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    <![CDATA[Marco's Old Links]]>
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    <id>https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3874</id>
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    <updated>2019-12-28T22:24:23+01:00</updated>
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    <![CDATA[Marco von Ballmoos]]>
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      <uri>https://earthli.com/users/marco</uri>
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    <![CDATA[[Marco's Old Links]

The following are links to old favorites, some of which are dead and
others that are no longer interesting to me.


  * "AdBusters" <http://adbusters.org/home/>
  * "BBSpot" <http://www.bbspot.com/>
  * "BeOS" <http://www.be.com>
  * "Blooberry" <http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html>
  * "HTMLHelp" <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/>
  * "Veerle's Links" <http://veerle.duoh.com/>
  * "Chomsky.info" <http://www.chomsky.info/whatsnew.htm>
  * "Feed" <http://www.feedmag.com>
  * "Hyperdictionary" <http://www.hyperdictionary.com>
  * "Little Green God of Agony" by Stephen King
    <http://www.stephenking.com/promo/little_green_god_of_agony>
  * "Hitchhiker's Guide" <http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/>
  * "Intercal" <http://www.muppetlabs.com/%7Ebreadbox/intercal-man>

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    <![CDATA[Published by marco on 28. Dec 2019 22:24:23
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[Marco's Old Links]

The following are links to old favorites, some of which are dead and others that
are no longer interesting to me.


  * "AdBusters" <http://adbusters.org/home/>
  * "BBSpot" <http://www.bbspot.com/>
  * "BeOS" <http://www.be.com>
  * "Blooberry" <http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/index.html>
  * "HTMLHelp" <http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/>
  * "Veerle's Links" <http://veerle.duoh.com/>
  * "Chomsky.info" <http://www.chomsky.info/whatsnew.htm>
  * "Feed" <http://www.feedmag.com>
  * "Hyperdictionary" <http://www.hyperdictionary.com>
  * "Little Green God of Agony" by Stephen King
    <http://www.stephenking.com/promo/little_green_god_of_agony>
  * "Hitchhiker's Guide" <http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/>
  * "Intercal" <http://www.muppetlabs.com/%7Ebreadbox/intercal-man>
  * "ivtools" <http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/index.html>
  * "Jeet Kune Do" <http://www.nymaa.com>
  * "Least I Could Do" <http://leasticoulddo.com/index.php>
  * "Light Years Away" <http://floodworks.net/webcomics/lightyearsaway/>
  * "Looking for Group" <http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/>
  * "..::Lvl" <http://www.planetquake.com/lvl>
  * "Memepool" <http://www.memepool.com/>
  * "The Register" <http://www.theregister.co.uk>
  * "SatireWire" <http://www.satirewire.com/index.shtml>
  * "ShackNews" <http://www.shacknews.com/news>
  * "Slashdot" <http://www.slashdot.org>
  * "Something Awful" <http://www.somethingawful.com>
  * "Suck" <http://www.suck.com>
  * "Old Man Murray" <http://www.oldmanmurray.com>
  * "SeanBaby" <http://www.seanbaby.com/whatsnew.htm>
  * "Seanbaby (The Wave)"
    <http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=seanbaby>
  * "Quokka" <http://www.quokka.com>
  * "Stomped" <http://www.stomped.com>
  * "The Baffler" <http://www.thebaffler.com/>
  * "User Friendly" <http://www.userfriendly.org/>
  * "Janes" <http://www.janes.com/>
  * "Christian Science Monitor" <http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/>
  * "EFF" <http://www.eff.org/>
  * "John Pilger" <http://pilger.carlton.com/print>
  * "Maddox Rules" <http://maddox.xmission.com/>
  * "Mark Morford (SFGate)" <http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/>
  * "McSweeney's" <http://www.mcsweeneys.net/>
  * "Media Matters" <http://mediamatters.org/>
  * "MNFTIU" <http://www.mnftiu.cc>
  * "Mother Jones" <http://www.motherjones.com>
  * "Paul Krugman" <http://pkarchive.org/column/column.html>
  * "Talking Points Memo" <http://talkingpointsmemo.com/>
  * "Tariq Ali" <http://www.tariqali.org/>
  * "What Really Happened" <http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/>
  * "Turning the Tide" <http://blog.zmag.org/ttt/>
  * "ZMag" <http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm>
  * "Common Dreams" <http://www.commondreams.org>
  * "Daring Fireball (John Gruber blog)" <http://daringfireball.net/>
  * "Democracy Now!" <http://www.democracynow.org>
  * "Fat Bits (Jon Siracusa blog)" <http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/>
  * "Malcolm Gladwell" <http://gladwell.com/>
  * "Hicks Design" <http://hicksdesign.com/>
  * "HiveLogic (Dan Benjamin)" <http://hivelogic.com/>
  * "Hixie's Natural Log" <http://hixie.co.uk/>
  * "Jay Pinkerton" <http://jaypinkerton.com/>
  * "MF Blog" <http://mitchellfreedman.blogspot.com/>
  * "Plastic.com" <http://www.plastic.com>
  * "Pointless waste of time" <http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com>
  * "Rands in Repose" <http://www.randsinrepose.com/>
  * "Aaron Schwartz (Raw Thought)" <http://www.aaronsw.com/>
  * "SimpleBits (Dan Cederholm)" <http://hivelogic.com/>
  * "Rentzch - Tales from the Red Shed" <http://rentzsch.com/>
  * "The Belgravia Dispatch" <http://www.belgraviadispatch.com>
  * "The Dilbert Blog (Scott Adams)"
    <http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog>
  * "The Macalope" <http://www.macalope.com/>
  * "The Sandbox" <http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox>
  * "Fake Steve Jobs Blog" <http://fakesteve.blogspot.com>
  * "The Show with Ze Frank" <http://www.zefrank.com/theshow>
  * "uggabugga" <http://uggabugga.blogspot.com/>
  * "Whiskey Bar" <http://www.billmon.org/>
  * "White House.Org" <http://www.whitehouse.org>
  * "Wil Shipley" <http://wilshipley.com>

