EU Parliament video stream is not open

I recently discovered the EU parliament life video stream. But I found that there is no open standard. They only provide WMV and MPEG4. This sounds weird, because the EU ist struggling for year against Microsofts monopoles in different sectors. But when it comes to the coverage of the heart of the EU they depend [...]

Fedora Community

Max Spevack hold a talk about the Fedora Community on 2009 FOSDEM. Which I suggest you listen first before reading on:

Essentially I think Max grabbed the “Community” at the wrong handle. He elaborated a lot about how Red Hat and Fedora  work together and ow they enable people to build uppon [...]

Pointer to DFD report

Ah and btw. as I organized the DFD in Kiel 2009 – here is the report.

The future of books

In the sight of the Internet people have though about if books have a future – and if so – how it will look. I have been following some broadcasts like the Daily Show for some months now from Germany – where you see a lot of people who present their new books. Often it [...]

My take on Sarah Palin, conventions and stuff

I have been following the US elections for a while now. From the outside perspective of Germany I can say that somebody like McCain would not get more than 3% of the votes here, really. Not that we would not have conservatives here – but even the Conservatives here are more like Democrats in the [...]

SFD 2008 goods have arrived in Kiel

SFD 2008 goods have arrived in Kiel
Ursprünglich hochgeladen von tpfennig

Photo of the SFD stuff for 2008 that arrived today in Kiel (Germany) from China.

This is how houses are managed by WVB Centuria

I have made some photos to document how WVB Centuria manages houses. Every rain shower we get the cellar gets wetter and wetter – and sometimes on huge rainfalls it looks like that:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tpfennig/tags/wvbcenturia/
Years went by, we often told them to change things but still nothing happened.. So now they get some publicity. So [...]

Isaac Hayes dead

By the time I get to Phoenix. he was a Great musician. Listen

I love you Ireland

Thank you for voting against the Treaty of Lisbon! You are my new heroes. This treaty is against the people in the EU and without you we could not have stop it.

European view on US elections

I have been watching the primaries and debates that are ongoing right now before the elections. And as a european some things look weird to me – The things I found strange are:

No candidate on the republican site really states that creationism may not be tought in schools – the most radical postions I [...]