Beim allgemeinen Verfall der guten Sitten, Höflichkeit, Scham on rapid decline, war es immer Punkt eins im Anforderungsprofil an meinen persönlichen Browser: Er muss sich entschuldigen können, wenn etwas passiert. Na also! Gerne verziehen.
12/21/2010
12/07/2010
Foreign? Alien? Stranger? Guest? Welcome? - Welcome!
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hello dear
i am very happy to finally find a blog about salzburg. i've been there few years ago and i was amazed by the beauty of the place and i was wondering if its easy for a foreigner to settle there. I am french (african) and i was wondering how the local react when you have some outsider who want to come and live there for a little while.
hopefully you will be able to answer to my question.
thanks - March 5, 2010 1:29 AM
I guess it might not exactly be easy for an African to settle down here, but obviously it's worked time and again for quite a few people, among them some (I suppose) asylum seekers from war zones in Africa, musicians who study music here, students at our university, artists, cabbies, u name it.
Sadly, racism is to be found in our beautiful town as much as in many other places, but you definitely will meet friendly people here, there are hangouts where it's easier to get in touch with locals or tourists; some of my favourite places, like republic café in the old city, Jazzit music club near the main train station, Fabiani Espresso right opposite the main train station ... that place has become a real meeting point for people from mostly northern Africa, thanks to a barman from Morocco, Azdin, whom I value as one of the friendliest and most open-minded persons I've ever met. ... and at all those places u might just see a 50ish curly red hair light-skinned guy with a little old iBook: don't hesitate to approach him!
Good luck, and who dares, wins (Wer wagt, gewinnt! as we say in German)!
12/01/2010
Fly with the wind
Werner Otte, Bau der kleinen Windfallen. Acrylic. Found at artnet.
Building the little wind-traps – not to stop the wind, but to fly high with it, like a kite.
Late painter Werner Otte put a dedication there to Austrian writer H. C. Artmann, a master of playful poetic imagination, a man who was well acquainted with the hardships of life, willing to face life's and politics' atrocities, and still let his imagination fly high.
wemo asks himself, why these online auctioneer's catalogues always seem to deliver their repros out of focus. If it's for copyright reasons, it's okay.
Serbian courtyard, revisited
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So, seeing the picture below you thought Serbian courtyards are just a mess?
Well, get a different view:
I prefer the mess ;–), especially the little piggies; just was too slow to get a picture of mother sow rolling around that huge pumpkin with her snout. What a pity!
Lost … and found
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It's disappeared from practical IT, yet I miss that icon of early Mac and Atari users, those pioneers of usability vs
"An Adresse 1.23444.xxxf…you ist der schwere Ausnahmefehler xmrfb.wrdlbrmbfd.0815 aufgetreten, wouldn't you rather like to kick that PC out the window?"
Source wikimedia.org/commons
Cool Mac or Atari users would just need something like the above to know whats happening: Something's crashed, and usually it wasn't the computer as a whole …
Maybe only a few among us may have experienced a serious 'kernel panic' on a more recent Mac, a gripping, virtually psychedelic visual experience that is privileged for the chosen few who would really manage to overload their system to the brink of total breakdown.
for some comic relief have a look here for the 'online T-shirt' on post Aug 12
still no-one knows where you've gone to
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source: Mozilla Firefox, screenshot Apple & wemo
I'd love to see that visualized: a request that is diverted in a way it never can be ended.
Would it look like that Moebius strip that you could walk along covering either side of that band without having to 'switch' sides ever … infinity in a finite object.
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