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On Friday I had my first exam this term, “Knowledgebased Systems”.
Boring, only knowledge-reproduction. Welcome to the world class university :-(.

• Daft Punk – Daft Club
• This is how we lounge
• Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica – The Russian Seasons
• Underworld – 1992-2002
• dZihan & Kamien – Live in Vienna
• Stephane Pompougnac – Living on the Edge

Okay here are yesterdays pictures. Chrismas trees and enlightened Buildings.

I made this “gallery” with iPhoto. Quite a nice program, but with some usability problems.

Saturday started at the “mas!” (no homepage found), Laudongasse with some cocktails. After sleeping and breakfast I bought a new computer at NRE (details later). After that I went to the Virgin and bought half a dozen new CDs (reviews next week :-). Next visited the Christkindlmarkt at the City hall and the one at Schloss Schoenbrunn for some “punsch”.
The day finished with dinner at the Gruenspan. Tomorrow I will probably be ill, since it was raining most of the time.
Because I have been under alcohol influence most of the day no blog entries, I will try to catch up today..

Newell and Simon (1976):
“A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for generating intelligent action.”

Yesterday my Airport Extreme Card finally arrived. It looks like a quarter of a PCI Card pushed into half of a PCMCIA card. Installing it into my iBook was a PITA. The card needs to be fixated with a wire clip that nearly broke my fingers. Why can’t they use normal PCMCIA cards?

On Saturday I visited the “Gerngross”, a Shoppingcenter on the Mariahilferstrasse. From the 5. floor you have a nice outlook over Vienna. There are several Restaurants like the Akakiko and the Bar/Cafe “City Lights”. If there are no free tables at the Akakiko and you are forced to visit the “City Lights”, be prepared:
1. Take a biro with you, because otherwise the waitress will not be able to write down your orders.
2. Eat and drink something before, because there is no guarantee that the waitress will ever visit your table. (No waving and shouting does not help).
Luckily we got a table at the Akakiko before it was too late….

I am looking for a nice definition of the “Closed World Assumption”. [Reiter 1978].
My try:
— Every Information, that can not be deduced from the knowledgebase, is assumed to be false –.

I am looking for a Weather application for my iBook (Idefix, Igor, Icy or…).
Something that displays the current temperature in the Menu or Taskbar.
Of course Freeware or Opensource.

Yesterday the Austrian Internet Exchange VIX had a problem. The Image below shows the traffic of the last 24 hours at the VIX switch.