thallian

Not technology related:

A Global History of Architecture: https://www.edx.org/course/global-history-architecture-mitx-...

Only an anecdote from my life, not wanting to prove that you're wrong or something like that:

My family has never owned a car (mother is the only one who even has a license) and in the part of the world where I grew up (Switzerland) that was no problem. I make extensive use of the public transport here as I own a GA, a general subscription which is valid for almost the whole of Switzerland (exceptions are mostly ship lines and mountain railways).

For me it feels quite weird to travel by car because I am so used to take the train or bus.

Maybe I'll learn it someday but for now I have zero need to do so.

In a report from 2006[1] they prognosed a start of normal operations in 2017 with a delay of up to four years but also the possibility of finishing early by one year.

In 2012 they seemed confident to open in 2016, but I can't really find the reasoning for that. As far as I can see there were also cost considerations playing a part in the decision.

Edit: apparently a very difficult Dolostone section was less proplematic than anticipated (again, couldn't find an english source for this)

[1] (in three languages but no english, sorry): http://www.parlament.ch/r/mm/2007/Paginas/mm_2007-04-27_9519...

Georg Trakl, an austrian.

The following was written a few days before his death and is an expression of his experience as a medic after the battle of Gródek in the first world war (translated from german by Eric Plattner & Joseph Suglia):

  Grodek 

  This evening the autumn woods are alive
  with exploding arms, the golden fields
  and blue lakes—and above it all the sun
  unfurls the dark. Night surrounds
  the dying men, the unhinged moan
  of crushed mouths.
  And still, in the willows,
  the red cloud, the abiding God, bloodshed itself,
  begins the harvest in mute fury, the moon’s coolness.
  All roads rupture into black rot.
  Under the golden spray of night and stars
  the sister’s shadow staggers across the acquiescent grove
  to greet the ghosts of heroes, their blossoming skulls.
  And beyond human ears the dark flutes of autumn whisper.
  O noble mourning!—you brazen altars,
  the searing flame of the spirit nurtures a vaster ache,
  the grandsons unborn.

Mam is exactly what I am waiting for too.

It should be in prosody 0.10 [1] (not stable yet) but I did not yet have a change to test it.

(And XEP-0313 is still quite new and experimental)

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/prosody-modules/wiki/mod_mam

XEP-0313 I think: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0313.html

It happened to me when I ran a tor relay (not an exit) on the same ip as a mailserver. There is one rbl that automatically adds you if you do this. Mind you, I've never found a mailprovider using this list (can't remember the name).

+1 for Prosody.

I run it on a much smaller scale with imap authentication and it works flawlessly.

You summed up my thoughts about the language in a much better way than I could. I didn't want to touch it ever (especially after seeing what a coworker got up to with it). Then I built an interest in how to build something on Firefox OS and now I've come to really like it for some things.

Ever since I found out I could program my TI 84 calculator back in a chemistry class, I am fascinated by building stuff.

The first thing I did was writing everything down for the next exam (combined with a simple interface to all the info and things like calculating some simple chemistry stuff) and making sure everyone else in the class had it on their calculators (the teacher never understood where the sudden increase in grades came from...).

I had fun back then and I still feel this way. It is something I can completely immerse myself in (luckily not the only thing) and I just really like doing it.

Always interesting is the page on vinyl myths at the hydrogenaudio wiki: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_%28Vinyl%29

I mainly use vinyl when I want to do the ritual which can be quite calming. But normally I listen to my digital ripps of the stuff.

Yes for the german speaking part. I can't say for the other languages. And these posters stirred quite a controversy back when they were put up.

Edit: seeing as the first poster is in french, I'd guess it means the same there too.

It's 100'000 signatures in 18 months for a federal popular initiative. And I am really glad this one did not make it.

have a look here: http://www.matchstick.tv/developers/documents/supported-medi...

other - A Flame with FirefoxOS

In my experience the jsx stuff works rather nice and looks like html where javascript just happens to be the templating language (apart from some gotchas listed here: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/jsx-gotchas.html). And IMHO it pushes you to build small components which fit nicely together in the end.

But then, I like the full javascript approach from the mithril framework too and I haven't build something complex to date.

Yes, the Owncloud News Reader: http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/News?content=15843...

That's my favourite too. Only thing missing for me is mpd support but that is maybe not an everyday requirement.

I use this one too. After I configured the cronjob correctly it is running smoothly.

I can't really say. Until it completely broke my connectivity I was using the nightly builds and there were sometimes other problems with the battery life (like wireless not really sleeping) so it's not easy to say if the drains were caused by loqui or other stuff.

On the newest 1.2 image I have no data connectivity and can only use it with wifi. As that is normally in places where I have a stationary desktop with a client I am not really using it at the moment.

For Jabber there is loqui: http://loqui.im/ It already works pretty good on my peak :) (although I am not using it that much)

According to the author it should get a new release next Tuesday 15.10.2013: https://github.com/waalt/loqui/issues/54