Tag: friends

Broken appointment


A Broken Appointment
By Thomas Hardy
6/2/1840-1/11/1928
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. –
Yet less for loss of your dear presence there
Than that I thus found lacking in your make
That high compassion which can overbear
Reluctance for pure loving kindness’ sake
Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum,
You did not come.
You love not me,
And love alone can lend you loyalty;
– I know and knew it. But, unto the store
Of human deeds divine in all but name,
Was it not worth a little hour or more
To add yet this: Once, you, a woman, came
To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be
You love not me?

I’m sorry, while I don’t love you, I still like you very much and am truly sorry about missing our appointment the other day.

Next xopus

,imagWe at Q42 have been extremely busy making Xopus ready for release. At
this moment we feel confident we have a worthy beta version. At the end
of this week we will ship this beta to you and others.

congrats guys, i’m looking forward to trying it out.
UPDATE sjoerd has a picture of the debugging process. next time im there, i will urge these guys to try CVS 🙂 oh, and cool debugging technique.

Urbachtal chillout

it is high time we spend an extended weekend in the most savage swiss valley again. who is game? so far i know from

  • gnaegi
  • asti
  • stoege

we are shooting for around the first of august. leave your comment below if you are interested (with dates you are available). for those not part of the original crew, see below to get an idea.

bahrainBlog

The typical television commercials we get to watch on the now 10s of satellite channels and ALL of the terrestrial channels in the Gulf I think are so low in creative quality, that they verge on the obscene. Add to the fact that most if not all seem to be targeted to “sub-intelligent” viewers – meaning the Gulf Arabs in particular – that they are downright demeaning.

finally, a voice from the middle east. welcome, mahmood. it seems that the rss feed in xaraya beta is broken, what better incentive to fix it than to enable a friend to reach the world. consider it fixed 🙂

Quack

<miko> gregor you’re such a geek 😉
miko wonders when gregor will start speaking in XML
<miko> would be no problems with interruptions tho cos everyone would have to wait until the </comment> tag
<drew> That won’t be long.
<gregor> i would have long ago, but can’t make up my mind whether i should emit atrtributes or elements
<miko> and getting last word would be easy with </argument>
<miko> hehe oh dear
<gregor> hm, i should reserve a namespace
<johnny> gjr ?
<drew> gregorspeaksxml.com
<johnny> that’s not specific enough
<gregor> xmlns:quack=”http://greg.abstrakt.ch/2003/speech&#8221;
<johnny> quack 🙂 hehe
<johnny> you need a personal namespace though
<johnny> unless you wanna share your namespace with the rest of us 🙂
<johnny> then we can all quack
<miko> see we laugh but i bet he goes and does it 🙂
<miko> that would make us quackers
<gregor> the incentive is there for sure