I uploaded a new Message Board, entirely rebuilt from scratch to get the best performance out of it and fixed some bugs with the picture gallery and the guestbook.
May this day be a good start for many interesting discussions on Schwicky.net!
February 24th, 2001
From now, I offer you the oportunity to have your own ´Schwicky.net´ Message Board.
You can have one that just looks like mine, or a 100% customisable one. Just ask for it, I´ll create you one and you can test it. Take it or leave it, you have nothing to loose...
July 8th, 2001
Schwicky.net is now featuring the Kontrollmatrix Generator. It's a cool script of my own, that prints a nice quote everytime you visit schwicky.net. There aren't many for the moment, but I'll add more soon and I'll implement some a function that will allow you to submit your own quotes for the Generator.
September 11th, 2001
This has been a black day in World's history. Today, a bunch of crooks, a band of damned assholes, respectless terrorists have destroyed the New York World Trade Center. Four planes have been hijacked, two of them crashed into the WTC, one into the Pentagon and the last one's destination was Pennsylvania. This attack against freedom, liberalism, democracy and mankind is brutal and horrible. I'm still not sure I can really understand what happened but I want the responsibles and those who helped them to be found and punished. My deepest compassion and sympathy goes to the people and their families who lived this attack in America.
The Least Successful Collector
Betsy Baker played a central role in the history of collecting. She
was employed as a servant in the house of John Warburton (1682-1759) who had
amassed a fine collection of 58 first edition plays, including most of the
works of Shakespeare.
One day Warburton returned home to find 55 of them charred beyond
legibility. Betsy had either burned them or used them as pie bottoms. The
remaining three folios are now in the British Museum.
The only comparable literary figure was the maid who in 1835 burned
the manuscript of the first volume of Thomas Carlyle's "The Hisory of the
French Revolution", thinking it was wastepaper. Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"