congratulations go out to munich and a warm welcome to the club: carolin maak got her diploma!
hey, the brandnew antville is running really well!
and hence the trouble could begin: "mit steigender zahl der mitglieder häuften sich der missbrauch auf unseren servern. mit kinderpornographie, nazipropaganda, aufrufe zu mord und brandanschlägen, menschenverachtendem material, beleidigungen und urheberrechtsverletzungen ist die liste der widerlichkeiten wirklich lang. unzählige abmahnungen, strafbewährte unterlassungserklärungen und drei hausdurchsuchungen sind genug gründe zum nachdenken."
that's why yoobay.net went offline. and that's why antville needs an authoritative disclaimer against any illegal material posted to the servers and some superuser tools to protect itself from going down the shitshoot because of some ubiquitous idiots.
what's that? a call for a strict hand? schlögl, schüssel, schily, schill, schiefke3000?
just an impetus. btw. frank rennicke, a neo-nazi musician, already has arrived at antville...
obviously, i have been at the b72 once upon a time... (zoom!). the sensomatics spotted me again. pretty perceptive.
angry old money. angry with the new euro currency. but new peoples come, old peoples have to go... (via camp catatonia).
what the heck? i still cannot get through to the brandnew antville site, either due to my provider's dns latency or because mac os x does something like a cached nslookup itself... anyway, i know how gorgeous antville now is. the best antville so far. congratulations, robert!
update: now it's working (~18h)...
a collection of idiotic names. totally up the pole!
i prefer to rather not listen to the songs and i am even glad that the already-poor attendants of the international song contest spare most of austrian's unmercyful musical ouput... well, no mercy with them, either.
that's all my eye and betty martin!
database of english-german idioms.
would you believe that i will be at the viennese hofburg tonight wearing a borrowed suit jacket and joining a bunch of weirdos in smokings and costumes which normally gather at lectures about electrical engineering or construction statics? well, although i can't pair dance at all and probably will be looking like a crooked picture from the 7ties with my fat blue tie, i was persuaded to attend the "ball der technik", the annual ball of the technical university of vienna! – provided the bouncers really let me in.
i must have been either quite exhilarated or pretty sleepy at that morning of my consent...
i think i'll take my el cheapo camera with me and some pictures (as crooked as my look) back home for alo.
update: the bouncers made me buy a bow-tie because a simple tie was against dress code (probably a symbolic act of schüssel nostalgia). but this was just a short bothering intermezzo. it did not stop monika and me from getting into the ballroom blitz. inside, we met matthias, one of the platzer brothers.
being my first viennese ball it was a really fascinating experience. wondering about all the hidden choreographies of such an event (not only regarding the dances) i spotted some very beautiful dresses.
if you should be interested in watching how a car (a volkswagen, to be precise) is built you can watch it at "die gläserne manufaktur". this is the first time i have seen animated 3d panorama movies...
the new scientist is doing an experiment in open source: "good ideas are worth money, so why are people giving them away for free? this week, new scientist is doing something no other mainstream magazine has – publishing an article under what's known as a 'copyleft'. we're helping test one of the boldest ideas of our time. the outcome is up to you. to read the article, go to [...] newscientist.com. there, you can provide feedback, copy the article, redistribute it, modify or reissue it, without worrying that you've violated our copyright" (via pimi via xhrc-list. the "hrc" in xhrc stands for hypermedia research center, the "x" probably for exclusive).