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Ghostwhite is a very useful colour for web spplications. When you consult the colour dictionary you will find out the hex code. For CSS files it is better to use the hex codes, otherwise the W3C validator would complain.

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From a press release of the Commission:
The Commission today moved to the second phase of an infringement proceeding over the UK to provide its citizens with the full protection of EU rules on privacy and personal data protection when using electronic communications. European laws state that EU countries must ensure the confidentiality of people’s electronic [...]

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Found this rant about the social network service Facebook at harmsen.net.
Facebook is worse than useless to you because facebook.com is Facebook’s website, not yours. It is not ‘your’ profile, it is Facebook’s profile about you. Those aren’t your friends, they are a Facebook sanitized version of your friends. It took centuries of political evolution to [...]

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Die Informationstechnik des Bundes bedarf der Konzentration, Standardisierung und Effizienzsteigerung sowie Bündelung vorhandener Ressourcen. Wir werden hierzu den Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Informationstechnik stärken. Wir prüfen, wie die IT des Bundes sich zukünftig an offenen Standards orientieren und dabei auch Open-Source-Lösungen berücksichtigen kann.
Koalitionsvertrag CDU-CSU-FDP

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A Spanish colleague sent me this “net neutrality” definition from a Spanish law:
Citizens have the right to not suffer in their digital sent or received data any kind of manipulation, distortion, prevention, diversion, priorization or delay. The exercise of this right must be independent from the source or target of the communication, from the protocol [...]

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Alternativeto

Alternativeto.net is a very interesting online application. It shows alternatives to similar applications:
AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great alternatives! Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, we make each application into [...]

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I am a Wikidot.com user of the degree “Guru”. Wikidot is a wiki farm, that is an collaborative online content management and editing system. The wikidot platform is developed and run by a few Belgium and Polish software specialists I collaborated with in different business matters. I found Wikidot the wiki system which works best [...]

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The Economist announced that it will switch its online content provision model to a subscription-based scheme:
Beginning October 13th, we will be limiting access to certain sections of our site to subscribers only. Over the past few years, Economist.com has become a hub for intelligent discussion, with news commentary, blogs and an award-winning debate series. We [...]

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Google Wave kommt morgen

Morgen soll es dann so weit sein, Google Wave wird öffentlich. Wieder ein interessantes Werkzeug für die Webgemeinde. Das für mich Interessante wird vor allem sein, dass Google Wave als “Killerapplikation” für Html 5 konzipiert ist.

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Wireless Mesh @ WBM2009

A talk about amazing upcoming technology always gets to the potential of wireless mesh, also known as Freifunk. For many of my friend in the technologist community wireless-mesh networks is old news, and they will explain you for hours why which bleeding edge technology option is preferable. As a concept it fascinated me ever since [...]

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