http://www.hesspoint.com

I just came across a neat service that falls under the category "visitor-maps". As you might have noticed, I already use a service called Blogflux MapStats, which uses Google Maps to display the origin of my visitors. ClustrMaps shows your visitors on a map as clusters of varying size and lets. As an aside: It seems to be quite a hype these days to omit the "e" in names, like in Flickr and now in Clustr.

The service is free for sites with less then 1000 visitors daily otherwise it costs $ 9.99 a year or $ 0.99 per month.

Woot! I am finally done!!! I handed in my Diploma-Thesis a few minutes ago. The last couple of days were just insane. 12-14h a day working on that thesis. That was the reason why I didn’t blog for the last couple of weeks. But now it is over and I will be blogging regulary again. Also expect some upgrades to my site, I meant to do for a long time. But now I gotta get some sleep since last night was only 3h long

The Chinese know how to celebrate newyears. Check out how they set the Taipei 101 on fire with a spectacular fireworks! Here is the complete video. More photos are here.

These days Google launches cool new projects almost on a daily basis. Their newest baby is Google Pack, a bundle of some very useful Google tools, mixed with some third party software. Certainly cool is a free version of Norton AntiVirus that comes with a free subscription for 6 month. You can customize which tools should be in your pack and then download it all together. Since I use all of these tools already, I haven’t tried it myself yet, but as I know the guys from Google it will certainly work like a charm. By default, the following apps are included:

• Google Earth
• Google Desktop
• Google Toolbar für den Internet Explorer
• Picasa
• Google Pack Screensaver
• Mozilla Firefox mit Google Toolbar
• Norton AntiVirus 2005 Special Edition
• Adobe Reader 7
• Ad-Aware SE Personal

Optionally you can also include:

• Google Talk
• RealPlayer
• Trillian
• GalleryPlayer HD Images

To learn more check the About-Page.

I hope you all had a good newyears party with lots of fun. At least my fun this christmas und newyears was pretty much limited to work These days the deadline of my thesis is drawing near which leaves me little time for anything else. No blogging, so geocaching, no movies, no reading (except textbooks), no anything. But fortunately I am done soon and then I have quite some time to kill before my Chinese courses start. However, as far a I know myself, I will end up working again and taking care of some projects I always wanted to do. Like getting my Linkstation set up with Linux, learn Flash, redesign this blog, get my photo collection in order an put most of it online at Flickr, hinding some more caches and so on and so on.
But for now this is it for blogging this month. But stay tuned, ’cause from Feb. on I will continue on a regular basis.
So long…