Randomly Found Software: Zeta

Actually, when I read this freshmeat announcement, I wondered whether to admire the person writing that project, or consider him crazy: „it was created for the sole purpose of having a new target to which the Linux kernel, GNU bintutils, and GNU gcc can be ported„. And visiting the website, I read that they have already ported a huge amount of the GNU binutils and the Linux Kernel and the GCC onto it – which I assume was a lot of work.

So I wondered what all that is actually good for – and as far as I read, it is good for „people interested in learning linux kernel internals„. So there seems no practical use aimed. That is, somebody used his spare time to create a virtual architecture and create a linux-port for it, just for fun. Thats definitely cool.

But ok, they could have ported linux to run under the JVM or under SPIM, too, then they wouldnt have to build their own architecture.

On the other hand, the architecture seems to be comparably easy – as far as I see. As well easy to use as easy to reimplement. Thus, as soon as linux is being ported there completely, one has a platform to reimplement and do experiments. Therefore – very interesting.

WindowWrangler – Endlich ein einigermaßen gescheiter freier Window Manager für Mac OS

Zufällig hier gefunden – warum auch immer ich es bisher noch nicht gefunden hatte. WindowWrangler. Das Programm hat keine imba Keyboard Shortcuts um sich irgendwelche Fensterpositionen zu merken. Aber dafür hat es genau die Funktionalität die ich will: Fenster per Keyboard resizen und verschieben. Und es ist Donationware – die Bezahlung ist freiwillig. Da sitzen bei mir die Euros gleich viel Lockerer, wenn man mich nicht zwingt zu bezahlen – vielleicht werde ich, wenn ich mir VMWare Fusion kaufe, den preis aufrunden, und den Rest für diesen Fenstermover bezahlen. So als Trinkgeld quasi.

Am Liebsten würde ich natürlich mal eine API-Dokumentation durchlesen um zu sehen wie ich mir selber ein entsprechendes Programm schreiben kann – aber wenn das nur halb so schwer ist wie einen X11-Window-Manager zu schreiben kann ich glaub ich gleich sagen, dass ich keine Zeit dafür habe.

VMWare Fusion werd ich mir auch nur deshalb kaufen weil ich wahrscheinlich die nächsten Monate immer wieder eine Windows-Umgebung brauche, und keine Zeit habe, zu schaun, wie ich das Ganze mit VirtualBox hinbekomme – ich meine man kann sicher einige features mit VirtualBox auch hinbekommen, auch das Booten einer BootCamp-Partition dürfte principiell kein Ding der Unmöglichkeit sein. Aber es ist … Arbeit.

VMWare Fusion – die wahrscheinlich erste Mac-Software die ich mir kaufen werde…

… Denn wie ich schon schrub benutze ich atm hauptsächlich Windows. Und ich bin mir relativ sicher, dass das noch häufiger der Fall sein wird, bzw. dass häufiger die Notwendigkeit bestehen wird, mehrere Betriebssysteme zu nutzen. Denn es gibt immer, für so ziemlich jede Aufgabe, irgendeine Sache die mich an irgendeinem der drei Betriebssysteme wirklich nervt.

Nun kann man aber VMWare so wunderschön nutzen um BootCamp-Partitionen virtuell zu Booten, die man aber auch gleichzeitig nativ booten kann. Ein klarer Vorteil zu VirtualBox – wo man das zwar auch hinbekommt, aber nicht ohne erheblich größere Anstrengungen (aber vielleicht schreibt ja irgendwann mal jemand sowas).

Momentan renne ich die Testversion. Mal schaun wo ich günstig eine Lizenz kaufen kann.

Sobald ich Zeit habe richte ich mir dann vielleicht unter Windows noch einen VMWare Player ein, sodass ich eine Linux-VM unter beiden Systemen verwenden kann. Auf ein natives Linux muss ich dann leider verzichten, aber ich denke, das kann ich auch ganz gut, denn Linux ist so modular eingerichtet, dass es die Vorteile der Virtualisierungslösungen auch wirklich ausnutzen kann. Außerdem ist es ohnehin nicht ganz trivial Linux auf dem Mac nativ laufen zu lassen – es geht, und ich fand es auch ganz gut, aber es kann, wie man mir sagte, der Hardware schaden, da Apple der Software ziemlich viel Einfluss überlässt – was ich persönlich übrigens sehr unschön finde, denn Softwarefehler passieren nunmal immer wieder.

