Uwe Hermann | A slightly paranoid Debian developer

This is sort of a New Year's resolution... In no particular order:

1. Write a book.
2. Learn at least one new programming language.
3. Donate money to (or become member of) either the EFF, the FSF, the CCC, or another similarly important organization.
4. Make use of my rights as a citizen and write letters to elected politicians, urging them to promote certain topics/issues/laws (privacy, democracy, transparency) and to combat others (software patents, voting computers, data retention, mass surveillance and lots more comes to mind).
5. Work on and support selected Free Software projects in my spare time, especially projects which are of a greater importance to the Free Software movement (or the Free Culture movement; or freedom; or privacy; or anonymity; or democracy) than the 158th IRC client or the 276th tetris clone. Some examples: LinuxBIOS, Nouveau, Tor, Gnash, and Democracy Player to name just a few projects. General motto: Choose your battles!

Oh, and one more thing: Do the most important duty as a citizen of any democratic country — help to save democracy by killing voting computers.

Yeah, so that makes six things I plan to do in 2007. Sue me.

IBM has a nice article called UNIX productivity tips. The article mentions this one-liner, which shows the shell commands you use most often:

$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
    471 sl
    222 cd
    217 csl
    155 vi
    140 ..
    112 ls
    106 cls
     70 rm
     64 mv
     58 xpdf

Gee, I didn't know I'm that boring...

Note how I mistype "ls" way more often than I type it correctly. Luckily my .bashrc fixes this for me :)

Update 2006-09-25: When I posted this, I didn't intend to start a meme, but it seems I did: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32

(via Lifehacker)

You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 90% Hulk 65% Robin 65% The Flash 60% Green Lantern 60% Iron Man 55% Superman 50% Wonder Woman 35% Catwoman 35% Supergirl 35% Batman 30%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Bored? Find yourself a paper clip and trade it for bigger things until you get a house.

This Internet thingy is... interesting at times.

(via Boing Boing)

Meme time again... This is the map of countries which I have visited...

OK, so I'm quite Europe-centered...