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The silent visions of Anathema

Once again taking a crash-dive into my musical past… 1995 is the year written on the back cover of the “the silent enigma” cd recorded by former British…

20. Dezember 2005

useful tools: sqleonardo

Being heavily into messing around with SQL databases lately, I’ve spent quite some time in anger about the fact that the powerful open-source database MaxDB (formerly known as…

7. Dezember 2005

Web-Standards und “Accessibility”

Im Vergleich zwischen den westlichen Industrienationen und den sogenannten “Entwicklungsländern” wird gern von der “digitalen Kluft” gesprochen, um darauf hinzuweisen, daß die Ärmsten der Armen etwa in Afrika…

7. Dezember 2005

Getting clear about electronic music.

Ever wondered what’s all the mess about things like Techno, Dark-Wave, EBM, Industrial, Trance and whatever? Ever thought about whether there is any sort of meaningful structure within…

27. November 2005

filesharing and economy

Thanks to the kind folks on the FreeCulture mailing list, I just came across a paper created and published by David Blackburn, being a student at Harvard Department…

27. November 2005

cultural technology

After once again booting into the Copy4Freedom GNU/Linux Live CD this evening, I am once again ending thinking about technology and its role in culture and society and,…

6. November 2005

technology and perception

In an interview done back in 1994 (and since then more or less spread around half the world because it’s been released in a way that effectively allowed…

26. Oktober 2005

strangelove reproduction

Im diesjährigen Sommer-Urlaub habe ich mir unter sonnigem, südländischen Himmel endlich einmal die Zeit genommen, mich durch Generation X des kanadischen Autors Douglas Coupland zu schmökern, und, mit…

22. Oktober 2005