O'Reilly last month kindly sent me a review copy of the new "Apache Cookbook", and indeed I managed to write a short piece for the PHP Usergroup Switzerland.
Don't know if it's noticeable, but I was actually quite overtired when I wrote it :)

I finally got my new HiFi-equipment.. The gateway drug to audiophility from reson/Audiopur!

Grand cru, indeed.

It's a combo of:
Creek CD50
Creek A50i
EPOS M12 + ST12

I don't have that audiophile (sound's a bit pervert, isn't it..) vocabulary, but the sound of this gem is really superb.

Currently playing: Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, String quartet in d, D 810..

Stunning.

Some days ago I delivered my first SlideML-made presentation for a course I attend.
As far as the content is concerned, the staff seemed to be consenting, but I had my answer to the question "Where ist the Powerpoint file?!" had to be disappointing
I had no point explaining the advantages of open formats, so I agreed to hand in a PDF transformation of my slides ASAP.. well, I hope to satisfy them with my least-effort result, (10 minutes, apparently)... got no feedback yet, though..
I'd thought employees of a CS department might be a bit more open for stuff like these.. bad guess.
Nevertheless, my decision keeps firm: All my presentations are going to be written in SlideML. Period!

My favourite elitist weekly journal, DIE ZEIT has added two very interesting features to their website recently.
First, there's an RSS 0.91 Newsfeed. For a newspaper of their tradition and reputation, this looks quite progressive indeed!
But then, there's something even nicer: On each and every of their content pages, there's a link to its XML representation, which looks like http://xml.zeit.de/2004/01/S__Hussein.
Just replace "xml.zeit.de" by "www.zeit.de" to see it rendered in HTML.. Quite straightforward, indeed.. I have no idea yet what this service might be good for (apart from bewildering their xml-unaware readers, that is), but hey, isn't it just cool?
So if anybody knows a reasonable use case for that new xml service, I'd love to hear about it!