And I’m not talking about the building(s) in Cologne, which crashed because of subway construction and destroyed human life and hundreds of historical documents, all older than the USA.

(Source: http://www.thelocal.de/gallery/417/10/, picture taken by DPA)

Hopefully, this accident finally stopped the subway construction through old downtown of Cologne.
The residents are fighting against the new subway line for several years now, because three years ago (only a few hundred meter away) an old church almost crashed into the ground.
Sadly enough that people have to die before something is changed.


Anyway… today was the first day of the new semester. I stopped working at 4:30 to be at the university at 6 PM. Usually thats enough time. 30 minutes to drive - and about one hour to find a parking space. Yeah, I HATE Frankfurt…

But - things never happen like they are supposed to.
I got stuck in traffic and reached the town boundary at 6:45.
Of course, I was still in need to find a parking lot. After a single turn around the Palm Garden and the complete campus, I decided to head home.
Nice first day of the new semester. I already like it…

To make the day well, I grabbed my guitar to learn something else.

Do you think it’s time for a break?

Since web 2.0, which probably started with sites like Facebook and MySpace, half of the internet is full of social networks of any kind and interest.
The other 50 percent are shared between the porno industry and the blog world, creating over 1.000.000 pages of electronically trash every day.

Of course, it was just a matter of time until large companies like the one I am working for (more than 170.000 staff members) would jump on the bandwagon.

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It’s already 2nd of March, which means I’m late in getting a birthday present for my father, which happens to be on this Sunday.

I’m not someone who spent hours after hours in some malls, looking for the right thing. I’m someone who’s starting an Internet search engine to compare the costs of the neat present at different online stores who have a good reputation.

After I found the right one, I just fast and forward through the “Buy Now” process, usually using PayPal - because it’s really fast and my distributor gets his money right away, so he’s going to ship my order.

Well. Not today. I got stuck in something called “Security Review”.

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