Dr. Claus Volko

Ich stimme diesem Satz von Karl Marx zu. Das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein, nicht umgekehrt, wie Hegel noch behauptet hatte. Es gibt nicht einmal eine unmittelbare Wechselwirkung zwischen Sein und Bewusstsein. Vielmehr bestimmt das Sein das Bewusstsein, das Bewusstsein das Handeln, und erst das Handeln wirkt wieder auf das Sein ein.

While I'm almost finished with Hugi #32, I'll be loaded with even more editorial work: The board of directors of Mensa Austria wants to make me the new editor of Mensa Austria's official magazine "Diskussion". I've told them I'm interested since I like this type of work and I also like the magazine. I'm confident it won't take too much of my time; the magazine is released once in two months, but its contents are far thinner than Hugi's.

Diese Frage stellt sich zumindest aufgrund des Ergebnisses des Eignungstests für Medizinische Studiengänge (EMS), der dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal als Voraussetzung für ein Medizinstudium in Wien oder Innsbruck durchgeführt wurde.  Siehe: http://science.orf.at/science/news/145219

I would have been going to visit NuKe/Fairlight tomorrow, but as I learned today, he unfortunately suffers from a (minor) injury and will have to take a rest for 6 weeks. Hereby I wish him a good recovery!

I've just bought the official textbook for my next exam, social medicine. It's merely 140 pages and easy to read - what a great contrast to my previous exam, for which I had to study more than 1000 pages full of strange proper names, complicated chemical formulae, long lists of indications and contraindications, and difficult physiological mechanisms! I'm rather optimistic about my chances that I'll pass the 12 last exams of my medical studies in the 2 remaining years which the government has allowed me to spend studying until I'll have to do my alternative service. The only difficulty is that I'll have to do a practical course in each subject before taking the related exam, and getting places for these courses isn't always easy.

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.