According to a report on Spiegel ONLINE, scientists have now proved that not only has the ozone layer been recovering in the northern hemisphere, but also that its recovery is due to the banning of CFC and other substances in the late 1980′s. They also predict that the ozone layer will have fully recoverd by the end of the century.

Here’s an online translation of the German article.

WARNING! The latest version 2.1 of Lightbox Plus, the popular WordPress image viewing plugin, does not work satisfactorily with WordPress 3.0!

After just updating from v1.6.something to v2.1, I could neither access my website nor the WordPress admin area. I always got an error message relating to a certain PHP file in the plugin’s installation folder. So I manually migrated back to v2.0 (which has no reported failures according to the plugin’s website), now everything runs as it should again.

Here’s the plugin’s website: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lightbox-plus/

After the domain deusex3.com had been online for several years now, showing only a video that didn’t seem to have to do anything with the earlier games, there finally seems to be some process going on. The website now features an all-new trailer which shows how the final game might actually look like, as well as several links, one of which leads to the Eidos Montréal Twitter feed.

The website’s title says “Deux Ex: Coming Soon”. I wonder how soon “soon” is, as everyone’s been waiting for the game for years – even longer than we’ve been waiting for Splinter Cell: Conviction (which will finally be available on April 16, but only for Xbox …)

Also, the trailer looks magnificent – so magnificent in fact that I doubt I will be able to play the final game on my old Athlon XP + Radeon HD 3650 – same as with Splinter Cell: Conviction, I might add (if it’s ever going to be releasen in a PC version, anyway …)

FYI: Deus Ex 3 is the third incarnation of my all-time favourite video game, Deus Ex, developed back in 2000 by Eidos and Ion Storm. The original game combined role-playing, adventure and first-person action with a marvelous sci-fi world-conspiracy story – really one of the best games ever. I’m still playing it.

German news portal tagesschau.de are being smart and try to convince us the IPv4 system was exhausted – so the internet had to be shut down for the day in order to upgrade ICANN’s servers to IPv6. I see …

If there ever was an April fool’s joke as transparent as this …

Oh, and you can find an English translation here.