Last night I noticed the dilapidated state of my sidebar links. “Who uses them anyway?”, I thought, before answering myself …
April 25, 2011 – 6:55 pm
multilingual goat witch
I’ve been adding video to francesdath.info the past few days, and also felt a compulsion to make the site multilingual …
April 12, 2011 – 12:05 pm
生日快乐!!! happy 7th birthday supernaut! (nochmal vergessen…)
aaa!!! I forgot again! every year! Trotzdem … Schokolade! Kuchen! Viel Spaß und Krawall machen! supernaut? yes!
March 19, 2011 – 3:11 pm
2011.touchandplay.org
This morning I launched the website for the 2011 Touch&Play Festival. Still a bit to do, and content is still …
March 8, 2011 – 5:08 pm
goat snake witch dance theatre blackness
The last couple of days I’ve been working on a side-project, cleaning up my dance/performance/choreography website, francesdath.info. I decided a …
March 8, 2011 – 2:22 pm
Flowplayer Playlists and WPAlchemy Meta Boxes
Last night I spent a bit of time working on francesdath.info, which I’ve been shifting into WordPress recently. I wanted …
February 10, 2011 – 12:14 am
Two Ways to Put Flowplayer into WordPress — Custom Fields & Shortcodes
I spent this afternoon working on a site for Daniel Schlusser that is hidden from view but close to completion. …
January 1, 2011 – 9:18 am
supernaut lightbox
When supernaut first began, there was barely much of the internet as it is now. I had decided to use …
October 9, 2010 – 3:31 am
Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …
July 9, 2010 – 4:53 am
a website a video
She of the long red hair, Gabrielle Nankivell has her own website. Witch/Red was one of my favourite pieces in …
July 8, 2010 – 5:31 am
on science and ethics
Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …
June 27, 2010 – 1:07 pm
actually the whole purpose of this was…
actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this was… actually the whole purpose of this …
June 1, 2010 – 7:52 am
fontographie
Early rising to Kreuzberg and after a time to wake Matthi up in Reichenbergerstr. Breakfast peanutbutter and coffee, talking across …
May 14, 2010 – 8:30 am
wordpress security (in many small steps)
(This is for people who like reading code, cross-posted at thingswithbits.info) Earlier this year supernaut got hacked. Many other of …
May 11, 2010 – 12:54 pm
bechdel’s law
A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …
April 29, 2010 – 6:15 am
sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures
No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …
April 21, 2010 – 11:40 am
Shifting Daniel Jaber into WordPress
Daniel Jaber is the second choreographer and dancer I’ve done a website for. Coming from Dasniya Sommer, I was intent …
April 19, 2010 – 12:23 pm
ick bin sechs jahre alt (und na logo habe ich vergessen)
Ja, naturlich, immer ein weniger mehr und immer bisschen spät. Habe Ich heute mit Katrin geplaudert, und dann mir ging …
April 17, 2010 – 3:53 am
vanished again
I was wondering vaguely why supernaut’s site stats where plummeting ever lower, though decided it was a post-hack/infrequent-blogging combination, even …
April 17, 2010 – 2:34 am
customised flowplayer in wordpress
Last year while working on dasniyasommer.de and dealing with presenting video in an attractive way with much backend flexibility, I …
April 8, 2010 – 8:16 am
hate/love apple
Lucky I was in London for the long weekend, and so enjoying the longest break from my laptop and the …
April 7, 2010 – 3:56 am
absence
Not much blogging the last months and I feel shame. Though I have excuses. Firstly, the intermittent trackpad/keyboard freezing problem …
December 26, 2009 – 3:32 pm
supernaut wordpress
Six months ago, deliriously annoyed with Movable Type, and deeply envious of all those people using WordPress. I install WP, …
August 5, 2009 – 1:53 pm
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 12, 2009 – 11:24 am
moving…
I have spent a lazy Saturday transferring supernaut over to WordPress (more on that there). The result of that for …
July 11, 2009 – 6:04 am
from ecto 3 to wordpress 2.8
uuhhh… When I started finding odd stuff in my Movable Type install for supernaut I knew the end was near. …
July 7, 2009 – 3:42 am
thingswithbits.info
I thought it was about time I had another website… (Now I just need to get around to spending more …
December 15, 2008 – 6:34 pm
it degrades rather gracefully…
I noticed recently it’s been almost two years since I did this site design. That I’m not so bored with …
December 8, 2008 – 9:16 pm
things with bits
For all of you with Apple computers, iPods, iPhones, wireless internet, other bits and pieces of hardware, a need for …
July 24, 2008 – 7:05 am
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
March 15, 2008 – 3:21 pm
… return
I was up till quite late last night methodically going through installing all of my add-ons, plugins, bits and pieces …
March 14, 2008 – 4:45 pm
end … begin
Since mid-December I have been using one of the Centre for Astrophysics white MacBooks, which has been a joy. A …
August 6, 2007 – 12:53 pm
in/out error
I’ve been living dangerously with my PowerBook for the last couple of months, bad sectors and other arcane hardware malfeasance, …
May 7, 2007 – 9:02 pm
chk chk chk chk chk chk chk chk chk … again
