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Yesterday, I migrated my personal math reference to the new Wiki:

http://math.chaoticpattern.net/wiki/index

It is all in German and with my own clumsy comments. Those who read it, will notice that math is a useful tool for me, rather than some kind of art – although I agree you can look at it as art, if you got the time. That’s why I tried to compress it as much as possible

Sometimes it’s hard for me to understand what drives other people. Why would somebody join the Tea Party movement in the United States? Even after asking supporters of these “ideas” what they think, it’s not quite clear to me.

Is it just the ordinary entertainment, the Americans like so much? Or some kind of witch hunt?

It would be sad, if that is the case, because a) it does not help and b) some innocent people will suffer. In Germany we do have experience with such things. When the economy turned down, they were hunting the Jewish people, as if that is the most natural thing on earth and the best explanation for Germany’s problems.

Now these Tea Party people think Obama is the new Hitler and they must hunt the Communists. Also they want to disallow sex before marriage including masturbation. That can’t be natural, right? Killing people with another opinion is natural! Not sure what this has to do with limited government or the American constitution at the end of the day. This sounds more like they want to introduce fascism with Sarah Palin as the leader.

How hard is it to accept that they probably ruined their own country with exactly that narrow-minded attitude? Bush started wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (is that not wasting money?) and was on power when the financial crisis started – and I can’t remember anyone from the Tea Party to complain about his leadership. Now Obama introduced a health insurance for everyone and they call him a Communist. If that would be the case, Germany and the UK and many other countries with a conservative and market oriented government should be called communist countries, just because they want to conserve the value of their work force by not letting them rot away. Wow, what a great but late success for the Sowjets.

For my part, I want a strong United States. So what about producing stuff the world wants to buy instead of complaining that it’s all the fault of Islam, the Afro-Americans, the Mexicans and Communism? Sounds smart to me. Hollywood, Apple, Google and Facebook are not enough to feed 307,006,550 people. To blame others for your own failure is the attitude of a loser.

As so often, this whole movement probably is just about earning money, like most things on earth. It would be wrong to think that so many simple minded (isn’t that what they call themselves? “Ms. Hokey Mom”) people are interested in real politics. The Tea Party leaders are very smart, because they know how to take money out of their supporters pockets. This is a success indeed, but not for many and not for the nation.

Thorsten Rinne just published the new version of phpMyFaq. But probably he didn’t read the notifications during development time and now they pop up on the live site and break everything:

phpMyFAQ notice [8]: Object of class PMF_DB_Mysql could not be converted to int in Captcha.php on line 150

It’s not that I am perfect. My colleges sometimes have to remind me to turn on notifications, because the automatic PHP updates turned them off or I switched computers and forgot to modify the local php.ini. This can happen to everyone.

Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof.

I recently managed to publish my latest project:

chaoticpattern.net

While reading the book Sync, I felt that this is the right name – an explanation can be found on the Web site. There is already some blog with the same name, but it does not seem to be very active. The last post is from May 2009. Hope I don’t cause any confusion.

Chaotic Pattern will be used as an incubator/lab. The Wiki itself is the first in a series of experiments. It fits my personal needs as a publishing platform and is more convenient than any typical word processor out there. You can not only edit documents online, like in every other Wiki, but also produce wonderful PDFs and include content from Flickr, Youtube and Google Maps. If you like it, use it for free. There are no strings attached and I will not sell your documents or your Facebook profile

Also the Wiki is there to demonstrate what you can do with JavaScriptMVC 3.0 and a little bit of PHP. Theoretically, it should scale to billions of users. But as long as I don’t get any venture capital, we will never find out. Anyhow, I want people to use it as a prototype for their own apps. Until end of this year, everything should be properly documented and you can download some of the components.

The next step is to get the Ajax push server finally running, so that you can use the real time features. Ape is installed, but seems to cause connection problems under certain conditions. Either I can fix that with my limited resources or I have to switch to another server. It’s not like I don’t have anything else to do, so please be patient^^