1982: At precisely 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posts the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:     19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman  :-)From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: :-(     With that post, Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon. From those two simple emoticons (a portmanteau combining the words emotion and icon) have sprung dozens of others that are the joy, or bane, of e-mail, text-message and instant-message correspondence the world over. Source: wired.com

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[Repost, after it got lost during the last website crash]

During the whole week I wanted to write this blog post, but never got around doing it.

 

About two weeks ago I stumbled about a CD called HA!, released this month as part of the “Young German Jazz” series of music label ACT. It’s the first CD of Jörg Brinkmann Trio. Jörg Brinkmann plays cello, Oliver Maas piano and fender rhodes, Dirk-Peter Kölsch drums, glockenspiel, objects. The description on the website sounded interesting and I looked for live concerts. The next one was in their home town Bochum, just a few kilometres away. And the venue was quite interesting.

The concert took place in a kind of big garage below a railway track, called ROTTSTR 5....

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I could have used the opportunity to write about what happened in the US air space seven years ago on this day. But I won't. I will write about something happening on this day in 1822.

Seems like the latest iTunes 8 update for Windows has a major new feature: It causes BSODs:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=536

These types of crashes are very rare nowadays. I can’t remember seeing one on my Vista x64 notebook ever.

But back to iTunes:

Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich Gelegenheit, Volker Pispers live zu erleben. Großartig. Unbedingt ansehen!

Dieses Thema hat er, etwas variiert und länger, übrigens auch gebracht:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=unX6mu4OxE8

:-)

Es gibt übrigens noch eine Menge mehr von ihm auf youtube. Aber live ist auf jeden Fall besser.

It seems Google’s Chrome is not only fast at browsing. Three days of Chrome and here’s the next exploit:

Chrome “Save As” Function Buffer Overflow

A stack-based buffer overrun? I thought these type of flaws are a thing of the past, at least in modern web browsers.

Regardless if you like your browser to get a unique ID from Google during setup or not: Chrome's

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There have been rumours for a long time. Now it’s official. Google will release an own web browser today. I’ve mixed feelings about this. Another tool offering useful functionality for free in exchange of collecting our private data more easily?

Usually I do my weekly shopping on Saturdays. Last week was no exception. And that’s not worth a blog entry. But what’s worth blogging is that this time I could have bought Christmas cookies.

Yes, gingerbread and stuff. End of August.