after the washing machine and the refrigerator mashica discover the fax machine: the cassandra fax project. fax-hell's a poppin' in madrid...

joho: "truth is not enough. knowledge is tribal. it has to be relevant to the tribe. it has to be expressed in the way appropriate to the tribe. it has to come from someone in the tribe or else it must be delivered in the way the tribe chooses to receive foreign ideas. marketing slugs who post happy-talk on the r&d bulletin board are about as welcome as engineering nerds who call out sarcastic comments at the marketing vp's wake – even if everyone is only saying true things."

"government agencies of all kind and private companies are more and more intruding and violating everyone's privacy. enormous amounts of personal data are being collected, stored and processed – very often illegally – for the sake of investigation and marketing, criminal justice and statistics." – the big brother awards. tomorrow, 9pm at flex (vienna), 8pm at rote fabrik (zurich), 4pm at bunker ulmenwald (bielefeld). watching the watchmen worldwide.

on october 28 my frontier licence runs out. i will not renew. instead, i will concentrate on another software that gives to me similar possibilities (however it is totally different from frontier) but easier understanding of its structure. it's called helma object publisher (hop).

currently i am joining the hop documentation project to provide better support for future hop developers and hop(e)fully also will integrate my own web stuff and more ideas i have had recently with the hop.

in the last year i tried out so many different scripting languages, content management systems and tools myself (ie. not as a paid job) that i was ot able to focus properly on one of them (except rebol, maybe): frontier, zope, hop, blogger, rebol, perl. php, vbscript – not to mention javascript... that's just too much distraction altogether.

btw. in javascript i see a bright future: it is used in browsers. it's available for scripting the mac as well as windows. and the scripting language used by hop is – javascript! excitement enforces its merited space.

crazy daisy, something is going wrong at gauck.de, all wrong... here we are, at the turning point of the long desired 21st century, having all the information almost set free. and all we create is more confusion and misunderstanding.

hello, it's flash: well-done experimental playgrounds aka safeplaces. relax. you're quite safe here.

although it's not featured on the appropriate space of london's net radio gaialive (maybe anywhere, however i could not find it): on today's late afternoon (6 pm) lewis sykes spins the wheels at the old truman brewery in brick lane.

an exclusive report about my stay in "lunden" is now published at sensomatic's london news. it was really fabulous being there (this as an english summary). additionally, i got some wicked inspirations by missing the exhibition about buckminster "bucky" fuller, playing "vib ribbon" on playstation and looking at the strange shapes of dodecahedrons and klein bottles inside the show-cases of the science museum. everything leads to mathematics these days...

i am off until next wednesday. london calling. a sunny week-end with sunsomatic.

besides the ever-interesting topic of the infamous jakob nielsen, jorn barger's "web dossier" thang is another excellent idea for people maturing from weblogs. if it should ever come to another dispute on who coined the term this time, i prophylactically state that i wittnessed me jorn barger doing so.