Achtung, Achtung,
die neuen Postmotorräder sind da!
Die Transportboxen müssen auf Grund des fetten Auspuffs allerdings sehr hoch montiert werden.
Zur Zeit wird noch mit einem Hardcase getestet, später sollen es dann einmal drei davon werden.
Na dann, auf schnelle Lieferung!
Last Monday (Pfingstmontag) I took the chance of excellent weather plus a very motivating display of oldtimers at the MAFZ in Paaren/Glien to take my Suzuki ‘Susi’ Bandit on tour though Brandenburg to the nice area of Schwielowsee (south of the map) not far from Potsdam. The tour is roughly 120km long and Read the rest of this entry »
Am letzten Wochenende besuchte ich nicht nur den “Striezelmarkt” in Dresden, sondern auch (nach einem guten Tipp) das Panometer in Dresden, ein umgebautes Gasometer, welches ein 360° Panorama von Dresden, wie es im 18. Jahrhundert aussah, beherbegt. Daneben steht noch ein weiteres, bis jetzt ungenutztes Gasometer, mit welchem man aber sehr gut mal wieder Panoramas aufnehmen und basteln kann (3 Hochkant-Aufnahmen á 28mm, gestitcht mit Hugin + Enblend):
Last week our department met in a closed meeting to present progress of our group, its different directions, and to discuss and sync on common goals. Quite motivating indeed and good to see what other people are working on and where their interests lie. I found it good for focusing as a group too. Note to self: Have a ‘Klausurtagung’ with yourself some day to sync and set some goals right!
I had the chance to visit the city of Ljubljana last week for a few days. This is a very nice city with bustling activity in the old town all night long. Seems, that most of the 200.000 citizens meet there each day to have a talk and some nice beer and/or food. If you go there then have a visit to the Castle and its tower when the weather is nice. The view is awesome around when visibility is good. When I would go there another time I would also explore the surrounding countryside and its mountains.
What a time … this year a did a holiday like never before: Going through East Africa by truck with a group of other crazy people for three weeks. This overlanding travel “vacation” in Africa has been most astonishing - a most impressive holiday where I met a lot of nice people and got a glimpse of the hard live on this beautiful continent. Still need time to let all the impressions sink in. Here come a few for a start:
Saturday: Did a spontaneous visit to a local car tuning show. It was not very big but never the less a fine chance to do some photos of over-sized cromium-plated alloy parts.
Note to self: upload best shots to flickr.
Have you ever wondered where the Internet top level domains (TLDs, e.g. .com, .biz) originate from? Well, there’s the ICANN in the US which assigns registrars (companies) per TLD - after some business struggles that is. Have you ever wondered which geek had the cool idea to also have top level domains for Television (.tv), Radio (.fm), and even Perl programmer (.pl) sites? Hmm, checking this question you’ll find that in fact there are no TV or radio-related TLDs, since each two-letter TLD belongs to a country on planet earth (and is thus called ccTLD). The reality however is that nobody really cares much what you do with our new .tv or .fm domain. The funny part on that is the fact that a number of those two-letter domains are from countries you have never ever heard of before, and those countries made a significant (and unexpected) revenue out of this, financing for example their fee for becoming a member of the UN (link missing).
Countries with such favorable TLD names are for instance
Finally there are now numerous so-called “Domain-Hacks“, i.e. stragely-named domains registered solely for the purpose of making a pun of words and having the dots in the URI in funny positions. The most famous of those is probably the del.icio.us website.
Is this all a sign of good etiquette? Well, maybe not, but it’s fun and hey, it’s the Internet, so feel free!
On the last Sunday I made a motobike tour to and around the Schwielowsee (see below), which is a lake somewhat near the city of Potsdam in the area of Potsdam-Mittelmark. It was a very nice trip with many bikers on the road during the whole tour (~80km). On the way from home to there and back I crossed the Spinnerbrücke, this time the first time with my “Susi“.
This is the first posting in this (my) new blog. It’s not spectacular but hey, it is still the first of its kind! More to come …