Some of you may have noticed the new page in the menu on the left. For those who didn’t notice anything, I’ve now added the photo album functionality. I’ve finally finished the programming and all that is left now is to transfer all the photos from the old website over to this new album… and to fill it up with new photos, of course.

I’ve recently noticed that Twitter is starting to become the next big thing. Articles about it have started popping up in online magazines, newspapers, and even good folks like actor/writer/comedian Wil Wheaton has started blogging about how good it is.I registered on that site well over a year ago, so at least I found out about it before all the hype started. I don’t use it as much as other folks do, but I can clearly see the novelty of it all. And this is my main problem with twitter (though it might have something to do with me getting too old not being as young and hip as I used to). For me it’s nothing but a novelty. I’m not saying it’s a bad […] Read more

… other men can make real.My favourite quote from French author Jules Verne. This quote is very fitting today as the European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) named after the previously mention author completes its docking procedures with the International Space Station. This is of course a big leap for ESA, but an even bigger one for space travel in general since this ATV is fully automated and docked with the station completely on its own (not like previous freight vehicles like the Russian Progress which still needs human interaction to perform the docking). This opens up new possibilities for space travel and hopefully enables us regular people to go to space in the not so far future.