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I decided not to go to work today. Instead I read this book by the icelandic author Mikael Torfason.
It is about a 28-year-old man, who is a stoma patient, that is facing the hard reality of life, sex and especially his family, who are like him (Ex-)alcoholics and/or mentally disorderd.
Recommended, but beware you will get into a midlife crisis after reading :-).

Since nothing interesting happend in my backyard, this weeks picture shows my subway station. The station “Alser Strasse” is one of the old “Stadtbahn”-stations designed by Otto Wagner, Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architect in the 1890s.

In the foreground you can see the Viennese “Guertel”, one of Europe’s largest inner city roads (6 tracks)

Today I visited the exhibitions at the Vienna Albertina. This was the second time i visited the Albertina after its reopening. (The first one was the Munch exhibition). I must say, I still don’t like the new renovated building. The room’s ceilings are too low for an old building. The rooms are dark, and too small for the masses of tourists. Additional the air conditioning was underdimensioned.
The only thing I like are the windows to the nice backyard.
The exhibition “Wotruba and Modern Art” which mostly contained images and sculptures of young men was not my taste.
The other exhibition “From Gustav Klimt to Paul Klee” contained a lot of paintings from different painters. I don’t like Klimt, but the ones from Kokoschka where quite interesting.
Since the entrance fee was 6,50 EUR for students, I can’t say it was worth it.

Lauri just wrote an entry about “The one and only”. I have been in a 90’s backflash too. The last weeks a band from Sweden called “Army of Lovers” was on my heavy rotation. They had a few hits in the beginning 90’s, most people remember “Crucified” and “Obsession”. I have two MC’s (yes this was the time, when I had no CD player), “Massive Luxury Overdose” and “The Gods of Earth & Heaven”. The official Homepage offers most of their gorgeous music videos for download. Only in stamp-size, but you can get the idea. Of course you will find MP3s in your favorite Peer2Peer-network.
It looks like they still have a lot of fans in Russia. But the new songs don’t have the magic of the old songs.

The calendar told me, its two and a half weeks until the math exams.
So now is the time to think about starting learning several hours a day or wait for the next date.
I hate learning, especially if i don’t understand anything and especially when I am not sure if the invested time will be invested successfull.

Here is my blurb of the day. It is about communication media in Opensource development.

Continue reading “IRC vs. Mailinglist”

Only 24 hours later all the snow is gone.

At the moment this blog is becoming a photoblog.
But I plan to write a longer article later today 🙂

I just read “The Double-Bass” by Patrick S�skind (author of the famous bestseller “Perfume”). It is a short one-person monologue from a double-bass player about his relationship with the double bass. He is quite frustrated, because nobody notices him, there are no solos for double-bass. The double bass is his friend, beloved and enemy. He thinks the double bass prevents him, from living a better life.
In December I had seen an excellent performance by Wolfgang Hartmann in Hamburg. He is performing “The Double-Bass” since 18 years.

When I woke up this morning, everything was white. It is snowing for the third time this year. The winter strikes back.

Found by lofi in kdemultimedia:

AC_MSG_CHECKING(machine architecture)
AC_SUBST(ARCH_TYPE)
ARCH_TYPE=`uname -m`
if test `uname -s` = "FreeBSD"
then
HW_MODEL=`sysctl -n hw.model`
case "$HW_MODEL" in
"Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron")
ARCH_TYPE="i686"
;;
esac
fi;
AC_MSG_RESULT($ARCH_TYPE)

*rotfl*