announcement for 4 may 2001: trumming. let's spend the week-end in the country side (inside a glowing metal box).
"they whisk black masks from raw babby faces: then, chuckling, chortling, trumming, twanging they diddle diddle cakewalk dance away." – james joyce, "ulysses"
p3k gets phunky: i am (still!) very optimistic and excited about the phenomenon that everybody calls weblogs a phenomenon (purr, phenomenon is such a wonderful word, much better than its chewing german sibling "phänomen": phenomenon, phenomenon, the phunk phenomenon...).
p3k on dope: but also weblogs themselves still are a thrilling synapse in this huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld. however, i would definitely not choose them as topic for my diploma (reason: everybody does).
p3k homini lupus: "human portal" does not sound too good, because of the "portal" part. as a wise man said: we need new nomenklatura. and i am convinced that not everybody wants to run a weblog like an idealist. babap, cancel your ticket!
p3k resumes.
"coming soon! image putting greater than 3600 cd's worth of data on a floppy disk. or take a gigabyte worth of data and compress it to under 400 bytes." – paul tratter via rebol-list@rebol.com.
strange things going on, on the rebol mailing-list...
although the intro to the lastthursday! pages is still turning me off a little bit, the idea gained momentum and there are some interesting events also for me, the lo-fi brainer.
i missed the event about "extreme programming" which i expected to be extremely interesting.
maybe i will make it on 26 april 2001 when border-crossing tom fuerstner tells us everything (and the summary means it) about userland.
i would not dare to state that i can find myself in a text of a good magazine (i guess this link will be outdated, soon), but surely i can find this text somewhere inside myself.
"and so i cross into another world shyly and in homage linger for an invitation from this unknown that i would trespass on." – good old lawrence would have hated the dj.
via camp catatonia.
chris langreiter: "using xml-rpc to enhance web applications". chris goes far ahead exploring rebol/view and integrating this now even a great gui developing tool into xml-rpc world.
i could not imagine where carl sassenrath would bring rebol in just a little bit more than one year...
euroranchera christina n stepping on stone: find-a-grave on the central cemetery of vienna.
already one month ago, the newscientist featured gregory chaitin as "the omega man". this issue, dated 10 march 2001, had been fluttering around in my flat for a while and just now i remembered that i have been at a lecture by chaitin here in vienna last year.
at that time i feared that "i probably won't understand a word" of what chaitin talks about. actually, this was pretty close to the truth. but the philosophical implications of radomness in the area of number theory (which was once the most stable building of science so far) remain irresistible to me. it's so fascinating that there are numbers, real numbers (in the sense of existence), which are "infinitely long and utterly incalculable".
"there can never be a reliable 'theory of everything'", is one conclusion you can get from chaitins omega numbers. this reminds me of a tv programme about time i saw on the week-end. one of the featured vanguard physicians who are obsessed by the idea of the so-called "world formula", a mathematical model that explains the inner structure of an elementary particle as well as the whole universe (or in physical terminology: combine the standard model with gravitation by the so-called super string theory), well, one of these physicians presented a partial result of their quest: a formula (ie. not calculation) which filled a whole blackboard and, here comes the interesting part, does not include any reference to time.
the (mis-?)interpretation of this formula leads to funny consequences: since we try to overcome and outwit our chronic (hehe) lack of time by getting faster and ubiquitous, we try to solve a problem which obviously exists only in our reception and reflection of motion resp. change. if nature did not have a plan for that thing called time, are we not scheduling a phantom, then?
leaving the fourth dimension behind.
outlining is really such a great way to structure content. that's the main reason why i am using radio userland. i certainly would get rid of it, if i had a simple outlining-only tool with some slight additional editing and xml-rpc / soap capabilities and support of opml (or a similar xml format, maybe rdf?)... then i can care about my content and its structure and a machine (a server, remote or such a "on-my-destkop" thang) would do the rest, shaping it, layouting it. i think it could work sensationally. and i could fully concentrate on one server technology for my personal web solutions (ie. hop).