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parsing Wikileaks’ data

Ans — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:54:55 +0000

Mostly developed in 2o11 already, version 0.8a of the parsefile project is online now. In 2o11, I also programmed two additional algorithms for the project, parsing the massive Wikileaks leak about the Iraq war and showing unit movements on a map. Finally, I want to share how to do this.

What we need

For parsing, we need the CSV data, of course. It’s the Wikileaks CSV file (iraq-war-diary-redacted.csv), which can be found e.g. on The Pirate Bay (no link provided here).

For visualizing, we need the Iraq map as published by the U.S. Government in 2003, in the resolution 2000×2161 pixels (if it’s not in the right resolution, make sure to resize it before you use it!).

On the software side, we need the parsefile project, of course, and these two additional algorithms, programmed by me: war_units and war_units_iraq. The algorithm package (including source code) can be found here (tar.gz, 45,2 KB) - just copy all of the included files into the “parsefile” directory, using the same folder structure as created inside the package.

Parsing the CSV data

The algorithm “war_units” will be used to parse the original CSV data and create two output files, one for the movements (war_units_moves.txt) and one for the list of the units (war_units_table.txt).

Make sure you added the “war_units” algorithm and downloaded the CSV data to put it into the “input” folder of parsefile. Rename it into “iraq.csv”.

Start parsefile and type the following commands:

addfile input/iraq.csv

addalgo war_units

set war_units.filter=5

start

The CSV file will be parsed and the two output files will be created in the “ourput” folder. The filter has been set to only parse units with at least 5 actions. Warning: Parsing will take a very long time!

Visualizing the movement data

The algorithm “war_units_iraq” uses these two files to show a map with the visualized unit movements. Make sure you added the “war_units_iraq” algorithm and parsed the CSV file. Now start “parsefile” and run the following commands:

addalgo war_units_iraq

start

After a while sorting the data, the interactive map will be shown. On the right side you can select one of the parsed units and on the map the movement profile of the selected unit will be shown.

Screenshots

(starting the parsing)

(parsing the data)

(visualized data on map)

STOP SOPA, PIPA, ACTA!

Ans — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:22:57 +0000

It’s the day of online protest agains SOPA/PIPA/ACTA and similar censorship initiatives world wide. The global movement of Pirate Parties is joining Wikipedia (English version) and others in blacking out their sites. Here’s a list of official pirate party webpages, participating in the #blackout:

Pirate Parties International (PPI): http://www.pp-international.net/
Argentinia: http://www.partidopirata.com.ar/
Australia: http://pirateparty.org.au/
Belgium: http://pirateparty.be/
Brazil: http://partidopirata.org/
Catalonia: http://grumets.pirata.cat/
Czech Republic: http://www.pirati.cz/
France: http://www.partipirate.org/
Italy: http://www.partito-pirata.it/
Kazakhstan: http://pirateparty.kz/
Luxemburg: http://piratepartei.lu/
Netherlands: http://piratenpartij.nl/
New Zealand: http://pirateparty.org.nz/
Romania: http://www.partidulpirat.ro/
Russia: http://pirate-party.ru/
Serbia: http://www.piratskapartija.com/
Slovakia: http://www.piratskastrana.sk
Spain: https://www.partidopirata.es/
Sweden: http://www.piratpartiet.se/
Switzerland: http://www.piratenpartei.ch/
United Kingdom: https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/

U.S.
Florida: http://fl.pirate.is/
Massachusetts: http://www.masspirates.org
Georgia: http://www.piratepartyofgeorgia.org/

#Staatstrojaner alias #0zapftis in Germany

Ans — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:05:29 +0000

The politicians, police and other officials - once again - gave a shit about the German constitution and intruded into private computers, even making them unsafe with their own, very badly programmed, trojan horse software.

The only political party which is really outraged about it, is the German Pirate Party (Piratenpartei), which got 8.9 percent in the Berlin state elections, and is on its way to get seats in the national parliament in the next federal election, which is - unfortunately - not until 2013.

I helped to write their press release for the current issue of the state trojan (in German).

