Part of me is from city in Siberia, small town maybe 50 km from Irkutsk named Kangallassy. In days of Soviet Union, town would be established in Siberia, then central planning committee would sending "pioneers" to establish towns in circle around first town. Sometimes would be brand-new venture, starting from nothing in wilderness; sometimes would be renovation of old Yakut village, or trading post, or small fort where Cossacks once lived. Kangallassy was all of above for long time, but was being completely rebuilt in days of new expansion under Comrade Brezhnev. As military officer is one of several persons whose body I share - he is Stavros Mionyi Daghlisz - who was stationed there in second world war, is basically his town. But is my town also. The snows have beginning to fallen, and people are getting ready for really cold weather to come. Siberia is like this for very long time now, climate changes in other parts of world, but not in Siberia. Winter is long, summer is short, all are beautiful. Technically so to speaking there is "autumn" and "spring" but these are being days on calendar, or if you are native Yakut who watches sky, time when day and night are equal in length. People there are sturdy, have not forgotten blessings and cursings of Soviet Union; still curse memory of the Kartvelian, Stalin - real name is Dzugshvlli - and bless memory of good Comrade Vladimir Illyvich Lenin. Is nothing like sitting round fire with samovar of strong black tea - a Russian habit - or drinking wodka or kumiss. (Wodka is another Russian habit, can be very nasty for some people)
Here I am supposed to be reporting on aetherspace / cyberspace experiments and am here thinking of dear Kangallassay! But is okay to doing this.
And now to changing subject. When virus get hardrive of our computer in September, we are lucky to be getting new hardrive with Windows XP installed inside. But, this one no having word processor like previous hardrive, so today we surf internet to finding how much replacement is costing. We are seeing that Sun Microsystems, people who are making all Java software, have open-source word processor for free download. Had to first downloading better-quality installer, then Java RunTime (forgetting which version - the one for making chatrooms working), but in end, we are having new word processor. In community like Outlands, is very important because many members are writing things in journals and texts of some sort. Up until today we are having Windows WordPad, which is being okay...but is not being full-strength word processor. If you are curious, looking on Google for
I am thinking that is proper URL but am not sure. If not is not working, then Google Sun Microsystem and navigate to Open Source products. Artists here are very excited, they are apparently also having 3D software, which they will investigating. All for now! Stavros