football time & sunshine in salzburg

So, Lena, Robert & Lorenz came to Salzburg to support Costa Rica in
the opening match of the FIFA world cup against Germany.
Even though Costa Rica lost 4-2, we celebrated every goal
fanatically and remembered the great time we had in Costa Rica,
at least I did ;-). Eventually summer came back to Salzburg
now after weeks weeks of winterly temperatures. Sorry for those visiting Salzburg
in the last weeks having awful weather,
even though there are always options to have a wonderful time here :)

a few impressions...

...from this weekend (from the Gaisberg, the soccer match on the Residenzplatz (mind the helicopter) and the sunny sky above Salzburg)

Canada photos online

Finally, I managed to put the photos from the trip to Canada online. The collection contains photos made by Christoph taken with his SLR (thx) and some shots I took with my digicam. The descriptions are very short, but I hope to be able to tell everyone of you more about the trip in a face-to-face setting.

sun & chi

After several days of heavy rain we experienced 2 days of sun in new brunswick. However, right now I'm sitting in a room without any windows attending a session at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI) in Montreal. It's raining again in Montreal while the sun is shining in Salzburg (I hope that this is not the only sunny week this spring in Salzburg) However there are lots of interesting people here at the conference and before that I was cordially received in Montreal by Karin. We got to know at high school and she's now at the beginning of an incredible academic career in biochemistry.

Day 1 in Canada

We arrived yesterday in Halifax and the weather was rainy and stormy - typical scottish weather on Nova Scotia. Today we went to Peggy's Cove, a lovely small village with a harbour and a wonderful light house. We had sunshine for half an hour there but we learned what windchill means ;-) Now I'm sitting in Baddeck, appr. 400 km northeast from Peggy's Cove from where we start our trip round the Cabot Trail tomorrow morning. Life can be so nice.

Spring is back again in Salzburg

Mild temperatures returned to Salzburg after nearly 6 months of snow. We used the sunshine to give my hammock from Costa Rica a try in the park of Hellbrunn Castle.

my current research toy

Even though Sony finished the develepment of Aibo I find it cool :)