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.
john s. rhodes: "google 2.0. people using microsoft's internet explorer are now being redirected to microsoft's msn when they make certain kinds of mistakes".
blahblah... here i am, self-justified and ancient of mu-mu: 5 september 2001: cnet. 29 august 2001: webword. 21 august 2001: haboglabobloggin'. 23 september 2000: white vampire (vulnerability development list).
what's going on in the ventromedial frontal lobe? answers probably soon in the laughlab.