Final preparations for the parliament

Collecting last numbers and data and already preparing my luggage for the Aachen science parliament. Tomorrow it will begin and I will try make regular updates on what is going on.

Making our own apple juice

This weekend we made our own apple juice. We joined the family of y wive in a very enjoyable yet work intensive weekend. Round about 950 (yes nine hundred fifty) delicious litres finally which we filled in a whole lot of bottles.
And it really tastes sweet with no additional ingredients, just pure juice.

When commercials become satire

Funny, i just watched a bank commercial and to be honest, them mentioning "the company you can trust" itself made me laugh...

Funny how things have changed with the financial crisis.

The intrepid ibex goes beta

Well, the ibex in its alpha appearance is on my sony vaio for a while already and it works smoothly and supports nearly all the hardware despite the well known bug about the brightness of the videocard. But this is a problem of the driver rather than ubuntu. As a bug hunter I found it to be already very stable in its Version 6 release and I am now looking forward to testing the beta.
The update for me today consisted of only 6 files.

Other than that the system got even better with some small changes and a lot of changes on top.
Have a look at www.ubuntu.com for news and the latest images.
I recommend the torrent so you can get and give.

Alive and kicking again ! And deep in research for the science parliament

On german "Tag der deutschen Einheit" I am beginning to get better. Well I am out of bed but still a bit dizzy. So not much to do as today is a holiday but already doing research for the european science parliament again. Found some very interesting sources of information and will have to do a lot of reading, the last few days before I will go to the parliament and be part of a really interesting project.
Here are some videos regarding the Science Parliament.

Being sick and hating it

My stomach is grumbling (not out of anger, at least not this time) and i have to stay in bed for at least another two days. Best thing, i can update this blog and restructure it a bit but there are so many things to do round the house in the moment and i just can't help now.
Well, maybe on the weekend. At least it is bad weather outside, so staying inside is not that hard.

My participation at the first european science parliament

from 9th to 10th of october, the first european science parliament will take place in Aachen, germany.

Participants from all walks of life (students, teachers, scientists, politicians, ngos, citizens) will meet to discuss the future of energy in europe.

And i have been selected as parlamentarian representing the group of citizens together with others.

I will update my blog while at the conference so you wil stay informed on the discussions and the result, the "Aachen resolution" which will be given to the european parliament as a recommendation.

For now, more infos can be found at: www.science-parliament.eu

Katja and her new bicycle

Now our second kid is becoming really mobile. Katja has her first very own bike, a cool cube mountainbike with 7 gears.
And she is really good at bicycling already.

Katjas first school day

Doesn't she look proud ? And for now she really likes going to school and even making homework. I will try my best to keep the spark of interest for knowledge alive.

Our holiday in austria

Some impressions form our holiday in austria, and expecially salzburg, cause our kids are big Mozart fans.

Of course, we visited Mozarts birthplace in Salzburg.

We were really lucky, had a sunny but not too hot day
and could visit all the places, our kids were interested in.