I’m on holidays in Madrid to visit Pierre – a friend of my girlfriend Steff. And besides the 41 degrees !!!! during the day it seems like I’ve been dropped in the biggest construction site of the world. It really sucks…
But Madrid has some beautiful Street Art objects and so I decided to start a new category and here are the first objects (the first one is just a prove for the temperature) :
I got the wordpress app time ago from the AppStore. So far I had no time to update my blog to the latest wordpress version – a requirement for mobile blogging.
Now it’s done and this is the first approach…
I had this problem a thousand times, it took me many hours to solve it in every single case, but there´s a really good guide available at the mIRC website how to manage this fast and easy :
http://www.mirc.co.uk/help/proxies.html
And for all of you who aren´t lucky with this guide. If you have a linux box somewhere in the net to connect to, use xming and putty and just tunnel your way through the wall. Good luck !!!
I got 2 tickets for William Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet as a birthday present from my girlfriend. On a warm summer evening we packed our bags and headed towards Weimar. The theatre was built as a circle based in Weimar´s Goethe park. A very nice location and the really cool thing was, that the audience sat all around inside the circle and the acting happened right in the middle of the circle. And the acting had much action and motion. In many many ways it was a really modern interpretation with some parts below the belt, but with definetly great actors who made the 2 hours pass like a 2 minutes.
Enjoy 2 short videos I shot there :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZrkVqd2GCc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7PZ5LWGFbg
And enjoy some pictures in the gallery :
Update 27.06.2009 :
Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass mein Beitrag keine Frage enthielt wurde er nicht auf abgeordnetenwatch.de gepostet. Allerdings wurde mein Beitrag an den Abgeordneten weitergeleitet. Naja immerhin…
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(only in german – sorry)
Heute hatte der Deutsche Bundestag das Gesetz zur Bekämpfung von Kinderpornographie im Internet mit Hilfe von Websperren verabschiedet. Ruft der Nutzer eine entsprechende URL auf, so erhält er statt der gewünschten Seite nur eine großes Stopschild.
Abgesehen davon, dass diese Methode technisch absolut wirkungslos ist – denn der DNS kann ohne Probleme verändert werden – ist das Gesetz der Einstieg in die Zensur – eine Methode der sich normalerweise nur Diktaturen bedienen.
Mein Bundestagsabgeordneter, Dr. Gerhard Botz, hat dafür gestimmt. Ich habe ihm über abgeordnetenwatch.de geschrieben :
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Sehr geehrter Hr. Dr. Botz,
mit großer Enttäuschung muss ich zur Kenntniss nehmen, dass Sie ebenfalls für den Gesetzesentwurf Internet-Sperren gestimmt haben.
Abgesehen davon, dass die Sperren absolut wirklungslos sind, was auch zahlreiche Gutachten von Experten belegen, die sich im Vergleich zu Politikern auch mit den technischen Hintergründen der Thematik auskennen, so ist dieses Gesetz der Einstieg in eine Zensur des Internets sowie eine Gefährdung für die Demokratie dieses Landes.
Besonders von ihnen als ehemaligen DDR Bürger (der ich auch war) – wo Zensur an der Tagesordnung war – habe ich erwartet, dass sie sich deutlich gegen Methoden stellen, die Diktaturen anwenden.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Sebastian Becker
http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/dr_gerhard_botz-650-5569.html
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Jeder der Zeit und Lust hat, sollte dies auch tun – wenn gleich es für den parlamentarischen Weg erstmal zu spät ist. Aber es bleibt der Gang vor das Verfassungsgericht…
Dazu noch die entsprechende Petition – 134014 Mitzeichner, mit weitem Abstand die meistgezeichnete Petition :
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/index.php?action=petition;sa=details;petition=3860
Schlimm nur, dass erste CDU Politiker gleich auf den großen Sperrzug aufspringen und Killerspiele als nächstes auf die Liste setzen.
Fokus Online dazu :
An dieser Stelle seien auch nochmal 2 sehr wichtige Quellen verlinkt :
Inspired by our 10th anniversary, the Earth Observatory has pulled together a special series of NASA satellite images documenting how our world—forests, oceans, human landscapes, even the Sun—has changed during the previous decade.
September 17, 1979
October 4, 2008
In the early 1980s, scientists began to realize that CFCs were creating a thin spot—a hole—in the ozone layer over Antarctica every spring. This series of satellite images shows the ozone hole on the day of its maximum depth each year from 1979 through 2008.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/
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Impressing and scary…more on the NASA Site.
Barack Obama is the new president of the United States of America.Congratulations. Hopefully he won’t participate in JFK’s destiny. Good luck !
Update :
Well he´s still alive and will visit my beautiful home-state – Thuringia on the 5th of june.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hX0ownimfSxXD5eYxIloH_ejxo8w (german)
One of his grand uncles helped to liberate the concentration camp Buchenwald as an american soldier during world war 2 and so he want´s to visit the place. Though the place is definetly no fun, I guess many people will be there to give him a warm welcome.
Update 2 :
That´s it, he has been here and now he´s gone. The MDR took some great pictures of the AirForce One landing in Erfurt.
And the white rose for all the victims of Buchenwald – may they never be forgotten.
Short and simple – the food at IKEA is really cheap and the quality is really bad.
I´ve never been a big fan of this place but from time to time I go there to buy some fresh furniture. I want to be part of the yuppie hype too…
Anyway – I had a classical german Schnitzel with french fries and cream sauce. It was more cold than hot, the Schnitzel reminded me of my morning newspaper and the fries have never seen some salt. At least the sauce was okay, but also not a celebration for my palate. My girlfriend had some organic noodle casserole with tomato and cheese. The whole thing was dry like a desert, I couldn´t find any cheese and it was cold too.
The only good thing was the free refill for the soft drinks. My no-name coke tasted a little bit like a mixture of CoCa Cola (Coke) with some lemon limonade. Ohhh and the 2nd good thing was the price – not even 10 EUR for 2 persons is incredibly cheap.
Our menu :
– Schnitzel with french friens and cream sauce
– organic noodle casserole with tomato and cheese
– no-name coke
Well it´s not one of my best protected secrets and so everyone who knows me or have seen me may already guess it : I like eating ! So from this point of view I decided to write a little bit about interesting places I visited to gain some food.
This is gonna be the first review, more to follow soon.
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<<< the bill – click to enlarge
The Alt Weimar is a higher class restaurant with a small but very interesting menu. Though I didn´t knew most of the items on the menu (or haven´t heard their names either) it was one of the best meals of my life.
The reason for that might be star cook Sten Fischer (http://www.fiese-koeche.de) who did a great job in serving an extraordinary, fresh and free of food additives dish.
Honestly – with 72,70 EUR for 2 persons it was not cheap and above my normal investment in food. But it was absolutely worth it.
My girlfriend did an interview with Sten Fischer about his job for her study and if we are lucky it will be available here soon.
The Alt Weimar has a website, too : http://www.alt-weimar.de – if you want to know more – check it out.
And last but not least – our menu (with absolutely no warranty for the translation) :
– selfmade woodruff punch
– goose liver soam soup
– anchorena lamb
– herb ribbon noodles
– variation from the frozen ananas
– variation from the torka bean
– water
Größere Kartenansicht
Today Bob Dylan celebrates his 68th birthday.