Karlsruhe rules

A week of work, and the world already turns out to be entirely a village: Dan Mosedale, lead developer on the Lightning Project (= Mozilla Calendar as a Thunderbird extension) spent a year at the University of Karlsruhe studying Informatik (computer science) in the early 1990s.

About a decade later, I started studying there, and I still am.

Looks like — to use the words of one of my favorite professors in Germany — Karlsruhe rules

October 11th, 2006

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Google Maps Updated

This was blogged at least a million times today and it was dugg, too. Google updated their photos in Google Maps and Earth all over the world.

This includes high-res pictures of many metropolitan areas. But it was a real pleasure to see that my university city in Germany now comes with the highest possible resolution Google maps has.

Look at the whole downtown area or at an overview of the university campus. That’s amazing!

The pictures, by the way, seem to be from early 2005 judging from the fact that the new 24-hour library which was opened a few months ago is still heavily being built on in the picture.

Downtown Karlsruhe on Google Maps