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Entries from November 2006

New session reports

November 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I just posted the 5th session reports for my courses:

Einführung in die analytische Philosophie
Sprache und Welt(en) 

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World Inferno Friendship Society - Regensburg 2006

November 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Yesterday it was time again for the party of the year: World Inferno Friendship Society visited Regensburg and brought with them a birthday child - drummer Ben Kotch - HAPPY BIRTHDAY again!
They were only sextet yesterday, which is a pity (the big big BUT comes later on) as the brass section is simply so amazing [...]

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Tags: Diary · Dunja · Music

Wiki for my courses

November 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Few weeks ago I made wikis for my courses:

“Sprache und Welt(en)”
“Einführung in die analytische Philosophie”

There will beside other things be protocols of the meetings and the material, like folies or handouts. People can also discuss there.

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Finished studies? - Hell, no!

November 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Yeah, it was a crazy year so far, I finished my final thesis in computer science/math, I wrote my final thesis in philosophy, made my final exams in philosophy, began to work at the faculty at the same time.
The last weeks were full of preparation for my written (Pyrrhonean Skepticism) and my oral exams (Mill’s [...]

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Tags: Diary

Resistance at University Passau - Die Nachfrager

November 12th, 2006 · No Comments

Es gibt eine neue kritische, politische, studentische Hochschulgruppe an der Universität Passau: “Die Nachfrager”.  Die politische Stimmung der Hochschulgruppen in Passau ist tendenziell außerordentlich konservativ und neoliberal geprägt, was nicht zuletzt auf die Studienschwerpunkte der Uni zurückzuführen ist. Mit Einführung der Studiengebühren wächst (hoffentlich) ein neues Mitsprache-Bewußtsein bei den Studenten heran - ein Bewußtsein dahingehend, [...]

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Tags: Politics

Debian/Ubuntu and Powerpoint

November 12th, 2006 · No Comments

There is a nice Debian package to view powerpoint presentations. It’s based on wine. You can find it here:
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/pptview
It’s not yet in the Ubuntu repositories.

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