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a lot of skiing

well, here i am again, after quite a bunch of skiing a whole week on the hungerberg with the class i mentioned below. it was absolutely amazing, on wednesday we had fresh snowfall and we were able to ski in knee-deep powder (some pics might come soon) a exhausting day with sigi in nendaz/verbier which was amazing and fulfilled with lots of off-pist skiing in an amazingly big ski-resort. and another day on the bettmeralp with my parents, which was really nice, in total a week and a half with the most beautiful weather one can imagine (yes, a day with heavy snowfall is beautiful weather if you’re skiing!) now i come home and the weather is blah like in deep november. i think i’ll go skiing soon :-)

i'm away!

i’m gonna be in oberwald for the whole next week, a teacher-friend of my sister is in charge of a skiweek with her pupils. she an her boyfriend, my sister, her boyfriend, sigi and me are gonna try to tame 21 14-year-old pupils. so expect no update here (maybe a small one here or here), because i’ll be offline (although i take my ibook with me for some funny project). have a nice week and behave!

the green machine

if i ever got kids, they are getting the green machine from huffy bikes to rule their neighbourhood. you have to check out the flash-tour of the green machine, it makes me want to be smaller than i am, so i would be able to ride that beast :-) [via max] the paper-version

that was a hot party!

i was invited to a filmpremiere of a friend (he drove to istanbul and back and made a short movie about his travel) and while chatting at the bar i felt that warm tingly feeling that says: your jumper is burning! look what it looks like, when you stand at the bar and your jumper is too near to some candles…

4 pics

a really annoying and pointless ad-campaign, which is plastered all over here in bern. does anyone know what “gerebelt” means? (cooking at work today…) does anyone know other good moblogging sites besides bild.li (where my moblog is now), phlog or moblg? i’m looking for one where you can upload cheap (e.g email) and style your page as you want. phlog is my main candidate right now. leave a comment if you know a better one!

comments hitparade

well, after arni posted some code1 i tried to implement the comment-hitparade i mentioned earlier: i works nearly like a charm, the only problem is, that my top commenter never left an email-address, so he appears as “empty"2 i really start to get the hang of all these movabletype plugins, a nearly endless resources of things you can do with your blog (i just want to start to use that blogtimes-thing. (b., this is a hint!)

the sound of silence

boingboing points out a really weird fact: at itunes’ music-store (how do you write that frigging thing? i’ll just stick to ITMS!) you can get songs which consist of nothing than silence. how funny is that: buy silence for 99 cents a pop and buy it with some proper DRM-scheme! so, if you live in the us of a, you can get 6 minutes and 45 seconds (the full playlist at appleturns) of silence for just $8.91. this is really cheap, go and get it, while it’s fresh!

new feature on this blog

if you look in the sidebar then you see a new feature: “last comments”. i borrowed a code-snippet from stuart mutie, adapted it a tiny bit and now you can see the last comments that were posted here on the site. this is my snippet of code, use it and abuse it! <$MTComments lastn="5"$ sort_order="descend"> [<$MTCommentAuthorLink spam_protect="1"$>: <MTCommentBody trim_to="45" remove_html="1" convert_breaks="0"> <a href="<$MTBlogArchiveURL$> <$MTCommentEntryID pad="1"$>.html" title="read the whole buzz">>> </a>]<br /> </MTComments> and i got another one in the working, a hit-parade of most active commenters, coming soon….

nice hint

if you want to be truly impressed by the power of OS X’ graphic capabilities, then you should try out that hint on osxhints, it’s well funny!

new headphones

today my cheapo headphone was killed in an accident (it fell out my bag while i was on the bike and the cord was ripped off, no big deal, it only costed 9.90 a year ago.) so i thought it’s about time to get a real headphone: i went to eschenmoser (my favourite discounter here in bern) and after trying out all the headphone they had on diplay there (ok, i did not really think about getting a headphone for 590 swiss francs) i bought the koss portapro (pictured left) for 99 CHF. This sounds quite expensive, but i have to say it was the best headphone i listened to, the quality in the shop was really impressive. the moment i came out of the shop i started to realize that i bought the real thing . when i plugged the koss into my ipod i knew i was missing something since the moment i bought those cheap headphones i used since a year or so. the sound-quality is at least ten times better :-)