understanding the wikiwiki web, pt. cxiv: delete me, wiki badge and edit hint.
"richard stallman, leader of the free world, returns to fosdem." – announcement at the fosdem website.
fuck you, too.
this is the (short) story of a song i once got on tape from sabine jones, my english teacher at university in hannover. she gave it to me in 1996 and the tape almost was running non-stop during my stay at mülheim where i did my second internship.
two years later i still played it at nofrontiere studio (that's what they call the office there) in vienna. at that time, mark lycette heard the song and revealed the band's name to me: the chills from new zealand.
another four years passed by the song occasionally being played at cozy dj sets hosted by klaus makotter or private parties until last week-end hannes wallnöfer hummed the melody again in front of praha holesovice.
btw. before we met in hannover, sabine jones was teaching in prague. unfortunately, we lost sight of each other after she returned to the states. she was up to moving to glasgow later, don't know if she did...
once the song was a mere tune without a name or even just any face, its secrets far from being investigated the easy way. but it became history and today we have the right tools to keep track of our mysterious past. so here are the chills with "pink frost".
the chills made some other pieces of great music as well, including "heavenly pop song", "rain", "rolling moon" (also being on that tape) or "tied up in chain". and probably they are pretty well-known out there and again i just did not have any clue?
"unsere gehirnfürze stinken nicht, aber sie wirken wie lachgas." – die echten dilettanten.
leider keine website von den "dilettanten" gefunden. aber timo brunke war einer von ihnen. bis er zu bruder grimm wurde. heute organisiert und moderiert er den stuttgarter poetry slam.
eigentlich fand ich nur zufällig den link zur gifte.de site und den artikel über lachgas so klasse. die ideale droge für mich, dachte ich da.
ooh, heute you are writing in deutsh, mein herr?
heute gern im kutter gelesen. irgendwie aus hannover, kommt mir vor. dort hab ich von 1992 bis 1996 studiert. den besten milchkaffee der stadt gab es bei jacqueline.
digital data porn, found via gig:antville.
czech girls wear their glasses with pride.
a week-end in prague: pictures at euroranch, elephäntville and alo.
palac akropolis. eating, drinking, dancing and "talking" (heheh) in prague. the place to be.
eve andersson: "diary of a start-up – this is a story about a company. a company that was profitable from day 1. a company that built products that were useful to many other companies. a company that had ethics, that treated the breadwinners (programmers) with respect, a company that could afford to help people and give away software and training, while still having enough left over to grow and save a few $million in the bank. that is, until the venture capitalists arrived on the scene".
talkin' 'bout ars digita.
"oh yes, i'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame the day before you came." – abba, “the day before you came”.
btw. tanita tikaram made a pretty cool cover version of this song...
it's time for my first visit to prague.
prag city server: "regarding 'drink', the czech republic is aeons ahead of the rest of us. the beer is exquisite, the girls are lovely, sorry, the wine from s. moravia is lovely, the vodka comes in a million different tastes, bottles and prices (a bit like whisky) and the sub-culture that surrounds the entire subject of alcohol is rich beyond mere words. i rather believe that if it wasn't for the fact that I hate becoming 'tired and emotional' (or drunk, as the state is otherwise known) i think i would probably be a dead man by now".
frank zappa and the prague underground.
das parlament: "klischees prägten lange zeit das bild vom jeweiligen nachbarn. die annäherung zwischen tschechen und deutschen – auch zwischen den einstigen sozialistischen 'bruderstaaten' cssr und ddr – verlief langsamer, als offiziell propagiert".
oh, the central european review suspends publication "so that the cer team can devote itself fully to securing its future"... hopefully.
"much of what is being written, said or, done about database management is irrelevant, misleading, or outright wrong." – fabian pascal, "practical issues in database management".
although the author breaks with all my beloved ideals and conceptions of "cookbook" approaches to gain programming knowledge, i think it is good to listen to such dogmatic and militant words of a person with expertise from time to time.
thanks to mr tinytalk for this book recommendation.