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New Reel

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:45:00 +0200

I just received my new reel from www.twodeepdive.com. During our advanced rec. nitrox course we used the same reel and were very satisfied with it.
It is a very simple device, but that makes it exactly right, it can be handled with thick gloves and is easy to maintain:

Time to blog again

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +0200

It has been a long time since the last blog entry and in that time a lot has changed.
Personally we enjoy the life with our daughter Charlotte, who has changed our lives completely. I have experienced the joy of her first smile and the terror of sleepless nights, but after we got used to it we really enjoy being a small family

Professionally I have also switched jobs and are now responsible for a team of 20 technical experts for data migration within the environment of PLM (product lifecycle management) software. This was also a big change and I keep on learning stuff everyday.

Unfortunately this meant that there was not much time for diving the last half year, but last weekend we managed to get away to Austria for a long weekend and had our CMAS * Examinations with 9 students. The weather was great with over 30 degrees, but due to heavy rain the sight was horrible. As usual, details of the dives can be found in the diving log.

Are people moving from blogs to twitter

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:34:00 +0200

I have an interesting though or observation if you like. These are some of the blogs on technology I like to follow and almost every day I check them to see if there is new content:

Over the last couple of months however, it seems that there are less and less updates... Ok, so the server from Jeff Atwood crashed and Scott Hanselman got a lot to do as manager at microsoft. But if you look at their Tweets (Jeff, Scott) they seem to be very very active there.

Is this the new procrastination? Going from blogging to twittering?

Gewoon Gaaf - Einfach Geil - Just Cool

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:13:00 +0200

Diving at Echinger Weiher

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0200

On the 5th of January Klaus, Raimund and I went to the Echinger Weiher for our first dive this year. The outside temperature was about -6 degrees Celsius, which was also the reason we did not go to the Steinbergersee due to the risk of ice on the lake.
We had a very nice dive, although after 50 minutes the hands started to get really cold

Details of the dive

One very interesting thing we discovered were, within the green vegitation, some parts where a kind of brown fungus was growing with a white nebula above it. Some kind of seeds or so, it really looked like something from a deep space nine movie :)

Setting up a new PC for Manu's dad

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:16:00 +0200

The father of Manu has his 60th birthday tomorrow and her mother is giving him a new pc for his birthday. As you can guess I'm the one who had to find, configure and setup the machine

So far he has been working on a very old PC with Windows 98 (!!). That meant that every time he had some problems that I said I will fix in a minute I had to spend several hours finding out how this stuff was supposed to work on Windows 98 again... that was really several centuries ago for me.

So now the big step will be to switch to Windows 7. The new PC has everything he needs and we will give it together with a 22" monitor compared to the old 17" CRT, which is a big advantage (also for Manu, Claudia and me ....

When looking back at the configuration the biggest problem was getting the same old Pinball Pro that he likes so much.. but I've also managed to get that working, so tonight at the party he will be quite suprised when he gets a book on Windows 7 and a paper PC

Rock Solid HTML Emails

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:47:00 +0200

Just found an interesting article on what you have to consider when creating HTML emails.

http://24ways.org/2009/rock-solid-html-emails

As we have several emails that we send from our online solution I already know of the quirks it gets you, now I forwarded this article to my colleagues in the hope they will get the email templates a bit better too

Wei�e Schokoladenmousse mit marinierten Erdbeeren

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:11:00 +0200

400 gr wei�e Schokolade
400 gr Schmand
1 Vanielleschote
600 g Schlagsahne
6 Blatt Gelantien

150 gr frische Erdbeeren
1 EL Zironensaft
1 TL Puderzucker

1. Die Schokolade in feine St�cke schneiden und im Wasserbad langsam
schmelzen.
Tipp: Das Wasser darf nicht kochen, sonst wird die Schokolade grie�ig!
Die Sch�ssel aus dem Wasserbad nehmen, abk�hlen lassen und den
Schmand unter die warme Schokolade mischen.
Die Vanielleschote der L�nge nach halbieren, das Mark auskratzen
und unterr�hren.
Die Gelantine einweichen und unter die Schoko-Schmandmischung r�hren.
2. Die Sahne steif schlagen, 1/3 zur Schokolade geben und glatt
r�hren. Die restliche Sahne vorsichtig unterheben.
Tipp: Bevor die Sahne zugegeben wird, sollte die Schokolade nur
handwarm sein, da die Mousse sonst nicht fest wird!
3. Die Mousse in eine Glasschale f�llen und im K�hlschrank mindestens
5 Stunden kalt stellen.
4. DIe Erbeeren kurz vor dem Servieren mit Zitronensaft und
Puderzucker marinieren und �ber die wei�e Schokoladenmousse verteilen.

