WordPress is nice, but it has several disadvantages from security issues to server load to mono culture.

To the start of 2025 carneval season I found a way to start laughing about WordPress - I switched to the free SSG solution Hugo, using the Zen theme.

Thanks community!

In 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic made in-person SciFi conventions impossible, including Germany’s big FedCon convention, which is organized by FedCon GmbH.

To generate some revenue beyond the sparse public support they took another look at what they have and – with the help of some crowdfunding – they created a DVD box “FedCon I – X Video Anthology“, providing 8 discs with some 24 hours of material, all converted from VHS tapes and the like.

Since my first trip to London (July 6 to 16 2005, tough time) I had been organizing my UK vacations around events like Queen concerts, NFL games, Destination Star Trek conventions and the like that took place in London, Birmingham, Manchester. Therefore I never saw anything north of the midlands.

This year there is no major event for me, so it was time to visit new places on this green island.

This is a collection of thoughts and observations from DST3, the 3rd Destination Star Trek convention, held at ExCel center in London’s Docklands from 3rd – 5th October of 2014.

With the most recent update of Debian squeeze’s kernel I finally made it into the changelog*, as this excerpt shows: