Well, today was a very lousy day because it started like this: Shortly before I usually go to bed (at 2 am usually) I decided to install a second win xp on my system. I should explain that I host a linux and Win XP 64-bit on my computer and there are certain things that don’t work on the 64-bit … Read More
Knowledge or Truth is what we agree about
Überraschende Entscheidung: Pluto ist kein Planet mehr – Wissenschaft – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten This is the (german) article at Spiegel Online about the ex-planet Pluto. In short: scientists (2500 from 75 countries) have agreed that Pluto together with other recently discovered celestial bodies are no longer planets. There has never been a proper definition of what a planet exactly … Read More
deviantArt turns 6 / Apple's new stuff
A day’s moon by =yodahome on deviantART As I didn’t manage to do it yesterday, I’m going to do it now: Yesterday one of the greatest art communities on the planet (if not THE greatest) grew one year older and aprt from that this is great on its own they also updated the website to the next software version that … Read More
Geotagging 2.0 / photo album
Just recognized a great feature in PicasaWeb: You can geotag the images you carry in your Picasa DB with Google Earth! Just like in Zooomr, where you can add the information about where a picture was shot by using the Google Maps, you can (if you installed both the Picasa and the Google Earth software) simply zoom to the place … Read More