Archive for April, 2009

15 billion chickens and counting

Monday, April 27th, 2009

We all know how hard it is to communicate dry statistics to somebody and I guess its not me alone who has a hard time to grasp relations between big numbers (finance crisis anyone?) - but this nice little widget is just fantastic. It amazes me every time how much ...

Useful Gotcha #27

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

If you get this error ssl_error_rx_record_too_long when browsing an SSL-secured virtual host and wonder what the heck is going on (hey, it worked the day before), ensure that you've noticed that your admins have changed the IP address of the machine and that you have to adapt the IP-based VHost ...

Election day

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Germany's next election day lies still quite a bit in the future (sometime in September), but the discussion about "Politikverdrossenheit" (disenchanted with politics) has already started in the media. Today I was proven right (German,  automated translation) that my "Politikverdrossenheit" is actually not based on a lack of interest on ...