Every adult these days has heard of atoms and maybe even protons and electrons. It's actually simple, protons (and neutrons) form the core of an atom and electrons float around this core on their orbits – or shells, if you want to be precise. So, there must be some space between the core and the electrons, which consists of – nothing. While this is hard for me to imagine, at least I'm not the only one having problems imagining this; on this website, someone has scaled a hydrogen-atom so that the electron has the size of 1 pixel, which makes the proton as big as 1000 pixels in diameter. But wait, here comes the impressive part: That means the radius of the scaled atom becomes 50 million pixels, that is 12.8 km on a 100ppi-screen!.

Since I succeeded in building Apache 2 on my Mac, I decided it's time to finally install the GD Perl Module to generate nice images using Perl. I downloaded the source, configured it as usual with $ perl ./Makefile.PL, ran the test with $ make test as documented everywhere and got the following errors, which turned out you can easily ignore...

I've spent some time on Google Video, looking for some funny videos. And I discovered some good ones, especially from provider JezUK1, like this one which suits the exam-season =).

The Widgetschmie.de, Sebastian and me, has just released a third Beta (and the first RC) of our Übertragen widget. It includes many improvements for Bonjour-transfers, including the possibility to reject transmissions and a better "files received" dialog.

When a friend of mine upgraded to Ubuntu 6.06 and along with that (unwillingly) to Apache 2.2.x, I decided to compile the latest Apache-version from source on my PowerBook G4 running the Tiger. Read the article for full instruction including compiling PHP 5 from source and creating a launchd-item to start the new Apache on boot.

So this is it. I finally put up my own blog - running on my own blogscript. So

welcome!

It is still _very_ basic, but it works okay so far and given the imminent exams I should not invest too much time in this blog, be it the script or the contents...