the register: "u.s. terrorist attacks knock news sites off internet". or let them look like in 1996.
screenshots of news sites on 11 september 2001, 17:33 cest.
btw. this september is the 23rd anniversary of the camp david accords.
cnn: "terror attacks hit u.s." – and probably the whole world... i think i'll take a walk.
the guardian: "chronology of terror" and "bush weighs off his options".
will the u.s. ever again train another ethnic or political group to get support for their fight against america's most wanted? reminder: bin laden and his fellows were trained by the u.s. in the eighties just to fulfill the same duty...
planes crashing into world trade center towers: the roof is on fire, the news sites are jammed...
it is currently reported that also the pentagon is burning... bill seitz has more information.
the guardian server is responding quite reliably (at least from vienna), so is the one of skynews.
one of the wtc towers has collapsed. the server of der standard couldn't handle the load and collapsed, too.
the second tower is told to be collapsed.
mike donellan: "the shit has hit the fan".
screenshot of the new york times home page, 7am pacific time.
john robb: "the teams i used to work with in special ops are going to be very busy. there will be a very high body count on the other side. we are going to look a lot like israel after this gets through". sigh.
the ministry of foreign affairs in washington is burning, another plane is reported to be crashed in pennsylvania, the pentagon was wrecked by a second blast.
everything you probably never wanted to know about web-caching. coming along with the very nice show http headers tool.
nikolai bezroukov: portraits of open source pioneers. with a bunch of controversial references (e.g. "the circus midget and the fossilized dinosaur turd" or "a second look at the cathedral and the bazaar").
funny that these portraits start with donald e. knuth. he should be mentioned more often. knuth's books probably taught me more about layout and typography than those of jan tschichold. nevertheless, tschichold is essential knowledge. and a humble dadaist, btw.
april 1998: microsoft buys tex! knuth sells out!
there was a time i was so much "into tex" that i created most of my papers with it. and certainly some pages of the book "an exploration of chaos" when being a trainee at the institute for computer applications at the university of stuttgart. i can hardly believe that i once really did this...
and that reminds me of shaking hands with the author, a person who holds more titles than i could imagine in my wildest parodies: prof. em. dr. dr. h. c. mult. john argyris, f.eng., frs (just to name a few). he also got the golden prince philip medal "in recognition of [...] outstanding contribution to engineering design through the formulation and development of the finite element method of analysis".
as always, i introduced myself with my first name only which was honoured with taunting remarks by the colleagues who planned their careers from the cradle. unfortunately, this did not help them to fulfill their dreams of becoming popular musicians, tv entertainers or creative directors either.
"der standard: "virgin erwägt rückzug aus österreich". good times for the small record stores? bad times for domain grabbers? i remember quite well, how happy somebody was after successfully registering it...
as far as i remember, the second bridge of the waterway crossing of mittellandkanal and weser near minden was not there when i visited the place at the beginning of the 1990s... but i still like it, a ship on a bridge is really a fantastic picture.
in magdeburg another such waterway crossing is intended to be finished in 2003 - almost 70 years after its construction began. the project is titled "deutsche einheit nr.17". a bridge from the dark past to the lighter present...?
i've never seen such an intense rainbow... ten minutes, just here outside my window. it looked a little bit like this one – yes, a lighter second one was there, too. incredibly beautiful.
lynn mccutcheon: "bach flower remedies: time to stop smelling the flowers?" (quoted from sceptical inquirer vol. 19, no.4, july/august 1995).
via titanic's humorkritik i came across the finnish band aavikko: "they construct and construct, compose and rework. for a long, long time". true, the amount of tracks available is quite impressing.
some older titles remind me of the atmosphere in a casino at closing hour on a ferry between mariehamn and turku ("vaaleanpunainen palvelu"). they already define the typical sound of the guys from siilinjärvi, cheap casio beatbox and clunky organ sounds ("samojedien keskuudessa"). tracks from the still fresh release "multi muysic" even have some potential to drop a little bomb on the floor ("torpedo boys").
on 25 october 2001 aarvikko play live in vienna's chelsea. more about finnish electronic music can be found at phinnweb.
btw. the name of the "flying finn" is spelled without but pronounced with umlaut-a.