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Something went wrong (take a look at the prices, the books are exactly the same):

Here is an example on how you could implement Monads in C++. Hrmm... I think I prefer the version of Haskell ;)

Here is a funny way of explaining Monads in Haskell (using Monsters devouring values).

I was just looking around a little bit in the .git subdirectory of a local git repository of mine and found out that some files are VAX COFF executables!

pb@earth:~/DataTrap/git/science/.git$ file ./objects/e5/940c1148ae6050cdc20b5978fa7419b2b093eb
./objects/e5/940c1148ae6050cdc20b5978fa7419b2b093eb: VAX COFF executable

;)

VAX is a pretty old computer architecture which runs operating systems like OpenVMS:

Well, .. in real those are just binary blobs where git stores content in. A joke or by accident? Because OpenVMS' file system has integrated version control in its native file system. Its much simpler than git, but... ;)

I received the following notification from Hetzners monitoring robot just after shutting down one of the my VServers:

==> PING (reminder) <==  
State is now:   ERROR    (00:30h 2010.02.14)
State before:   UNKNOWN  (was over 40 years)

Huge logo of Opera, seen in downtown München, Germany:

I've seen this yesterday in Karlsruhe, Germany:

An uncommon way to express internet bandwith:

You all probably know about the Ruby Scripting Language. Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.

However, some of you probably didn't know about Ruby Cabernet. It's the wine you should drink while programming in Ruby :)

Ruby Cabernet is a red wine grape variety that is valued for its drought resistance if not for the quality of its wines. A cross between Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan, it can produce wines with good color and a pleasant cherry flavor, but is mostly blended into bulk wines.

I have not yet tried it out. The bottle is still closed. I am not a Ruby programmer anyways though :)

I know of a "Hacker Bridge" in Munich! In Karlsruhe they have a "Hecker Street" where all the hackers live!

In the Sedanstreet of Karlsruhe everybody knows Sed:

Here is a poster of the Bourne Again Shell Party :)

If you don't know him: Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a "security guru," he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier.

Bruce Schneier is the Chuck Norris of IT Security, and here are the Bruce Schneier Facts; some funny stuff is included :)

One of my favourite facts: "Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days"

Yet another small website of mine is use.perl9.org. It's a collection of small Perl 5 code snipplets. It also contains Perl fun stuff and Perl Poetry. Here is one of my favourite Poems I wrote:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# (C) 2006 by Paul C. Buetow (http://paul.buetow.org)

goto library for study $math;
BEGIN { s/earching/ books/
and read $them, $at, $the } library:

our $topics, cos and tan,
require strict; import { of, tied $patience };

do { int'egrate'; sub trade; };
do { exp'onentize' and abs'olutize' };
study and study and study and study;

foreach $topic ({of, math}) {
you, m/ay /go, to, limits }

do { not qw/erk / unless $success
and m/ove /o;$n and study };

do { int'egrate'; sub trade; };
do { exp'onentize' and abs'olutize' };
study and study and study and study;

grep /all/, exp'onents' and cos'inuses';
/seek results/ for @all, log'4rithms';

'you' =~ m/ay /go, not home
unless each %book ne#ars
$completion;

do { int'egrate'; sub trade; };
do { exp'onentize' and abs'olutize' };

#at
home: //ig,'nore', time and sleep $very =~ s/tr/on/g;
__END__

Here is a prove, that Perl is better than Python! The prove proves, that you can program in Perl without using a semicolon as well. You don't have to use Python in order to do so! So Perl is at least as good as Python or even better! (don't take it too serious :)