Cairo

Größere Kartenansicht

The Marriott Zamalek is located in the center of Cairo - a good place to stay.

Giza Necropolis

Autumn

Klar beschildert.

[YUL]

Approaching Montreal Dorval Airport

Basel

Blick aus dem Innenhof des Rathauses.

timecfg.txt

copy into root directory. will be read during next start and deleted.

Tempest

View from my balcony yesterday evening.

ResetReset

battery/power reset:

1.) remove battery

2.) press power-off button 5-10 sec

3.) install battery again

port/PRAM reset:

1.) shutdown system

2.) press AND HOLD cmd+alt+p+r while pressing power-on button - hold keys until 3rd starting sound

3.) release keys.

Anatomical details of a tree

Dubai

Todessehnsucht

Knoxville, TN

View from my room at the Crown Plaza, downtown Knoxville.

Upload from iPhone :-)

Basel

Snow and desert

brrrrrrrr

brrrrrr

Seatguru

1/  Be early at the airport and ask for a seat at the emergency exit. If there are two rows at the wing exits, always request the rear one (the front one usually has fixed seatbacks). 

2/  Have a look at SeatGuru before checking in. 

Zürich Air Traffic

This air traffic map of Zurich Airport is simply amazing. It works in real time as one can check with the arrivals displays -- and looking out of my window I can identify the planes on the sky. :-)

Thanks.....

How the Hilton in London Kensington ranks the intelligence of its guests. 

Venezia

Went for dinner to Venice, almost died on the way back home. However, the real question remains where is home? 

Foucault's Pendulum

Foucault's pendulum at the musée des arts et métiers, Paris. 

Côte d’Azur

Yesterday night I returned from a quite enjoyable trip to the Côte d'Azur which included not only interesting discussions about biomarkers at Nice and experimental statistics at Monte Carlo but also excellent food wherever I went. 

I get more and more used to the Canon EOS 5D and realise what an inadequate toy the EOS 400D was. Colours are perfect and the macro flash finally works on a digital EOS body. Noise is very low, even at ISO 1600. 

Stability

Seen at an international airport in Eastern Europe.

Sicily

Carl Zeiss Biogon 21mm f/2.8 on Fuji Velvia 50, scanned with Minolta DiMAGE @ 5400 dpi. 

Jet lag in Seattle...

... but who'd complain waking up for this view of downtown Seattle at sunrise, seen from the 24th floor of the Renaissance Hotel...

One week in Genova

"Lissssten, it's not so easy!"

Earlier this week I was in Warsaw, Poland. This reminded me of one colleague at DESY who was responsible for our DAQ. During one surreal night shift I made the following entry to the HERMES logbook (thanks to Chris for digging this out):

DAQ expert examines script and complains extensively and passionately about "total idiotism of several scripts executed on many different computers". He suggests that the authors of this "should be recycled to Whiskas but this Whiskas would be poison for cats so they should be recycled to soap." [Recoil person wonders at this point if the authors or the poisoned cats should be recycled to soap.]

Only one year passed by since I left HERMES but all these stories seem so far away and unreal and absurd that I'm sometimes not sure if it really was like that - but it was.

Genova

Just returned from the EPAC'08 conference in Genova. Phantastic city, great food.