New Plugins UPDATED

I’m about to test out some new plugins for this blog. First one to go is the PoWPoll written by Lyn4. Here we go: [poll:2] UPDATE: Unfortunately, the PowPoll Addon didnt quite work as expected. 🙁 I’m now running WP-Polls written by Lester Chan. It comes...

Interesting Map-Applications

Many of you know that you can match Googlemaps with all sorts of location data. Here is a Mashup from the Zurich School of Engineering showing Flight movements over Switzerland using Transponder data. OK, I’ve already known that one. At some point in our lives,...

Burning Feeds

I’m proud to announce that i’ve successfully implemented feedburner in my blog (at least i hope). Many of you know, i’m very keen on statistics, thats why I took this step. So, if anyone still uses the old link, please re-subscribe using the...

Media-Mania: Hamburger baptism

Everyone that has served in the Swiss army will know the term „Hamburgertaufe“. Currently, a „Media-Mania“ about this rite is going through the swiss media. Most of the articles report of excessive abuse of alcohol and neglecting the dignity of...

Free Internet

The swiss commuter-newspaper „20 Minuten“ reported, that Sunrise offers a free ADSL-Link worth CHF 69.– if you get all your telecommunication services from them. This means land line, mobile phone and obviously ADSL. See here for the full article...

For the looks

The default-Theme of WordPress is nice n‘ clean. but it seems a bit mainstream to me. Currently I’m checking out some other themes from the WordPress Theme Database. So don’t be surprised if my blog looks different from time to time. Of course I...

The Open-Air season is (almost) opened!

Yesterday the first Acts were announced for the Open Air Gampel. And guess what: NIGHTWISH is coming! YAY!!! After i’ve missed the gig of Within Temptation last year, I’ll put all my effort in that I can see this year’s appearance of one of my...

New WoW-Char

As Belakar has reached Lvl 70 some time ago, I’ve looked for an alternative occupation for him apart from levelling. The thing is, that Jewelcrafting brings almost no money and finding a Group for instances is quite difficult at times. Oh, and PvP is not my cup...

Sun, snow and holidays

Yep, thats right. During my days off my girlfriend and I planned to go and visit an old friend of mine. He lives in Fiesch which lies in the beautiful canton Wallis. Of course being there, we would also go skiing in the Aletsch-Resort (site in german). The...

Christmas frenzy

The year is coming to an end. The last working day of this year was last Friday. Now that I can leave work behind me for the rest of this year, Christmas-Presents is the main subject. I have one day to go until christmas eve. Fortunately I have a lovely girlfriend...