Ross said yesterday at the Geek Factory that more people should post about Patriot II and he is right. In stealth mode, while I was out of the country traveling, Bush took the opportunity to sign parts of the bill into law. O.K. the real news occupying the channels wasn’t my travel, but the capture of Saddam Hussein. But I am back and I agree with …

Paul Krugman paints an accurate and a bit frightening picture: “1973 and 2000 the average real income of the bottom 90 percent of American taxpayers actually fell by 7 percent. Meanwhile, the income of the top 1 percent rose by 148 percent, the income of the top 0.1 percent rose by 343 percent and the income of the top 0.01 …

Woke up this morning to ice on the top of cars. Can’t remember seeing that before in San Francisco. Well, I am usually not up that early :-) Yahoo weather is saying 40

I admit, that I am very proud of my first Christmas tree. Today my neighbors came over to check it out and we lit the candles and sang some German Christmas Carols and had a great Christmas Eve Eve. Felt almost like home. It is a big difference to have real candles on the Christmas tree, the light, the warmth, the scent the …

If you have a couple of minutes check out this little animation. The combination of nature, cartoon and puzzle is excellent. P.S. Don’t blame me, if all in a sudden half of your day is gone :-)

After the comments and email requests for the Stormy Picture I checked with my sister and it turns out she didn’t take it. She never claimed she had and it was just a wrong assumption on my side. The one to the left was taken during the same storm at the office where she is working, but not the breathtaking one. She …

This is a great picture she send me today. 

I have only a vague recollection of the content of my Adventblog. Love that kind of memory hole, it is super exciting to check out what little treasure is behind the silver box this morning. There are another 5 from last year. Can’t wait. One more reason to get my act together and create new stories next year again.

I have been asked a couple of times in the last weeks, what about the Adventblog this year. Sorry to disappoint. Please check out last year’s. I was able to create an entry every day for over a week, which took me sometimes until 2 in the morning. I was becoming a Zombie then and had to stop.   My hope was to get …

Stumbled over this nice exhibition of Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters collection via Jason Kottke. Update: Yuri, the curator of the online museum, send me the translation to the text of the poster to the right, it sais: Alkohol — The Enemy of Industry.