My friend and a great sf author Dr Peter Watts has just been beaten up by US border guards and charged with assaulting an officer. This kangaroo circus might end with a two year imprisonment. Please give what you can to his legal defense fund.

Story:
Boing Boing

Send money via Paypal to:
donate@rifters.com

I just donated $50. Cory Doctorow gave $1000. Contesting criminal charges in US court gets very expensive, so every little bit matters.

A month ago, Lisa and I returned from Germany. Along with Poland, Latvia, and Estonia, it was the site of our honeymoon. Germany was, of course, beautiful, but I was fascinated to see Latvia again. I hadn’t been back since I had left with my parents in 1995, and it has changed innumerably for the better.

But I digress. Not only have I learned to say “danke schön”, but so has the free DB2 book. Getting Started with DB2 Express-C is now available in Deutsch.

I find that it is a good introduction to DB2 Express-C. The latter is the free database server in connection with which I am employed, but whose opinions I do not necessarily represent.