It’s time to change politics once and for all - by bringing more pirate parties into parliament. More information about the international pirate party movement (PPI).

parsefile v0.7a

Ans — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:55:52 +0000

The parsefile project is still in alpha state, missing any online functionality, but you can already use it offline, e.g. for counting strings inside a file. For more information see the “algos/count_strings_readme.txt” inside the complete package. It can also parse binary files now, see the “readme” file for the binary mode.

The beta version with online functionality will follow some time, when I’ve got internet again. Then it will get really useful, even social network compatibility (e.g. parsing pages inside your facebook account) is planned.

parsefile project

Ans — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:07:55 +0000

Because of my volunteer life in Bulgaria (and without own internet) I wasn’t able to update this blog over the last months. But in the mean time I started to program a small but flexible tool for the parsing of text files, e.g. HTML files.

Check out the parsefile project website for more information.

Wikileaks domains and mirrors

Ans — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:51:15 +0000

How to access Wikileaks while it’s under attack

Because of the current events in the U.S., France and worldwide, here are some infos about mirrors and domains of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks:

French IP
http://213.251.145.96/
(Note: The French government already threatened to remove all content hosted by Wikileaks in France.)

Swedish IP
http://46.59.1.2/

Additional mirror
http://213.251.145.96.nyud.net/ (changing hosting countries)

www.mein-parteibuch.org.nyud.net/cablegate/ (cablegate releases only, seems to have problems with the browsing)

Domains
They following domains are usually using the two IPs mentioned above.
www.wikileaks.org (official, not available at the moment)
sunshinepress.org (official)
www.wikileaks.de
www.wikileaks.ch (by the Swiss Pirate Party, NA at the moment)
www.wikileaks.nl
www.wikileaks.fi
www.wikileaks.eu
www.wikileaks.is
wikileaks.piratenpartei.de (by the German Pirate Party)
ljsf.org

The current cables can also be found at the Guardian’s website, hosted in the United Kingdom. You can also search the cables on cablesearch.org, and on elpais.com (Spanish website), both hosted in Germany.

At the Anti War Blog, US-American Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, called for a boycott of book-seller Amazon, because it removed the Wikileaks content in an overnight action from their servers.

Keep spreading the truth and fighting for the freedom of opinion!

Learning Bulgarian online

Ans — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:34:16 +0000

In the light of recent events I collected some links for learning Bulgarian online (for free, of course). You can find them there:

Learning Bulgarian online for free / Online kostenlos Bulgarisch lernen

I’m also working on my own bilingual guide to the Bulgarian language (in German and English), but this will take some time…

Drupal, Bulgaria, Flattr

Ans — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:39:48 +0000

For my time in Bulgaria, I created my first Drupal page, which was a very interesting experience, even when it took some time.

There will be a German blog about life in Bulgaria at bg.ghstyle.de.

I also added a Flattr connection to both blogs.

Flattr is a new micropayement service for Internet users. I really recommend it, because it makes it very easy to give everybody, who publishes content on the web that you really like, a little bit money.

It works this way: Every month you will pay an amount between 2 and 100 euro. When you are surfing around the web, there are Flattr! buttons everywhere, getting more every day.

You click on the Flattr buttons of stuff you like (you “flattr it”) and in the end of the month, your monthly money will be divided between all the things you flattred for.

Flattr keeps 10% of your money for itself, but this sounds quite fair to me. Of course, you can create Flattr buttons for your own stuff, too! So start registering now at Flattr!

Where to put my server?

Ans — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:10:31 +0000

I’m working on an small overview of possible legal problems and laws web masters and hosters have to face in different countries worldwide.

Depending on my time, it will grow a little bit every few months.

Feel free to add your own experience, tips and opinions by using the feedback form provided!

11.09.10 Freiheit statt Angst! @ Berlin

Ans — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:44:02 +0000

“Freedom instead of Fear!”, a large demonstration for the protection of personal rights and against the totalitarianism movement inside many governments worldwide, is taking place in Berlin on September 11th, 2010 again.

