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Gerhard Polt über seine Liebe zu Tennis … und Selbstbeherrschung.

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From the 16th until the 18th of April 2008 Med-e-Tel, the international educational and networking forum for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT will take place at the Luxexpo in Luxembourg.

Beside various other interesting events, a workshop about Facilitating Collaboration to Facilitate Tele-Success will be held on Friday 18th of April and is split into four different sessions:

• From the Bottom Up: Designing from the User Perspective (Bill Parlette, iPath Association, Switzerland)
• What Else Is Going On? Building a Project Database (Holger Schmuhl, apfelkraut.org, Germany)
• Practical Considerations: Infrastructure, Links and Tools (Erik Blantz, INVENEO, USA)
• Price-Performance via Open Source Tools (Dr. Etienne Saliez, VCT-TK, Belgium)

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You may have noticed in the news that during the last week at least four submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Golf have broken or are experiencing technical problems. For example Guardian.co.uk, BBC.co.uk and Heise.de have reported about it. Unconfirmed sources even talk about up to 8-9 cut undersea cables.

The affected lines are vital to the Internet access of most countries in the Middle East. Due to the breakdown these countries have experienced serious disruptions in their means of communication which were still perceptible even in India. According to Heise.de the available bandwidth in India was reduced by about 60% of its original capacity.

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After one week I performed today a major update of the overview of open source software for the health care sector at freemedsw.apfelkraut.org.

Meanwhile more than 70 FOSS projects are listed and counting … According to the number of visits per day there seems to be at least some interest in this overview (Wed: 40, Thu: 120, Fri: 270, Sa: 130 visits). Thank you!

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If you like vintage photos than The Commons could be worth a click.

It is a pilot project of the U.S. Library of Congress. They digitized images from their collections that have no known copyright restrictions and uploaded them to flickr.com.

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This is also one of my favorite live recordings (1:31 hrs). The concert was recorded in autumn 2001 in Paris and is also available as “Hullabaloo” on CD and DVD in case you need a better quality or want to support the band.

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All those applications at facebook are really a bit annoying. Beside steeling your time and violating your privacy they are only useful to provide some fun and keep you in contact with your friends. But what one application made possible is really exciting. Ok, it was not only the application, it was also the person of Arash Derambarsh who messed around with the French press.

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An overview of open source projects for the health care sector just went online. I created this list out of the need to have an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive list of free medical software. When I was looking for a tool for a certain purpose, I found some listings, but most of them were out-of-date or limited to a particular project type. I was also afraid of digging sourceforge.net or freshmeat.com as it always takes some time to find the right stuff.

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“Damit Sie nicht der nächste sind!”

Dieser Spruch ist im Umriss des Rentners zu lesen, der im Oktober 2007 in der Münchner U-Bahn niedergeschlagen wurde. Die entsprechenden Videoaufnahme wurden nun zu großformatigen Wahlplakten umfunktioniert, um für den OB Kandidaten der CSU Josef Schmid zu werben … nein, nicht NPD.

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Ist uns im deutschen Sprachgebrauch eigentlich noch der Unterschied zwischen Muslim/Moslem (Anhänger des Islam) und Islamist (Islamischer Fundamentalist) bewußt oder verwenden wir die Begriffe mittlerweile synonym?

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