xappeal.org: "Here are a few screenshots to give you a nice glimpse at Aqua. Hopefully these will be followed up with a more in-depth review of DP3, but enjoy the eye candy for now."

an excellent essay on the history of the graphical user interface. by christine zmölnig.

it seems this blog becomes quite obsolete: i cannot find the time to write here, i am still involved too much in writing – and protesting – against the new government in austria. after 5 days of marching against corrupt conservative wanna-be-chancellor schuessel and joerg "fascist" haider i feel worn out and tired.

schuessel is now chancellor – but he has to go again, soon. he, until yesterday still minister of foreign affairs, acted bloody incompetent and stupid by being surprised of his colleages, the other 14 ministers of foreign affairs in the other countries of the european community, to take steps against austria if far-right fpo will be included in the new government. he is the one who is responsible for this whole mess in austria.

here are a lot of friends that walk besides me. however, i feel sad that my german friends do not react at all on this crisis. some e-mails of them would give me hope and motivation to continue the struggle. did they forgot that i am here in vienna?

again, too tired, too many emotions, excuse me while i protest asleep...

telepolis: MP3: Gratis, legal und qualitativ wertvoll.

i should finish the search for a good excuse why i write in english here... the tagline of this blog is "your almost daily portion of piefke (in funny english)". maybe "furry english" would be even better. but there have to be at least some mysteries. the name of this diary is another one. :o)

"my scripting nipples get hard just thinking about blogger!" – this is one quote on the blogger website (i use some links inflationary, don't i?).

what a wonderful statement. it reminds me that technology is hardly sexy although it sometimes deserves it. a lot of things could be sexier: politics, business, work... sexiness can make my life more desirable. abandone boredom! get sexy. (and i am not talking about those geezer fantasies, wanker!)

i always feel sitting on the fence between web-experts (programmers, designers, writers etc.) and web-users (99% of the people surfing the web, i would assume).

in some ways i agree with this majority that the techniques of doing something on the web (applications, layouts, texts) are much too much too complex and complicated. on the other hand, that is for sure, it is a comfortable position to know those tricks that others simply cannot do.

however, here is an excellent piece about what can happen if you follow the wrong path: the powerpoint effect and manila. i never liked power point, i never had to make something with it. a lack of experience, as it seems, because the idea behind powerpoint is exactly what it, the web, is all about. further examples are rebol and blogger.

"don't let us technological tyrants drown you out."

at the moment i am spending more time to log the news about what is happening here in austria. the freedom party and the conservative party want to join a coalition and become government 2000. "freedom" party might sound good in english, but their policy of lies is definitely not.

the conservatives on the other hand promised to take the part of the opposition (outs) if they should be third in the elections ranking – and they are! just like the socialists party they surely could need some time of rethinking and renewing, some time off the cabinet.

albeit, it is highly probable that austria's new chancellor will be a conservative one. and we all, who we do not belong to that third of xenophobic wankers who voted "freedom" (this is so ridiculous), are asking ourselves, if this result is really what the people voted for...

gmx austria is sending me each bloody gmx-newsletter 3 times. i complained and asked for unsubscription and all i got was an ignorant answer that the majority of their users like the newsletter, "an essential part of the membership".

they walk the dinosaur.

the self-designated web-community now has every reason to celebrate the questionable victory of etoy over etoys, that's for sure: an almost forgotten artsy-fartsy collective has its come-back and a toy company at its come-down pretends to be accomodating. what an artistic act of endowing confusion and creating attention!