Wednesday, 24. October 12001
p3k dots

chtml – compact html for small information appliances. already in 1998.

they are here all week, designated to care about optics: laboratoire directe.

my sister, that crazy chicken, sent to me an aeg snap 100 digital camera. what a wicked present! thank you so much.

certainly, i immediately had to take a snapshot. and even more certainly, i had to install a webcam software: now you can watch me if you really feel to... but don't expect me to be less boring than that. just wanna be a cam girl, too!

whoah, now i shouldn't pick my nose anymore.

update: finally i found an aeg official web document about the snap 100.

Tuesday, 23. October 12001
p3k dots

"okay, es ist wieder nur eine alberne hopserei dabei herausgekommen"... bundesdance 2.

took another look at syndic8. and now i got it. fabulous.

anything can happen when you own a weblog and write about drug and alcohol addiction: your (former) boss might read it and fire you / your (future) boss might read it and hire you.

whew, talking tacheles about simplified writing for the web, today on henso.com. hannes just set-up a nice little test application to illustrate different methods of creating a hyperlink without any html or wysinwyg.

more about markuplessness: rtx, an easy-to-use markup language for writers and documenters (shake your head), no-tags markup and certainly the wiki text formatting rules and examples.

further reading: writing a bibliography: mla style, online writing center consortium, "this html kills" by jim byrne, "the web is ruined and i ruined it" by david siegel (gulp!), write the web website, jakob nielsen on writing for the web.

the other way around: literate programming, an introduction by chris lee. donald knuth, the grandmaster.

not related to the web but nevertheless interesting in this context: z-write, a word processor for writers.

os news: an interview with carl sassenrath, rebol mastermind. chris lists the most remarkable quotes.

chris langreiter via mail: rebol xml libraries at gavin's temporary homepage

a good history in english about the "best german band of the world" (k. makotter), freiwillige selbstkontrolle (aka fsk). even more at fskweb.