Les fantômes de la guerre civile 
Tanja (ma femme) et moi avons passé quasi une année au Guatemala. Ce merveilleux pays a un lourd passé et n'a pas fini de compter ses morts. Voilà un article du Washington Post qui nous en dit plus:



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Informatiker sind böse! 
Mitra.ch

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No more NoClassDefFoundError or ClassNotFoundException 
While I was desperately looking for the source code of junit.framework.TestCase I found this interesting page. You can download over 3000 of Jar files. Additionally they offer an Eclipse and a Firefox plugin. This is what I call very useful.

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Grace Hopper and the first computer bug 
While Grace Hopper was working on a Mark II computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term computer bug cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, she did bring the term into popularity. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. (see below).



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livingroom.fm 
Zürich has its rundfunk.fm and Basel livingroom.fm. Do not miss "la notte bianca" with Dorfmeister, Bradock, Dixon, Tiefschwarz, Ame, Joe90... on September the 16th at Acqua, Kuppel and Annex in Basel.

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