exploring windows nt: scheduling events with the "at" command. if i would have known this earlier...
2001 thanks go out to hans_heinz for his stereolab quadruple compilation. "l'enfer des formes" is a long-time favorite of mine!
these memories can't wait: in 1995 i met helge schneider at a gas station in mülheim/ruhr. he pushed his ancient side car motorbike hither because he ran out of gas. i listened to a stereolab tape i got from a beloved one.
whew! loads of wonderful links found today down in the partykeller... and netdyslexia probably discovered the next big i-hype: stor troopers, the "drag-and-drop java avatar-creator" (introducing the new java method neuterGenitals()).
this is the week of the naked truth: nakednews.com – "the program with nothing to hide". and where do the others watch the paperboys dropping their pants?
seriously bored? (or boring?) talk to artificial life's alife bots. and try to be polite. or better: try asking luci to "get naked" one or two times...
no clouds across the moon tonight here in vienna, so i can see it very well: the total eclipse of the moon january 9, 2001.
reminds me of a tacky tune my sister liked so much when she was younger:
"now when i look at the clouds across the moon here in the night i just hope and pray that soon oh baby, you'll hurry home to me" – the rah band, "clouds across the moon"
a nice collection of windows software programmed by gregory braun.
pind's dot com: "why macromedia director sucks and what to do about it (oct, 1999)" – and many more challenging thoughts about software technology.
bse in europe – waiting for the first case in austria. waiting for the first bse symptoms at pork, sheep, chicken, horses, cats and dogs (humans get creutzfeld-jacob, huhuh). waiting for milk products being under suspect, too. waiting for chocolate (beef blood as color pigment) and many other sweets (gelatine made of beef bones) to be analyzed.
does it make anybody nervous that of all human body parts it is the brain that gets desastrously damaged by bse? is this the consequence of its ever-growing intellectual engagement to create, control and extinct, the debt of its saturnine ideas to be paid with its own existence? sell my soul but keep me rational – nevermore!
alternatives? artificial intelligence? might be too late then (any progress since 1941?)... genetic engineering? promising, at least another havoc... space, the final frontier? it is already 2001 and we're still stuck in the orbit...
preaching the body apocalypse and drinking the beast's blood. irony's child.
is this online journalism? and if it is: is it a good example? bettina röhl is ulrike meinhof's daughter. ulrike meinhof was a member of the raf, the german "city guerrilla" of the sixties. joschka fischer sympathised with the raf and just recently admitted what everybody knew already: he once was a militant leftist. now bettina röhl knows how to compare a picture of fischer with a picture of hitler. no doubt, germany is still captured between the terror from the right and the terror from the left. however, it's not a question of left or right, it's a question of terror. die deutsche frage continued (not solved).