Monday, February 20, 2006

Gallery News

Finally, I got my latest photo project done. It is a collection of pictures that I made in January: the tour starts in Hollywood, continues on the road by driving to the Grand Canyon National Park, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Los Angles Harbor, Sequoia National Park...
The Public Gallery can be visited by everybody, whereas the Private Gallery can only be accessed with the required password. Enjoy!

Note: All pictures are copyrighted

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Blog Statistics

I think it is very interesting to see if anybody at all is actually visiting my blog. But it is even more interesting to see that my blog is seen all over the world (see statistics on the left). It's not really my intention to get world wide attention since my blog is more for family and friends, but is is nice to see that information gets spread so far. At the same time it makes me think that I should be much more careful in what I am writing and how much I am writing... It is scary to realize how easily information gets spread...

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Beach Volleyball - Santa Monica

The weather forecast for the weekend was very promising, so we finally made it to the beach on Saturday. A great group of people came together to "battle" in and with the sand. Everybody had lots of fun, fresh air and great workout.

Gallery

Monday, February 13, 2006

Blog vs. Website

People ask: What is a blog? What is the difference to a website? Here are some thoughts and facts that I found and that aren't a secret:

A blog is a weblog where content gets updated on a regular basis. It displays in reverse chronological order. To avoid confusion with server log, weblog was named blog. A blog is in fact one page with monthly archiving. It needs to be updated with new content periodically; otherwise, people will lose interest in it.

Wikipedia definition
Definition of blog on the web
Tutorials by Jennifer [ A very interesting blog that defines blog and explains from scratch how to create your own blog ]

Whereas, a website is a collection of web pages. The first page of a website is called home page. A website has a defined domain name (address) on the world wide web. Websites basically aren't updated as often as blogs, they stand more for longer lasting information - certainly depending on their actual purpose.

Wikipedia definition
Definition of website on the web

I don't want to write more about what has already been written. Thus, if you are interested in more details, please feel free to visit one of the suggested links above, or type-in "blog" or "website" in Google search!

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Germany Covered In White

Yesterday I just heard about the great deal of snow in Germany. Today I got photographs sent from all sides. It is amazing what's going on there right now. They have even called the state of emergency in some areas due to very strong snow falls. Everybody is active to fight the huge amount of "white" which blocks streets, threatens housetops to break and which already predicts incoming floods the moment the temperatures will rise.

Picture above: My brother's car is the one on the right! Can you see it?

Official Photographs [ BR-Online/Feb 11 ]