http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog ever heard cubes talk? Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:13:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, this has been freaking me out for the last two days. While **Leonie** has been learning more and more words in the last weeks and usually whispers new words, before she speaks them out loud, there has been one word appearing in her daily speaking, which totally suprised me. > ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2006/06/08/did-google-buy-my-daughther/ As I am receiving quit a few mails and messages on ICQ if I am still alive, I decided it's time to give a little update. It's been one year and two months ago, since my [daughter Leonie was born](http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/03/26/a-little-diva-is-born/) and it was a busy life for me. Not only my ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2006/06/02/system-restore-recovering-life/ Today, March the 26th 2005, our daughter **Leonie** was born. With 8 pounds weight and a size of 53 centimeters, she is pretty large. Black hair and black eyes, very curious to see what is happening around here. And allthough several people came to visit here, she keept calm and ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/03/26/a-little-diva-is-born/ As some may have noticed, this blog has been updated to use the latest release drop of WordPress, known as [WordPress 1.5 aka. "Strayhorn"](http://wordpress.org/development/2005/02/strayhorn/). I have edited all posts and updated them to make use of the [Markdown syntax](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax). Markdown syntax is pretty easy to understand, as most people will know ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/02/28/upgraded-to-wordpress-15/ It has been a bit quiet around my blog lately, sorry for that. I am pretty busy with preparing a Reload of mostly all sites and services **best off** offers these days. As some may know, we have been working on a lot of projects around the topics _accessibility_ and ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/01/17/best-off-reload-2005-part-one/ This evening our mail server **mail.best-off.org** and the **people.best-off.org** site will be down for maintenance. We have scheduled this for 19.00 to 21.00 Central European Time. The file system needs some love and new applications need to be installed. http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/01/07/maintenance-on-fri-07th-january-2005/ It has been a long time since I last have been working on Midgard on the Windows platform and today has been the first time for months that I logged into my Windows development partition again. I upgraded to Visual Studio.NET recently and now it's time to start working on the ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/01/03/mrfc0011/ From time to time, life changes in every aspect. This time it got me. My wife is pregnant, she's in the 7th month now. And as we had hoped it will be a girl. In the last few weeks more and more time in my private life got dedicated to ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2005/01/03/announcing-a-new-family-member/ Just read the notes from Henri Kaukola on running [Midgard with RHEL3](http://www.kaukolaweb.com/blog/midgard_on_rhel3.html). There is a little addendum for those running Fedora Core 3 or RHEL4 beta (or e.g. CentOS 4 beta): you are safe as these distributions already have a working zlib and pcre version available right from the start. http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2004/12/22/midgard-on-red-hat/ Migration of business offices seems to be what researchers, news pages, big players, etc. talk about these days and [this story by The Age](http://www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking/Desktop-Linux-not-costeffective-for-small-firms/2004/12/20/1103391669756.html) describes what a German research firm claims in their study on migrating desktops to Linux using OpenOffice.org. Let me summarize this a bit: Soeren Research claims ... http://people.best-off.org/~dsr/cubelog/2004/12/21/case-studies-for-fun/