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I am currently cleaning my photo collection (deleting duplicates, doing some better tagging etc.) and merge everything from f-spot to Lightroom [1]. When I am stumbling upon pictures I haven't put here already, I will upload them :-)

So expect random pictures...

[1] Lightroom and Photoshop are better than f-spot and gimp. Definitely. Slightly more expensive though... (I got the student version, which is more affordable but still painfully expensive)

sab hat eine schöne Zusammenfassung zum Internetfilter unserer weisen Familienministerin Ursula-"Ich-habe-siebzehn-Kinder"-von-der-Leyen: www.ipernity.com/blog/36201/122573

Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore (The Simpsons)

I'll be in Bangalore next week, hopefully you'll see some pictures (if I have time outside the office...)

Some time ago I got asked, if one of my pictures can be used in a UN report on Aids/HIV in the caribbean. Of course I agreed. It's now published and available on the web. (My picture is the one above the executive summary).

It's nice to see that something done by me ends up in something of real importance.

Two nice articles by Bruce Sterling and his alter ego Bruno Argento.

After 1989 we enjoyed a strange interregnum where "history ended." Everyone ran up a credit-card bill at the global supermarket. The adventure ended badly, in crisis. Still, let us be of good heart. In cold fact, a financial crisis is one of the kindest and mildest sorts of crisis a civilization can have. Compared to typical Italian catastrophes like wars, epidemics, earthquakes, volcanoes, endemic political collapse — a financial crisis is a problem for schoolchildren.