the msnbot has practically always been browsing and catalogueing my homepage, in a very intensive way.

my first record is from the time when version 0.11 was surfing around (about three days after i activated the advanced log):
[more...]

first of all, here’s a little related mini-post that wasn’t really worth posting solely:

28-01-2005 @ 19:00
got the tickets! three railway tickets to budapest, gonna be fun!
what’s strange is that the only song i wanted to listen after i paid was “dido – don’t leave home”.
ironic?

now here’s the actual post:

14-02-2005 @ 14:21
what can i say – it *was* fun!
we left innsbruck thursday night around 02:30. maybe going there in a saloon coach wasn’t the best way to travel, but it was bearable. except for that scruffy old hungarian woman, who talked to herself in the pitch of a witch and her dog. :???:

so anyway – when we arrived in hungary we dropped out of the train one station early because we could see our hotel from there directly. leaving one station early turned out to be a natural instinct, by the way. i think we should call it “markus’ law”, abutting “murphy’s law”. for the following days, i ALWAYS wanted to get out one station early, thinking that was the proper bus stop/metro station.
at least now i have a little heads-up for fall 2005…
[more...]

before i leave to budX (cnn’s city code for budapest – i like it!), i would like to announce that my good friend andi has released his new website:

www.designguide.at has all the information you need for designing logos, starting at basics like “training your creativity” and “making primary conceptions”, to all the “technical” stuff you need to know.
(unfortunately for those of you, who don’t speak german, it’s in german only.)

i joined my parents in watching the opening ceremony of the world-famous vienna opera ball for some minutes, because …well, they had all the pistachios.

so anyway: one of the moderators just talked about the flower arrangements, and he said something like “and those who have advanced botany knowledge, like me, will recognize the beautiful anthurium flowers”. he didn’t stress out “like me” right after knowledge, but it clearly was his point.

now, what the self-proclaimed “professor of botany” doesn’t know is: anthurium looks *a little* different from the flowers that were actually shown: strelitzia reginae, a.k.a. bird-of-paradise flower.

and besides, what makes the viennese ball so famous? it’s just a typical ball, isn’t it?
and who the whell would pay 16.000 € (SIXTEEN THOUSAND euros) to be in a loge?

i think, things are getting *a little* out of proportion:

i can’t remember the last time, we had that much snow!
of course, i’m eager to repress winters from my memory, so that doesn’t really count for a lot…

i’ve written the last two *extensively long* posts while lying in my bed, with my notebook on the belly.
i did it this way, because it was very relaxing, AND i’m so tired i couldn’t have done it sitting.

on the other hand, there’s so much i want to do/finish only within the next 10 minutes, i just can’t go to sleep yet.

my eyes are nearly closing unwillingly, but i’m too busy to give them a rest.
and there it is already, the mighty go-to-bed-headache.
maybe this is getting self-destructive?
 

[lyrics quote of the moment]
i go to the clyde for to mourn and weep
for satisfied i never can be
i write her letters, just a few short lines
and suffer death a thousand times
gaelic storm – black is the colour (link)