Sunday, December 29, 2002

So. Comments are back after 6 hours. Great. 8:49:30 PM    comment []

Alright. Fed up with this. I've disabled the comments now - the Radio Comments server is down again. This is getting ridiculous. Could perhaps anyone point me to a working comments server? 5:36:26 PM    comment []

Tip Top! This website lists all the title pages of Rolf Kauka's Super Tip Top. Ha - I still have at least 3 of those. 1:44:53 PM    comment []

Suske en Wiske. Ulla und Peter. Wastl. Jerome. Robert found a big German Website about the Belgian superstars. Great! Via koewi.log 1:34:11 PM    comment []

German website about the history of computing. The site is HUGE, over 400MB in size and covers almost everything. Another interesting link in this regard is The Dot Eaters, covering the history of videogames. My favourite was always 'Defender'. I never got past the third or fourth level though and I always ran out of smart bombs, even though I could later practice the game on my Dragon 32... 12:56:21 PM    comment []

Analog Word Processing. A really nice website about fountain pens: Makers, History, Construction, Filling, Inks, Troubleshooting...and some old ads in 'Special exhibits'! Unfortunately there's nothing about the Esterbrook 356, which was used by Carl Barks. 10:03:25 AM    comment []

Ok then. Let's give it a try: Heimatsicherheitshauptamt. The Odd Case of Heimatsicherheitshauptamt. As seen at the link: What is going on here? Google censorship? On my Journal page for Saturday, 16 November, I posted a response to a message from a reader. That response included a word I'd just made up, "Heimatsicherheitshauptamt", or "Homeland Security Main Office". Also on 16 November, Jerry Pournelle posted a message from me that included the word Heimatsicherheitshauptamt. The following Monday, I wondered if I'd actually made up that word, or if someone else had used it first. So I did a Google search for "Heimatsicherheitshauptamt". That search returned only two hits, one my Journal page for 11 November, and the other Jerry's Mail page. I didn't think much more about it until a couple of weeks ago, when I decided to run the search again to see if anyone had picked up on it. This time, Google returned zero hits. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Which it still does. So the obvious thing is to get as many people as possible to post the word Heimatsicherheitshauptamt on their webpages, and see what happens. [linkfilter.net] 9:36:53 AM    comment []

Oh, really? Short admits: Labour's style is lousy. Politics: One of Tony Blair's most forthright ministers says government's style is 'crummy and lousy'. [Guardian Unlimited] 9:34:15 AM    comment []