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      When I set up my homepage for the first time in 1995 — proclaimed as “the year of the Internet” by TIME magazine — cruising the World Wide Web and running a personal homepage with links to thematically relevant websites were a novel experience. The homepage, originally having the URL paradox.rz-berlin.mpg.de, moved in February 1997 to w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~wm/, and then to the present site in May 2008. 
      At the beginning, the project was not even quite uncontroversial. I am therefore particularly grateful to the head at that time of the institute department where I am employed, Gerhard Ertl, for the explicit permission to run such a homepage, that immediately had the effect of cutting away all red tape. The success story of the worldwide Internet saga that has now radically modified information dispersal, search, and gathering, meanwhile confirms the soundness of the ideas that inspired that project. Indeed, I felt all the more flattered when others took it as an example to likewise set up homepages, or set links to this one. At the same time, countless helpful comments and suggestions from colleagues and netters all over the world played a vital role for the successful development of the page. 
      But “time and tide” progress further. On one hand, one settles down to a somewhat more sedate pace, and is no longer so dextrous in keeping up the homepage — with countless links to be updated — and on the other hand, the appearance of search machines such as Yahoo, AltaVista, etc., and particularly Google, has made such an elaborate collection of links, such as this website had originally been, no longer worthwhile. For this reason, I have now built my personal homepage down to a more manageable “personal” personal homepage. 
      In view of my retirement in June 2008, I have also moved it to an independent provider.

See also the Disclaimer

About Me:

       My main fields of interest are: 
the linguistic and culture history of Indonesia, the morphosyntax of Indonesian Malay, Austronesian historical linguistics, and comparative Southeast-Asian linguistics;
 
       besides some subsidiary fields of interest, such as: 
evolutionary anthropology  •  sociology & civics  •  chemical engineering & surface science

(as a kid: cycling, swimming, reading;                                   
as a teen: rockets, chemicals, relativity, reading;
                         why I finally ended up as a linguist is a mystery to me too)

     Some more personal things:

  • My curriculum vitae, perusal of a curiously eventful biography 
    • Number of years spent altogether in each country: 
      Britain—; China—3; Germany—33+x ; Indonesia—5; Netherlands—; Russia—20; Singapore—2; Thailand—3 
    • Number of years I lived in various cities: 
      Bangkok—3; Beijing—3; Berlin (West)—13 / Berlin (reunified)—20+x ; Bogor (W. Java)—5; The Hague—; Moscow—12; Quiddenham (near Norwich)—; Singapore—2; Voronezh—8. 
    • Some other places where I had been at least one week: 
      Artek (Crimea) 1957 - Athens 1960 - Beidahe (near Qinhuangdao, Hebei) 1953 - Hamburg 1961 - Hongkong 1950-51 - Ithaca (NY) 2002 - Jakarta 2004 - Palembang (S. Sumatra) 1948 - Paris 1956 - Sochi (Russian Black-Sea coast) 1959 - Sri Racha (near Chon Buri) 1950 
    • Memorable (to me) sites I visited: 
      Berlin (West) 1958 - Great Wall of China 1953 - Ground Zero (NYC) 2002 - Heremitage (St-Petersburg) 1958 - Ming Dynasty Tombs 1952 - Olympia 1960 - Pompei 1956 - Red Square/Kremlin (repeatedly betw. 1957 & 1976) - Taj Mahal 1994 - Tangkuban Perahu volcano crater (W. Java) 1955 - Tiananmen/Forbidden City (repeatedly 1952-53) 
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 Contact:

       office:     home:
  tel:  
fax:  
email:  
 
 +49 30  8413–5105
+49 30  8413–5106
 +49 30  624-76-09
 
  snail:   Waruno Mahdi
Faradayweg 4-6
14195 Berlin, Germany		 Waruno Mahdi
Nansenstr. 33
12047 Berlin, Germany
  ( because of building repair, our offices have been
temporarily moved to Faradayweg 12, but the
postal address remains as above) 		  
 
 
                       You will usually find me at the institute department:  
 Abteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft; 
  

other participations:

Researcher at the SEALINKS Project, University of Oxford
 

     Things I Wrote, and Writings I Contributed to
                    — and some pictures I took —

 
  • A virtual WebLOG) 
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     English   US & world politics
     Indonesia & neighbors
     Science & technology
     Social anthropology (in prep.)
     Deutsch   Deutschland und die Deutschen, unter der besonderen
     Berücksichtigung (versteht sich) der Frage des Deutschseins
     Geschehnisse in anderen Ländern
     Kultur, Ethik, Recht, Politik
     IV  (in Vorb.)
     Über Kinder und die Jugend
     Technik + Wissenschaft
     Berlin
     Bhs. Indonesia   Sejarah &Ilmu Bumi
     Adat, Agama, Kebudayaan, Hukum
     III  (dlm pers.)
     IV

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         Graphic Images & Presentations:

    • Some graphic presentations on chemical and surface-science subjects (in prep.)
    • Some animated graphics (in prep.)
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         Millionaire-Makers and Other Pests:

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    DISCLAIMER

    (for this and all subordinated pages)
          No claim of originality of the information presented here is made, except where author’s copyright is explicitly indicated. Responsibility for the contents is limited to providing access to some available data without making any assertions or providing guarantees either for dependability of the links, or with regard to quality or originality of contents of linked texts and sites, or their safety for either user’s hard and software, or his/her own physical and mental faculties.

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