Trees and water
Milky Conservatory
Milk processing factory chimney from Luxembourg’s conservatory.
New TLDs and new wordlists
There was no news for a while, that doesn’t mean nothing happened.
As you may have seen, there are a few new top level domains and word lists which have been added during the last year:
TLDs:
- .mobi
- .us
Wordlists:
- 4 characters domain names,
- oxymoron,
- and searched keywords
Also, membership is also possible where it is possible to add domain names into a watch list which is not subject to caching delays during update. Other features will come in the future. In addition, the users that registered before 2008-09-01 and never logged in have been removed, those are in most cases linked to incorrect e-mail addresses and never received their password.
An interesting detail regarding email addresses… about 34% of users never logged in (out of which 70% generated an email bounce: unknown email address, inexistent domain or mailbox full).
Have fun!
Festival Arbres et Lumières
Black Forest
Cycling maps
The bicycle friendly map of Luxembourg and around has been updated.
More information is available on this page.
Google Maps version (beta).
Photos taken in November 2007
Below are the chosen ones:
Internet in Kazakhstan
I found a topic onars technica about The Internet in Kazakhstan, so I looked at it…
Here in Luxembourg, I spend about $150 monthly for one of my broadband flat rate Internet access, which is about 2% of my gross income.
In Kazakhstan, unlimited Internet access is far from being affordable, especially with an average monthly salary of $400. For example, a flat rate 2 Mbit/s ADSL price is over $4500, per month, and does include neither the 14% tax, the activation fee nor the modem. The alternative solution, using cable, provides a 10 Mbit/s access that is about a thousand times higher than in Western Europe: over $35,000. Of course taxes, activation and modem are excluded.
A report from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe explains more about Internet governance in Kazakhstan (seek to page 119).
Photos taken in October 2007
Hej!
Only 15 photos out of 207 have been chosen for publication:
Hold the mouse on a picture to know a little more about a photography. Some of them have been dynamically rendered.
By the way, thank you for all the season greetings I received! I’m still behind and need to reply – and I will reply to everyone. So happy new year: wish you will always find a pair of socks instead of single ones 😛