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New pages
Updated personal presentation
I have replaced my personal presentation page with a whole sub-site based on the house division known from astrology.
My personal presentation page has been updated with a whole sub-site. The concept is the houses known from astrology. According to the astrologists, the houses represent spheres of material life, i.e., the physical realisation of the energies of the planets (stars
). Most known is the Ascendent, the rising sign, i.e., the sign rising in the eastern horizon at the time of birth (in native horoscopes), which is also the cusp of the first house. The Ascendent is believed to determine the physical body of the person, and — as the body also influences the personality — basic psychological features. The second house deals with material possessions and can usually also indicate the state of finances.
My old hobby
Astrology used to be a hobby of mine while I was around 20 years old. I abandoned it in my early 20es, mainly because it got out of hand. Towards the end of my astrological period, I was learning the ephimerids by heart the same way as I used to remember mathematical formulas in high school; based on that I was able to construct many parts of the horoscopes of friends, relatives and even casual collocutors. After a mental exercise with casting a chart of somebody I met on a travel, I often only remembered his or — more likely — her horoscope, whereas I could not recall her name or real life story. I preferred to face reality instead of living in a world of aspects, siderial time, retrograde orbits, and endless discussions about the relative weight of different features in horoscopes. However, the idea of presenting different aspects of a person's being divided into different spheres has proved quite beneficial.
Best browsers
The pages themselves are a translation of the Danish version, which I published in January 2006. They display much meta information, using the <link /> tag in the <head> element of the pages to enable sitewide navigation, so viewing the presentation should be done with a browser with good rendering of those tags. As for now (October 2006) the most complete experience with is obtained with Gecko browsers version 1.4 and ahead (Netscape 7+, Mozilla 1.4+, SeaMonkey 0.8+, Firefox 1.5+. You will need to turn the Site Navigation Toolbar on. In Firefox, install the extension Site Navigation Bar). Opera 6+ also has this feature, but not as complete as do the browsers based on the Gecko engine. Browsers based on Apple's Web Machine (Safari, OmniWeb, BumperCar) are also good, albeit they do not spend time parsing the (nerdy?) site navigation tags. Versions 6 and before of Microsoft Internet Explorer (both for Macintosh and Windows) are not recommended.
Erik Thau-Knudsen
2006-10-09
Links
- Erik Thau-Knudsen — a personal presentation
- Best browser
- Apple Safari
- iCab
- Mozilla.org (home of Firefox, SeaMonkey, Mozilla, Camino browsers)
- Opera
- OmniWeb
