I should really stick to res­ol­u­tions I made: do not (in any case) read busi­ness mails on the week­end or in the free time!

I finally decided to move my gal­lery to a (more spe­cial­ised) ser­vice pro­vider. Maybe you already noticed the new nam­ing scheme. Even though Men­alto Gal­lery is a great piece of soft­ware, I wanted to have an easy-to-use, safe solu­tion that does not require manual soft­ware updates or upgrades to be installed. I’m get­ting lazy, I know :)

So, the new gal­lery is still reach­able via http://phbaer.net/gallery/ but it will be redir­ec­ted to http://photos.phbaer.net/. Unfor­tu­nately, Smug­Mug offers no secured con­nec­tions to the user gal­ler­ies. You will fur­ther need to enable JavaS­cript, just in case you deac­tiv­ated it.

Please do not be alarmed by the new domain name of miss­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies of the new ser­vice. I hope you still enjoy brows­ing through my col­lec­tion and do not hes­it­ate to com­ment or rate the pictures! :)

It’s the same (pro­ced­ure) every year: people start think­ing about what to change in the new year, or even worse: what to change with the dawn of the new year’s first day. In most cases, these ideas are scrapped quite quickly. I’m quite sure that you all know what I mean. I don’t like the idea of for­cing changes, espe­cially regard­ing changes in one’s way of liv­ing, atti­tude, or beha­viour. Sad but true, people are try­ing to force other people to change some­thing quite fre­quently. That doesn’t work with me. Admit­tedly, that’s not entirely true. It works in the sense that I will most prob­ably react in a way that was not inten­ded by the other per­son. Kind of buck­ing the trend. That’s me :)

Air­port People: Almost always in a hurry

The last days I (again) thought about a lot of things. On Wed­nes­day, when I walked through and sat around in Bremen’s air­port, I watched the people around me. They were walk­ing, talk­ing, hur­ry­ing, wait­ing, greet­ing, going, chat­ting, laugh­ing, dream­ing, hop­ing, being wild with excite­ment, had a thrill of anti­cip­a­tion. These are only some attrib­utes I noticed; the last one might be quite well known for one or two read­ers. The excite­ment I actu­ally per­ceived only with two indi­vidu­als: a woman that had just arrived from Lon­don and a dog that was so excited about the arrival of a couple (I sup­pose) that he (or she) spun and twis­ted around him– or her­self like mad. It’s really, really inter­est­ing to think about the stor­ies that cause such emo­tional beha­viour. Espe­cially air­ports and rail sta­tions are places where you can observe a broad range of excite­ments, it’s fas­cin­at­ing. I’m nor­mally quite neut­ral in the sense that … well, just neut­ral, you know? :)

Cur­rently, I’m cur­rently on hol­i­day, just doing noth­ing except things I like. This includes try­ing to avoid any reach­able com­puter device (except for answer­ing emails or writ­ing blog entries in the even­ings). It’s great, I hate com­puter I have to admit. It’s not pos­sible without them but also not with them. This also implies that there’s enough time to recap what happened the last year. Com­ing back to the ini­tial topic, I just wanted to say that I never want to be so stu­pid, so self-destructive, and dump like some­times in the last years. Would be great if (who­ever reads this mostly redund­ant post) could remind me of that (for now and the upcom­ing years)! Thanks and have a nice end of the year :)

Quite another lame day is almost over. Instead of doing use­ful things, I browsed through some pic­tures I took dur­ing our Spieker­oog trip in Novem­ber. Admit­teldly, I also played with the idea of repla­cing my good old (men­alto) gal­lery by a remotely hos­ted one. Any­way, like by a strange coin­cid­ence, while brows­ing the pic­tures I came across this ultra-short series of vis­ion­ary ges­tures below. I then remembered that I wanted to do a small col­lage back then but didn’t (as usual) man­age to do so until now.

It’s quite simple but still I some­how like it :)