For those of you wondering about the lack of updates recently: I'm neither sick nor dead nor anything like that. I'm just doing so much stuff simultaneously right now that I have to set prorities and concentrate on the really urgent things. I know the worst thing you can do to your blog is not update it, but I will mend my ways, I promise.
Also, I don't know if you've noticed, but it's only two more days until xmas (at least here in Germany). So this year, I'm going to see my aunt and uncle's for a few days. I'm not going to be back until January 1st, so don't expect any updates until then. When I return though, I'll post a couple of new things including an all new exciting article. Stay tuned.
Until then, I wish you happy holidays and a prosperous new year.

And in other news: ever since I went live with this blog, I've been monitoring google to see which pages it has in its index. Initially it had only indexed my old "under construction" page. Then one day it looked like had updated the index and it now linked to my front page instead. When I checked again a few days later, it suddenly had reverted to my old "under construction" page (which wasn't even online anymore). The other day, I gave it another try and it had actually updated the index and now had a link to my RSS-Feed and to the "under construction" page (No, I'm not kidding. See for yourself). If there's a pattern behind this, I don't understand it.
On the other hand, if you do a search for my name on Yahoo it brings up this page as the 7th result and has done so, ever since I went live.
Although I've spent a considerable amount of time optimizing this blog to appeal to search engines, it looks like I still have plenty of work to do.