LJ's new Xcolibur design is in beta test now.

you may turn it on/off here for testing. I tried it under IE, Opera, Netscape, KDE Konqueror, Chimera, Camino, Safari, Mozilla, Skate, Gzilla... and even on PalmOS WebPro and EPOC Opera. It looks pretty much the same everywhere. Because everything is CSS-based, it seems to load much faster.

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I found some more webcams in Basel (my city):

• Freie Strasse cam1 [big]
  
• Freie Strasse cam2 [big]
  
• Barfüsserplatz cam1 [big]
  
• Barfüsserplatz cam2 [big] you may move/zoom this camera here
  
• Barfüsserplatz cam3
  
• Schifflände [big]
  
• Klingelbergstrasse
  
• Voltaplatz cam1, cam2, cam3
  
• Marktplatz
  
• Aeschenplatz
  
• Messeplatz
  
• Breisacherstrasse
  
• highway A2/German border

As I am too busy and lazy to post something new in my LJ, I just link to last year's entries about what's going on these days in my city: Chienbääse took place yesterday night and this morning 4am, Basel carnival started. If you want to see live pictures, check out one of these cams: webcam1, webcam2.

Since I missed his last performance in my city, I was very happy I could attend Tomatito's concert last Friday at the Stadtcasino Basel. It was really great. His guitar play is unique and virtuoso, no need to tell you more, he's already way too famous [If you don't know Tomatito, listen to an example of his music or you may remember him of his ( Read more... )

I really neglect L
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My weekend in London was short, even shorter due to delayed airplane. Because I don't have time for L
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I guess I have to post something in my LJ again after being inactive for several weeks... a lot has happened in the meantime, but I will report later. I'm quite busy at the moment and I have not even time to read my friends' journals.

by the way: do you know what time it is?

finally, it's snowing. and the snow even stays in the city:


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check out this alternate version of google. What is meant to be a parody seems to be used to bypass the 'Great Firewall of China': PRC's governement is blocking internet access to certain news and informations sites hosting content they consider unacceptable. As all internet users in China are bound to government-run internet service providers, ( Read more... )

For the first time in this winter, all of Switzerland is covered by snow. Apart from the snow, there were heavy storms and even a spectacular rock slide causing a motorway tunnel to collapse. The snowing started yesterday night when I was driving on the highway from Geneva to Basel. The psychedelic effect of the heavy snowing lit by the headlights ( Read more... )