| When I started this site a few years ago, it primarily served as a personal link list, with static html pages. After a while, I converted it to Postnuke, a content management system. At about the same time, the notebook had somewhat evolved into a small repository of astronomy things related to me. As I started to give astronomy talks, I placed the presentations on this site, too. Other content, too made it on the site. After a while, I was surprised that more and more people visited my small repository (of course, not a "real lot", but around 200 per day and around 600 on very good days).
That, in 2007, was the time when I thought "hey, the resources seem to be useful - why not make them available to a larger crowd?". I found no convincing fact to refrain from that activity and so I began to write articles in English. This is where we are now. If you read this in mid-2007, you'll find only very limited content in English. However, there is lots of German. The reason is the way things have evolved. While Postnuke supports multiple languages, I never thought there would be more than German. Unfortunately, I never made any effort to use the multi-language features. I did this only after I started to create English content. I am now in the process of getting the user-interface fully English-only (if set to English). I have, however, decided NOT to change all existing articles. In theory, I would just need to switch the language definition from "all" to "German only". In practice, however, this is a quite laborious task. I have decided it is better to create new English content, which will make the German content scroll away ;)
So please bear with me and do not wonder too much, what these exotic words are ;)
Rainer | |