Getting bored of the old “Autumn-Fall”
RapidWeaver theme, and further getting told by my
friends over and over again, that it looked like grandma’s
paperwall, I finally invested some time searching for new a theme
for my site.

Not easy to find themes for free, and those which are usually
destroy some of my blog formattings, or do have other
difficulties.
Well, as you can see I finally ended up with an already shipped
default-theme “Medieval”, which I pimped a little bit to get some
more space in the blog section, and further the heading color is
changed.
Since I’m not yet completely happy with the result, as I’m missing
this piece of art here:

it’s likely possible that I’ll tuned it a bit more within the next
days.
Stay tuned.Kobaan.

A friend of mine (Hi Marcus) gave me
the valuable hint to not use auto-magically hashed blog URLs
created by my blogging software, but instead use customized
perma-links, the help search engines like google, to better index
and categorize my blog-entries.The times where search engines were driven by keywords in the page
headers are all over, meanwhile it’s most
important to have meaningful keywords in your page-title and/or
your page-URL. Unfortunately Rapidweaver‘s
blogging module does not yet support per blog entry page titles, at
least I didn’t find out yet if it should work already.

Thanks to Marcus.
If you want to check it out, he has a great site about the Dominikanische Republik and
its small town El Limon. And there’s lots of delicious recipes
there.

MacWorld San Francisco 2007 Keynote
was great as expected, although much of the long time awaited
smaller things didn’t show up yet.

Only a few hours left until MacWorld
2007 Keynote in San Francisco.
check the live event coverage here:
http://www.macrumorslive.comHere’s a list of the expected announcements:

Category: Devices

– iPhone like iPod nano + touchscreen wheel
– iPhone Pro like iPod Video with Blackberry like features
– iPod nano with doubled capacity
– iTV as previously announced, a settop-box to beam iTunes and
maybe more to your TV

Category: Computers

– MacMini with Core2Duo processors and a bundled version with
keyboard/mouse + 17″ Cinema Display
– MacPro with improved memory and maybe dual-quad cores ?
– reveal 600Mbps Airport Extreme already working inside a few
devices ?

Category: Online Services

– .Mac Account with increased storage capacity up to 50GB for iDisk
and TimeMachine usage
– Own domain names and eMail addresses

Category: Software

iLife 07 Package:
– iPhoto + Google maps integration and GPS tagging features
– iWeb faster updates/websyncs + .Mac statistics plugin

iWork 07 Package:
– Pages improved
– Keynote improved
– standalone Spreadsheet added

Leopard Mac OS 10.5:
– release end of january 2007
– faster user interface
– new sreensavers
– TimeMachine (backup and archiving)
– CoreAnimation (GUI library)
– Spaces (workplace switcher)
– iChat with screencasting, video feature and videoeffects
– Dashboard onTheFly (iFly?) Widgets / easy and completely new
DashCode
– Spotlight with network functions
– Finder instant previewing
– 64bit support for the entire system
– ZFS filesystem, but not as system filesystem
– Mail pretty messages using templates
– iCal CalDAV share/publish calendars via Internet
– VoiceOver fluent, new better voice including japanese and chinese
language support
– Quicktime subtitle support

…lets hope that at least some of this widely rumored stuff will
become true…

Happy New Year to all of you !!!

Best wishes for 2007 ! And may the force be with you.

Kobaan.

The annual
Chaos Communication Congress, will be held 27th to 30th december in
Berlin.

This year there will something very special, since internet live
streaming of events reached its limits last year, the Chaos
Computer Club folks managed to get a license for broadcasting
events in DVB-T. And they broadcast their selfmade DVB stream by
themselves with a selfmade
DVB-T transmitter, and all this for less than 1000 Euros.

Finally Jules Verne’s idea of shooting
a man to the moon will become reality, almost.

The US AirForce is building a 2.4km long magnetic accelerator,
which shall be used to shoot up to 100kg of “baggage” into the
orbit, thus saving the cost of the expensive supportflights with
traditional rockets. Although it will not be possible to transport
human beings or any other lifeform with this “vehicle” into space,
it might work fine for already dead meat or miniature
satellites.The principle of the “cannon” is quite familiar to the particle accellerator at
CERN, which just finished installing all the superconductor
magnets of its 25km ring.

I can already see the headline: Chinese spy satellite seriously hit
by frozen french fries….