Dabei fällt mir zufällig wieder eine Idee ein, die ich als enthusiastischer Informatik-Erstie (oder Zweitie) mal hatte: Einen POSIX-Layer für die Java-VM. Im Moment wird ziemlich viel für die Java-VM entwickelt, und sie ist recht gut optimiert, es gibt sogar C-Compiler dafür. Und mir geht es häufig so, dass ich lieber ein ineffizientes Programm habe, als gar keines. Nun, ein POSIX-Layer für Java, auf dem man viele Programme compilieren kann, das würde einem die Möglichkeit geben, sehr viele Software quasi plattformunabhängig zu compilieren. Ich meine damit soetwas wie „Cygjava“ – die Speicherung von Java Bytecode in ELF-Dateien, eine Syscall-Infrastruktur, und was eben sonst noch so dazu gehört. Kann das mal bitte jemand Programmieren?

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Heubisch im Audimax – „Das ist halt Demokratie“

So. Heute habe ich leider keine Zeit meinen Beitrag mit allzu viel selbst gezeichnetem und Bildmaterial zu untermauern. Mein Handy hat außerdem eine schlechte Kamera-Qualität und hat einige Videos die ich gemacht habe nicht gespeichert, warum auch immer. Egal, die die es gemacht hat sind so schlecht, dass man es eh vergessen kann.

Also, wie ich schon geschrieben habe, und man auch sonst an ausreichend vielen Stellen mitbekommen konnte, heute war Wolfgang Heubisch bei der Besetzung des Audimax, und hat sich den Fragen der Studenten gestellt. Und heute stellte sich auch ein ganz anderes Bild des Audimax ein, als ich vor Kurzem bloggte: der Raum war überfüllt, so überfüllt, dass sie sogar einen Livestream in einen zweiten Raum eingerichtet haben, damit jeder alles mitbekommen kann. Ich hab hier mal ein Foto gemacht, da sieht das ganze leider sehr klein aus, weil der Blickwinkel recht schlecht war.

Update: Danke an den freundlichen Kommentator Michi für das folgende erheblich bessere Bild (hier in voller Größe – ich muss mir unbedingt ne bessere Kamera zulegen)

Ok, vorweg, nur damit da keine Missverständnisse entstehen: Der folgende Blogpost erhebt nicht den Anspruch journaistisch zu sein. Er stellt meine Meinung und Sicht der Dinge dar – auch wenn ich das im Einzelnen nicht explicit dazu sage.

Nunja, als ich in den Raum kam, eine dreiviertel Stunde zu früh, dachte ich eigentlich, in Anbetracht dessen, was ich das letzte Mal gesehen hatte, er wäre ziemlich leer, habe aber bereits keinen Sitzplatz mehr bekommen, aber wenigstens noch einen guten Stehplatz. Andererseits waren einige Leute der Auffassung, sie müssten in einem ohnehin schon vollen Raum irgendwelchen Leuten Plätze freihalten. Unmöglich sowas!

Naja, später sind dann einige Leute gegangen und ich hab doch noch einen Sitzplatz bekommen, bin aber eine ganze Zeit lang gestanden.

Dann erstmal großes Lob an Herrn Heubisch, dass er sich dieser Masse an Studenten gestellt hat. Aber auch großes Lob an die Studenten die das Ganze moderiert haben, und konsequent für eine gute disziplinierte Diskussion gesorgt haben, obwohl es ein paar Schreihälse leider gab.

Ansonsten war das Bild sehr seltsam: Nachdem die Presse ihre Gerätschaften erstmal ne Zeit lang überall herumgeschleift hat, trat der Minister ein, und ließ sich erstmal minutenlang Fotografieren. Ich fand das höchst seltsam. Es ist ja nicht so als könnte man sich nicht auch bei Wikipedia Bilder von Heubisch herunterladen. Naja, was solls.

Nach kurzer Vorstellung ging dann also erstmal die Diskussion los. Bis auf ein paar Schreihälse und dämliche Kommentatoren zwischendurch verlief sie recht geordnet und diszipliniert, das hat der Minister sogar angemerkt. Zum Inhalt will ich irgendwie nichts sagen. Bis auf ein „Basta“ zu Studiengebühren, ein Versprechen, sich in drei Monaten mal zum Mitbestimmungsrecht der Studenten in anderen Bundesländern schlau zu machen, und die Erkenntnis, dass er zum Bachelorsystem eigentlich die meisten Kritiken akzeptiert und nur letztendlich nicht wirklich was ändern kann, war eigentlich das meiste ziemlich offensichtlich und nicht wirklich überraschend.

Der Minister hat korrekt begründet, dass er legitim gewählt wurde, und somit die Bevölkerung hinter seiner Auffassung steht. „Das ist halt Demokratie“. Deshalb – liebe Leute – richtet euch nicht nur gegen die Politiker. Richtet euch vor allem mal gegen die ganzen Wahlzombies, die sie immer wieder in die Regierung wählen.

Ich bin ja gespannt wo das Ganze hinführt. Sehr interessant ist es allemal.

Heubisch kommt ins Audimax

Sososo … Die Demonstratoren haben es geschafft ein Video zu machen. Wie Nett. Die Performance ist ganz lustig, die sie da zeigen, und ich sehe einen deutlichen Fortschritt zu der schläfrigen „Besetzung“ die ich vor ein paar Tagen gesehen habe. Aber stellt besser erstmal den Ton ab:

Ja, der Ton, diese grässliche unmelodische Gitarrenmusik. Es mag ja Leute geben, die solche Musik mögen, mir tun bei sowas aber die Ohren weh – wenn nicht durch die triviale Melodie, die schlechte Stimme und die krampfhaft untergebrachten Pseudoemotionen, dann durch den grässlichen uninspirierten Text. Ich frag mich wer das gesungen hat.

Ich sehe auch irgendwie die Gefahr dass durch solche Texte ein falsches Bild entsteht, hier wären irgendwelche unterdrückten Revolutionäre am Werk. Ok, ein Raum wird besetzt (sort of), was nicht ganz legal ist, und somit der ganzen Aktion schon mal etwas mehr Nachdruck verleiht, aber weitestgehend gedulded wird, da es friedlich abläuft, und grundsätzlich abgesehen von ein paar Idioten beide Seiten gelernt haben, dass eine Hau-Drauf-Taktik nicht sinnvoll ist.

Allgemein drängt sich mir manchmal der Eindruck auf, neben den vielen seriösen Teilnehmern scheinen sich einige Leute mit Leuten wie Rudi Dutschke oder Sophie Scholl zu identifizieren. Anders als die meisten Leute halte ich den Gedanken dass sich irgendwann eine solche Situation ergeben kann für leider nicht absurd, aber in dieser Sache sind wir doch – zum Glück – weit davon entfernt.

Naja, lassen wir das. Für heute um 18.30 wurde der bayerische Wissenschaftsminister Wolfgang Heubisch im Audimax angekündigt. Nachdem ich um 18.00 sowieso im Hauptgebäude sein werde, werde ich mir das möglicherweise mal ansehen, wenn ich einen Sitzplatz bekomme, twittere ich vielleicht ein wenig davon (das würde dann wohl meine erste sinnvolle Verwendung von Twitter sein).

The most essential thing Mathematics have taught me for real life

When discussing with non-mathematicians about why I want to become a mathematician, what a mathematician’s work at a university is, and what it is good for, I often answer with the counterquestion what art is good for, because usually, there are two kinds of people asking such questions: the ones that like at least some kind of art, be it just folk music or modern films, and the pragmatic people which believe that investing ressources into research that has no immediate practical application means wasting them, of which most are die-hard capitalists or die-hard communists, which is a kind of people I usually dont try to discuss about such things anyway.

Some people say that art is something good because many people like it, and then mostly admit that mathematics can also be good because many people consider it being beautiful. This is my favourite way of that type of discussions. Some discussions lead into a meta-discussion about the meaning of live at all. And well, some of them argue that art rises creativity and helps you to get a different point of view of some things, and may help you to „find yourself“.

There is no doubt about that, as most artists insist on the fact that they want to tell something with their art. While mathematicians usually dont want to do that in the first place. Mathematicians just want to produce knowledge which they consider interesting and beautiful. Anyway, some theories in Mathematics can be applied to philosophy, especially logic – which is one reason why mathematics are important, even if they dont have a direct practical application. Another thing is that the strictly formal kind of thinking in mathematics taught me a lot of real-life facts which I consider essential for my personality.

So, recently, I was asked to give an example which is the fact that I consider the most essential fact mathematics taught me.

I think, the most essential fact mathematics have taught me is, that most problems can be solved by just properly phrasing them. In fact, most of them will vanish completely. To make it clear, I’ll give some examples.

