Vox Humanitatis

Since this is relevant among others for Parley I am posting the article also here:

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It's just two weeks ago that I started to merge the dictionary data for Ambaradan in our loader application: this is needed to make sure data is in the right shape and we won't loose any.

I was editing some files in Parley for my kids to be done this summer, they don't like paper work and if I create exercises for them, well then they are also available for translation and use by anyone else.

These are days with many ideas coming along. I always look at my kids, those of others and see what they do and how they do things ... They don't like learning with text, but with pictures, video, sound. My twins learnt the names of countries and associating their flags and main monuments with 5 years of age with a puzzle. The learnt German terminology by playing memory.

(Press Release)

We are having really busy periods and it is getting harder and harder to
follow many projects at the same time. Then you have the situation that
some people in some places seem to have simply too much time and want to
discuss endless discussions, because they have time but really don't
care about the rest of the world.

At this stage I have to decide what is relevant for the future and where
I am going to invest my time. In some way the decision is easy, because
some projects have enough people caring about them.

These days the usual talk is about the economy. And it's a gloomy talk. Now, I cannot stop thinking that economy is mostly like the weather, as both are chaotic systems that make predictions an extremely difficult task. The main difference is that clouds don't read the met, while we actually do. So when the met says "a hard rain is gonna fall" us clouds may well end up believing it... Anyway, nothing is 100% nice or bad, not even a recession.