My Archives: August 2003

My Archives: August 2003

Saturday, August 9, 2003

Anna Lauwaert
Anna Lauwaert is a Belgian writer, painter, political activist, interested in the history of religions and living in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Her original profession is physiotherapist. She has lived in Africa (the former Belgian Congo, now Zaire), in India and Pakistan. She writes books, essays, short stories, in French and Italian, even in English, but mostly in Italian these days, though she is more multilingual than that. She is a lively, well-read, open-minded, individualist and kind woman, much liked by her friends and all those that have the luck to meet her ~ if they are not idiots. As you may know, there are a lot of these around... Which triggers a lot of her writings as a journalist. More about her on her own website.

Her unique talent and the independence of her mind, based on a very solid education, makes for the most unusual literature. You must discover her writings. I offer you an opportunity today. I am very pleased that Anna agreed to have her latest short story published online by me. As it is in Italian, I have decided not to publish it on this site here, but on my Luxemburgish website, my home country being a place where Italian is widely understood (Italians have formed the largest part of our immigrant population in former times, only more recently exceeded by the Portuguese, and through the European institutions and other international settlements there are another lot of Italian speaking people there), and generally Luxemburgers are as familiar with Romance languages as with Germanic ones, after all Luxemburgish is a language sitting on the fence between the two groups. And Anna being Belgian, she is sort of a cousin of us. I think this story will ring a bell there. Now then:
Anna Lauwaert

Il contratto di matrimonio

Racconto
And to stay with Italian culture, Italian born New Zealand sculptor Oronzo Renna has added today his latest works to his online exhibition in my Fine Arts section.
More goodies to come in the future!

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:53 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Friday, August 8, 2003

After days and weeks of hard work, in the middle of some other stress (there are always several kinds of problems at the same time ~ how convivial those problems can be, unlike most people these days!), and a burning sun doing its best to prevent ANY work, I will have succeeded, when the weekend is over, in implementing big changes on my six most important sites. These are:

This one of course, then the Luxemburg one gaining in importance, the German one gaining in ampleness too, the site of "The Exterritorial Imperative" (www.panarchism.info), the Gay section, which is not yet a real separate site, but becoming so independent that it will soon be linked from its own domain (though at present this multilingual portal is still "amplexicaul" to it), and last, but not least, "LMP", John Zube's supplementary site, hosted by butterbach.net and belonging like, all the others, to the exterritorial.net "group".

These sites have been enhanced with new functionality, based on more than seven dozen of Perl and PHP scripts, allowing me to add new content more easily and safely, thus more quickly and more frequently, and occasionally urgently. In addition, archiving will have changed from manual to automatic. A search function will help you find your way in the ever increasing amount of content. And further search functions are already planned!

On John Zube's Weblog on his site you can add comments and vote on whether you like an entry or not. I can assure you that these votes are not as lost and do not do as much harm as on your other ballots... :-)

Discover the few additions to the various sites of the last few days and the partial layout changes (to make the usability similar on all those light yellow background, light brown header sites [with the exception of LMP], with the "Tempus Sans ITC" and "Lucida Handwriting" fonts most people don't have on their PCs..., and that mysterious yellow, brown and black logo with the strong individualist and exterritorialist slogan) and stay tuned for more. Your frequent visits are much appreciated!

In cooperation with Google® a few more text ads will be put on certain of my pages: these new ads will have a design better adapted to the overall design of my sites and they offer in addition a totally new special search feature that I think is nifty. I liked it very much, when tested yesterday. But some other webmasters did not like it, so it was provisionally withdrawn and I hope it will come back soon. It helps you, like the ads themselves, to quickly and easily find further information in direct close connection with the topics of the texts on the page. When you click these ads and run into sites you dislike or think have no place on my pages, please let me know via my contact page. I have the possibility to ban single businesses or organizations from feeding ads into my sites.

Best wishes to you all!

Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 05:54 PM GMT+1 [Link]

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