Expo 2000 The Expo 2000 was the Top Story of Deutsche Welle yesterday (short article with additional links). More than 150,000 people visited the Expo yesterday. Not bad for the first day! Die Expo 2000 war gestern das Tagesthema bei der Deutschen Welle (Artikel und zusätzliche Links). Gestern besuchten mehr als 150.000 Leute die Expo. Nicht schlecht für den ersten Tag!

Al on the Expo 2000

Al commented on my posting about the Expo yesterday:

“Andrea and Andre are getting ready to attend Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. Sounds like fun! An expo, German beer, and big German women. Oh Yeah! (sorry, that was my evil twin that wrote that. He has been sacked….)”

Well. Big German women?!? Seems like there are some strange clichés about Germans. Any others I should know about?

<wink>By the way, you can ask André – he would describe me as being anything else but big, I guess! </wink>

Update: Al answered on his home page:

“Open mouth, insert foot. I know better than to let my lecherous alter ego gain control. It gets me in trouble every time. Without fail. Yeesh. […]

Anyway. Andrea, the cliches and preconceptions are all mine, based on random books and news clippings of Oktoberfest biergartens showing barmaids swinging double fistfuls of beer steins… I don’t suspect they are shared by many other people.”

Al, I didn’t mean it that serious! I was just wondering… thanks for the explanation.

Seeing pictures from the Octoberfest always make me wondering about my fellow countrymen, too!

Most World Languages Gone by 2100

Most of the world’s 6,000-plus languages will be gone by the end of this century…

… says this article at Discovery News.

New Most Read Sites Ranking

This page ranks the most highly read UserLand-hosted Manila sites since 5/12/00.

I’m No 34 today. Not too bad. I prefer this kind of ranking over the Most Read Sites Yesterday because it shows how many people read a site on average, while the Most Read Sites Yesterday ranking compares the hits of only one day.

Oliver’s WWDC trip

Once more, Oliver has very beautiful pictures from his trip: Day 10.

Oliver, they’re just great! Good thing you took your camera.

I wanna go there!

World Exposition 2000

Today is the first day of the Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany!

There was an opening ceremony with chancellor Gerhard Schröder, president Johannes Rau and Expo chief Birgit Breuel, but that’s all I know about it so far.

I wonder what the Expo looks like. It seems they didn’t finish the work on the pavillions in time, so maybe there’s still work to be done. By the way, that’s the reason why the Expo guidebook is not yet available. I went to the bookshop yesterday because I wanted to buy one, but I was told that it will not be available before the end of next week. The guides in foreign languages will take another month or so because they can’t start translating before the German version is done.

But the Expo has a website: Expo 2000 – Official Website. Take a look at the participants, or visit the website of the German pavilion. There also is a webcam and a weather forecast.

André and I are planning to visit the Expo 2000 on June 26th.

Expo 2000

Heute ist der erste Tag der Expo 2000 in Hannover!

Ich frage mich, wie es auf dem Expo-Gelände heute wohl aussieht. Ich habe gehört, daß die Arbeiten nicht rechtzeitig abgeschlossen werden konnten, also ist vielleicht sogar noch der eine oder andere Kran zu sehen.

Das ist auch der Grund dafür, daß der offizielle Expo-Führer noch nicht erschienen ist. Gestern wollte ich ihn kaufen, aber im Buchladen sagte man mir, vor Ende nächster Woche sei nicht damit zu rechnen, und die fremdsprachigen Ausgaben erschienen erst in ca. vier Wochen.

Die Deutsche Bahn hatte für den Eröffungstag 75.000 Tickets und 120 Sonderzüge bereitgestellt, aber nur ca. 15.000 Tickets wurden verkauft. Wenn das so weitergeht…

André und ich gehen wahrscheinlich am 26. Juni auf die Expo.

Aber die Website der Expo ist natürlich schon fertig: Expo 2000 – Official Website. Es gibt u.a. die Teilnehmerliste, eine Webcam und eine Wettervorhersage. Ach ja, und hier ist der Deutsche Pavillon.

Twipsy, das Maskottchen der Expo 2000, hat sogar eine eigene Website: www.twipsy.de.

Wie bekommt man eine Giraffe in einen Kühlschrank?

Die Antwort überlegen, dann unten auf die oberste Antwort auf diese Nachricht klicken.

Totally crazy

This is possibly the craziest thing I’ve seen on the web so far:

Project E.U.N.U.C.H., short for The Extreme Use of Nearly Universal Cooling Hardware.

Be sure to read the whole thing. It get’s even more weird after the planned experiment was over.

The benefits of weblogs

Craig:

There have been at least two unexpected side benefits of running this weblog. The first is that I have become webpals with Andrea, of Andrea’s Weblog. Andrea live in Germany and is Andre’s partner. Andre runs the Spicy Noodles! weblog and is an employee of UserLand, maker of the software we all use to run our weblogs. My daughter and I will hopefully be visiting Andrea and Andre when we travel to Germany next month with the Austin Girls Choir. That doesn’t happen every day.

Right. I’m looking forward to it! Also, I will hopefully be able to go to the concert in Cologne and hear Craig’s daughter perform.

By the way, Craig’s headline remembered me of the Schogetten story. Seems like John noticed as well… (He said: “Who said there was no tangible benefit to weblogging?!”)

The Conference Bike

I saw two of these while in Amsterdam a while ago. Cool!

Variations on a theme

Duncan seems to be full of ideas!

Here is his Manila Quoter.

Do You Have The Brains Of A Four Year Old?

Al at View from the Heart:

At Chaos Manor, Jerry Pournelle has a test to see if you have the brains of a professional or a four year old.

Well, I got the first two questions right. That’s something, isn’t it?

Denken Sie wie ein Vierjähriger?

Da meine deutschsprachigen Leser gestern zu kurz gekommen sind, habe ich den oben erwähnten Test übersetzt.

Der Test stellt fest, ob Sie (Du) wie ein vierjähriges Kind oder wie ein Erwachsener denken und sich als “Profi” bezeichnen können.

Einfach auf diesen Link klicken, die Frage beantworten und auf den obersten Antwortlink klicken, der zur nächsten Frage führt.

Ich konnte immerhin die ersten beiden der vier Fragen richtig beantworten. Besser als nichts, oder?

Die ursprüngliche (englischsprachige) Version des Tests findet sich hier.

Das Konferenz-Fahrrad

Ich habe zwei Konferenz-Fahrräder in Amsterdam gesehen. Cooles Fortbewegungsmittel!

[duncan] Manila Clipper

It Works!

Manila Clipper is, in effect, a client-side Manila Express workalike. I’ve kept it simple. Users are encouraged to modify it to suit their taste. For example, I have used <blockquote> </blockquote> to delimit selected text. Check out the if(…) statement for customisation opportunities.

Just drag the following link to the MacIE5 Favorites bar: Manila Clipper

Javascript Clipper

Here is my first try to use Duncan’s Manila Clipper! And it works just fine! I only replaced the < and > parts of the tags to avoid them from being executed.

Duncan Smeed:

“Javascript Clipper – Manila Clipping is my Mac IE5 version of Ken Dow’s ManilaPad influenced, of course, by Brent’s version of Manila Express. Thanks guys!
Just drag the Manila Clipping link to MacIE5’s favourites toolbar and you’re all set to go. With hindsight it’s misnamed since it works completely independently of Manila and can be used to get a clipping of any site for any purpose. Enjoy!”

Thanks, Duncan. Works great!

Tribute to Charles M. Schulz

via 2020 Hindsight: Tribute to a friend: Charles M. Schulz. I like them!

Uh-oh, time consuming text adventure

Browsing through André‘s favorite weblogs, I happened to see a link to “the excellent Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure at Foaf: The Lite Side of the Forceâ„¢…

I barely arrived at the Heart of Gold, but I’m already stuck. It seems the only way out is a door to a room in which Marvin is, but the door won’t open. From time to time, Marvin comes out, but goes back in without talking to me.

BookNotes

Happy Wedding Anniversary, Craig!

I like Craig’s quote of the day (actually from yesterday):

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein