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Last login: 5 months agoZelob: Philipp is a guy in a relationship from Eschlikon, Switzerland.; Likes 163 pages, 2 videos, 5 photos • 9 fans; Member since Jan 02, 2005

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karalla.com: Dec 11, 2006 7:07am 1 review
http://www.karalla.com/; Go, get them Chunz!

Luftseilban Wasserauen-Ebenalp && Home&Winter: Nov 10, 2006 6:21am 1 review skiing
http://ebenalp.ch/homewinter/; Ebenalp rules.

Make Internet Explorer Standards Compliant Petition: Mar 30, 2005 6:48am 3 reviews cats
http://www.petitiononline.com/IE7STAN/petition.html; Please, please, please... Everybody sign this petition.
Microsoft has to follow the W3C standards, or they are useless!

Mar 29, 2005 11:17am: This is just something I have to share.
I find this really amusing.

As you are aware

As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female ....
("Steady as she goes" or "She's listing to starboard, Captain!").
Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female.
Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow:

Five reasons to believe computers are female:
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1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. The message "Bad command or file name" is about as informative as, "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you."
4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

However, another group of computer scientists (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male.
Their reasons follow:

Five reasons to believe computers are male:
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1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
2. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
3. As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.
4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
5. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night.

Gentleware - model to business: uml tools and services: Feb 21, 2005 9:51pm 3 reviews open-source, ecommerce
http://www.gentleware.com/; The best UML modeler, I've seen so far. The OS X java version still has some annoying issues, though... like a lousy startup time of over 1 minute on my 1Ghz Powerbook.

gModeler.com - free online UML diagramming and documentation tool: Feb 14, 2005 12:31am 2 reviews
http://www.gskinner.com/gmodeler/; Handy tool. :)

http://team.motion-twin.com/ncannasse/mtasc.html: Jan 26, 2005 5:55am 2 reviews
http://team.motion-twin.com/ncannasse/mtasc.html; I just say: Was nice knowing you, Flash MX 2004 Pro, but your time's up! Finally something to replace the slow swf-compiler from Macromedia. This rocks!

Jan 21, 2005 2:02pm: I can't find the answer to this problem:
CMYK is the subtractive color model for printing.
Now, CMY is clear, but K?
K stands for "Key".
Okay, fine. But why on earth "Key"?

I dug around in my beloved Collins and found the following possibilities:

1. It's called "key" because it was the key to get a deep enough black when printing.

2. Key as in "Key move", the correct initial move in the solution of a set problem.

3. It came from Photography/Painting: The dominant tonal value and colour intensity of a picture. (not very logical)

4. In the sense of the "level of intensity". Like: She worked herself up to a high key.

5. From "to key to", to harmonize with

Any takers?