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      <title type="text" xml:lang="en-us">
    <![CDATA[Marco's Home Page]]>
  </title>
    <id>https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1087</id>
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    <updated>2005-03-27T16:17:41+02:00</updated>
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        <name type="text" xml:lang="en-us">
    <![CDATA[Marco von Ballmoos]]>
  </name>
      <uri>https://earthli.com/users/marco</uri>
    </author>
      <summary type="text" xml:lang="en-us">
    <![CDATA[I am the designer, builder, proprietor and main contributor of this
site.

Interests

   "Reading" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=34>.
   "Writing" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_user.php?name=marco>.
   "Words" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=2415>.
   "Cycling" <https://www.earthli.com/albums/view_folder.php?id=172>.
   "Hiking"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=picture&search_text=hiking&title=1&description=1&state=1&folder_search_type=context_none&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=marco&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=desc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Swimming"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=picture&search_text=swimming&title=1&description=1&state=1&folder_search_type=context_none&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=marco&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=desc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Camping"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=picture&search_text=camp&title=1&description=1&state=1&folder_search_type=context_none&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=marco&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=desc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Philosophy" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=42>.
   "Politics" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=15>.
   "Programming" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=18>.
   "Movies"
   <https://www.earthli.com/news/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=article&search_text=capsule&title=1&state=1&folder_search_type=constant&folder_ids%5B%5D=34&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&publisher_id_search_type=constant&publisher_id=&time_published_search_type=constant&time_published_after=&time_published_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=asc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Technology" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=13>

Career

   "
      "

   [Resumé]

      "
      [image]"

      I have over 25 years of experience as a professional software
      developer, systems

...
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    <![CDATA[Published by marco on 27. Mar 2005 16:17:41
Updated by marco on 24. May 2025 13:29:09
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I am the designer, builder, proprietor and main contributor of this site.

