A Dutch guy might become mayor in Germany, where the mayor is properly elected, no “appointed by the King” as in the Netherlands, and where according to the law any EU citizen can stand in the elections. Quite an advancement on the Dutch situation. Now the only thing that’s puzzling me is why one would [...]
Here’s an interesting article about how a radical muslim group in Indonesia capitalizes on the Merapi disaster by assisting villagers to build up their village to gain goodwill, and how this new goodwill will longterm be a terrorism threat. The article makes sense – as I understand, Hamas in Palestine gained popular support in a [...]
Computer programming code can of course be beautiful. I just stumbled on docco, which I think is a perfect example. The code is simple and clear, but nevertheless very sophisticated. The documentation is excellent. And the idea behind it – a simple script that helps improve the documentation of code – is quite nice as [...]