We turned on the heaters on the 2nd of May 2009 after it had only 17 degrees in our apartment. Continue reading
Cairns to Alice Springs
Rather spontaneously we had decided 3 weeks before Easter to try and cover another bit of our Australia map. So we took 3 days off and combined them with the long Easter weekend and drove all the way from Cairns to Alice Springs.
This time it only took about 2 weeks to get the picture galleries online AND a travel log written. Continue reading
10 days in Vienna
We spent 10 action packed days back home in Vienna where we actually managed to meet up with nearly everybody though the schedule was tight and we did not spend nearly enough time with each of our friends and family.
Check out the picture from the trip we have put online. Continue reading
Don’t mess with strata
When we were back in Austria on one of the nights we ended up having a discussion with friends about the effectiveness of prison sentences compared to the old practice of pillorying. We decided that the latter would be a much better punishment. Continue reading
Happy 1234567890!
Bigger than the year 2000 but equally short lived was the moment where all Unix clocks around the world counted the 1234567890th second elapsed since midnight January 1st 1970, the “digital equivalent of the birth of Christ” (as the Times Online called it). Continue reading