First, lets look at a mathematical example. It is rather hard to find one which can be understood by non-mathematicians. Something that new math students often seem to be confused about is the set theoretical definition of numbers. In general, the question „what is a number“ is a question which is often asked. „How can you be sure that the axioms number theory bases on are really true?“. The answer is very simple, but in fact, not very satisfying: Numbers are defined to be the elements of an arithmetic, and an arithmetic is defined to satisfy my axioms. That is, these axioms are not assumptions about numbers that can be refuted by physics, these axioms are the definition of what numbers are. They may be similar to our intuition of numbers, and in fact, they are motivated by our intuition of numbers. But should our intuition of numbers at any time find something that is not described by these axioms, all the mathematical theorems derived from these axioms will still be correct, they just wont neccessarily describe our intuition on „numbers“ anymore. That is, what a mathematician calls „natural number“ is something else than what an average person would call a natural number. For most mathematicians it is a finite ordinal (i’ll leave this concept unexplained here), for some mathematicians, it is an object of some arithmetic, but thats no problem, since both concepts are isomorphic, i.e. equal when renaming a few things. In our intuition its „the thingies I can count with“. It may not be a coincidence that both things have the same name, but still, it is something different.

Now, lets go to some real-life-examples. I have heard a lot of stuff about so-called „UFOs“. And in many discussions, people argue whether there are such „UFOs“ at all, showing and arguing about evidences like photographies of them, forgetting what an UFO is. UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object, or sometimes Unknown Flying Object. And actually, I wouldnt be surprized, if there are videos of flying objects which cannot be identified uniquely. So yes, there are probably UFOs, because there is simply a lot of stuff flying around out there, and since there is a lot of place to fly around out there, we cannot know everything of it. Whats the big deal? The real problem is that „UFO“ became synonymic with „object from outerspace built by alien life forms“. And of course, that is a question which is more difficult to answer. As far as I know, there is no evidence for the existance of alien life forms, but there is a high probability that some form of live exists out there, which does not imply that it is similar to us in any way, and builds apparatus to fly to visit us. Especially, considering UFOs an evidence for alien life forms of that kind would be like considering the loss of a sock as an evidence for sock-eating gnomes who live in tumble driers.

A similar thing are discussions about the existence of „supernatural“ phenomena. It is quite clear that „supernatural“ means that something is above the nature. But before we can even talk about that, we must make clear what we mean by „nature“. Actually I mostly use the term „nature“ to distinguish between things that the human civilization has produced and things whose existence is mostly independent of the existence of humans. In that sense, even the computer I am typing this in this moment would be supernatural. Another meaning of the word „nature“ can be the sum of everything which exists. But in that case, the existence of supernatural phenomena is absurd, because since anything that exists belongs to nature, anything is natural. I have also heard that some people call a thing „natural“ when it can be expierienced by humans in some way. Actually, that is my definition of „existence“ – something exists when there is some way to expierience it – because if there is something I cannot expierience somehow, it cannot influence my life in any way, and I cannot tell anything about it, so why should I consider its existance? And especially, why should I argue about it? Anyway, since the term „phenomenon“ implies that there must be something that can be expierienced, also here, the question is clearly „no“ – as soon as it can be expierienced, as soon as there is any evidence of it, it wouldnt be supernatural anymore. Wikipedia gives another definition: The term supernatural pertains to an order of existence beyond the scientifically visible universe. At least this is a little more clear, even though we must define what „scientifically visible“ means. There are almost certainly phenomena which cannot be seen with recent scientific methods. Science is not a state, science is a process. So in that sense, there are probably supernatural phenomena – which will become natural as soon as they can be made visible. But I think, talking about the scientifically visible universe in that context means talking about things that can be scientifically detected at all, which means, a supernatural thing is a thing which cannot be detected scientifically at any time in the future. But what does that mean, detecting something scientifically? If humans can expierience it, we should mostly be able to detect it at least through some form of EEG. If humans tell that they have expierienced something, then we can test whether they are lying or believing what they say. Then we can look at their overall healthy, test them for mental diseases, etc., and as soon as we wont find anything, we have detected something which we cannot explain yet – but we have detected it.

Similar to that is the question whether there are miracles. Depends on what you consider being a miracle.

