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my pictures from saturday evening are now part of a story at nowpublic.com.

how does that happen you ask?

this afternoon i got an email from clorenz41 [1] through flickr. he asked if he could use my photos “for a few stories that have been sent in”. the mail included some fancy link which made the whole process work automagically.

so after some clicks my pictures are now part of a story from conneticutkati [2], where she quotes another article on indymedia.ch.

we’ve been skiing this weekend. in the morning, just before we hit the slopes i shot this panorama.

normally i tell a bit about the backstory of my potw’s , but this time i thought i’d make a little competition:

i have two questions concerning the image below. the first person to answers either one of those can choose between a game for the PSP (i’ve got several to chose from), a carte blanche for one post here in this blog or two drinks of his/her choice at the next blogger-meeting. the second and third person who answers correctly has to take what’s left :-)

the nominations for the swiss blog awards 06 are now open and are all the rage !

so go and nominate your favorite blogs in the swiss blogosphere!

oh, and mark the fifth may in your calendars.

**update: **you can see my nominations (for the moment) in the screenshot on the left. and if you want to nominate me, just click here .

technorati tags: blogospherahelvetica , swissbloawards

this friday tinu and urs made a medieval diner in the castle of laupen. i’m in the process of uploading the images to flickr. but i liked the one below, also because it’s a good and funny snapshot of nina. it shows the second picture i shot with the shieldcam™ (the first is here ).

update: the rest of the images can be found here .

technorati tags: nina , ritterdinner

yesterday we’ve been to the zoo in zurich, mostly to see the masaola -hall (which was really impressive).

during our stroll through the zoo we passed at the enclosure of the otters where i snapped an image of this little fellow passing out in his bed (which is what i’m gonna do now).

oh, and i just sent the image over to the guys and gals of the cute overload …

technorati tags: cute , otter , zoo , zuerich

pia hat mir den stock zugeworfen , heute abend komm ich auch noch dazu, mir was dazu zu überlegen:

4 Jobs in meinem Leben:

• IT-Supporter bei der Swisscom
• Regalauffüller beim Coop
• Physiklehrer
• Bademeister

46 Filme die ich immer wieder sehen kann:

• Tokyo Eyes
• Akira
• The Fifth Element
• Big Fish
• Contact
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

4 Orte an denen ich gelebt habe:

through my ego-surfing-feed [1] i found this story in the austinist, a website from austin (i presume :-).

to illustrate the breaking news of a downtown fire, the used a picture of the fire at wolfs birthday party . my pictures at flickr are released under an attribution license , so anybody is free to use them as you please, as long as there is proper attribution added.

not too bad, maybe i should consider starting a career as photographer :-)

getting ready for the fasnacht

im moment mach ich einen zivildienst.

so siehts aus, wenn man material für die kinderfasnacht morgen vorbereitet.

eine aufnahme mit der panoramafunktion meines handys (mit notizen, die auf flickr erscheinen).

yesterday i spent a wonderful day in oberwald . ninas mother spends at least a week per year there, mostly with some friends. she invited nina and me for the weekend, to do some cross-country skiing .

it always amazes me how much snow you can find in oberwald. it makes the ugly slush you find here in bern feel even nastier.

oh, the cross-county skiing was great, thanks for asking. this time we tried with rented equipment, so we could skate, which is even better than doing it the classic way.

the past saturday we wanted to go skiing. when we arrived in adelboden at 20 past 9 in the morning we were informed that the whole ski-region is closed because of the guggifohn (a wind with velocities up to 246 km/h ). we then waited for more informations, but around 10:30 it was evident that the chairlifts and cablecars won’t open for the day.

we then decided to switch to the engstligenalp , but it turned out that the fohn was blowing there, too.