Interests

   "Reading" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=34>. "Writing"
   <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_user.php?name=marco>. "Words"
   <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=2415>. "Cycling"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/view_folder.php?id=172>. "Hiking"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=picture&search_text=hiking&title=1&description=1&state=1&folder_search_type=context_none&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=marco&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=desc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Swimming"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=picture&search_text=swimming&title=1&description=1&state=1&folder_search_type=context_none&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=marco&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=desc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Camping"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=picture&search_text=camp&title=1&description=1&state=1&folder_search_type=context_none&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=marco&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=desc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Philosophy" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=42>. "Politics"
   <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=15>. "Programming"
   <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=18>. "Movies"
   <https://www.earthli.com/news/search.php?search_form_submitted=1&debug=0&id=&quick_search=0&type=article&search_text=capsule&title=1&state=1&folder_search_type=constant&folder_ids%5B%5D=34&creator_id_search_type=constant&creator_id=&time_created_search_type=constant&time_created_after=&time_created_before=&modifier_id_search_type=constant&modifier_id=&time_modified_search_type=constant&time_modified_after=&time_modified_before=&publisher_id_search_type=constant&publisher_id=&time_published_search_type=constant&time_published_after=&time_published_before=&sort_1=&sort_direction_1=asc&sort_2=&sort_direction_2=asc&sort_3=&sort_direction_3=asc#search-results>.
   "Technology" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_folder.php?id=13>

Career

   "
      "

   [Resumé]

      "
      [image]"

      I have over 25 years of experience as a professional software developer,
      systems architect and technical project manager. I'm interested in
      high-quality solutions to tough problems. I co-founded "Encodo Systems AG"
      <http://encodo.com> almost 15 years ago.

      My focus has always been on generalization and DRY using metadata and
   common
      libraries. I've written five frameworks over the years:


        * "Quino" <https://encodo.com/quino/> (C#/.NET,  2007--2021)
        * MAP (Swift/Java/TypeScript,  2016--2021)
        * "WebCore" <https://www.earthli.com/software/webcore/> (PHP,
          2000--present)
        * Test Engine (C++/MFC, 1995--2001)
        * Atlas2 (Delphi Pascal, 2002-2005)

      This site runs on WebCore and Quino is the engine behind many Encodo
      products.

Content

   In addition to the links above, I've also got content online in the following
      places:


        * "All Blog Articles"
          <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_user.php?name=marco>
        * "All Photo Albums"
   <https://www.earthli.com/albums/view_folder.php?id=2>
        * "Papers, Notes, Research & Manuals"
          <https://www.earthli.com/users/marco/docs/>
        * Instapaper ("Likes"
         
   <http://www.instapaper.com/starred/rss/1890855/5c1g08eoy9skhOr3tCGqTQbZes>,
          "Archive"
         
   <http://www.instapaper.com/archive/rss/1890855/5c1g08eoy9skhOr3tCGqTQbZes>)
        * IMDb ("ratings" <http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1323291/ratings>,
   "watchlist"
          <http://www.imdb.com/user/ur1323291/watchlist>)
        * "Fitness" <https://www.earthli.com/users/marco/stats>
        * "Twitter" <https://twitter.com/mvonballmo> [1]
        * Garmin Connect [2]
        * Strava [3]

Quizzes

   For various reasons, these two quizzes (well, mainly one of them) have been
      the most popular hits on my site.


        * "Bush's First Year"
   <https://www.earthli.com/quizzes/view_quiz.php?id=1>
          (2001)
        * "Real or Fake?" <https://www.earthli.com/quizzes/view_quiz.php?id=2>
          (2002, NSFW)

Links

        * "Old Links" <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3874>
   (e.g.
          Old Man Murray, SeanBaby, SomethingAwful)
        * "Directions from Ilion to Kew Gardens"
         
   <https://www.earthli.com/users/marco/docs/documents/personal/ilion_to_kew_gardens/>

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[1] My Twitter feed is almost 100% automatically generated from "my blog posts"
    <https://www.earthli.com/news/view_user.php?name=marco> and "my Instapaper
    likes"
    <http://www.instapaper.com/starred/rss/1890855/5c1g08eoy9skhOr3tCGqTQbZes>.


[1] No link because Garmin don't allow browsing activities, only linking to
    specific ones that are public.


[1] Same as Garmin, unfortunately.

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