Every 4 to 6 weeks my colleagues and I come to the office for a few days – for a “distributed” development team with members in the Rhine-Main area, in Berlin, and elsewhere it is good to sit around the same physical table every so often, instead of only communicating via Microsoft Teams (argl).

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Today's blog entry (in German) is over on the FSCDC e.V. web site.

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For the longest time I've been using Feedly as my RSS feed aggregator. This is a reasonable service if you don't mind the ads that are randomly interspersed with your feeds, the persistent attempts at upselling you the paid version, the slow encroachment of AI features that I for one don't want, and so on. Plus the fact that a US company gets to see which RSS feeds I consume. Time for something new …

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The 54th Frankfurt Spring Ball is nigh! Well, perhaps not that nigh – there are three months to go! But it's worth making a plan for how we in the FSCDC e.V. will prepare for it.

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As of 31 December, the popular MiniCrib library of SCD cribs is now published in .DOCX (rather than .DOC) format. Way to go! We took the opportunity to improve the way MiniCrib is imported to the Strathspey SCD database.

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President-elect Donald Trump has been making waves even before taking office – apparently he wants to be like Putin and take over some neighbouring countries, whether they want it or not. But has he really thought this through?

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Today is Eva's birthday and I sent her an e-mail message with a “motivational card” attached (probably not one she hadn't seen before). Also tried to catch her on the phone but no luck. Perhaps tomorrow. Wanted to sort out a present, too. Still on it. Sigh.

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The weather today started out OK (enough for me to do the weekly shopping round) but turned pretty foul in the afternoon, with rain and snow!

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It's still the Christmas holidays in the state of Hesse, so the Frankfurt SCD club continues its winter break (and we don't mind not having to go to Frankfurt today). But of course it's not as if there's nothing going on, SCD-wise!

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Yesterday we went to a fun concert by Carsten and Iris Lenz at the Evangelische Emmaus-Gemeinde in Mainz. This was all about four-handed organ playing. Also, snow!

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