We (the Carpe Noctem Rob­oCup Team) have achieved the sev­enth place at the Rob­oCup World Champ­tion­ships 2006 in Bre­men, Ger­many. It was a great match with fant­astic teams. Thanks to our boss, our spon­sors, and our team!

More inform­a­tion is avail­able here: http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/

Maybe “Artists against the Record Label Lobby Pir­ates” sounds bet­ter? Gov­ern­ments all over the world think about restric­tions of private rights. Some of them already did so, it is an ongo­ing pro­cess. Private cop­ies? No! Record a film shown on tv? No! You’ll even have to instantly for­get every bit of inform­a­tion that was broad­cast (even free to air), if the lobby asso­ci­ations have their way. Even if you go to cinema, you have to tol­er­ate this flat “Anti Pir­acy” ads. Who has bought this bloody expens­ive ticket, I ask you? Who is pay­ing for this ad? Who has to feel guilty if he or she recor­ded a film shown on TV? Well, ok, come down again :)

Today at least some artist asso­ci­ations stroke back. Have a look at the links below. Great cam­paigns, IMHO!

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004589.php
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/72431 (German)

Have a look at this. Even though, Fire­fox is not the ulti­mate browser it is by far the most usable in my opin­ion. Well, ok, they could review the CSS2 imple­ment­a­tion. Fire­fox still doesn’t pass the ACID2 test.

http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19542

Here’s a quite funny poll: http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/. Well, I had to take it instantly and guess what this thing sug­ges­ted me to use? It’s not that dif­fi­cult… really :)

This paint­ing was cre­ated by my cousin who vis­ited me this week. It shows me after real­iz­ing that my mail­box was con­ges­ted because of an email rout­ing loop.