Thursday, 23. August 12001
p3k dots

i wonder what it might sound like when a computer emulates a b4 organ... or a a vox continental, a farsifa, an indian harmonium.

Wednesday, 22. August 12001
p3k dots

darned, i missed the wife carrying world championships on 14 july 2001 in sonkajärvi. more at whatsgoingon.com.

and i think i also won't be pulling faces at the gurning competition in egremont, uk. but fortunately, this also can be done online.

btw. i got the inspiration to this entry from a story at orf on. but the editors there are very, very afraid of links. and i wanted links.

creating a development process using sourceforge: "it is my belief, and all I have to go on is my perspective, that sourceforge was 'written' and did not have a larger scope strategy and design in mind. this may be the by-product of reading too much into the cathedral and the bazaar, a marketing rush job to get something out the door or just my imagination."

happy b-day, pimi!

i must confess that i actually don't know any good e-card website. and i even did not find a lot that i liked in between half an hour of searching the web. i favour those which come along with antique or "weird" motives. and i definitely dislike all those sites that claim to provide "cool, funny design" cards. they are completely shitty. what i found and like so far: titanic marconigram, virtual crack, cbc design library and vintage greetings. not a very satisfying collection. there has to be more and better stuff out there...

kris recommends indiatimes' egreetings.

Tuesday, 21. August 12001
p3k dots

nasa fakes moon landing! nice try nasa but we are not fooled that easily!

just a tip, the right tool for me and my demise of will for social competence.

telepolis: "24 Mitglieder der free software foundation wegen verstoßes gegen die windows-lizenzvereinbarung festgenommen".

smart article, especially the last paragraph. <g>

every time i mis-spell a url the way that it is not existent, internet explorer sends a request like

auto.search.msn.com?MT=www.domain.tld/path/to/document&srch=6&prov=&utf8

to microsoft. i really don't like the idea that all those urls are sent to microsoft. i don't like the feeling that i don't even have any control over what is sent to this server. and i assume this must be an extraordinary server log-file. scary.

does anybody know more about this? i only found this message in the vulnerability development mailing list web archive, but i think this must be already a sufficiently discussed issue...

update: now i know at least how to disable the whole autosearch fucktionality. i activated(!) the radio button "just display the results in the main window" (the last but one element in the internet option's advanced tab).

chris has found a cool quick reference for choosing a free software license.