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Picasa is a free software download from Google. Now available for Linux! So what, you might ask. BUT: Picasa is (imho) the coolest app for sorting, editing and publishing pictures. I use it with Win**** and it’s really great. Now it’s available for your Linux box. Hopefully Google will feature more software on Linux soon. I don’t plan to switch … Read More

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The Simpsons as philosophy Well, actually I found this article through a thread in alt.fan.blade-runner. I’m a big fan of Blade Runner (book, movie and game) and therefore look through the subjects regularly. Just to use the opportunity, together with another german fan we just started a german blog to bring interesting BR … Read More

Just recently I realised how precious time can become (at times) especially if you have certain stuff going on that you are (more or less) forced to do (e.g. because you have promised in a contract-kind-of-way) and things you’re doing for fun. Of course in the best case those two groups are the same but, hey, life’s not always a … Read More

Well, as I pointed out repeatedly I visited London during the holidays and one thing I sadly discovered when coming back was: If you have been to a really big city once it’s really hard to come back to a kind of small city. For explanation, the city I live in counts about 250.000 people and is indeed the largest … Read More

Probably the most important sentence that I will remember from my five day trip to London. Whenever you go by tube you will hear this over and over again three, times at each station. It is mainly a warning so that you don’t fall off the train when entering or leaving but I suppose it is much more than just … Read More