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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.

Today is Maria’s conception day, a half holiday in Austria. Half, because the shops are still open. Perhaps they should rename the day into “Billa’s Birthday”, because today you get a 10% discount at your local Billa Supermarket
[edited 2003-12-09]
Thanks to Horst for pointing out, that yesterday was not maria’s conception of jesus but the immaculate conception (3 Weeks pregnancy would be a bit short, even for a god). I must admit that my background is too protestant to understand this catholic “thing”. Read Wikipedia for a more detailed description

I took these pictures in the last October week as an replica to Rob’s Rotterdam by Fall, but I somehow missed to upload them. Now all those coloured leaves are already history.

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