My blog’s now 3 years old – and no, I won’t stop (though there are not that many posts in English nowadays)…
40 Years
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing of the Apollo 11 mission, my blog header will display images that roughly follow the course of the mission from the launch on July 16 to the moon landing on July 20 to the return on July 24 (even though the actual timeline isn’t matching exactly1) – here’s a little appetizer in thumbnail size:
(These images still have to randomly share their spot with “Zensursula”, protesting the installation of an internet censorship infrastructure in Germany, falsely pretending to effectively fight child pornography.)
The photos are of course from NASA (and as such in the public domain), some taken from Wikimedia Commons, some from this exhaustive NASA Image Library.
The Big Picture currently also shows a nice selection of photos.
A great site re-creating the mission in a “re-live” kind of way and offering many images etc. is WeChooseTheMoon.org – check it out! (via)
Oh, and those still doubting the moon landings were real should have a look at Bad Astronomy or Clavius.
- and the launch photo is actually from Apollo 15, the rocket stage split from Apollo 6 [↩]
Language and Link Changes / Sprach- und Link-Änderungen
I have changed the link structure from the ?p=1&langswitch_lang=xx style to the clearer pretty permalinks such as 2006/09/06/hallo-welt/ (plus ?langswitch_lang=en for the English version) – WordPress automatically redirects the old links, so they still work1 –, and since I’ve got more German readers and am writing more German-only posts, I also changed the default language to German.
You are currently reading the English version, so no need to change anything if that’s what you want; just as a reminder:
- On the web, click the language link above the post/page title on single-post views or the flags in the top right corner on any page.
- For the feed, you may want to change your subscription to the proper new URL
cimddwc.net/feed/?langswitch_lang=en. This applies to feeds of specific tags or categories, too; update: old per-post comment feed URLs that contain&instead of just&may have ceased working. Sorry for any inconvenience.
If anything’s wrong, don’t hesitate to comment…
(This post is intentionally bilingual.)
Ich habe die Link-Struktur meines Blogs vom ?p=1&langswitch_lang=xx-Stil zu den übersichtlicheren “pretty permalinks” à la 2006/09/09/hallo-welt/ (mit Sprach-Anhängsel fürs Englische) geändert – WordPress leitet die alten Links automatisch um, sodass sie weiterhin funktionieren2 –, und da ich mehr deutsche Leser habe und mehr rein deutsche Beiträge schreibe, ist die Standard-Sprache nun auch Deutsch.
Eine Sprachumschaltung ist wie immer oben mit dem Link über der Überschrift in den Einzelansichten oder auf jeder Seite mit den Flaggen rechts oben möglich; wer den Standard-Feed ohne Sprach-Code abonniert hatte und jetzt deutsch statt englisch erhält, muss ihn unter cimddwc.net/feed/?langswitch_lang=en neu abonnieren; dies gilt auch für Tag- oder Kategorie-Feeds.
Am bisherigen deutschen Feed müsst ihr nur was ändern, wenn euer Feedreader keine Weiterleitungen beherrschen sollte – was aber sehr nachlässig von diesem wäre. Update: Kann aber sein, dass die alten Kommentar-Feed-URLs zu einzelnen Beiträgen nicht mehr funktionieren, wenn sie & statt einfach & enthalten, sorry.
Falls euch etwas auffällt, das nicht stimmt, bitte Bescheid sagen…
(Dieser Beitrag ist absichtlich zweisprachig, also nicht darüber wundern.)
- well, it requires a plugin like Redirection to do so with 301 permanent redirects instead of temporary 302 on this server; my local XAMPP test didn’t need it [↩]
- auch wenn es hier seltsamerweise ein Plugin wie Redirection benötigt, damit’s ordentliche permanente 301-Redirects statt temporärer 302 sind; meine lokale XAMPP-Testinstallation schaffte das auch so [↩]
1000 days before today
Let’s see what the knowledge search engine Wolfram Alpha shows when entering “1000 days before today”:
Bad, bad, bad. Because the notable event of that day is ignored: 
The first post in my blog – 1000 days ago.
Thousand
M in Roman digits… k as unit prefix kilo… 3E8 hexadecimal… 1111101000 binary… 千 in Chinese… 1000 in Arabic1 numerals…
And this is the 1000th post in my blog2… Starting with short and mostly banal posts in the first three quarters (beginning September 2006) – with a fan-tas-tic average of 2.5 posts per month –, both content and frequency of posts slowly increased, and on 12 June 2007, drumroll please, the first trackback from another blog arrived at my quick report about the first, miserable “public beta” of Apple’s Safari browser for Windows – 16 minutes after publication, hooray for Google’s speed! –, and slowly the first visitors and commentators (that I didn’t know personally) arrived, and things really started with the Technorati link campaign in August 2007 – let’s face it, who really cares about the Technorati Authority? The visitors (and commentators) coming through such a campaign are what’s really important!
Well, we’ll see the thousands more posts and comments the future will bring…
Photo (orig.): Edward White – Fotolia.com