Dr. Claus Volko

During my pharmacology exam I told my professor where I had been spending my clerkships, to which he reacted: "All of these are para-medical subjects!" True. Radiology, radiotherapy, laboratory diagnostics, ... - that's not really what you'd consider core subjects of medicine. Now I've drawn an analogy. In the demoscene, I've been spending my time making a diskmag and reporting about people who made demos, instead of trying to make a demo myself. With time, I've grown to feel bad about this. I must not repeat this error in my medical career. I must start out as a real physician!

I'm working on reviews of some demos for Hugi 32. One of them is Animal Attraction by ASD ( http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24464 ). When I noticed that the .jpg files were encrypted, I tried to crack them - successfully. I'm now in a childish state of euphoria since I used to consider Navis a great coder and wouldn't have expected him to use such an easy-to-crack encryption algorithm. But I guess it's simply that he is a graphics programming specialist and hasn't dealt much with cryptology yet. The demo itself is very nice. I'll save my more detailed comments for Hugi.

Some people use the term "stalking" for watching other people's LJs. I'm irritated by this. In Austria an anti-stalking law has recently been enacted. I quote: Beharrliche Verfolgung § 107a. (1) Wer eine Person widerrechtlich beharrlich verfolgt (Abs. 2), ist mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu einem Jahr zu bestrafen. (2) Beharrlich verfolgt eine Person, wer in einer Weise, die geeignet ist, sie in ihrer Lebensführung unzumutbar zu beeinträchtigen, eine längere Zeit hindurch fortgesetzt 1. ihre räumliche Nähe aufsucht, 2. im Wege einer Telekommunikation oder unter Verwendung eines sonstigen Kommunikationsmittels oder über Dritte Kontakt zu ihr herstellt, 3. unter Verwendung ihrer personenbezogenen Daten Waren oder Dienstleistungen für sie bestellt oder 4. unter Verwendung ihrer personenbezogenen Daten Dritte veranlasst, mit ihr Kontakt aufzunehmen. (3) In den Fällen des Abs. 2 Z 2 ist der Täter nur auf Antrag der beharrlich verfolgten Person zu verfolgen. In this context, I w

I've successfully passed my pharmacology exam. The exam was oral and long: it lasted three hours. (Some of this time was occupied by another student, who did the exam at the same time as me, but it was the minor part of the time since he already gave up after the first question.) For the first question, Prof. Freissmuth gave me a D, for the second a B and for the third a B-, so in total I got a C.  Now I've completed the second phase of my medical studies, and in autumn, the third and final phase is going to start.

As I'm finally being honest to myself (which is the necessary basis for becoming an ordinary human being), I start considering that I'm INTP rather than INTJ. The belief that introverted intuition were my dominant function stems from the fact that I value ideas a lot, and introverted intuition is the source of ideas. But as a matter of fact, I'm not that good an idea-generator. I mostly take my ideas from the external world. It was clear for me when I got into Myers-Briggs in summer 2004 that I must be J, because of my upbringing. At least my mother is strongly J, and I've always been told, "What you do, you have to do properly." But as a matter of fact, my life-style is more chaotic than a true J's would probably be. In studying, I often digress, dealing extensively with certain chapters that currently attract my interest, instead of dealing with the chapters I actually planned to study on the very day. The major point for me to believe I'm rather INT

I now recall I've also planned to read the book on Fuzzy Set Theory in September, as I want to take an exam on it (with the book's author as my examinator) in October. The website of my former high school has got a new design, http://www.goethegym.asn-wien.ac.at/ . Looks a bit better than before now. The curricula have also changed to the better, me thinks. Physics, biology, chemistry labs, both technical and textile handicraft for boys and girls, French in addition to English from grade 1 on... I think both the curricula for "Gymnasium" and "Realgymnasium mit naturwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt" are quite good; the other two curricula aren't that exciting.

Just found in the Informatik-Forum: "Nimm das Leben nicht zu ernst - du kommst aus der Sache sowieso nicht lebend raus" ("Don't take life too seriously - you won't get out alive anyway")