Photo's of the diving trip

Monday : 15 Jun '09 - 09:01 | damen default No comments yet |

As promised some early photo's of our diving trip to St. Johns. All dive profiles etc. can be found in the dive log.

Info on Wikipedia

Info on Wikipedia

Info on Wikipedia

Shark attack

Friday : 12 Jun '09 - 15:35 | damen default No comments yet |

Just read .this article (Shark kills tourist on Egyptian diving holiday) and think what you want. We were at the same spot about 5 days afterwards and I've probably been diving with the same shark. They showed no sign of agression, so we all guess that the woman tried to get it's attention by presenting food or making spash sounds on the water.

note: This article is much better: http://www.sharktrust.org/content.asp?did=32912

Dive safari

Wednesday : 03 Jun '09 - 20:29 | damen default No comments yet |

All packed and ready to go, we're on our way for a one week diving safari on the My Independence II.

We will be visiting the Rocky island and some other places, just take a look at the following video to get the feeling

Photos and dive profiles will follow in a good week!

Grappig op Maandagochtend

Monday : 18 May '09 - 10:36 | damen default No comments yet |

Install crappy bluetooth dongle

Thursday : 07 May '09 - 10:15 | damen default No comments yet |

This week I got myself one of those mini-USB Bluetooth dongles to get my phone synchronized and was fighting with it. Somehow windows XP did not regocnize it himself and the software they gave me with it was really crap. Only a full software suit would install the driver, no normal seperate driver was available :(

So I did some googling and found this cool manual called "Making crappy USB Bluetooth dongles work with the native Windows XP stack". This is some cool driver hacking

And voila, now it works!

Spring in our new Home

Monday : 20 Apr '09 - 16:47 | damen default No comments yet |

I'll let the photo's do the talking, but you'll see why we're very happy with our new home, especially in the summer season:

Cool utility from sysinternals

Tuesday : 07 Apr '09 - 10:03 | damen default No comments yet |

I've got this very small utility ZoomIt from the Sysinternals website and it is really good when presenting WebUI on a projector and you want to show a specific selection of the screen.

Windows 7

Monday : 30 Mar '09 - 18:52 | damen default No comments yet |

Trying out the latest build, hope is it stable enough :)

Just without reason

Monday : 30 Mar '09 - 16:30 | damen default No comments yet |

Pappardelle with Thyme

Sunday : 29 Mar '09 - 13:57 | damen Cooking No comments yet |

Just a quick reminder that this great recipe is here:

http://www.globalcode.net/2008/08/pappardelle-mit-wurstbrat-und-gemischten-pilzen/

Never trust robots

Sunday : 29 Mar '09 - 09:11 | damen default No comments yet |

Just got this link on twitter, great video showing why we can never trust Robots.

Coffee

Thursday : 26 Mar '09 - 18:14 | damen default No comments yet |

During my two days of Skiing at the Arber I visited the town of Zwiesel, actually to get money from the bank, and found this nice little store:

The owner gets his raw coffee beans from all over the world and knows a lot about the dark elixer. He then roasts them himself, so I immediately got a package of freshly roasted Kenia beans ... mjammie

Skiing

Thursday : 26 Mar '09 - 17:52 | damen default No comments yet |

On Monday and Tuesday I took two days for skiing and had a lot of fun. Even though the weather wasn't that good the snow was great.
I took 4 hours of of a private instructor and learned a lot, even so that on Tuesday we did some 'Tiefschnee' skiing.

Walk through Fürth

Wednesday : 25 Mar '09 - 16:12 | damen default No comments yet |

Last week I had some time due to some left over vacation days I still had from last year and used some time to walk through Fürth. As you can see blow it is not bad at all

Taubenabwehr

Tuesday : 24 Mar '09 - 21:00 | damen default No comments yet |

Last week we were sitting in our favorite Cafe in Nuremberg enjoying what felt like the first sun this year and were surprised by a big car driving up the square with a big sign "Taubenabwehr" which means something like pigeons busters...

Out of it came five men who started setting up machinery and stuff:

Then they went up and added some metal wires to the roofs, but somehow the pigeons weren't too scared:

Bin dann mal weg...

Sunday : 22 Mar '09 - 14:30 | damen default No comments yet |

On my way to the Bavarian Forest for two days skiing (yeah ok, taking a course) and staying in a nice hotel with some wellness..

Mix2009

Thursday : 19 Mar '09 - 21:00 | damen default No comments yet |

Very nice, just entered something in twitter and immediately I see myself on the mix 2009 website, where they add all the tweets that contain the keyword #mix09:

Spring is coming

Monday : 16 Mar '09 - 12:46 | damen default No comments yet |

I just discovered the first spring flowers in our garden, it was about time.

Immediately started feeling happy again :) Spring is a wonderful thing

Great Video

Sunday : 15 Mar '09 - 22:16 | damen default No comments yet |

Check this video out, it is a great use of language and the medium:

'Kurzarbeit"

Saturday : 14 Mar '09 - 08:56 | damen default No comments yet |

Now it is also coming to Siemens, but somehow the Dilbert comic of today made me nervous: