Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the General category.
2006
Filed in General, January 11, 2007, 4:11 pm“True glory consists of doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read”. -Pliny the Elder
My life is anything but glorious, but I’ll write about it anyway.
2006 for me began in Berlin, Germany and ended in New York City, New York, USA. All in all I think it was a pretty [...]
3:42:03
Filed in General, October 18, 2006, 1:13 pm42.195 km or 26.22 miles is the distance that the IAAF set as the standard distance for a marathon in 1921. The term “marathon” comes from the decisive Battle of Marathon where the Athenian hoplites numbering around 4,000 miraculously defeated an invading Persian army of between 20,000 and 60,000 infantry and cavalry. [...]
Informatikjahr
Filed in General, Germany, January 26, 2006, 9:31 amOb Gesundheit, Mobilität, Sicherheit, Sport, Wohnen, Kommunikation oder Kultur – Informatik findet in allen Bereichen unseres Lebens Anwendung. Sie prägt unseren Alltag mehr als uns bewusst ist. Ziel des Informatikjahres ist es, das Bewusstsein für die zahlreichen Anwendungen und Möglichkeiten der Informatik zu schärfen, die Bedeutung der Informatik als Faktor für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung Deutschlands [...]