More information: www.freiheitstattangst.de (German)

current travel map

Ans — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:51:31 +0000

My current travel map:

visited 24 states (10.6%)
Create your own visited map of The World

Well, Spain isn’t quite correct, in fact it was Tenerife. And Serbia doesn’t show red on the map, although it has been counted. Kosovo is not available. In Russia, I have only been to the European part. But apart from that, this map gives a good overview of my travels…

EVS @ Varna, Bulgaria

Ans — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:43:05 +0000

If everything works out, I will do my EVS (European Voluntary Service) at the IDEA organization in Varna, Bulgaria for twelve months, beginning this December.

More information about the organization on their website (in Bulgarian).

More information about EVS on the website of the European Commission.

That’s why I have to change my travel plans. Instead of going all the way to Georgia, I probably just visit a friend in Bucarest.

www.traumfaehrte.com

Ans — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:47:55 +0000

Now, there is an advanced search function with two different search algorithms for postcards online at www.traumfaehrtecom.

The whole project, including admin area, without automatically generated PHP, HTML and XML code, exceeds 17,200 code lines.

With over 12,000 books and - since today - over 1,100 postcards (including geographical information as well as their front and back side scans) it has to deal with a lot of stuff and till now there have not been any big problems.

Biggest programming issues are the search functions, organizing the geographical data of the postcards (with XML and interactive Google Map) and the automatic translating and parsing functionality of the admin area.

The technology is simple PHP, mySQL, XML, CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Just one Flash file for the main page has been used.

evs volunteering

Ans — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:08:25 +0000

I want to take part in the European Voluntary Service in 2011, that’s why I wrote applications for Sofia and Varna in Bulgaria as well to a few selected organizations in Praha, Czech Republic.

In the end of August I will have my first phone interview with a very cool organization in Sofia, the organizers of the filmini short movie festival.

More infos soon!

spam protection

Ans — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:08:49 +0000

Because of too much spam, from now on comments will be disabled for guests.

Please register or write me an e-mail if you want to comment on something.

Thanks!

Pirates!

Ans — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:40:13 +0000

On Sunday there is the state election of North Rine-Westphalia and the current projection of one of the important public TV stations, ZDF, says that the Pirate Party NRW is at 3 % at the moment.

That wouldn’t be enough for a seat in the state parliament (Landtag) - 5 % are needed, but it would be a very good result after only 1.7 % in the Federal election - and there are still some days left to convince more people from the noble goals of the Pirate Movement in Germany and all around the world.

Next week in Bingen there will be the Federal Convention of the Pirate Party Germany. Unfortunately I don’t know yet whether I can manage to get there. I would like to support the candidates Christopher Lauer and Katja Mette.

Anyway, keep up the good work and vote for the Pirates all around the world!

“Klarmachen zum Ändern!” (Be ready to change!)

Nix neues: Die katholische Kirche und der Kindesmissbrauch

Ans — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:22:08 +0000

Bereits 1784 beschäftigte sich die Satire mit einem delikaten Thema: Dem Missbrauch von Kindern durch katholische Priester - wie durch den Buchnachdruck von 1913 der Satirischen Bibliothek im Janus-Verlag ersichtlich: “Obermayr - Bildergalerie katholischer Misbräuche.”

Already in 1784, satire dealt with a delicat topic: The molestation of childs by Catholic priests - as seen in a (German) book reprint in the Satiric Library of the Janus publishing company: “Obermayr - Bildergalerie katholischer Misbräuche.”

PPI conference @ Brussels

Ans — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:13:55 +0000

This weekend, there is a conference of the international Pirate Party movement in Brussels. Today there were 23 pirate parties participating:

Australia (remote)
Austria (remote)
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland (remote)
France
Germany
Italy (remote)
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom

The opening speech was by Samir Allioui (co-founder of the Dutch pirate party), todays chairman is Gregory Engels (international coordinator of the German pirate party).

At the moment, there is a discussion about the statues based on a proposal of the German pirate party which was favored over a Czech proposal.

