Random thoughts...

...on politics...

Ask not what you can do for Obama, ask what Obama can do for you.

November 5, 2008

Today, I tried to embed the tax savings calculator on this web page, but all I got was Obama's portrait.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/48f203eebb67a86f/48f61f14716e07e3/48f203ee5b324878/f945097b/widget.js"></script> For the record, the web site calculator claims that I will save $500.

...on vocation...

• A quick blurb on searching on the Web.
• My take on the recent debate about a proposal to change SIGLINK to SIGWEB

...and vacation

• Some scenes from random places

• Impressions of my travels through Europe

  Some of this stuff was written as e-mail to my friends, so the tone may not be appropriate. Deal with it. I wrote the pieces between March and July 1993, and again between May and November, 1994 while living in Darmstadt, Germany.

  Bad Wimpfen

  Or how to go back in time

  Berlin

  My first trip there, with mixed results

  Prague

  Easter in the East

  Greece

  A week in the islands... what could be better?

  St. Petersburg and Moscow

  Impressions of the two cities coupled with an attempt at Italo Calvino's style.
  
  And then there's the conference trip diary.