Gibberish? No, they seem to be the oldest English (and Indo-European) words, dating back a few thousands of years according to an article by the BBC.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7911645.stm

This year’s Golden Bear of the the 59th Berlinale goes to the movie La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) from Peru.

The complete list:

Golden Bear for the Best Film

La teta asustada (The Milk Of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa

Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix

Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade and Gigante by Adrián Biniez

Silver Bear - Best Director

Asghar Farhadi for Darbareye Elly (About Elly)

Silver Bear - Best Actress

Birgit Minichmayr in Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade

Silver Bear - Best Actor

Sotigui Kouyate in London River by Rachid Bouchareb

Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Gábor Erdély and Tamás Székely for the Sound-Design of Katalin Varga by Peter Strickland

Silver Bear - Best Script

Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for The Messenger by Oren Moverman

Alfred Bauer Prize (for a feature film that breadens the horizons of the art of filmmaking)

Gigante by Adrián Biniez and  Tatarak (Sweet Rush) by Andrzej Wajda

Congratulations to the winners!

The carpet-bombing flaw known to exist with Safari 3.1 (and was patched by Apple in their update to 3.1.2) does affect Google Chrome Beta because it’s using an older version of the WebKit engine.

So I only can advise people not to use Google Chrome Beta at the moment.

Read more at ZDNet’s security blog with a link to a harmless proof-of-concept demo.

Today I installed Google Chrome Beta on our Windows Vista testmachine in our office. No Chrome for Macs yet.

What bugs me: you only get a web downloader and not the full install files. So you have no real control what happens behind the scenes when you install the browser.

Otherwise the installation went smooth. Well, after installation, I was greeted by a German browser, with no possibility to convert Chrome to have an English interface. For some people it is certainly sufficient to have apps install in their native language, but at least I would like to choose the language of the software I use (I prefer British English).

Chrome renders websites fast, really fast. That’s impressive. It obviously has a Flash plugin already embedded, as Flash apps, Youtube etc. work out of the box without problems. I have no idea what the guys and gals at spiegel.de test, because they wrote “we surfed the net for two hours and didn’t find a site which was not working”. Well, it took me just five minutes to find out Chrome doesn’t have a Java plugin nor a possibility to get an appropriate plugin to display the Wordle-website.

Normal HTML-rendering looks good and seems to be really standards compliant (well, should be when using the WebKit engine). And the speed of the rendering is really impressive. Faster than Safari and a lot faster than Firefox. That’s really impressive for a beta version.

The interface of Chrome is reduced and slick. At the moment it looks a bit like a clone of Opera.

I really hope there will be adblockers available, but I guess not, because Google lives from web marketing.

So I will only use Google Chrome as a test browser (like I do with Internet Explorer). At least for my personal preference Firefox is still the better choice: I have control over what the programme does and can adjust the browser to my liking (e.g. web developer’s toolbar, ad blockers like NoScript etc.).

I have just found this nice webapplication which puts together a tag cloud from any source of text or websites:

A service by wordle.net (discovered via the September newsletter of Chocolate & Zucchini).

I added the final bike travel days:

Grå og våt Jylland

Knet mitt, oh mitt kne!

Now I only have to channel my thoughts about the travel back to Münster into a few words.

Full entry for the last day in Norway:

Tilbake

Added the entry about a rainy day in Lyngdal:

Regn

I added the full entry for Mandal to Lyngdal:

Mørket kommer!

Please be sure to check out the gallery. I also added a few pics over the last days.

And another entry:

Søgne -> Røsstad -> Harkmark -> Tregde -> Mandal

Flåtter tid