More information on the Twitter wall or the live protocol on PiratenPad.

Hitchhiking report Saint Petersburg - Dresden

Ans — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:42:09 +0000

Here is the trip report about my hitchhiking trip back from Saint Petersburg to Dresden via Prostejov:

http://www.abgefahren-ev.de/blogs/ans/20100412/saint-petersburg-dresden-prostejov

(in English this time!)

next week next trip !

Ans — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:30:01 +0000

On Tuesday I’m going to go to Berlin, on Thursday I fly from Berlin-Tegel to Saint Petersburg visiting a friend and together we will give Moscow a short visit after my arrival. After two weeks Russia I’m planning to hitchhike back and visit a friend in Czech Republic.

Keep rockin !

Entdecken Sie die Welt historischer Bücher und Ansichtskarten!

Ans — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:34:26 +0000

Historische und antiquarische Bücher, Originalgraphik sowie alte Ansichtskarten und Postkarten in großer Vielfalt und Auswahl, inkl. Online-Shop mit weltweitem Versand: Antiquariat Traumfährte in Dresden!

Discover the world of historic and antiquarian books, original graphic and old picture postcards in large number and variety, incl. online shop with worldwide shipping: Antiquariat Traumfährte in Dresden!

www.traumfaehrte.de

Ans — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:31:51 +0000

Since Friday, the website of Antiquariat Traumfährte, www.traumfaehrte.de is online. There you can order historic books (and soon, historic picture material like postcards, too) from a professional old book shop online.

ghstyle.de created the website completely, features include:
+ php 4, mysql database (with over 10,000 entries already)
+ searching, browsing, sorting books, preview pictures possible
+ admin area with upload and parsing functionality (csv-to-database parsing)
+ shopping cart and ordering functionality
+ multi-language support, German and English implemented

Explore the world of old books at www.traumfaehrte.de!

serial: 4th part, others revised

Ans — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:31:08 +0000

My German fantasy/horror serial “KomA” got a new chapter some time ago. Now, I also revised the other ones. That makes four chapters, I want you to read. You can write your feedback directly on the KomA web page.

I already started the 5th chapter, but it could take some time.

> check it out <

In July

Ans — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:59:53 +0000

In July, one of the best German road movies (many scenes remind me of my own Balkan trip).

excerpt

hitchhiked over 10.000km

Ans — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:45:14 +0000

Coming back from my Balkan trip, and a quick tour to Eastern Czech republic, right now I hitchhiked about 10.360km around Europe.

Check out my hitchhiking trips on Google Maps.

EDIT: In German, there is a hitchhiking report about this trip on the web page (beta version) of the German hitchhiking club “abgefahren e.V.” –> link.

12.09.09 Freiheit statt Angst @ Berlin

Ans — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:31:26 +0000

www.aktion-freiheitstattangst.org

Du bist Terrorist!

Ans — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:49:37 +0000

Du bist Terrorist from alexanderlehmann on Vimeo.

Dagegen?

four good seats

Ans — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:22:27 +0000

Three seats for the independent citizens in the city council of Dresden and one seat for the Swedish pirate party in the EU parliament.

The German pirate party gained 0.9% with 229.117 votes.

Well done!

tomorrow is election day

Ans — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:20:27 +0000

Tomorrow I can vote about the EU parliament and the city council of my home town Dresden in Germany.

Because all the time the large parties do very stupid things, I recommend the following small parties/unions:

any Pirate Party for the EU parliament (in Germany: www.piratenpartei.de)

“Freie Bürger” union for the Dresden city council (www.freie-buerger-dresden.de)

Go and VOTE!

Barack’s limousine @ train station Dresden-Neustadt

Ans — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:00:28 +0000

Barack Obama @ train station Dresden-Neustadt

Mr. President has a good taste

Ans — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:17:33 +0000

Barack Obama is going to visit Dresden. This guy definitly has a good taste!

http://obama.dresden.de/

hitchhiking again!

Ans — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:16:13 +0000

Today I will be back on the road, hitchhiking all the way through Poland (over Kraków) to visit a friend in Lipany, Eastern Slovakia.

