Character History
If you’ve ever been wondering where this tilde character on your keyboard came from or why somebody thought that curly brackets are a must have on computers… check out the Character Histories on Jukka Korpela’s site.
Monthly Archives: February 2004
Let’s not forget Venus
With all the amazing images coming in on a daily basis from Mars now, it is easy to forget that other planet close-by… Venus. The Soviet robotic missions to Venus have never been covered very well in the West, and even nowadays it is hard to get solid information or good pictures from these expeditions. [...]
China Travel Writing
…now in German! If you’ve ever been to the other side of this site, you know that I like to write about China travel. An old friend of mine back in Germany is currently in the process of launching Travelpak, a travel portal site, and I am now writing a series of articles about China [...]
Total Mars
After three weeks I’m now finally able again to take part in normal activities without checking the latest news from Mars every hour… What a thrill! Sometimes it just blows me away in what times we live – there are two robots moving around on Mars, delivering fresh pictures and scientific findings back to Earth [...]
Triplets of Belleville
The Triplets of Belleville is one of those delightful surprises that happens only every now and then – it’s a quirky, crazy and almost unexplainable movie experience so very different than the standard fare that we get fed from old and boring Hollywood. It is an animation movie, but certainly not for kids and it [...]