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One thing: this thing is crowded with visitors. I didn't expect so many visitors. We are extremely popular there, lots of interested and open-minded visitors, many families with children. Luckily, cheetah_spotty did the TV interview. I would not have been able to answer those quite tricky personal questions. And besides all that, we're having a ball.
We (BigBlueFox, Cheetah, Nightfox, TaniDaReal, Tioh and me) are currently at the Rassemblement Les Mondes Hors-Pistes (Gathering of the Off-Track Worlds) in Paris, a festival to celebrate 10 years of the TV programme "TRACKS", which runs on the French-German cultural public TV channel Arte. It is a lot of work, but we're having a great time exhibiting some furry art and show fursuits. If you want to read more about it: bigbluefox is blogging a lot about the event.
Luckily, MacOS X is based on some kind of BSD, in other words: it is a Unix system. It even comes with X11. However, as a desktop system many tools I like and need aren't present. I already had an ancient version of Darwinports running since 10.2. That old installation was terribly broken, though, and almost nothing compiled anymore on 10.4. Thus, I removed it and started again. There are several alternatives available, two of them being based on (Free)BSD ports, and one on Debian packaging.
your navigation systems are built on Linux. TomTom Home 2.x reportedly is built on xul-runner (also free software.) Yet, the only way to get the new maps from your web shop is by downloading them with TomTom Home 2.x, which itself is non-free and only available for Windows. Not for Mac OS, let alone Linux. You don't even let me download the software from your website with Firefox running on Linux.
It was my turn to do the Große Hausordnung. After cleaning the sidewalk, patio, the front and back doors (I still don't understand why that has to be done every week), the attic and the basement I finally drove to a car parts store to replace the dying battery of my car. Luckily, the engine still started and I didn't have to use the bus to get to the shop. I drove to the gas station afterwards to get some gas (still quite expensive) and proceeded to the grocery store. On the way back I bought antifreeze for the washer system at a different gas station.
Then wait until you hear her version of the Heart classic Alone (NSFL¹)
Two albums I bought today, and one I forgot to write about:
Laut taz soll unser Innenminister den Satz "Wir hatten den 'größten Feldherrn aller Zeiten', den GröFaZ, und jetzt kommt die größte Verfassungsbeschwerde aller Zeiten." vom Stapel gelassen haben. Wenn er das wirklich so gesagt haben sollte, dann haben wir hier inzwischen wirklich Weimarer Verhältnisse der späteren Jahre. Zumindest was die Verachtung unserer Verfassungsgrundsätze angeht.