Sunday : 12 Feb '12 - 10:09 | damen default No comments yet |
I have, long time ago, added all of my local photo folders to picasa web so I could access the photos everywhere in case I needed them to show some on the road.
Unfortunately Picasa added all folders as single albums, so also the sub albums, which makes is quite difficult to navigate.
So I decided to remove all albums (ca. 200) and start over... thus discovering that there is no easy remove all option in Picasa Web :S
This morning something awful happened, when getting out of bed I threw my full (!!) cup of coffee on the floor, spreading the important fuel all over the place.
So I jumped out of bed, went in the bathroom and got a towel to get rid of the fluid.
Charlotte was of course interested in what I was up to and followed me into the bed room.... seeing what happened she started crying badly...
Thursday : 12 Aug '10 - 07:45 | damen default No comments yet |
I just received my new reel from www.twodeepdive.com. During our advanced rec. nitrox course we used the same reel and were very satisfied with it.
It is a very simple device, but that makes it exactly right, it can be handled with thick gloves and is easy to maintain:
It has been a long time since the last blog entry and in that time a lot has changed.
Personally we enjoy the life with our daughter Charlotte, who has changed our lives completely. I have experienced the joy of her first smile and the terror of sleepless nights, but after we got used to it we really enjoy being a small family
Professionally I have also switched jobs and are now responsible for a team of 20 technical experts for data migration within the environment of PLM (product lifecycle management) software. This was also a big change and I keep on learning stuff everyday.
Unfortunately this meant that there was not much time for diving the last half year, but last weekend we managed to get away to Austria for a long weekend and had our CMAS * Examinations with 9 students. The weather was great with over 30 degrees, but due to heavy rain the sight was horrible. As usual, details of the dives can be found in the diving log.
Saturday : 06 Feb '10 - 11:34 | damen default No comments yet |
I have an interesting though or observation if you like. These are some of the blogs on technology I like to follow and almost every day I check them to see if there is new content:
Saturday : 09 Jan '10 - 21:13 | damen default No comments yet |
Diving at Echinger Weiher
Wednesday : 06 Jan '10 - 11:00 | damen default No comments yet |
On the 5th of January Klaus, Raimund and I went to the Echinger Weiher for our first dive this year. The outside temperature was about -6 degrees Celsius, which was also the reason we did not go to the Steinbergersee due to the risk of ice on the lake.
We had a very nice dive, although after 50 minutes the hands started to get really cold
One very interesting thing we discovered were, within the green vegitation, some parts where a kind of brown fungus was growing with a white nebula above it. Some kind of seeds or so, it really looked like something from a deep space nine movie :)
Saturday : 02 Jan '10 - 16:16 | damen default No comments yet |
The father of Manu has his 60th birthday tomorrow and her mother is giving him a new pc for his birthday. As you can guess I'm the one who had to find, configure and setup the machine
So far he has been working on a very old PC with Windows 98 (!!). That meant that every time he had some problems that I said I will fix in a minute I had to spend several hours finding out how this stuff was supposed to work on Windows 98 again... that was really several centuries ago for me.
So now the big step will be to switch to Windows 7. The new PC has everything he needs and we will give it together with a 22" monitor compared to the old 17" CRT, which is a big advantage (also for Manu, Claudia and me ....
When looking back at the configuration the biggest problem was getting the same old Pinball Pro that he likes so much.. but I've also managed to get that working, so tonight at the party he will be quite suprised when he gets a book on Windows 7 and a paper PC
As we have several emails that we send from our online solution I already know of the quirks it gets you, now I forwarded this article to my colleagues in the hope they will get the email templates a bit better too
Tuesday : 29 Dec '09 - 09:11 | damen default No comments yet |
400 gr weiße Schokolade
400 gr Schmand
1 Vanielleschote
600 g Schlagsahne
6 Blatt Gelantien
150 gr frische Erdbeeren
1 EL Zironensaft
1 TL Puderzucker
1. Die Schokolade in feine Stücke schneiden und im Wasserbad langsam
schmelzen.
Tipp: Das Wasser darf nicht kochen, sonst wird die Schokolade grießig!
Die Schüssel aus dem Wasserbad nehmen, abkühlen lassen und den
Schmand unter die warme Schokolade mischen.
Die Vanielleschote der Länge nach halbieren, das Mark auskratzen
und unterrühren.
Die Gelantine einweichen und unter die Schoko-Schmandmischung rühren.
2. Die Sahne steif schlagen, 1/3 zur Schokolade geben und glatt
rühren. Die restliche Sahne vorsichtig unterheben.
Tipp: Bevor die Sahne zugegeben wird, sollte die Schokolade nur
handwarm sein, da die Mousse sonst nicht fest wird!
3. Die Mousse in eine Glasschale füllen und im Kühlschrank mindestens
5 Stunden kalt stellen.
4. DIe Erbeeren kurz vor dem Servieren mit Zitronensaft und
Puderzucker marinieren und über die weiße Schokoladenmousse verteilen.
Sunday : 20 Dec '09 - 12:27 | damen default No comments yet |
Just look at this, the weather here in Fürth is definitely better than in the Netherlands, where they still have lot of snow showers.
What does bother me is that we'll have a warm day on Tuesday, thus all the nice snow will be melted away before Christmas... like always!
Sunday : 29 Nov '09 - 10:28 | damen default No comments yet |
I'm currently sitting at the airport in Nürnberg waiting for my flight to go via Amsterdam to Atlanta, as we're having another workshop with our collegues within the USA. It will be interesting, as we are only two weeks away from our first testing cycle and we still have a lot to prepare and align, so I expect it to be a busy week.
For the rest of our application all is going very well, we have managed to reach a level where we have a lot of orders each day (nope, cannot tell you how many on this blog) and are still rollout out new regions, so our goals are still on track.
You can check it out, I am quite proud of it :
Tuesday : 17 Nov '09 - 10:34 | damen default No comments yet |
Last week we got our new television, a nice big LCD flatscreen 42PFL8404. I have also adjusted my old PC to be a media PC and am quite happy with how windows 7 media center works.
And then this weekend we used the same PC and big screen TV to setup a video conference with my parents in the Netherlands, and that was really great. The quality was very good and as it is in our living room it is not so strange as when we have to go up to the desktop computer. So for this is was a good idea to buy the Microsoft HD Webcam as I was in the united states...
Saturday : 03 Oct '09 - 19:58 | damen default No comments yet |
This weekend I'm in the south of Bavaria for some diving at the Walchensee. This is a really beautiful lake about 800 meters above sea level.
This morning we (Klaus, Cordula and I) took a small biking boat, loaded all our gear onto it and went towards theUnterwasserberg / Desselwand, which is a place in the middle of the Walchensee where a kind of mountain arises. There we went down towards the top of the mountain, which lies around 15 meter. There a drop begins that goes down to the bottom of the lake, this means you have about 190 meters of nothing under you (click here for the underwater map)
The wall was beautiful and very spectacular. On the diving profile shown below we went up with the wall towards the top again, where a kind of dreadlocks are hanging.
Here our small boat:
And enjoying our lunch:
This was really a great dive!!!
update:
On Sunday we went to the Galerie, one of the best known places at the Walchensee. We got up early to ensure we could park the car and got ready for the first dive.
We went down to around 40 meter where Saiblingen are currently laying. Many fish and visibility of over 30 meters!
The second dive was also here, same stuff and amazing visibility.
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