oesterreich, vast and undefined.

in the end we'll all meet again.

this time: javascript meets LaTeX.

although it's by far not enough to typeset some math; TeX is all about typography. (which reminds me how little browsers have achieved in this field: still no individual letter kerning, no hyphenation support, no standard method of including fonts, no no no...)

in wonderful accordance with most uber-scripters also simon willison recommends dojo, mochikit, prototype and the yahoo! ui library as the big four client-side javascript libraries. (via langreiter.)

besides some very interesting remarks about leaky abstractions there's a user comment that complains about ignoring jquery; which is justified partly (in regard of jquery being really usable at a very basic level), but on the other hand it simply doesn't fit looking at the source code (which is geeky stuff).

however, i am delighted by jquery's features (counting less than those of each of the big four) and its interface (except the ugly $ method, again).

it currently would be my favorite library when thinking about finally writing client-side code for some of my private projects like parss et al.

btw. there's little talk about speed and performance of each of those libraries. i think that's pretty amazing because it should matter a lot how fast the average user will experience all that nifty javascript stuff in her browser...

or is it just me being bothered by the sedate behaviour of many web 2.0 sites (just take digg.com as an example)?

japitools: Java API compatibility testing tools; including comparison results for classpath, libgcj, harmony, jnode and kaffe.

à propos free java: lately, i tried to compile rhinola again on my ubook and got the following output:

buntekuh:~/Desktop/rhinola$ ant gcjlib Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/lib/tools.jar Buildfile: build.xml

Total time: 9 seconds

obviously, rhinola still needs some of sun's (still) proprietary java stuff – which i have had installed the last time when everything went so smoothly.

unfortunately, copying tools.jar from another jdk installation to the aforementioned directory does not alter the result (except for the "unable to locate" message). wtf?

anyway, the main question is: did i get the promising "gnu-compiled" buzz-phrase wrong or is there a free tools.jar somewhere that makes the magic happen?

the only revolution that ever worked out is done by mother earth.

"Von Neumann's deathbed was under military guard lest he, heavily drugged, accidentally divulge the highly sensitive secrets to which he was privy."

– Wann stirbt ein Mensch? – Wenn er wie ein Monstrum aussieht.

the longest 2.38 minutes of my father's life.

from berlin friedrichstraße to hauptbahnhof. (via bov.)

and there was even more: the central station itself was sovereign territory of the german democratic republic; thus, it was not enough to exit the train to gain personal freedom. my father and his colleague still had to make it through and out of the station. and so they did.

one.

a film should be like a l'il stone in your shoe.

hitler bug.

rockin' the free glamorous world.

thanks to frollein l. i was given the opportunity to join the scissor sister showcase at palais ferstel with the g'spritztn lot and the bunch of usual suspects.

here's the proof:

and it was filthy and gorgeous. and they made me don't feel like dancin'. in fact, they made me dance.