For those you who couldn’t attend Kai’s session at EclipseCon here is the link to the slides including the speaker’s voice hosted at Parleys. It’s ~45 minutes but you get a lot great stuff for your time.

This weekend we celebrated the 150th anniversary of Miss Baba in Niederroßla. Niederroßla is a small village near the town where I live and I’m half-rooted in Niederroßla too. Miss Baba is an Indian elephant that died in 1857 right behind the borders of Niederroßla in a tragedy which became part of the history of Niederroßla (since then also known as “Tickle-Village” where the “Tickling-People” live).

The event is celebrated only every 25 years. I had an awesome and unforgettable weekend. The attraction this time clearly were two living elephants. Read the rest of this entry »

Nothing fancy but I’ve recompiled the Planet Eclipse viewer using the brand new GWT 1.4RC0 release. Bringing up the About dialog now makes the background foggy and there’s now a counter for subscriptions. The new version has been published to Planet Eclipse Beta.