will i be doing something very rigid, soon?

currently, i am struggling with myself about my personal policy regarding comments on this weblog.

generally, i think they are pretty useless here. simply because i don't get so many. which is totally okay, after all i am not writing for appeal most of the time.

on the other hand, if a text calls for reaction, i am pretty picky about what a comment has to be. i don't think just because there is an empty text field one immediately has to enter some words and click a button (maybe i should modify the line "enter a comment"; it is instructive, actually). needless to say that a comment needs a semantic connex to its parent posting, anyway.

feedback noise always appears to me as if somebody interrupts me while i am speaking just to focus on a completely different subject. besides the eventuality of annyoing me, it definitely distracts from a potential discourse. why should i think that's acceptable here, when it's not acceptable eye-in-eye?

that's why i think about removing such comments. and i wish i really could remove them, to some other space where their existence is justifiable. alas, at the moment i can't. technical implications.

believe it or not, i don't consider this weblog the right place for discussions, anyway. sure, i'll let it happen, but i really prefer other environments.

i wanted to ask the maintainer of the prozessberater weblog, whether he would make good money with his bunch of product placements. but my comment was not recorded everytime i clicked the save button.

i think something is broken with the comment function (which can happen when tampering with skins and macros). now there's no other way to tell it than posting it here or on any other weblog. in the meantime, mr prozessberater probably wonders why nobody talks back to him.

does antville need an e-mail feature similar to the one userland implemented in their bloatware?

speaking of product placement...

dave winer, 20 april 2001: "i expect a 60-day discussion period at which time, i will use my best judgement to decide which features are in".

almost an uneventful year later, i start to ask myself why they don't dump rss 0.93? it's all so – well, so oops...

is there more to distinguish in version 0.93 from 1.0 than support for that wacky enclosure feature and weird things like "the cloud" et al. that can be done more flexible via rss processors? is anyone outside of the radio userland community seriously using these options? should everybody really build an own exchange format fitting with one's selfish product-selling strategies?

i don't think so. and i don't feel engaged to support rss 0.93 in the next version of the javascript rss viewer (which will be built with helma, btw).

o'reilly: directory of linux commands. 379 entries with explanations. thanks a lot!

der spiegel about the movie "das weiße rauschen".

"optisch und akustisch hat weingartner den ausbruch der schizophrenie tatsächlich eindrucksvoll in szene gesetzt. durch die verwendung mehrerer handkameras, die sich ständig um den hauptdarsteller bewegen, überträgt sich lukas' körperliche bedrängnis unmittelbar auf den zuschauer.

fast noch quälender wirken die stimmen und geräusche, die nach und nach zu einem bedrohlichen sog anschwellen und lukas' kopf überschwemmen.

[...] der film weckt zumindest in der ersten hälfte die hoffnung, dass im deutschen kino ein sperriges thema auch einmal ohne falsches pathos umgesetzt werden könnte. doch genau dieser versuchung erliegt weingartner".

well, i think we just left the cinema in time, then.

today, breakfast with the sensomatics, a walk in the park, an obi g'spritzt at café sperlhof (a weird one, offering a thousand different board games), a visit at the mak (the graphic work of josef binder and margarete schütte-lihotzky's frankfurt kitchen) and a final melange at café prückl.

hey, this ain't no diary, dude!

update: flomatic subsequently delivered a photo report about what really happened in augarten.

on thursday the movie "brazil" crossed my way again. one of my first movies "in the big city" (ie. stuttgart). i think i was much too young to understand it but i am very thankful that i was taken to the cinema.

the guy who took me there died in a car accident a few years later. the movie and his person are ultimately related to each other in my memory.

ein schrecklicher tod, ein sonderbarer oder ein alberner tod.

coincidentally, textlab just has something about harry tuttle today.

something wicked this way comes: stefan pollach has made amazing improvements on the introspection application for helma. it's now possible to (re)start and stop applications from within the browser, take a look at users that are logged in, display an application's or the server's configuration properties and even read the source code of a helma app. all in a nicely done user interface. thank you, stefan!

microsoft thinks p3k is among the top three schizophrenic bloggers. that's why i like google.

breadcrumbs.

telepolis: "wie frei ist freie software wirklich?" > fluter magazin (herausgegeben von der deutschen bundeszentrale für politische bildung) > mike goodwin: "copywrong – why the digital millennium copyright act hurts the public interest".