Weather is great

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:27:00 +0200

Just look at this, the weather here in F�rth is definitely better than in the Netherlands, where they still have lot of snow showers.
What does bother me is that we'll have a warm day on Tuesday, thus all the nice snow will be melted away before Christmas... like always!

Christmas is really coming

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:00:00 +0200

I will let the pictures speak for themselves, but it is a great weather here at the moment. -16� Celcius and Sunny...

Best compliment ever

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:24:00 +0200

Trip to Atlanta

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:28:00 +0200

I'm currently sitting at the airport in N�rnberg waiting for my flight to go via Amsterdam to Atlanta, as we're having another workshop with our collegues within the USA. It will be interesting, as we are only two weeks away from our first testing cycle and we still have a lot to prepare and align, so I expect it to be a busy week.

For the rest of our application all is going very well, we have managed to reach a level where we have a lot of orders each day (nope, cannot tell you how many on this blog) and are still rollout out new regions, so our goals are still on track.
You can check it out, I am quite proud of it :

Siemens Industry Mall

I must say, it is quite a cool feeling that several thousands of people are using the software we build every day and use it to order equipment.

Getting things done - the hanselman way

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0200

Here is a great video of Scott Hanselman at a conference in Sweden talking about better ways to control work:

New playground for me

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:34:00 +0200

Last week we got our new television, a nice big LCD flatscreen 42PFL8404. I have also adjusted my old PC to be a media PC and am quite happy with how windows 7 media center works.

And then this weekend we used the same PC and big screen TV to setup a video conference with my parents in the Netherlands, and that was really great. The quality was very good and as it is in our living room it is not so strange as when we have to go up to the desktop computer. So for this is was a good idea to buy the Microsoft HD Webcam as I was in the united states...

Some photos will follow.

Our house is just full of little clothes

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:15:00 +0200

One more reason not to eat fruit....

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:54:00 +0200

They are perverts!!!

Diving at the Walchensee

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:58:00 +0200

This weekend I'm in the south of Bavaria for some diving at the Walchensee. This is a really beautiful lake about 800 meters above sea level.

This morning we (Klaus, Cordula and I) took a small biking boat, loaded all our gear onto it and went towards theUnterwasserberg / Desselwand, which is a place in the middle of the Walchensee where a kind of mountain arises. There we went down towards the top of the mountain, which lies around 15 meter. There a drop begins that goes down to the bottom of the lake, this means you have about 190 meters of nothing under you (click here for the underwater map)

The wall was beautiful and very spectacular. On the diving profile shown below we went up with the wall towards the top again, where a kind of dreadlocks are hanging.

Here our small boat:

And enjoying our lunch:

This was really a great dive!!!

update:

On Sunday we went to the Galerie, one of the best known places at the Walchensee. We got up early to ensure we could park the car and got ready for the first dive.
We went down to around 40 meter where Saiblingen are currently laying. Many fish and visibility of over 30 meters!

The second dive was also here, same stuff and amazing visibility.

Back in the office

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:18:00 +0200

Since yesterday I'm back in the office after 4 weeks off, which was really good to get the batteries charged again.

Since we have done several GoLives with the team in the time I was on vacation I am sure they are now capable of handling a lot of open issues themselves, thus this gives me time to get installed in the new office (we moved) and sort out some of the stuff that was waiting during the last couple of hectic months.

Also, it gives me time to find some of the true marbles of the internet

Check this out!

Pigeon protocoll

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:00:00 +0200

Very nice, I just got this from a friend from the Netherlands, it seems that we are very lucky with out internet connection:

Pigeon transfers data faster than S.Africa's Telkom

Rome

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:59:00 +0200

We arrived in Rome yesterday after driving the 1100 km in two days. Out camping spot it north of Rome and really great, although we're only a few trainstations from Rome it is quiet and green.

First impressions of Rome: Wow, lots of old fallen down buildings and way too hot

On Tuesday we visited the Coloseum, the Palantium, the Forum Romanum and the spanish stairs. We also discovered that if you wonder around in the lovely little streets you find cool places to eat almost everywhere. Then on Wednesday we went to the Vatican where we had a look at St. Peters Dome. This is really an amazing structure and we were overwhelmed with the amount of stuff to see there (we took an audio guide that gave just too much information). After that we saw the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountains and had a great lunch.