This is frustrating. O.K. I have not posted anything in ages, but that does not mean that my posts should not go through anymore. In addition on my machine it posts the entry under April 21st instead of May 21st. How do I get this reset? How about the Windows trick go out of the program and call it again.

I was wondering today what ‘deus ex machina ‘ means. Using Google glossary there it is. Where were they when I was growing up?

It was quiet for a while on this weblog. One of the reasons is that I can only post something once I am at home and I was on the road a lot lately. My password was gone …

Nice little online chess game, that you also can download for offline gaming. Update!

Autsch, this one is for my musician friends. A calculator for how much royalty a musician gets for the records he or she sold. Break even at 1.2 Million records while 90% of the bands sell around 150 Thousand records. I read about these contracts the first time in The Baffler a satirical magazine. These guys are brilliant. Just checked …

ÜIn a Guardian article top EU commissioner for international relations Chris Patten is criticizing Bush

Michael Moore at his best, again. You have to love this guy for telling the truth in a humorous way and backing all his claims up with links to the source of the news. Enrongate is worse then I thought. It is high time for a real reform of campaign financing.

The surealist Compliment Generator: “Your intelligence is equal to the smoothness of a walnut shell.” I love this little site brings smiles to my face every time I call it up. The best thing to try out the service, now that I am on the new version of this software Radio 8.

The bad: This one really makes me mad: The upper managers of Enron took another dip and filled their coffers before the collapse. Just days before filing for bankruptcy, Enron handed $55 million out to some 500 senior officials: an average $110,000 bonus for screwing up.The regular employee on the other hand lost their retirement savings and where not allowed …

Susanna, my best Austrian friend, true I don