First and foremost, the internet is not dead in Germany, but it has been significantly shot last Thursday, the 18th June 2009. And this could lead to its death. What happened is following:
A politician named Ursula von der Leyen campaigned to install web blocks against child pornography. While the name of that package sounds honourable, if you look behind the proposed system, it is nothing else than a huge internet censorship infrastructure.

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The plugin you can see on the side here is called “mp_list”, short for “Most Popular List”.
I have written the plugin, and am still adjusting it here and there, as I needed it for a work project a display of the, well, most popular pages/posts people click on.
While I’m already using a plugin to count the user visits per day (see Credits), I thought I just harvest the data, which is also displayed in the wordpress dashboard, and make a nice display out of it for the main page.
Once I’ve finished ironing it out, it will be released under the GPLv2 licence

Finally, after a long time of doing nothing with my domains, apart from wasting time and space, I decided to add a page. I coupled this directly with moving the main hosting to a different provider, as I wanted a VPS, as well as got myself some more domains.

So, here you are, looking at the current incarnation of this page.
This will be extended, and content added, with stuff I find, or rant about, or anything.

Enjoy, and hope to see you here again!

AR