency for digging into things that go wrong, you most probably are using unstable already anyway and are reporting bugs that you find along your way. If you on the other hand rather just want to use your computer and don't want to work around (smaller) bugs every other day, you rather should stick with the release that is actually provided as purpose to suit the needs of end-users: stable.
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It's been over a month already since I last suggested a band, this is overdue. Today because of a discussion this band came back into my mind and I want to share it with you: The Chemical Brothers. So without too much further talking here are the songs:
On 24th of October we've been to the concert of Unheilig. It was actually very touching, even though the sound quality of the venue was disappointing. Here are the common three songs that I usually share about bands that I like to introduce you to:
I am aware that these songs are all pretty emotional and rather quiet. Unheilig has also a much harder side to them. It's just that my current mood is pretty emotional, that's also the reason for this selection.
Like you most likely know, I've been at the openSUSE Conference last week. I've been representing Debian through a talk about Debian - The Project and its Resources, covering services and resources that are usable and useful for other distributions too. The invitation to submit talks were sent to various projects and distributions because of the set topic on Collaboration across Borders for the conference. My impression was that very few distributions have followed the invitation, I am only aware of some Fedora people that have attended. Vincent Untz from GNOME gave a combined keynote with Cornelius Schumacher from KDE.
Debian - The Project and its Resources
Collaboration across Borders
The abstract of my talk and the slides are available from the conference website. The talk was well received and interested people also asked about some of the services like how our buildd network works, or whether the screenshots service has support for localized images too, or if it would be expandable for more general usage of non-Debian based distributions.
One topic raised was with respect to the whohas tool: A mapping layer/tool/database for package names. We divert from upstream naming schemes for consistency reasons, like with our library, Perl and Python naming schemes. Other distributions have similar approaches but a different naming scheme. To make inter-distribution tools really useful it would require to have some layer that is able to map the package name from one distribution to another one. One idea for it that was thrown in was to use upstream homepage, but not all packages do have proper homepages, some only live in some git repository, others would either like to link to sourceforge's project page instead of the project's homepage, and other tricky issues. Something unique is clearly called for here and needed to get stored in the package's metadata.
Apart from my talk and the occasional mentioning of openSUSE is on my desktop, but I run Debian on my server I noticed that the beverage of openSUSE is their own beer. Taste is a tough topic, personally I rather prefer our Debian wine. And I missed the chance to seduce them into playing Mao, I forgot to bring playing cards along. I hope to get a second chance at anoter event.
openSUSE is on my desktop, but I run Debian on my server


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The objective of this web site is to distribute the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) products. ITRF94, ITRF96, ITRF97, ITRF2000, ITRF2005 and ITRF2008 solutions are available for download. It also contains the description and list of all the IERS stations.
A map server is available here to familiarize users about ITRF and help them to work with the products. The request for ITRF coordinates has also been simplified by the introduction of new web site tools.