Year: 2004

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ghyll

a new ?game?

http://gamegrene.com/wiki/Main_Page

“Welcome to the world of Ghyll. The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced, and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers — the other players — on the construction of an encyclopedia about Ghyll.

Despite the fact that your peers are self-important, narrow-minded dunderheads, they are honest scholars. No matter how strained their interpretations are, their facts are accurate as historical research can make them. So if you cite an entry, you have to treat its factual content as true! (Though you can argue vociferously with the interpretation and introduce new facts that shade the interpretation.) “

hm, sounds like scientific progress goes “boink” 😉

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twoday now for tu wien university

The Technical University of Vienna has a blogging service for its students.

http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/

it was done by http://www.knallgrau.at the company that also hosts the weblog that you are reading here.

according to the press release:
http://www.tuwien.ac.at/pr/pa/pa_04_40.shtml

they plan to enable 15000 students und 2500 Scientific People to start blogging. The project should be accompanied by research initiatives. They are inspired by other universities that also allow blogging.

looks like a good idea to me to generate Semantic Web content.

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Military Speak :-)

Ingrid und ich gehen so durch meine NeueHeimat

Dabei muss man wissen, dass in Kaiserslautern die US Luftwaffenbasis Rammstein ganz nah ist. Was insofern ok ist, da die schon seit dem Krieg da sind und einiges hier investieren und Arbeitsplätze schaffen usw… (ok, man könnte hier viel negatives schreiben über Luftwaffenbasen, aber das kann ja jeder).

Lassen wir eher die Fakten sprechen. In einem Viertel, in dem viele Amerikaner leben (was man an den Chryslers in den Vorgärten sieht), finden Ingrid und ich einen Glas-Container.

Einwurf nur für Grünglas. Kein Porzellan, Steingut oder Keramik einwerfen. For American Soldiers: "For Green Glass Only" - by order of the commander

Da stehen zwei Aufschriften, was mensch denn da nun reinwerfen solle, kurz gesagt: Grünglas, ihr affen!.

Auf deutsch steht da:
“Einwurf nur für Grünglas. Kein Porzellan, Steingut oder Keramik einwerfen.”

Auf English:
“For Green Glass Only – by order of the commander”

was der deutsche von natur aus versteht, muss man dem gast aus den USA militärisch befehlen 🙂
geil!

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cars parking in front of my office

hm, some ill-inspired freak who has probably seen dubster.com/cars parked his or her red sports car in front of my office door.

danm, we are hacking till 23:59 and then this?!

carrace

carracer

it was not easy to climb over this thing. don’t know how they did it anyhow, but those who code all day don’t care…