LHC started yesterday

Yesterday the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) , world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, started at CERN in Switzerland. It intends to collide opposing beams of protons for research about the birth of the universe and is mankind's biggest cooperative research project with an estimated cost of 4 billion Euro (5.5 billion US Dollar).
Many people are fearing the risk to create a blackhole during the tests which would destroy the planet but we'll see what happens ;)


If you like some further information about it I recommend the Wikipedia article otherwise you can enjoy some pictures.


high resolution picture


landscape showing a part of the CERN area.

Apple - 'Let's Rock' event

Yesterday Apple showed its latest products on their "Let's Rock" event.
If you like you can now download yesterday's Apple event via their Keynote podcast feed.

Now you can watch Steve say, "BOOM!" without streaming interruptions. Be aware that this video is over 700 MB in size.

So what did they show?
They introduced new versions of the iPod touch, the nano and iTunes. Latter has reached now the version number 8 and features a music recommendation service whereas the iPod were slightly redesigned and got some minor updates like a speaker for the iPod touch and the return of the old form factor for the iPod nano.

WELCOME 2007

I hope everybody had a nice start into the new year :)
Within the next weeks, I will work on interesting new programming stuff. As for now its too early to present details but if you come along every now and then you will see them :)