…I think it’s cool that somebody at Radio Bremen translates each month’s news into Plattdüütsch and Latin. Such things only happen when commercial interest is not at the forefront of everyone’s mind.

Josie’s doing something with kids tomorrow, and she needed a word puzzle. I made her one. No. I made her a program to make any number of them. :) Like this one:

KJAPANINAW
ACOUSLAPDO
NIUSBELEUR
GPRDIPPAPC
ASOUDEHCTE
RBCBHGAERS
OEKYMOUSET
OOEALEHLIE
WIRIJSELAR
CATNGMHIDU

I’ve attached the Python Find the word …

I challenge you to come up with a shorter/simpler piece of code that executes the Sieve of Erathostenes than this Python snippet:

N = 1000
candidates = range(2, N+1)
i = 0

while i < len(candidates):
    candidates = [n for n in candidates
        if n % candidates[i] != 0
        or n <= candidates …

Just now, I was thinking about which weekend I’d have to reserve to go to LinuxTag, which will be taking place in my current home town, Karlsruhe. Turns out that I don’t even need to decide that: They will be charging 35€ to get in this time around …

Think anagrams. ‘Nuff said. :)

If you ever thought about shopping at K&M Elektronik, don’t do it. They suck. Here’s why:

I bought a wireless card from them a while ago, which, over time, bit the bulletkicked the bucket. I am supposing that I was seeing thermal problems, since the card …

I’ve just finished updating this site to Drupal 4.6. It went pretty smoothly, except for some hiccups with the image module. I like the new version, even though not much is different. The slightly changed look of the site might give this away, too. If there are any …

…this out. :)