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today i went to donate blood. when i arrived at the place there was a big brouhaha . after some time i found out that today was the “first worldwide donate blood day” and that swiss federal councilor pascal couchepin donated blood in the same place as i did (actually on the bed opposite mine :-) i guess i should have moblogged it, because i’d have surely been faster than the swiss red cross with their media bulletin (linked above).

oh, and if you want to see all the other pictures i made at the frisbee-tournament this friday, then they’re online in the pictures-section .

do you own a windows xp machine and want to be able to look at the same nice desktop as i do all the time? do you have a winXP-machine at work, but miss you nice os x box at home? then you only have to take the steps described here and you feel at home instantly. but be aware there is still windows running under the nice looking shell, so you might need to reboot from time to time :-)

hamme made a smart comment on a recent an old post on nicks blog which made me think about the “why do i blog”. is it to show you all my new pretty things or is it to tell you all what i think about the world? i think the whole thing started really slow for me. it was not a decision, like: “yes, from today on i want to blog”. my first experience in blogging (although back then nobody called it that way, it was more like a diary) was influenced by shannon the brain behind BME , which was one of the places where i spent many evenings. sometimes late on one of these evenings i discovered, that shannon made some kind of place for body-modification-adepts to gather and to exchange. withouth thinking much i logged in to IAM, registered my username (at the moment i’m the user number 98 of more than 14400) and was caught from the first moment on.

if both posts below are not your thing, then you have to read today’s calvin & hobbes .

urs gehrig reports that one of the mobile phone providers here in switzerland starts with an 5 bucks “all you can download"1 GPRS-plan. i’ve been looking forward for something like this for a long time (because everywhere else on the world there are a lot of flatrate GPRS-plans (just look at phil torrones moblog for instance, he uses it massively). let’s hope that this step starts the competition between the three mobile providers here in switzerland: sunrise (my provider) and orange and swisscom , i’d love to fill my moblog with unnecessary crap the whole day long!

oh, and if you don’t want to go and watch troy (which is what we haven’t done on friday evening) then you should better go and see coffee and cigarettes , i presume that it must be much better than any sandal movie ever made (and has no goof as opposed to the at least 27 goofs in troy). i went to see it yesterday evening with bruni and must say that it - although the movie has no real plot - i was really charmed by the movie. it consists of multiple short stories, which are connected only by the fact that the protagonists talk over some coffee and cigarettes, but if you think twice (or three times) then you see the stronger connection between each and every story. (and just the story with GZA and RZA and bill murray is hilarious and worth the whole entry fee)

my picture of the week is coming soon, for the moment here are the pictures of the past year. a lot of them are burnt into my retina, i remember quite vividly having seen most of them once in a while. is that because gettyimages is the provider of most of the pictures of the weltwoche or because gettyimages is one of the biggest provider of images per se?

if you want to see all the 2003-defining images you have to have the flash player 6 and need to click right here: defining the moment…

it’s been raining so much the last days here in bern, that the pope can be happy he’ll stay so high up here (actually in piece’s neighborhood ). i’m quite happy i didn’t need to bike today, because the nether regions of bern were not bikeable today and because i’m ill again. so i’m not gonna stay up any longer, but go to bed and stay there as long as possible tomorrow. nightynight!

simu wants to ride the alpenbrevet , so he talked some of us into that little tour. so, yesterday morning, ismu, michel, urs, simu and me started sometimes after nine o’clock in kehrsatz. somewhere down in the simmental we met pascu from the velokurier biel who drove up to the jaunpass with us. from there we went over the mittelberg. (if you dare, here are two movies from the mittelberg-descent) where soon after ismu and pascu went back home and michel, simu, urs and me attacked the col des mosses (i could hardly attack anymore :-). the last descent from the col des mosses to aigle was the most rewarding of the whole trip. 17 km downhill. then we arrived in aigle, where we went to visit the cmc and then waited that the patron came to open the hotel (guess which one) just for us. after a really big diner (and i mean BIG) we all went to bed and slept like babies :-) on the second day we started with the col de la croix (the steepest and longest one on our journey) and then went over the col du pillon. then we managed to get until gstaad where we had to make a break because we were all freezing our asses off (i tell you, driving down to passes with a racing-bike in heavy rain is no fun..) after a good meal we took the last part of our journey under our wheels. with one little break to fill our bottles (just shortly before i fell off my bike) we drove back to bern where we arrived with a big smile on our faces (and an overall average speed of 27.7 km per hours (hence hammes comment ), which is way better than i thought we’d have). if you’d like to see some pictures, they are online in the pictures-section . and now i should go to bed, because i’m working the whole day tomorrow, which is definitely gonna be hard!