My harddrive didn’t really make that sound this time, but this evening while backing up, I got endless corrupt files, …
April 30, 2007 – 5:39 pm
…. . .-.. .–. / -. — / .. -. – . .-. -. . -
Not that five days of continual rain has anything to do with it, but I’ve had no access to the …
March 21, 2007 – 4:28 pm
anna in space
My darling Anna, whom I first met at DanceWEB in Vienna 2003 and spent a few weeks post-inferno enjoying the …
March 8, 2007 – 2:44 pm
1111101000
Twenty posts ago was my 1000th post. Celebration. Unfortunately the absinthe was only chocolate and the cheap sex was a …
February 11, 2007 – 12:30 pm
1000
A while ago I taught myself to count to 1023 using only ten fingers, in binary. I thought that was …
December 2, 2006 – 1:22 pm
yeah, that’s what i think too
MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding. …
October 20, 2006 – 2:59 pm
yes i feel shame
I know you come here and every day I let you down, like a poor lover who just can’t stop …
September 22, 2006 – 5:49 pm
i don’t want excuses i want blog
I’m in Adelaide at the moment for something I’ll write about more soon. One of myriad things I don’t have …
September 2, 2006 – 12:32 pm
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
July 14, 2006 – 6:29 pm
we are the robot ballet army
Where the drowning tide first flows in the eventual robotic obliteration of humanity seems to be in the most visceral …
June 23, 2006 – 2:22 pm
dreamhost kills supernaut
DreamHost, who have been hosting my websites this year, had a major problem with their DNS servers. The practical result …
April 28, 2006 – 2:27 pm
pretty good privacy
I thoroughly recommend reading this article on PGP, the introduction to PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, then …
April 19, 2006 – 5:06 pm
zeroballet becomes francesdath …
… lack of punctuation persists. A couple of weeks ago, I lost zeroballet.info. I’ve had that domain since the dawn …
April 17, 2006 – 11:43 pm
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
April 15, 2006 – 11:34 pm
zeroballet is dead
I was trying to send emails a couple of days ago, and found a big black hole where www.zeroballet.info had …
March 24, 2006 – 6:09 pm
the laziest site ever coded
My original and very first website, zeroballet has been hanging around since early 2002. Kinda embarrassing. It’s very complicated layers …
March 23, 2006 – 7:15 pm
more blogs for compulsive clickers
Obviously I collect blogs the way philatelists collect small rectangles of perforated paper, and one day a mint-condition first-edition of …
March 17, 2006 – 11:08 pm
eeeeeee!!! blog!!!!
I was going to write a whole bunch of stuff about a whole pile of stuff, lots of exciting Guangzhou …
February 26, 2006 – 12:08 am
linking to stuff – an ode to blogrolls
Since I started using NetNewsWire to read all my blogs, I’ve been adding feeds at the rate of a few …
February 4, 2006 – 3:48 pm
bulk erasing my past
I haven’t been blogging for a few days, or even touching my PowerBook, which I have a very ambivalent attitude …
December 24, 2005 – 12:17 pm
a new beginning … same old whoring
… i know i’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but i can give you my complete assurance that my …
December 12, 2005 – 2:53 pm
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
December 5, 2005 – 4:09 pm
categories and stuff
I’ve changed some of the names of the categories to make them a little more representative of what gets assigned …
November 15, 2005 – 3:56 am
flog p-blog phlog
To further my uselessness and add to the hurricane of zero-content bandwidth, and also in a shameless attempt to emulate …
November 11, 2005 – 7:29 pm
China Digital Times 中国数字时代 rsf blog nomination
Two blogs from or on China have been nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières in a field of eight (which …
November 7, 2005 – 7:47 pm
chinese blogger conference 2005
The 中文网志年会 Chinese Blogger Conference 2005 has been going on in Shanghai for the last couple of days. Rebecca McKinnon …
November 2, 2005 – 2:29 am
daily blog reading
I went through my blog bookmarks a couple of days ago, which now number several folders with 15 or more …
October 25, 2005 – 5:54 pm
i blog for … ummm … stuff …
Losing seriously in a game of charades last night when I displayed my absolute out-of-date-ness by failing to guess ‘computer+writer=blog’, …
October 13, 2005 – 3:54 am
four years of email mayhem
Almost a year ago, when I was in Taiwan, I put out a call for submissions for a 3G mobile …
October 12, 2005 – 3:30 am
slow boat to psychedelia
Writing abusive diatribes against a certain cretinous moron from a respectable Zürich newspaper who has built a reputation on vandalising …
October 2, 2005 – 6:09 am
intellectual property for the people
I’ve been reading about two books a week, and have amassed a large-ish pile during my time in Zürich. I’ve …
September 5, 2005 – 7:05 pm
how to blog anonymously
Reporters sans Frontières have just released a booklet Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, in several languages including Chinese. Alot of …
August 31, 2005 – 3:38 am
3108 blog day 2005
Well, I didn’t even know about it… so much for being bleeding-bloody-edge and stuff. Well it’s because some blogger in …
June 20, 2005 – 2:48 pm
was it something i said?
