I have returned from a 3 week visit to Blantyre. It was a very relaxing holiday. I visted family and friends in Malawi’s biggest city.

The weather was beautiful as expected: hot and rainy. Even though the rainy season has started, temperatures soared to 36 degrees and more on several days. Blantyre is located at [...]

I am making Schoggi-Weggli based on this recipe

In my inbox:

“If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google.”

http://incubator.apache.org/wave/

http://code.google.com/p/walkaround/

I am trying out a couple of new Chrome apps:

I have always been a radio junkie. Listening to news and current affairs.

Favorite radio stations include BBC World Service, NPR.

Started listening to Deutschlandfunk. I like the detailed news hour coverage.

Many social media centuries ago, 2 bloggers started collecting photos of Nutella alternatives. It was just a fun idea on the sidelines. Started, while we were talking about Nutella culture and regional variants in Italy, Israel, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany.

Well, we’re still collecting.

Many [...]

I saw the photography show “Photography calling” at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover yesterday.

It is really diverse showing the work of 31 different photographers. Inspiring.

Postponed my day trip to the mountains. Cos of rain. The weather is improving this afternoon….

Some free time to clean and sort and catch up with things. And unbox some of those remaining moving boxes.

I am trying very hard not to read work-related emails on my Blackberry.

I am watching [...]