picture of the week
the grass is always greener on the other side: the picture below was taken at the first swiss university ultimate-frisbee tournament in bern this friday. teams from geneva, neuchatel, zurich, basel and two teams from bern had a fun day playing ultimate here in bern. oh, and by the way, this is the winner-team, bern I. top row: me, beni, manu with my cap, tom and thomas bottom row: lorru, michu, stefan and jochen
turn your pc into an os x machine
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 :-)
why i blog
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.
for all non-geeks
if both posts below are not your thing, then you have to read today’s calvin & hobbes.
new apple gadget
i seem to be chewing up posts from other blogs tonight, but this is just too cool. leo links to the newest hit by apple, the smallest sibling of all airport basestations, the airport express which includes a nice little must-have feature: airtunes. connect the airport express to any outlet in the reach of your wifi-connection. plug in your stereo (or any set of powered speakers, which is really cool) and you can listen easily to all your tunes in any room where your wifi connection goes. or if you want to be the cool dj on your friends next party take your apple computer equipped with an airport card and your airport express, connect to his stereo and rock on!
moblog frenzy!
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!
coffee and cigarettes
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)
picture(s) of the week
since the swiss farmers lately informed me on the radio that the swiss strawberries are here and that they’re sweet and gorgeous and stuff like that i could hardly resist to buy some on friday. but the farmers must have some really strange fertilizers, because one of the strawberries was huuuuuge! see for yourself: ps1: the first picture doesn’t do her justice, nina is much much prettier IRL! ps2: just for the record: if you want to be informed about the prices for slaughter cattle every friday afternoon, you can get a free sms-newsletter from the swiss farmers (sorry, only availiable in switzerland).
pictures of the year
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…
waterworld II
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!