Only now I get around to link to this great piece from Brian Eno. “… But since Sept. 11, that vision has been eclipsed by a suspicious, introverted America, a country-sized version of that peculiarly American form of ghetto: the gated community.”  Another time, I will write a bit more why gated communities frighten me.

Sydney Morning Harold writes: ” … between 300 and 400 cruise missiles would fall on Iraq each day for two consecutive days. It would be more than twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40 days of the 1991 GulfWar.” The same newspaper suggests a way out of the conflict by restoring the credibility of the weapons inspections …

Search for the phrase Bush “demonstrating genuine leadership” in Google News and the truth comes out, that newspapers have been spammed with the same letter to the editor, just under different names: For the San Francisco Chronicle it is Ryan J. Evans from Atherton. (Link to a whole list of them.)

In June last year Peter my brother-in-law from Australia together with my sister produced a couple of programs for the Discovery Channel here in San Francisco. Which was great, because I got to see my sister for a couple of days. Well, she was busy most of the time, but on the other hand we were able to be on the set for one …

Squares is a nice game for a little break. After three tries on the easy level I was proud to clock in at 18.2 seconds. (Until I checked the high score which is not even 10% of it. :-) 

There was a lot of King calling or should I better say King quoting going on last Saturday at the peace rally. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and on KPFA they played his antiwar speech from the 4th of April 1967. Here is my favorite quote from it: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more …

I was at the peace rally yesterday. Lots of people showed up and did interesting things. Unfortunately my little digital camera reset and I lost most of my pictures. The answer coalition hired a helicopter, I guess after the lousy reporting from the last peace rally, here are some impressive pictures from the air. Another time more.

This year only one big resolution: MMM Make More Music The fun we had this Christmas and New Years Eve with playing music and singing songs convinced me that there has to be more self made music in my life. As the band They Might be Giants put on one of their t-shirts: Music self-played is happiness self-made. So true. …

Welcome to the new year. Time for the resolutions that are named after it, but first let’s look at last year’s and check how much the reality is in sync with the good intentions: 1. Weekly posting on this weblog. More personal too, as this is already. Yes, proud about it. O.K. I went weeks, even one month without updating my …