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personal webnode of Haiko Hebig

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear readers, this the last posting for this year: spending my New Year's Eve here and some days early in January there, expect radio silence until January 06, with a possible break of silence on January 03.

Although the public mood, most of the media and the (opposing) political parties here in Germany suggest that doomsday must be straight ahead, my personal outlook on 2003 is rather good - much better than it was on 2002 -, and I hope that named players find back the focus, scale and measure they seem to have lost a bit. My outlook on world politics and peace is rather bleak though, but I am afraid there is not much one can do about it personally on the large scale - so let's try to help those who and improve that what we have influence on.

Thanks to all readers, supporters and contributors of this blog. Since April 1, when I spontaneously set up Movable Type "just to play around a bit", this blog grew into something of value not just for me, but apparently also for a readership constantly growing and much larger than I ever would have expected - and that's just "the best thing since bread came sliced" ;-)

READINGS FOR THE MEANTIME

• The Stingthebee Reader - a wonderful blog in classic newspaper style (the scrollbars might be a bit hard to find though)
• Stefan Smalla's Infofeed - Stefan has redesigned his weblog including many clever details, and I really like the result. Currently, he has a very interesting piece on Tech Giants' Recession Strategies and a link to the even more interesting OSAF overwiev of [software] design values. I mentioned it before, but Mitch Karpors weblog is the OSAF information source of choice.
• David Rodriguez hat the draft of his new book on building Content Management Systems, Content Management Design online - via Heiko Hebig
• Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University has some short essays on Mathematical Discussions that "are highly recommended to anyone curious about mathematics" - via Backweave
• And for the finer arts, Jazzreview.com is "your complete source to jazz music on the web"

UPDATE
Just checking my site at a friend's house: the layout seems to be broken a bit in Mozilla 1.2b. In the intended way, the text starts some 82 pixels from top, so that the penguins on the left virtually look at the first headline. In 1.2b though, the content block starts right from the top. Also, it doesn't get the spaces between the postings right, they are too small. Will have to fix that. Stay tuned for updates.