[German] Zum Thema Überwachung

Angucken, drüber nachdenken, scheiße finden, mitmachen!

Sonst leben wir vielleicht irgendwann wieder in einer “demokratischen Diktatur”!

Panopticom (Flash Video/Annimation) (auch hier schonmal beschrieben)

Mogis: Grundgesetz lesen

Du bist Terrorist (gestreamtes Video)

Zeitgeist – The Movie – ist nur sekundär zum Thema, aber eine Verbindung ist da. Auch wenn das eher mit vorsicht zu genießen ist (auch hier schonmal beschrieben)

(teils via. Christan Schneider)

Spam and the Nordakademie

This actually is a pretty funny topic and I really feel that I’ve got to blog about it (though it is quite critic about the Nordakademie, which could get me into serious trouble, as long as I am still enrolled).

At our university we’ve got different mailing lists. For instance, there’s the students@nordakademie – to rule reach them all, there’s also the i, w or b@nordakademie to reach the different faculties. And of course there’s the possibility to write to every class individually. As well as every year, etc (I guess you’ll get the idea).

You could imagine how this could be used for spamming. Anyhow, what I’d like to focus on now is internal spam. Yes, on the one hand there’s a anti-spam engine that actually should prevent spam, but as it always tells you that it actually detected spam, that was intended to get to you, and asks you whether or not it did the right thing to block it (and yes, there is a white list function, but actually it doesn’t work – I regularly white-list those mails that should get to me (i.e. mails from the partner university?!)). So actually instead of getting rid of spam, it doubles the work that I would have had, when everything was actually getting through, and I’d just had to delete those spam mails (which actually you’ll recognize anyhow, without opening – so a tick for each, and a delete all. Pretty easy steps – at least it’s easier than that stupid anti-spam engine).

Still, this is also not the topic – there’s another quite interesting phenomena, about which I’d like to write today.

I’m back in the mail-crypting game

Actually I used to have a key for a long time now – but due to a hard disc crash I lost my private key (Key-ID: 12631E82), which comes unhandy. So for a while now, I was without any key. Now I created myself a new one. So, when mailing me, please make sure, that you actually use my new GnuPG key, whenever possible.

Some “dear diary” stuff

Privately everything is quite nice, now. As I do not have any lectures anymore, I feel really free and relieved. There are just some more exams to do. But for my Diploma thesis I am freed from work, and if I start learning now, every day just 2 hours, I should be very well prepared for the last examinations, even though they are pretty hard!

Besides learning, I started picking up some new and some old hobbies. As already mentioned I bought some books that I’d like to read (and just last week we bought even some more books!). I’d love to start reading again, if possible every day, and if only for an hour, but I really missed it. And I’ve started to soldering circuits. This is a lot of fun, and I hope that I’ll learn a bit and gain the knowledge to design my own funny little circuits with small processors that are programmable.

Besides I’d like to do some programming again. I decided to write some games, just to get into it again. My idol for this project is this little webpage – but I’ll do it in Java and this other language I used to know: Smalltalk. I’ve decided to pick up programming in Smalltalk again, as I started valuing this language just the moment that I was forced to program in Java again.
So I started playing around with Smalltalk the last weeks, and as I disliked VisualWorks, this time I’ve decided to use Squeak instead. It may seem a little strange at the beginning, but it actually is a pretty neat environment, offering everything a (Smalltalk) programmer could dream of.

Next thing I always wanted to do is to publish some of my work. I will revise all my old stuff: term papers, examinations, programs, etc. Besides, I’d like to add some new stuff as well. Best way to learn something is to explain it to someone else. I already spoke about my plans, and I’d even like to go a little further and add a little more. Unfortunately until now I have only plans to do so in German – but to all my English readers: Don’t be sad, there’s a lot of valuable information in your language available in the net (and as far as possible, I’ll refer to my (English) sources).

I’ll pick up traveling again, with my girlfriend. We already visited Sylt on one of the sunnier days. And maybe, after my Diploma we’ll have the possibility to go on our first vacation together. But let’s see about that. And while talking about travelling: This year we’ve decided to go to some events again, and for those we even got ourselves tickets already. So until now, we’ll definitely be going to the Blackfield Festival in Mid-June (with Asp, Faun, Letzte Instanz and Zeraphine. Plus some other cool bands that we know and of course also some unknown bands ). And in October we’ll be rocking to Aps’ new, until know unknown, Album on their 10th anniversary!

Review of the last weeks (concerning studies)

So, some time hast past since my last entries here, because I was really busy with all my studying stuff. I even had to stop my ZTD as I actually did not find any time for it anymore.

But I guess the time was spent well, I’m just waiting for two last results, one of them was horrible, the other quite good, I guess.