Good morning from the library in Heidelberg. Now that I think of it and Sergey Brin’s recent editorial, it is indeed ridiculous that one must make these kind of voyages, to read certain things.

I would link that, if there were any system for link management, which works with ephBlog, significantly more convenient that looking up the page in del.icio.us and copying & pasting … actually, copying & pasting won’t work with ephBlog, I’d have to write HMTL code, in which case we’re in the realm of what sociologists, urban planners, and industrial designers call a “significant friction of time.”

&In this case, the above publicly googlavailable documents had an interest of their own. Copying and pasting the obscure incantation on YouTube’s page under “embed” worked without too much trouble– TCM was another story, and if I had any inclination to spend more than 30 trying to discover if their obscure system allowed this, I would have embedded and linked. I have better things to do.

There are some nice mountains around here, with some trails to learn– friends expect me in Mannheim by 18:30 or so (I’m trying to reestablish my German sense of promptness), so getting lost in the trails would not be a good idea. There seems nothing on the news except the shock of Enke’s suicide and the SPD conference in Dresden. Last night turned suddenly unseasonably warm, and everyone came out, to dine one more time, on tables in the streets.