Miniposter-computer stuff

“Halb-e-Zeit” (half-time)— an incomplete, vertically halved, yet clearly ‘recognizable’ time indication. You don't have to be an IT expert to be familiar with the digital display of numbers. Digital time displays have long been part of our everyday lives—whether it's the time displayed on stoves, coffee machines and other household appliances or on our wristwatches and mobile devices. If you look at the digits of our decimal system, it should be immediately obvious that they can only be the digits '1' and '4' and that 14:41 is the time. Nothing more and nothing...


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Since modern, increasingly colorful graphic 'emojis' have dominated computer and smartphone messages, I think they often make it more difficult to read and understand messages. In principle, there is nothing to be said against the sparing use of these emotional comments - and here too, in my opinion, it should be uncolored and at the text character level.  For occasional use, I prefer ordinary punctuation marks, letters, special characters and numbers—in other words, 'emoticons', the raw emoji format, so to speak. Well, we all have different approaches to type, form and scope...


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"Hexameter" is one of more than 19,000 hexameters from Friedrich Klopstock's epic poem 'The Messiah' - a line from the last, the 'Twentieth Canto': "Praise, o nature, yet to Him who created you!" It is a line from one of the hymns of praise to the new creation.The Greek 'hexa' is the link between the ancient meter (Greek 'hexa' = six and 'metron' = measure) and the transformation of a line with this meter into hexadecimal notation (Greek 'hexa' = six and Latin 'decem' = ten, base-16 numeral system). The content of the hexameter is more or less arbitrary. This work is an exemplary...


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"Power Supply" is a poem written in the basic language of digital communication - a representation of the power supply for the reproduction of a version of the content that can be read and printed with a computer. This linguistic transformation is only one —ultimately very rudimentary—of many possibilities of reproduction.How to read this picture? Well, it's a process of three steps: Counting and separating, converting to decimal values, assigning the decimal values and reading the symbols/characters from an ASCII table.Counting and separatings/span>The text must be divided...


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