Tag: Internet

$Hello to the Fediverse :)$

Hello to the Fediverse :)

Hello, people out there on Mastodon, Pixelfed, or whatever platform you use! You might have seen a weird collection of old posts reposted by my account today! Sorry :) This has been just me cleaning up minor stuff – not knowing that I have to turn off federation explicitly to avoid blasting out these old…
Why Art?

… or: Blogging like its 2012! This website has been (one of) my virtual playground(s). Every time I figured it has found its purpose, I felt the urge to change something yet again. However, the dedication to art seems to be more stable. I felt confident about adding (yet another) domain, and I am happy…
Construct the Labyrinth from Which You Plan to Escape

Found Poetry found me. I started this website as a science blog, but then I saw poetry in mundane texts – just as you see faces in things. I created poems from spam comments, from search terms, from physics textbooks, from book spines, from error messages, from Facebooks ads, from any text anywhere in the…
Poets Who Speak of Jupiter

In the third chapter of the first volume of his legendary physics lectures, Richard Feynman discusses the relation of physics to other sciences. He says that astronomy got physics started, and its most remarkable discovery is that stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth. He adds this famous…
Technology and Technics. Flolloping Floopily.

Once I started to create spam poetry and search term poetry, and I believed it was original. Then I discovered that great poets of the virtual scrapyard had come before me. Finally, I found serious articles about so-called Found Poetry and I found poets publishing their spam poetry in earnest. I learned about the Sokal…
Edginess: What I Was Searching For

First Spam Poetry since a long time! Every line is an unedited snippet from about 100 spam comments on this blog. Process: ~ an edginess over what I was searching for I’d perpetually want to be This text It’s remarkable right here searching for attention from start to end I’m not sure exactly but I’m…
Connectedness and Independence

My websites ebb and flow. After 23 years of writing online, I am recognizing recurring patterns. I am keeping ancient hyperlinks intact. All articles I had published here before 2020 are still available elsewhere, also under the former main domain used at WordPress – elkement . blog. My frustration about other referenced websites’ ever changing and abandoned…
When Will It End?

This is internet poetry – “found poetry”. Rules: ~ When will it end? that is not a strategy You are stronger than you think Accounts of explorers who have discovered mammoth remains attest to this. The life-changing power of fog a dark, windowless control room built to survive an apocalypse paralysing fatalism act together to…
Certificates and PKI. The Prequel.

Some public key infrastructures run quietly in the background since years. They are half forgotten until the life of a signed file has come to an end – but then everything is on fire. In contrast to other seemingly important deadlines (Management needs this until XY or the world will come to an end!) this…
Cyber Something

You know you have become a dinosaur when you keep using outdated terminology. Everybody else uses the new buzz word, but you just find it odd. But someday it will creep also into your active vocabulary. Then I will use the tag cyber something, like stating that I work with cyber-physical systems. But am I…
Cloudy Troubleshooting (2)

Unrelated to part 1 – but the same genre. Actors this time: There are no dialogues with human life-forms this time, only the elkement’s stream of consciousness, interacting with the others via looking at things at a screen. elkement: Time for a challenging Sunday hack! elkement connects to the The Dark Platform. Hardly notices anything in…
Cloudy Troubleshooting

Actors: ~ Client: Cloud logs us off ever so often! We can’t work like this! elkement: Cloud, what timeouts do you use? Client was only idle for a short break and is logged off. Cloud: Must be something about your infrastructure – we set the timeout to 1 hour. Client: It’s becoming worse – Cloud…
Let Your Hyperlinks Live Forever!

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years. This needs thought, and organization, and commitment. (https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI) Joel Spolsky did it: I’m bending over backwards not to create “linkrot” — all old links to Joel on Software…
Bots, Like This! I am an Ardent Fan of HTTPS and Certificates!

This is an experiment in Machine Learning, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, whatever. But I need proper digression first. Last autumn, I turned my back on social media and went offline for a few days. There, in that magical place, the real world was offline as well. A history of physics museum had to be opened,…
The Orphaned Internet Domain Risk

I have clicked on company websites of social media acquaintances, and something is not right: Slight errors in formatting, encoding errors for special German characters. Then I notice that some of the pages contain links to other websites that advertize products in a spammy way. However, the links to the spammy sites are embedded in…
The Future of Small Business?

If I would be asked which technology or ‘innovation’ has had the most profound impact on the way I work I would answer: Working remotely – with clients and systems I hardly ever see. 20 years ago I played with modems, cumbersome dial-in, and Microsoft’s Netmeeting. Few imagined yet, that remote work will once be…
Other People Have Lives – I Have Domains

These are just some boring update notifications from the elkemental Webiverse. The elkement blog has recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, and the punktwissen blog will turn five in December. Time to celebrate this – with new domain names that says exactly what these sites are – the ‘elkement . blog’ and the ‘punktwissen . blog’ (Edit: which now –…
The Stages of Blogging – an Empirical Study

… with sample size 1. Last year, at the 4-years anniversary, I presented a quantitative analysis – in line with the editorial policy I had silently established: My blogging had turned from quasi-philosophical ramblings on science, work, and life to no-nonsense number crunching. But the comment threads on my recent posts exhibit my subconsciousness spilling…