Happy Birthday, dear blog: your first post was published in August, 24th 2005. That's like one hundred internet-years, and so you are about two years older than the twitter 'hashtag' (#) invention. And you are still my favorite place to try out new technologies, to rant about the oddities of my daily adventures and recently…
Archiv für "August 2017"
WebrockerThe web as a material
The concepts of apprenticeship and mastership seem to not apply on the Web. When it comes to building a house, you will search for a trusted architect and carpenter, and you'll measure their credibility by means of their experience, which in turn will be a matter of the time they spent exercising their craft. On…
Intolerable - Jeremy Keith
Spot-on about that ex-googler's "manifesto" and its layers of reasonability around an intolerable core. (…) It may seem odd that a document that appears to be so reasonable is proving to be so very divisive. But it’s that very appearance of impartiality that gives it its power. It is like an optical illusion for the…
The Trooper - Steve'n'Seagulls
Wer hätte gedacht, dass Iron Maiden eigentlich Hillbilly County Bluegrass Songs macht? Der NWOBHM Hoppelrhythmus kam mir ja schon immer ein bisschen komisch vor, aber nach dieser (Cover)version frage ich mich, ob das nicht die eigentliche Seele des Songs ist. Yeehah.