• [Tech] Quickly traversing an information tree Part 2

    Recently I linked to an entry on LGP's blog on searching a hierarchical data tree. Last weekend I implemented it in blindRSS. I must say, it's really fun to work with, but hell to implement. Here's the SQL queries you need for it: I'm using 'startID' and 'endID' as the...


  • [Cooking] Eischnee

    Kurze Erkenntnis aus der Osterkueche: Eischnee wird besser, wenn das Eiweiss kalt ist. Muerbeteig wird besser, wenn die Butter warm und der Eischnee kalt ist. EOF


  • [Tech] blindRSS V0.4 released

    I just released V0.4 of blindRSS, the single-user, browser-based RSS reader. New Features: - resize browser content on browser window resize - you can now hide feeds that are nested within a directory structure Bugfix: - the complete link to 'mark all messages read' is now hidden if there are...


  • [TechSucks] rsh und die Profis

    Vor ner Weile hatte ich mit nem entfernten Kollegen zu tun. Also raeumlich, wir haben ihn danach nicht entfernt. Obwohl wir vielleicht gesollt haetten... Er hatte folgende Zeile in seiner /root/.rlogin (ja, fast ueberall wo ich hinkommen wird telnet und rlogin/rsh verwendet, nein ich habe darauf keinen Einfluss): + +...


  • [Tech] Approximating the Sinus value [UPDATE]

    Today I've been trying to do some strange stuff for which I needed to manually compute the sinus value of a given angle. A few hours later I succeded in understanding how to do it: The value is incomputible, but you can approximate it (much like Pi). The formula is...