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Space Tourists

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Here is a film recommendation: Space Tourists, a documentation by Christian Frei ran on Phoenix tonight.

Space Tourists follows multi-millionaire and X-Prize sponsor Anousheh Ansari on her 2006 journey to the ISS and Charles Simonyi through his training in preparation for his flight. You get a really interesting view of the ISS and the Russian space program which feels like it’s stuck somewhere in the 70s.

But it gets really interesting when Frei contrasts the super-rich and high-tech with scrap metal chasers that find and tear apart the Sojus boosters falling back on the grass plains of Kazakhstan, farmers in the Altai mountains that make tools out of rocket scrap metal. We also see a failed attempt of the Romanian ARCA team to launch a rocket in to the stratosphere, which is an entirely different thing than the Sojus technology. (Good news is, in October 2010 they launched their rocket successfully.) These not-so high-tech touchpoints of people with space are really the new and interesting thing.

I wholly recommend watching it. I stumbled across it while zapping and was riveted.

The official movie site is here.

New Amnesty International commercial: „You Are Powerful“

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Usually, I am not a big fan of the commercials made for AI or other human rights groups. Most of them feel like lion bait with lots of emotion, shock etc. instead of seriously trying to win people for the cause.

But I do like this new commercial for Amnesty International. I like that it dramatically visualizes what I believe Amnesty is about (and why I am a member): normal people stepping in when human rights are violated. You might discuss the effect that effort has in reality, as in the YouTube comments. But without Amnesty and all the people engaging, the world would be a much worser place.

Edit: Agency is Mother, London. http://www.motherlondon.com/

Lost

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A Lost-Note outside my house. It says:
Small RC-Plane.
If found, please return Monday Block 20c Flat 5 from 1pm.
P L E A S E
Hope they found it.

Weekend Activities: Walk in the Alps

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Spent the weekend in Salzburg. First of all, to meet Lisl and Sameel with whom we had stayed in Brisbane. It was so nice to see them again. On Sunday we took the opportunity of fabulous sunny weather for a hike up the Nockstein near Salzburg with Heidi’s parents. We were rewarded with a beautiful panorama of the Northern Alps.This is one of the really nice things about Austria. Heidi and I renewed our vow to get out in the mountains more often.And we found mushrooms while walking. It has been a while since I found so many. That was a perfect dinner for five people.

Floating Ideas on my birthday

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We went to dinner at Midori. Pretty neat asian place beneath the Schlossberg. Miso soup, noodles. Very nice.Best thing though was the lamps above the corner tables. Lots of notes attached to the lamps. Many ideas, quotes, poems, maybe shopping lists in a multitude of different languages.

Happy Birthday

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Don’t you get bored after 30 birthdays?A day like any other.Except for the Birthday Muffin in the morning.And the phone calls, messages, E-Mails.

Weekend activities. This week: Boiler replacement.

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The total lack of warm water and the recent drop in temperature forced us to replace our warm water boiler. With the professional help of Herbert and Stephan. The DIY heart of mine jumps with joy and pride looking at our new archievement. However, the soup we retrieved from our old boiler was quite a view. To think that we washed ourselves with this and felt clean afterwards…

Scotland 2007

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These are a couple of pictures from our Scotland trip. In two weeks we covered most of the country and drove around 2500 kilometres.Prestwick/Glasgow – New Lanark – Edinburgh – Haggis – Slochd Mohr – Loch Ness – Fort Augustus – Uruqhart Castle – Fort George – Culloden – Inverness – Rogart – John O’Groats – Dunedin Head – Ullapool – Gairloch – Ruadh Reidh – Sheep Dog Trials – Fort William – Glencoe – Loch Lomond – Glasgow – Stirling – Highland Games and back.See all the images here

DMS presentation

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Here is the presentation I did at Lowe GGK last week.

Feedback was awesome. We are working on exciting products with them now.

Relaxed Working

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This is me (my feet) at Starbucks Vienna. Using some extra time between meetings for the finishing touches for my presentation at Lowe GGK. They happen to be 50 metres up the road from Starbucks. How convenient.