It doesn’t happen very often, that one gets to meet a live legend. While I met my fair share of music artists in the past, I think the chance of having made the acquaintance of Theodor Holm Nelson PhD outshadows most, if not all, in the past.
My alma mater provides this new master’s curriculum Web Sciences and made sure to invite Ted Nelson to kick off the new class as a guest professor. I have to admit, the first class he held with us, I was not quite sure what to exactly think of him; there was this bit of Emmet Brown-ish genius paired with some frustration about the course history took and also the idea, that things could be much nicer if it wasn’t for the fact that people love to resist change. I think one of my favorite quotes I witnessed in real life was:
“Some people think of the web as a great thing. I think of it as a result of my mistakes.” [Read More]
Meine erste hands-on Konfrontation mit IPv6 hatte in beim Austauschstudium. Ich war im Jahr 2003/04 Student am Information, Networking & Telecommunications Institut an einer Cisco Academy. Wir wurden dort auf die CCNA Zertifizierung vorbereitet und hatten viel mit IPv4 zu tun: Subnetting, etc. Natürich kam auch die Sprache auf IPv6. Die neue Version des Protokolls wurde bereits im Jahre 1998 definiert; fünf Jahre später sprachen wir in einem Umfeld, das sich professionell genau mit dieser Materie beschäftigte darüber, dass sich diese Technologie jetzt endlich langsam, aber doch bald, durchsetzen würde. [Read More]
To set the scene: as I am typing this, I am sitting in a class. Some time ago, I didn’t expect to be heading back to get a post-grad training again, but when my Alma Mater JKU decided to introduce a new “Web Sciences”/”Webwissenschaften” master’s curriculum, I decided it was time, to get back into the academic playfield from a student’s point of view again.
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It’s been about eight months now, since I got more seriously acquainted with the thought of also formally becoming my own boss. For the past decade I always worked on one project or another outside of a regular employer/employee situation; after the most recent experiences “with the man” and considering the way, the economy is going right now, I eventually trusted my gut feeling, braced up and dove in. [Read More]
Alright. We are go. The new blog is live.
