Wednesday, 26 March 2008

Taiwan does not exist

The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that "China cracks down on illegal online map services to protect state security". China's defiance is just ludicrous. Please regard this as an online service:

Taiwan in Kgeography

(Screenhot taken from Kgeography)

Friday, 25 January 2008

Of consonant and brain atrophy

I recently noticed that I had registered the domain thomas.zumbrunn.name a couple of years ago but never made use of it. Instead of leaving it inactive I could as well arrange for the necessary DNS entries to be done so that I can host a website. And that's what I did just yesterday.

Since the domain name reflects my first and last name, it probably makes sense to put personal stuff here. To start with, I'm going to have a blog which will focus on the struggle against consonant and brain atrophy, which is a more or less literal translation of the German "Kampf gegen Konsonanten- und Hirnerweichung". This doesn't have to make sense to you,

I never really ran a blog, with the temporary exception of "Of daphnids and men". It was a blog that was run by Faltermatt and me while we spent our summers in the South of Finland. The blog was formerly located at blog.botany.ch and mostly unmaintained. I'll try to integrate the old entries into this blog.

Let's see whether I'll manage to regularly bring up something worth reading.