in my excessive efforts to document everything, i have kept a record of my allergic conditions over the last three spring seasons.

what i logged:

• the weather
• the currently abloom allergens (hazel*, alder, yew, poplar, elm, willow*, ash*, birch*)
  here’s a statistical calendar of pollen-stress in innsbruck/austria (pdf)
  (* marks the pollen i’m certainly allergic to, i’m not sure about the other ones)
• my general preference of food (sweet, sour, fatty, hot, salty, meaty)
• the medication i took (which was not very much)
• my amount of sleep (4,5 to 11 hours)
• my meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
• the strength of allergic symptoms (barely, slight, medium, high; with “+” and “-” as add-ons)

looking back at this log (screenshot), one of the most striking connections [more...]

about two weeks ago, google’s image-crawler hit my site and was given a tasty meal. actually it was manipulated a bit, so it would find my photos, because the galleries are not (yet) fully accessible to searchengine-bots.

since google indexed my pictures, there has been a constant number of about 70 visitors a day, most of who came looking for certain photos.
besides, many users have come here in search of time-lapse stuff - so that’s a dramatic rise in daily visitors!

on a little side note: apparently, the bot that revealed itself as “Googlebot-Image/2.1″ in the past, has been renamed to “Mediapartners-Google/2.1″. maybe this is the first sign that google is preparing to index more kinds of media. this is of course just vague imagination, which was triggered by somebody at google stating that they were peering to index the part of the net that is not yet accessible to searchengines… (see the relatively new compatibility of .ppt-files, for example)

haha - speaking of the devil:

date: Monday, 11.Apr.2005 @ 20:59:13
hostname: crawl-66-249-65-208.googlebot.com (ip: 66.249.65.208)
browser: Mediapartners-Google/2.1

this is coming kind-of late, but i would still like to mention it:

on march 11th, vienna teng held a benefit house concert (or, as she put it, a “public rehearsal”) at eric cheng’s place.
the show was taped, and the benefit-idea is carried on - so now there’s a webcast available here.
to watch it, you’re required to make a donation to “doctors without borders”.
it’s a GREAT show (with good video&audio quality!), and you’re contributing to a good cause!

the webcast will be online until april 15th, so there’s not much time left…