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Twitter restricted my new account lisp_mgr after not even five minutes. Guess I rather write here in my good old weblog then.

I thought the web was supposed to be decentralized so that each user can also be an author. The so called web 2.0 with its wikis and weblogs, later blogs, went a bit into that direction. But why is it these days reduced to just a few huge "community" web services?

Well, if you wondered why I got my old blog running again: This is the reason. Welcome to 2004!

Account suspended

Update Jan 24, 2021: Now the Account is even suspended. I see my posts but without being logged in as me one just gets the message:

Funny. They don't even have the decency to just delete the account altogether or read any email. People just moved an masse from Whatsapp to alternatives such as Signal. Maybe Twitter should be abandoned as well.

Well, I just started to move the few content I had tweeted to this old weblog.

If you ever wondered what a unit of ANSI Common Lisp weights: It's 3.1 kg!

And duplex printed on ANSI(sic!) letter paper, it's a stack of 7 cm height.

Still beautiful:

By the way, this is the "American National Standard for Information Technology – Programming Language Common Lisp", "ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (R2004) (formerly ANSI X3.226-1994 (R1999))", but more on the different revisions in a separate post.

I've got CLtL2 for years and use the Common Lisp HyperSpec for, puh, 16 years?, still I am surprised by the sheer volume and weight of this printed copy!

Next question: Where do I get a three 3-ring binder for US letter pages in Germany? (Update, see: Original IBM 3-ring binders)