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04/26/2006

A keyboard layout for German programmers

The German keyboard layout is excessively stupid. For programmers, that is. The German keyboard It is a QUERTZ layout in which the most notable difference from the standard U.S. QUERTY layout is that the Z is swapped for Y. That in itself isn't the problem. The problem is that the German keyboard needs to contain umlauts (which are necessary in the German language). These umlauts are ...

Posted by Philipp von Weitershausen @ 04/26/2006 04:21 PM. - Categories: Miscellania - 2 comments

04/23/2006

An hour with Pete Seeger

In 1999 and 2000 I lived in the United States, together with my Italian roommate Federico. Here's a little episode from this time that I wrote down way before I even knew what a blog was. In late March 2000, my Italian roommate Federico and I spent about ten days in California. We flew American Airlines and had to change flights in Chicago on both directions. When we arrived at ...

Posted by Philipp von Weitershausen @ 04/23/2006 03:22 PM. - Categories: Personal - 1 comments

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