towards the geospatial semantic web

Just a very short blog to express my frustration about using LaTeX under the new Ubuntu 9.04.
For general text editing, vi is perfect but when I do some LaTeX editing, I like using an IDE.
Here my experience under Ubuntu:

• Texmaker: Every time you compile, the focus on the editor window ist lost and you cannot go on editing your file without closing the application an re-opening it.
• Kile: Crashes every once in a while without any useful information about what happened, and of course you lose your modifications
• Lyx: Nice but I just want a text editor and no wysiwyg
• Emacs: keyboard shortcuts drive me crazy

Finally, I am reinstalling Ubuntu 8.10 where both Texmaker and Kile are working perfectly. No time to wait for some fixes.

Saturday, 8. December 2007. Turning off all lights from 08:00 PM to 08:05 PM to protect the environment.

Did you hear about the German initiative "Deutschland schaltet das Licht aus" (Engl: Germany turns off the lights)? If you are German and you are a Google user, you might have noticed that the German Google Page was kind of different today...

Turning off the lights to protect the environment, I do like the idea and I did it. At 08:00 PM, I turned off all the lights in my flat. I went to my window to see if other people were taking part to the action; and I did actually saw whole flats become dark! But still, a lot of lights were still to be seen in Kaiserslautern. Whether this means that people were not informed or simply are not interested in the cause is difficult to say.

Nevertheless, nice action!!!