I have no access to my email at the moment, and erratic access to my websites. Possibly I did something …
April 29, 2005 – 7:24 pm
supernaut – ecto’s blog of the week
Adriaan, the maker of the best blogging client ecto, has slapped up supernaut as the ecto powered blog of the …
April 28, 2005 – 4:35 pm
body movin’
The Boston Cyberarts Festival is the place to be this week and next. Even dance gets a look in, and …
April 12, 2005 – 10:15 pm
shashwati talukdar
The guy who makes the amazing ecto, which gives me blogging pleasure on a daily basis started a ‘blog of …
March 21, 2005 – 9:59 pm
they rule
Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …
February 16, 2005 – 4:18 pm
airports hotels taxis and slow internet
I’m travelling again, having left Taipei on Monday morning and spent a fun day in Hong Kong catching up with …
February 8, 2005 – 5:57 pm
56k narrowband
Posting will resume on Friday when I get back to Taipei and broadband heaven. Lots of art and climbing stories …
December 24, 2004 – 12:26 pm
that’s gets shut down
Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That’s Magazines – Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when …
December 16, 2004 – 2:17 pm
asian blog awards
It’s time to vote over at Simon World for the best blog from pretty much every country from Pakistan to …
December 7, 2004 – 2:17 pm
1337 $p33|< in china
TMD，７４５６，偶恨不得一脚TST? 1337 $p33|< the language of 12 year old script kiddies the world over has made it to the attention …
December 7, 2004 – 1:57 pm
cyber-zoo
This is a zoo where the inmates aren’t so friendly. For a long time around the hacker world there have …
December 5, 2004 – 4:26 pm
what i read this week
Back for another wash-cycle of what happened in Asia this week (that I read about), and no matter what else …
December 2, 2004 – 1:59 pm
media mammon
Almost a year of being a bug crawling around the grid in breedster, and now the folks at drunk men …
November 23, 2004 – 12:28 pm
firefox – i’ll make it easy for you
Every so often, I check the statistics for my site, who’s reading what, where they come from, and also what …
November 16, 2004 – 10:38 pm
nofzilla
One of the projects I’m doing in Taipei is performances for mobile phones. It’s pretty basic use of existing technology, …
October 10, 2004 – 1:29 pm
what’s going on?
I’ve been very busy the last couple of weeks with getting ready for my residency in Taipei at the Taipei …
September 1, 2004 – 12:14 am
hackers reveal china’s forbidden words
Here’s why hackers are are an invaluable part of the internet. China Digital News has an amazing piece on what …
August 27, 2004 – 5:24 pm
the great blogger survey
The fibreculture mailing list for all things net-art and computery had a request from email hidden; JavaScript is required who …
August 22, 2004 – 3:31 pm
first posts
Single Planet celebrates one year in Blogistan with a post on the first posts of many of the Chinese blog …
July 25, 2004 – 10:26 pm
stainless steel mouse
I’d heard about the stainless steel mouse for a while now, but didn’t know any details beyond she’s been arrested …
July 19, 2004 – 10:58 pm
qian fuchang and the text-message novel
The BBC News and every second news media are reporting about Chinese author Qian Fuchang, who has written a novel …
July 17, 2004 – 9:35 pm
ctheory.net
The online journal ctheory.net has just published Life in the Wires: the Ctheory Reader, which is a great additiona to …
June 26, 2004 – 2:48 pm
internet under surveillance
Reporters Sans Frontiers recently released their report Internet Under Surveillance, which includes a country-by-country analysis of “Obstacles to the free …
May 15, 2004 – 12:46 am
Internet – opiate of the masses
China and the internet is one of those topics which gets swung around and made to represent whatever position the …
May 13, 2004 – 1:16 am
I whore for syndication
Just a couple of days over a month since I started this blog, and about a year after I fell …
May 2, 2004 – 3:24 pm
博客 boke the Chinese blog revolution
Day two of China’s Digital Future covered a huge amount of topics, all of which are again reviewed in brief …
May 2, 2004 – 12:59 am
China’s Digital Future
UC Berkeley is running a conference at the moment on China’s Digital Future Advancing The Understanding of China’s Information Revolution. …
April 18, 2004 – 1:10 pm
PRC News China Briefing: 2004-04-14
Winds of Change.NET Regional Briefings run regular updates on news around the world. This update appeared there on April 14, …
April 9, 2004 – 9:21 pm
breedster
I received an email a few days ago from the click-happy folks at Drunk men work here: Breedster – Fresh …
i don’t understand
Since starting this part of my site almost 7 months ago, after having a very small flash-based news section on …