i moved on to hamburg to visit claudia müller who is doing smart website design – not only for big austrian broadcasting monopoly...

hamburg is a german city i would rate “okay”. people are nice, shopping is interesting, there is a harbour and st. pauli always is worth promenading. a city for one’s desire.

we have had a good talk about hyperlinks although we did not agree upon it. i feel that this can lead to some new experiment.

one night we went out for nickelodeon’s show “christmas dinner for two” in a circus tent called “fliegende bauten”. wonder who is weirder, those funny britains or the citizens of hamburg. laughed a lot.

actually, i am at my parents house in germany and the whole night and half of the day there was an incredibly powerful storm here. it is way too warm for the season, probably a cause for the heavy weather.

or did mother nature want to play some apocalyptic tricks on the millennium-seduced people to test their belief's strength? belief in what?

the storm is called lothar and left a trail of destruction in baden-wurttemberg and france.

dave winer has an interesting idea of what we could call the coming decade. in german, however, it sounds more weird: "die hunderter".

the concept behind this idea is very good, though. it follows the logic that there have not been any "the thirties" or "the eighties" in the 19th century or before. i think, this terminology started in this century beginning with the "swinging twenties".

"the hundreds" – at least much better than "the nullies" or alike...

btw: what about the decade from 2010 to 2019? and why are we thinking in decades at all?

oh, no! since yesterday i do not get through to sensomatic's daily surprise again: advent_ures under a bad sign...

renault killed "q": "[desmond llewelyn, better known as "q" in all but 2 james bond movies] had been at a book signing event at nearby drusillas park before the fatal smash involving his blue renault megane and another car." – and i worked on renault's austrian web site... shame on me.

the calls for a boycott of amazon.com increase. what alternatives do i have here in austria? lion.cc??

i did not know that steve wozniak has a website. but why shouldn't he? interesting mac links...

minipops are little, tiny, minigifs of popular people. how sweet! certainly, my favourite is this one.

when i was young they called stuff like that "bravo starschnitt"... a series of posters that put together resulted in a huge megaposter of one's favorite pop star (e.g. a-ha, kajagoogoo or nena at my time).

the times have been changing and today huge is out and tiny is in. welcome at the fin de siècle.

btw: there is some bigger stuff as well – e.g. a kraftwerk wallpaper!

on the search for web pages related to “trash” i found that a “nevada brothel to honor andy kaufman with ‘wrestling room’”. this story also reminded me of the movie “man on the moon” i expect to see next year in europe.

why am i searching for web pages related to “trash”? to entertain myself sitting on a truck’s tyre hose in local private tv station tiv’s bluebox, naturally!

sensomatic's advent_ures have temporarily moved. glad that they're back!

sensomatic has not been reachable since days. pimi wrote to me that it is impossible to update the site and the guy who is refered to as technical contact does not react on complaints. however, i decided to send a message to him, too. why is it that i always have to tamper? i don't know...

i also sent a note to the admin of alter.net where the packets get lost according to a traceroute (unfortunately, i do not know any good traceroute gateway in austria so i chose one in the european neighborhood).

senso, i miss you...