Monthly Archives: October 2003

Stefan has a mobile!

Stefan Haefliger bought a mobile. He didn’t even have a good exuse why he needs one (usually people come up with an urgent reason).
It even got a camera in it. Wow! Now my face shows up on hos phone everytime I ring him. Now, if that’s not an important innovation. 😉

Halliburton gets rich (???)

Reps. Waxman and Dingell reveal that Halliburton was paid $2.65 per gallon to import gasoline from Kuwait into Iraq — much more than previously estimated. The Administration’s role in approving these exorbitant prices is questioned.
Letter to NSA Rice (pdf)
Rep. Waxman’s Statement (pdf)

Reps. Waxman and Dingell disclose that the Iraqi oil company SOMO has imported gasoline into Iraq for just 90 to 98 cents per gallon, which is far less than the price of $1.59 or more per gallon charged by Halliburton.

“Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” -Benjamin Franklin

blog upgrade

I changed my blog software from wordpress (it was slightly broken and did not allow comments) to the very fast developing b2evolution (a fork from the original b2). Lets see how this works out.

Knowledge Reuse

Now that we started to research on Knowledge Reuse in Open Source Software Development, things are progressing faster again. Today we discussed whether the term reuse limits our focus too much. We played with a thesaurus and tried to come up with alternatives and discussed if they would be appropriate, what the [dis]advantages were, etc. We’ve come up so far with Knowledge…
… Reuse, … Diffusion, … Disemination, … Replication, … Recycling, … Recovery, … Adaption.
So far we are staying with Reuse but this brainstorming session has indeed helped us to identify fine grained differences about how knowledge can be reused.

PLS

Note to myself: My professor mentioned PLS (partial least squares) as a method to consider for our analysis. I know nothing about it (yet). First link I found about it, is here.

Bachelor

My girlfriend Almut und I used to joke about couples who complain if they can’t meet every weekend (we used to live quite distant for some time in the beginning and saw rarely). Now she left me to be away for 5 days and I already feel lonely on the first day. *Sigh*
On the other hand I ‘ve already prepared a stock of beer, cigars, garlic buttered bread, and snus next to my desk, all the smelly stuff I usually avoid…
So expect some more active chatting (and coding?) from me during the couple of next days.