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Bush supports an amendment to the constitution that would ban gay marriage. This I really do not understand? I thought the constitution of America was there to protect the right and equality of all its citizens? Life, liberty and the persuit of hapiness, my ass. 'the persuit of hapiness as long as it fits within a certain person's view on the subject. I mean, I'm not pro-gay, but I'm not anti either. I can understand a reluctancy against a gay couple adopting a child, because the child might be at risk in some way or another.. but marriage? Who will it hurt when gay couples marry? nobody. America, the land of the free… yeah right.

Bush is becoming more and more pathetic in my eyes each time he opens his mouth. The war on terrorism bullshit excuse to invade a country he has been itching to invade. Weapons of mass destruction propaganda. Islam propaganda. Gay propaganda. I'll tell you.. if somebody decided to take Bush out, I'd be partying out on the street. Unbelievable that in this day and age there can still be so much fear and hate for the unknown.

Can't pick on the blacks anymore? Doesn't matter, there's always the gays! This is the worst president of the U.S yet.

Added some pictures to the page about me

I had to repackage Proms v0.10 about 6 times because every time I'd find a new bug in the installer or something else which didn't show up during the testing.. but it's finally here: Proms v0.10.

Version 0.2 of the GDB Debugging: A quick introduction article.

ESR, also known as Eric S. Raymond wrote an open letter addressed at the CEO at Sun containing a 'plea' to set Java free. Simon Phipps of Sun responded to it in an interview in PCPro. To this letter ESR replied again.

Now, I don't really care about Raymond's personal oppinion, nor do I care about Sun's. What I do care about is the way Raymond is assuming in his letters (as well in daily life) that he is the voice of the Open Source community. Or as he would rather see it, the Open Source Dictatorship with Raymond as the headhoncho. Where does this piece of sh…. wait, let me first cool down a bit before I continue… Where does he get off that he can speak for any of the Open Source community? Check out his carefully (*ahem*) chosen wording: "We don't presume to dictate Sun's strategy. But what we do require of anyone before we will accept them as a 'friend of the open-source community' is…". Well, thank you very much, Raymond, for deciding for me what the definition of a 'Friend of the open-source community' is. Thank you for not accepting their friendship and putting the whole open-source community to shame with your conduct against a company who has done a whole lot more for the community than most companies. The way I see it is: There's the enemies (bent on destroying open source), there's the neutrals (perhaps using open-source and propriety but not contributing) and there's the friends (those whose contribute). So.. that makes Sun a friend of Open-Source in my oppinion, Raymond.

Raymond always had this thing for playing god amongst the community. He seems to get his kicks on by being an extremely obnixious 'voice of the open-source community'. Well Raymond.. my question to you than, just as you posed for Sun: Who the hell are you to decide that you are our voice? And don't slap that 'I never said that' shit on me, 'cause it's evident from your conduct in the last years. And you've also never protested against being called that in articles, so you can't use that excuse now either.

Eric S. Raymond… What an asshole.

Although I was pretty satisfied with the previous design, other people weren't. Especially for them, I've designed a new look for this page and put it online. Okay, okay, I was screwing around in the Gimp during some stray hours and worked up this rather nice design by accident. Then, you know, I just had to implement it.

An article on OSDN DevChannel describes various Rapid Application Developement tols for Linux. It's in three parts: Part 1 (Database Frontends), Part 2 (Visual Linux Basics) and Part 3 (More RAD tools). It doesn't feature all there is about RAD for LInux. I know this because I once conducted a fairly in-depth research into them and found a whole lot more than described here. I'm also not really satisfied with the type of programs listed here, since most of them aren't even RAD. Still, there are a couple of nice progams linked here which you might want to check out.

There's an interesting article at the Linux Gazette about writing efficient C programs. It's mostly just general tips about programming, not really technological in-depth. Still makes a good read though.

Late monday I started my last internship at East Site. We (Ralph and me) will be working on a research project covering new meta-data content-types for their Content Management System Coherence. I can't reveal too much here, since we haven't signed any secrecy documents yet, but it seams to be very promising. East Site, for as far as I can tell from working there one week, is an extremely relaxt company to work for. The people are great (as long as you've got juggling-skillz yo) and are extremely knowledgable. I think I'll enjoy working there for the next half year.

In the meantime I'm having a hard time adjusting to the work schedule. Not that East Site doesn't maintain flexible working hours, but it's just that I have to travel from far and that's severely cutting into my sleeping time. Not to mention my hacking. Still, I've managed to get some work done on Proms. It's finally register_globals=off compatible, and I've been rewriting some of the sorting mechanisms. Bugfixes are plentiful too. Release will be here soon.