although the intro to the lastthursday! pages is still turning me off a little bit, the idea gained momentum and there are some interesting events also for me, the lo-fi brainer.
i missed the event about "extreme programming" which i expected to be extremely interesting.
maybe i will make it on 26 april 2001 when border-crossing tom fuerstner tells us everything (and the summary means it) about userland.
i would not dare to state that i can find myself in a text of a good magazine (i guess this link will be outdated, soon), but surely i can find this text somewhere inside myself.
"and so i cross into another world shyly and in homage linger for an invitation from this unknown that i would trespass on." – good old lawrence would have hated the dj.
via camp catatonia.
chris langreiter: "using xml-rpc to enhance web applications". chris goes far ahead exploring rebol/view and integrating this now even a great gui developing tool into xml-rpc world.
i could not imagine where carl sassenrath would bring rebol in just a little bit more than one year...
euroranchera christina n stepping on stone: find-a-grave on the central cemetery of vienna.
already one month ago, the newscientist featured gregory chaitin as "the omega man". this issue, dated 10 march 2001, had been fluttering around in my flat for a while and just now i remembered that i have been at a lecture by chaitin here in vienna last year.
at that time i feared that "i probably won't understand a word" of what chaitin talks about. actually, this was pretty close to the truth. but the philosophical implications of radomness in the area of number theory (which was once the most stable building of science so far) remain irresistible to me. it's so fascinating that there are numbers, real numbers (in the sense of existence), which are "infinitely long and utterly incalculable".
"there can never be a reliable 'theory of everything'", is one conclusion you can get from chaitins omega numbers. this reminds me of a tv programme about time i saw on the week-end. one of the featured vanguard physicians who are obsessed by the idea of the so-called "world formula", a mathematical model that explains the inner structure of an elementary particle as well as the whole universe (or in physical terminology: combine the standard model with gravitation by the so-called super string theory), well, one of these physicians presented a partial result of their quest: a formula (ie. not calculation) which filled a whole blackboard and, here comes the interesting part, does not include any reference to time.
the (mis-?)interpretation of this formula leads to funny consequences: since we try to overcome and outwit our chronic (hehe) lack of time by getting faster and ubiquitous, we try to solve a problem which obviously exists only in our reception and reflection of motion resp. change. if nature did not have a plan for that thing called time, are we not scheduling a phantom, then?
leaving the fourth dimension behind.
outlining is really such a great way to structure content. that's the main reason why i am using radio userland. i certainly would get rid of it, if i had a simple outlining-only tool with some slight additional editing and xml-rpc / soap capabilities and support of opml (or a similar xml format, maybe rdf?)... then i can care about my content and its structure and a machine (a server, remote or such a "on-my-destkop" thang) would do the rest, shaping it, layouting it. i think it could work sensationally. and i could fully concentrate on one server technology for my personal web solutions (ie. hop).
interesting thread on henso.com about that server-on-the-desktop thang...
at the time, i am pretty lost concerning where internet technology is going. so many directions to go (although everyone wants me to believe there is only one path to follow)... but i believe that it's nothing unusual, just a phase of transition (another one, why not).
on the other hand, i do know that the term internet technology has to fade away from its applications. as long as technical implications stand in front of any internet service, most end-users will be turned off completely, sooner or later. i know that this leads to considerations about commercialisation, but my point of view is rather to improve our lifes (e.g. to enable my parents to use the internet at ease and therefore better).
whoa, this sounds pretty akward.
i expected some good news about trellix saving blogger and after two sentences i just don't want to read this thoughtless praise of capitalism any further. yeah, i live with it, i make profit of it, too. but what happened here does not make capitalism any better (if capitalism plays any role her at all, anyway). happy eastern (making already 60% of christmas sales).
sometimes i wish i could find such excellent texts about "austro-prawdism" on popo.at... vanishing point o5.
modularization of xhtml is a new w3c recommendation. while xhtml is really pretty easy to understand, i get terribly confused by that document. why do i fear more and more that some folks try to single-out simple tech-minds like me? wasn't this the same with rss 1.0, soap and xs(s?)lt...? shut up and dance!