So, back to earth again, well, there are also simpler examples. Lets, for example, talk about a sort of recent topic, gay marriage. What does „marriage“ mean? In the past centuries, as far as I know, „marriage“ referred to the sacramentum of marriage in the catholic church, and later christian churches in general. It was clearly seen as something god likes and wants us to do. And clearly, the christians in those days considered homosexuality as a sin, and in that sense, there is no point of gay marriage. Today, we have basically two kinds of marriage, the civil ones and the religious ones. Since we are secularized, the latter ones have almost no lawful meaning as far as I know. There is a way to combine both kinds of marriage when the religious one comes from a religion to which a huge part of the people belongs, but this is rather pragmatic – many people want it, so they can have it – but this makes no difference before the law. Religious marriage has a religious meaning – the state cannot force any religion to marry people, nor can it forbid that. So, if somebody wants this kind of gay marriage, he just has to find a religion which marries gay couples. So what about civil marriage. What is civil marriage about at all? Civil marriage gives you some tax privileges, because the state wants to encourage people to get married and found a family. So we must make clear why the state wants to encourage marriage at all – and I think that is something which nobody really did so far. One thing are the children which are usually produced by married couples – same-sex-couples wont produce children, so if this was the only reason for the state to encourage marriage, there is no point in having the same thing for gay couples. Another thing is that spouses can be forced to pay social contributions, even after a divorce, which is – in general – something desirable for the state, and for both mates. But, honestly, if that was what gay couples are concerned about, there would be no point about marriage or living together at all when two people dont trust in each other that far. And civil marriage gives you the right to get information about your husband or wife in case of emergency – but you can as well authorize any other person you trust. The only thing that could really be a difference is, as far as I see at the moment, the question whether gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. But thats a completely different question – there can be no „right“ to adopt children, because the welfare of the children is always more important than the happyness of potential parents, so it boils down to the question whether children which are adopted by same-sex-couples have any disadvantages compared to other children, and if so, are they at least less than the disadvantages when growing up in a children’s home – thats a complex topic which unfortunately cannot be solved by phrasing it out, and of course there is a necessity to discuss about that. But this has nothing more to do with marriage than that of course if a couple adopts a child, there should be some formal obstacles ensuring that the couple is really a couple willing to share their life together at least as long as the child grows up. I dont think that such a formal obstacle is what couples want in first place. So in the end, civil marriage is worth nothing more than taxes and social contributions. On the one hand then, I wonder why same sex couples want this so desperately, on the other hand, I wonder what is the problem with it for some politicians.

Yet another example is connected to Intelligent Design. Well, there are people believing that live has completely evolved through evolution, and others, who believe in the christian theology of creation (and of course there are a lot of others, but lets name the most important ones). Of course, in the end, its a question of believe. But somehow, people dont want to accept that, and fundamentalists try to find evidences of their believe, and flaws in the scientific theory of evolution. Of course, there is no evidence for a god so far, which is why – by the occam-principle – science doesnt act on the assumption of its existence. Thats what science does – in the end, its a principle which proved itself, when looking at the amazing technical achievements we have made through it, but in the end its nothing more. So, if somebody wants to make science accept the existence of a god, you will have to give evidences for its existence, because even if it does exist, as long as there is no evidence, science will not accept it. On the other hand, nobody forces you to believe in what science sais. Sometimes people argue that evolution cannot form anything as complex as humans. But in fact, evolutionary systems, i.e. systems having some kind of mutation and some kind of selection, can evolve very complex systems, none of them as complex as a human, but at least there is no reason why it shouldnt be possible to create arbitrary complex systems. That is, maybe live didnt evolve through evolution, but at least in theory it could have evolved that way, and since evolution of life forms can be seen on some islands, where animals have been separated, that is, since evolution of live takes place right now at least in some places, it is plausible to consider that it took place before. Same here: find an evidence that evolutionary systems have an upper bound of complexity, and science will accept it and adapt its theories – but when you dont have evidence, well, there is no reason for believing that evolution cannot evolve arbitrarily complex systems. Still, it boiles down to one simple question: If you are not a scientist, why do you want to change the scientists point of view, rather than considering science as a tool which has brought us a lot of benefits, even though it cannot always be right?

