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Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer and the creator of the first version of the PHP web programming language.
This week you can listen to a very interesting FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) podcast with Rasmus. He talks about the origins of PHP, the challenges of open source development/community, and his favorite PHP programs like Drupal, Sahana and Serendipity.
It´s really worth listening to someone who started an OS(Open Source) project when OS was not really born.

By the way, we are just preparing a pretty longish article on the nice blogCMS Serendipity. Stay tuned and get it by the end of August.

Since it´s beginning the TXP community has always been a joyful place to hang around, meeting skilled people and making digital friends. Sivert Nielsen (sivni) has been one of those of a cheery attitude one liked to work together with. Sivert build up the template repository TextGarden. He never came to finish his marvellous work. After battling depression and panic disorders for many years, he committed suicide on July 16th, 2005.

We like to allude to the topic of depression. Beware that approximately 10% of all people in western societies suffer form anxiety and/or depression; that means every tenth person visiting TXP Mag battles these neurological diseases.

In memory of Sivert L. Nielsen (1973 – 2005) TXP Mag in co-operation with Sekhu would like to offer the following very private insight to depression. We hope to provide you with some comprehensive information to reduce the stigma which still afflicts depression.

I’m no expert on depression, but …

It’s no secret that the internet has changed the way we relate to each other in some pretty radical ways.
In some instances, it’s in a very positive way. For example, it’s very easy for me to keep in touch with my two nieces currently living in London, while I’m in Australia. I do it by email, IM’ing and sometimes by phone – but via a VoIP connection. A friend on exchange in Norway who is hearing impaired also keeps in touch with her family through Instant Messaging – a method perfectly suited to her circumstances, and only available via the internet.
But there is also a downside to web-based communications. According to some research recently revealed, the internet is at least partly responsible for greater social isolation, and a reduction

Update Tickets are taken.

Just a quick note: Bastian did win 2 tickets for the semi world cup final in Dortmund/Germany. As he is not in Germany at that time (i think it is July, 4th) he gives his tickets away. Of course Bastian would be delighted if you invite him to a beer, knitt him underpants or dedicate a poem to him ;).

Let him know so far you are interested .

Mikki Halpin and Victoria Maat did write up an hilarious Girl’s Guide to Geek Guys.

How is a geek? What does he eat, wear, watch? Is a geek attractive to women? Find out yourself.

And what is a real geek thinking of himself? TXP user Chiefbutz replies on his blog.

Well, i could find out a lot about geeks by both of the articles but not how a geek is looking. Any photographies around? :)
No chance. True geeks just don’t care about looks.

If you like to find your geek match, consider subscribing to the dating service Geek2Geek.

Do you like blogging? Do you feel a pressure of having always new content up on your site? Are you getting enough response? Are you tired of blogging?
Have you ever experienced a blogging burnout?

Let us know what your dark moments of blogging are and how you deal with them.

“Life and work need to be better for people. We shouldn’t drive to work, open the back door of the car, hang our dreams inside and go to offices or cubicles to work at things we hate or don’t really care about; only to return to our cars, grab our dreams and think about them all the way home. Arriving home too tired to do anything about our dreams, we collapse into a chair and dread the new day tomorrow.”

(*Steve Pilgrim on his stylish blog rodentregatta.com*)

So should you drive to work today? What do you think?

“I once saw a TV programme about a schizophrenic man living roughly in a caravan, on the outskirts of a remote village. It was a very sad tale and the local people treated him quite kindly, much like the ‘village idiot’ used to be treated by rural communities. I reflected on the fact that he’d chosen to live in the country, and I sometimes think people who struggle with city life might have a better experience doing the same thing. This is not an option many people consider, and although it involves simple preferences – cultural facilities rather than fields, job and social opportunities rather than riverbanks – I think some part of it rests on addictive living. Society is inherently addictive, and we become slaves to lifestyles and expectations we did not create ourselves, which derive from the glamour of designer-this and designer-that living, chasing material dreams as exemplified by celebrity lifestyle. There’s a moment in the film Trainspotting when the anti-heroes take one look at the rural beauty on their Scottish doorstep, and go scurrying back to the squalor of Glasgow. The empty spaces reflect back to them their own impoverished internal lives.”

(*James Lomax on his amazing TXP photosite jameslomax.com*)

Some movies tell an alarming story. So alarming that nothing seems the same after leaving the cinema.
Lilya 4-Ever by Lukas Moodyson is such a story. Based primarily on the real life of Lithuanian woman Danguole Rasalaites, the film features 16 year old Lilya who ends up in Sweden forced into prostitution.

Michael Wilmington says: _Played by teasing-eyed Russian teen