greetings from koh samui, thailand :)
about 30 degrees every day, REALLY cheap mango shakes (made from fresh mangoes, 60 eurocents at one restaurant), green curry (80 eurocents) and thai style cuisine w/ lots of coconut milk, little food-stands everywhere… i’m in heaven.
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i still have to do some working, packing, communicating and sleeping, but instead i’m sitting here, posting a picture of my preparations for tomorrow:
oh well…
i drove by a piece of roadkill today. it was so messed up, its original form was unrecognizable.
the first kangaroo i saw in australia was roadkill. when i think of it, i still remember the distinctive smell of death which came from the decomposing animal – like it was yesterday.
when entomologists want to know whether a hard-to-find species of beetle – e.g. the stag beetle lucanus cervus (de: hirschkäfer) – is still present in an area, it’s common practice to look for run-over individuals.
“welcome home!” to simon, who spent the last year as a volunteer teacher in a little village in kenya’s hinterland.
i think that this kind of commitment deserves a great deal of respect!
his friends and family organized a surprise party and made him a banner. :)
while the austrian branch of spar supermarkets is the country’s first grocery store that (1) lets you do self-checkout, (2) gives cashback and – most importantly – (3) accepts credit cards, ikea apparently tries to further decrease accommodation costs by dealing with the cause, not the symptoms:
i’m not kidding: this was taken in an ikea restroom just two days ago.
ever since mr. cheng ;) introduced the ingenuity that is piclens (a free firefox plugin), i’ve been enjoying a completely different way of looking at pictures online.
however, there is a situation when it’s acting weird, so in case you have the same problem as i did:
my main pc has a desktop which stretches over two displays, and i’m using firefox 2.0.0.161 with piclens 1.7.1.3900. when piclens is showing the 3D-wall on one of the displays and i click on a window on the other screen, piclens minimizes to a black rectangle just above the windows start button:
it behaves the same way when i use “alt+tab” to switch to a different window.
switching back to firefox, piclens seems to block any action there. double-clicking the black frame sometimes reopens the black screen, but doesn’t show any images.
the workaround: i reactivate the firefox window using “alt+tab” or “shift+alt+tab” (which goes backwards, and the piclens icon is at position 1 on my pc). not sure if this works for everybody, but it does for me.
oh, and you can now use piclens in my galleries when looking at any single album such as this.