Finally, a nice example is the discussion whether humans have a free will or are deterministic. For some people, its the question of whether a human is just a machine. For me, this is a problem that can be solved by phrasing it out. The first question we have to ask is what we mean by a „free will“. Basically, it means that a human can behave however he wants. If he wants to be good, he can be good. If he wants to be bad, he can be bad. Of course, looking at several mental diseases, this concept has some flaws, but of course, we only talk about „healthy“ people in the sense that they act as they are supposed to act. Another thing that is often made wrong is that people dont distinguish between determinism and predictability. Just because something is deterministic, it needs not to be predictable, the calculations for a prediction could be too complex to do them faster than the system itself to give just one example. Some interpretation I have heard was that parts of a human are „outside“ the universe we expierience, and thus do not underly the universal laws, thus have a free will. The question then is, do these parts „outside“ the universe underly any laws? If not, they are just random, that is, humans have an integrated randomizer, and thus, they act randomly, even though maybe not uniquely distributed, but still randomly. In that case, they wouldnt have anything which I would consider a „free will“ – acting randomly has nothing to do with freedom. If these parts outside the universe underly laws, then they are deterministic, and thus, humans would be deterministic – just because something doesnt underly the universal laws we expierience, this doenst mean that it cannot be deterministic. And if humans have no parts outside the universe we expierience, and therefore underlying the universal laws, the question boils down to whether the universe is determined – which is the same as asking if our universe underlies laws and has no random components. If it has random components which influence our decisions, then we would act randomly, like in the above case. If not, we are deterministic. The reader may wonder why I am telling that this problem can be solved by phrasing it out while not giving a real solution. Well, this time, the solution lies in the question itself. The question makes an implicit statement about a coherence between indeterminism and free will. The flaw lies in what we want that „free will“ to be: We dont want it to be something that is restricted by laws we can understand, we dont want it to be something that is restricted by laws we dont understand, but we also dont want it to be random. But there is nothing else. Either something is restricted by laws, or it is not restricted by laws, but then it is random. In fact, free will has nothing to do with that. What I think people really mean by free will is that a human as such can make a decision of changing his behaviour according to his inputs, but he is not stateless, that is, he does not only depend on what he receives, but also on what happens inside his mind.

So. I hope you saw that sometimes it is good to phrase some things out in detail. It often boils down to things that are much less problematic to solve. Not always, of course. But the remaining problems are at least real problems, rather than just problems of phrasing.

„Bildungs- und Forschungspläne der neuen Bundesregierung“

Ein netter Artikel unter dem Titel „Bildungs- und Forschungspläne der neuen Bundesregierung“ von einem LMU-Professor. Sicherlich nur eine Kurzzusammenfassung. Aber nachdem es relativ aufwendig ist, an solche Informationen zu kommen, und man gerne mal bei Nachfragen bei den konkreten Ämtern damit abgespeist wird, dass man hierfür keine Zeit habe, sich doch an seinen studentischen Vertreter wenden solle, oder dass sämtliche Mitarbeiter selbst keine Ahnung davon haben, weil sie spezialisiert sind auf ihre eigene Abteilung (was insofern sinnvoll ist, dass niemand alle Gesetze im Kopf haben kann, und es wohl schon in jeder Abteilung genug zu wissen gibt, als dass ein Mensch sich erheblich mehr merken könnte), finde ich es sehr gut, dass das mal jemand macht.

Dass das Themengebiet sehr komplex ist, das habe ich niemals bezweifelt. Aber es sollte eigentlich die Aufgabe der Politiker sein, den Betroffenen ihre Maßnahmen zu erklären. Da aber der größte Teil der Wähler aus Wahlzombies zu bestehen scheint, denen genau diese Aufgabe egal ist, wird dies eher selten getan.

Weekly Game Music: Adventures Of Lolo

Sorry, this time I dont have much time to write a longer article. Though, well, I use this opportunity to shorten my list of links, finally blogging about this one.

Well, I could write a lot about Adventures Of Lolo, but well, I guess, the Wikipedia Article and the Article about Castle Lololo in the Kirby Wiki will be more informative.

To summarize this: The game was made by Hal Laboratories, which also made the most Kirby-Games. Its adventure-like. The main characters Lolo and Lala – or characters based on them – appear as bosses „Lololo“ and „Lalala“ in several Kirby Games.

Anyway, well, the music in this game is rather repetitive, but its nice. I couldnt find a Vid with only the Music, but one with the whole Gameplay. The music starts at about 0:48.

And well, since there are a lot of fans of that game, also a petition can be found, asking Hal Labs to release new Lolo Games. Weird stuff.

Studentenproteste – ich habe mich offenbar geirrt.

Ich habe im Moment keine Zeit ausgiebig zu Bloggen. Allerdings will ich meinen letzten Eintrag jetzt nicht einfach so stehen lassen. Trotz des Bildes das ich bei der Besetzung des Audimax gesehen habe – die Aktion scheint Wirkung zu zeigen. In ganz Deutschland zerbrechen sich dank des Bildungsstreiks offenbar die Politiker den Kopf, was sie machen wollen. Ich habe mich also offenbar geirrt.

Trotzdem hätte ich eine etwas höhere Anwesendenzahl, insbesondere an Studenten niedrigen Semesters, als angemessen empfunden.