I have finally updated my wordpress version and in this process also changed my design and added a new page “Designs”. On the design-page I’ll showcase some of my recent designs… (feel free to offer me a job as designer 
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The pictures from the recent Small World competition are not only amazing but would also make fabulous background graphics for the next presentation – at least in bioinformatics
This will be a phantastic tool onec it is available again: Jotspot. It will be something like a Wiki, but while Wikies are restricted to plain text, Jotspot will be able to provide spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries. Really looking forward to the “opening day”
Yesterday, we went to the conventioncenter here in brisbane to see the sport-exhibition. It was quite a dissapointment because it was tiny and the sporting-cloth-specials were the leftovers from at least 4 sales when you can be pretty damn sure that no one wants them. However, while searching for the main hall of the sport-exhibition (because we did not want to believe that we just paid $20 for virtually nothing) we stumbeled into the good food and wine-exhibition. And that was like disneyland for foodies. Two lare halls stuffed with happiness ! Every stand had something to taste and that icludes the wineries! They sold little glasses at the entrance and and one would just step to the desks of the stands hold out the glass and point to the wine(s) of ones choice – even the high end stuff like Taylors Cabernet Sauvignon ($55). We tried at least 20 different wines and that was only a fraction of the ones available. After the first round of wine tasting we moved on to the food are because we needed some solid base for the next round (hard work the tasting…you know) : chilli chicken stir-fry from lilydale.
Some outstanding wines we tasted:
Wise Wine – The bramley – Cabernet sauvignon (2003)
Sorby Adams – Cabernet Sauvignon
Richmond Grove – Weathervane – Cabernet Merlot
Taylors – Promised Land – Shiraz Cabernet
Some outstanding food we tasted:
Bondi Chai – Club Cinamon
Some outstanding people we met:
Amanda Kramer – Wise wines
Shawn Kalleske – laughing jack wines
Mutto
A wounderfull experience that was rounded off with a fortified wine tasting: Two wineries were commentating their fortified wine range. We tasted the starting material (2006) over the decent fortified wines which you can buy in the store to the high end range of wines which are picked in the 1960s. While the young wines are just sweet the 5-6 year olds have a wider taste range. However the step from the youngsters to the normal fortified wines is tiny when compared to the huge difference the 40 year old wines make. Eventhough they had the highest sugar content of all the tasted wines, the other aromas took over and created an amazing tasting experience. My favourite was Buller Calliope Rare Muscat.
Fashion and horses go together so why not combine them in a hat. Especially when it comes to a “fabulous hat” for the big horse racing day here in Australia : The Melbourne Cup.
I went to Bunnings (my favourite store out of all – for some reasong, because I’m there every weekend) to buy wire, which I then formed into a big horse head. Added to a normal straw hat and combined with a bit of leafs and flowers and you designed yourself a prize winning “fabulous hat” ($20 voucher and a bottle of sparkling wine).
I went again to my favourite national park : Lemmington national park. Enjoyed the trip to the lemington park with all the narrow winding roads even more this time:
by now I seem to have driven this road so many times that I’m faster than the average tourist, because this time the other cars pulled over and let me though instead of the other way around.
This time I managed to convince everyone to have a wood-fire pizza afterwards. There were some huge bushfires – it almost would have been not necessary to go to the restaurant to have wood-fire pizza…
It is autumn (at least on the other side of the earth) and this is when the “Wein-Feste” take place in Germany (in the region I’m from). Just because I’m in Australia now doesn’t mean I have to do without these nice get-togethers.
So we organized our own wine-festival on the back-deck of our house.
We had Mince-Leek-Cheese soup and “Flammkuchen” and a couple of bottles of wine. All in all a nice australian wine-festival and I have nothing against adopting this as annual event.
…even a grasshopper. Everything seems to be a bit larger in Australia: The grasshopper was about 10cm large, you can get a feeling for the size from the car-picture. Note also the wicket reflection from the curving of the heck.
I bugged that poor feller quite a bit by taking so may picktures of him, so he tried to escape into nature. With one huge jump he was sitting on the tree where I took the other picture.
Global warming is being discussed again: An inconvenient truth is a movie not comparable to any movie shown in cinema before, it is neither fiction nor documentary, it is neither entertaining nor bleak; rather fascinating in the inescapabe way only science is able to.
It is a slide-show presented by the man who “used to be the next president of the united states”, Al Gore. He communicates the heavy load of scientific evidence gathered from a wide range of studies in an easy to absorb but never trivial manner. Unlike known movies, interviews or documents he is not only focusing on the evidence but tries to address every possible issue that stops people from accepting and undertaking the necessary steps.
This movie has the power to convince (or refresh) your sense of urgency with which changes need to be undertaken. It makes you aware of what your options are right now. And leaves you with the strong desire to contribute your part to a better, healthier and lasting future of our planet.
… but there is so much more to see (i visited only 13 countries: 5%).
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