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2010-07-26: Follow-up

Some of you (well, me) may be interested in a follow-up to my entry from last October: I never did attend one of those conferences, but I know where they would have taken place.

Oh, the follow-up should also apply to MTV.

On a totally unrelated (but at least slightly relevant) note, David Mitchell almost made me reconsider my position on the whole Burqa situation:

[...]In a free society, people should be allowed to do what they want wherever possible. The loss of liberty incurred by any alternative principle is too high a price to pay to stop people making dicks of themselves. But, if people are using their freedoms to make dicks of themselves, other people should be able to say so.

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2010-07-17: Rebuilt by German engineering

As I was starting up my VMWare virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 r2 (Unity mode rocks, by the way) which was running on my RDP connection launched from a Citrix desktop in a first-class train ride from Berne to Geneva, I had to launch an unconfigured Internet Explorer, which had a default start page pointing to MSN.com.

Fortunately this was the case, because otherwise I wouldn’t have heard about Bono’s spine being rebuilt by German engineering.

With all the doubt that comes with developing solutions to needs that didn’t exist two years ago, I still strongly believe in medical advancements that save the people who entertain us every day. It’s just far more difficult to draw a line here than at other luxury goods (of course I don’t need an iPhone 4, even though Apple loves me).

MTV.

Now let’s just quickly find a cure for cancer, then let the machines do the work for us!

Somewhat related.

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