EDIT: A very nice trip, thanks to Ben and Jakob for joining me in Slovakia and our great trip back! I never thought hitchhiking with two pals would be that easy. You can find a small description of the trip (in German) at abgefahren e.V..

software internship

Ans — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:19:52 +0000

finally we have to complete our own software project at university! We’re 5 students, I’m the assistant of the chief programmer and it’s a really cool team! Check out our project page (in German)!

It’s a visualization of the Depth-First- (DFS) and Breadth-First (BFS) search algorithms for graphs, programmed in Java as a module of the jAlgo application, developed by professores and students of the TU Dresden.

EDIT: The project has been completed successfully. Downloads are available on the project page (link above).

last trip: Sweden, next: Eastern Slovakia

Ans — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:10:00 +0000

two weeks couchsurfing in London was great!
After that, one week speed hitchhiking to Sweden - great fun too. In German, there is a trip report on the webpage of the German hitchhiking society abgefahren e.V..

Next trip will be end of May/begin of June, visiting a friend from my city Dresden working in Eastern Slovakia at the moment. Hitchhiking, of course!

biss.fm - better radio in Saxony

Ans — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:58:42 +0000

As written on myoon.com, BISS.FM is an initiative to finally found a youth radio station like Sputnik or Fritz in Saxony and support online radio station in the region. Our sad radio station scene has to be improved - support it!

www.biss.fm

study section online

Ans — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:41:34 +0000

click here for information, links and downloads about the computer science studies at Dresden University of Technology, Germany

flying to London

Ans — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:33:27 +0000

Yeah, finally we booked our flight - visiting London in March. I’m curious whether it will be as rainy and foggy as usual. Of course we will couchsurf around the whole trip.

KomA: third chapter

Ans — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:18:30 +0000

Now the third chapter of the serial “KomA” is online. You find it at www.ghstyle.de/koma (German only).

KomA: first chapters

Ans — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:27:08 +0000

now my first big writing project, the horror/fantasy serial “KomA”, has its own website: www.ghstyle.de/koma

the first two chapters are already available (in German only)

more to come

steve.e! - Dubstep mix

Ans — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:24:43 +0000

A new dubstep mix available for free download: click!

more information about steve.e!

steve.e! - SUN LP

Ans — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:11:24 +0000

steve.e!’s new album is here! listen to it for free at last.fm:

NOW AVAILABLE: free download at jamendo

check out steve’s other albums b.constructive and amusiq”l e.p - just download them for free and contribute some money if you like his music.

more information about steve.e!

19.12. sixth formers

Ans — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:14:04 +0000

writer community

Ans — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:48:35 +0000

Fallen Minds Album

Ans — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:58:32 +0000

It’s here! The first album by Fallen Minds, a friend’s band from Jettingen. “Lined By Sorrow” is available at www.fallenminds.de, listen to some tracks at Myspace.

And buy it - for just 6 €!

Bionic Ghost Kids: Poison Ivy

Ans — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:07:14 +0000

music video with some friends from Berlin, Germany

summer time, traveling time

Ans — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:34:16 +0000

first trip (hitchhiking): Dresden - Würzburg (visiting a friend) - Mainz (visiting a friend) - Hamburg (visiting a friend, going out, partying) - Frederikshavn, DK (couchsurfing, make new friends) - Hannover (visiting a friend) - Potsdam (visiting a friend) - Dresden [travel report (German)]

second trip (hitchhiking, train, car): Dresden - Berlin (visiting friends, partying) - Möllen near Friedland (camping) - Spreewald (boat tour) - Cottbus (visiting a friend) - Dresden

third trip (payed lift, train): Dresden - Enkirch at the Mosel (working) - Mainz (visiting a friend) - Bernkastel-Kues (watching Batman - The Dark Night in the cinema) - Dresden

next trip (train, bus, plane): Dresden - Bydgosz, PL - Warsaw, PL - Vilnius, LT - Riga, LV - Tallinn, EST - Dresden [travel report]