I’ve been totally neglecting this site for the past half a year. For some reason or another I don’t find anything worthwhile to write about or I do but then I change my mind and so we go back full circle. So perhaps it’s time to make a little summary of the past few months…

Nothing much happened after the summer road trip to Portugal. At least not worth talking about… Eventually we had a Finnish Xmas in Tampere and a wedding on new years eve near Lahti.

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Afterwards we had ourselves a quick summer in the middle winter ski trip to Austria. Tauplitz, Saalbach-Hinterglemm-Leogang, Zell am See-Kaprun and Zauchensee on an extremely warm prolonged weekend. No powder to be found anywhere… just the hard packed reality of a lousy winter. We based ourselves at a small bio bauernhof. Nicely priced, convenient location with lots of great skiing within an hours drive and friendly.

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On occasion we managed to get out, do some winter hiking and the like. The photo below is from a ski touring escape, there and back before lunch type of deal.

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An overview of interesting articles that came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently

• Men In Trees: A Look at the Annual Portuguese Cork Harvest
  from: Core77 on October 25 2011
• HOWTO take over your neighbor’s stereo
  from: Boing Boing on October 25 2011
• World Solar Challenge Results Are Disputed
  from: IEEE Spectrum Recent Content full text on October 25 2011
• Mouth agape… awesome promo video
  from: Vincent Laforet's Blog on October 25 2011
• Booths and Bodies: Short documentary shot on Sony NEX 5N
  from: Philip Bloom on October 25 2011
• Video: South African biker saves calf from drowning
  from: Gadling on October 24 2011
• Three common mistakes in medical journalism
  from: Boing Boing on October 24 2011
• Research: Auto-selecting good stills from a video
  from: John Nack on Adobe on October 24 2011
• CodeSOD: The Query of Despair
  from: The Daily WTF on October 24 2011
• That Top 1% Thing
  from: Dilbert.com Blog on October 24 2011
• Backsplash on a Budget: Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz’ Water Angel
  from: Strobist on October 24 2011
• Keeping it real
  from: Math Fail on October 23 2011
• How to: No tangle extension cord storage
  from: Boing Boing on October 22 2011
• Why the QR Code Is Failing
  from: Daring Fireball on October 21 2011
• Improv in Toronto: DARE TO FIGHT!?
  from: Boing Boing on October 21 2011
• Reality Series Coming to Everest
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on October 21 2011
• Updates & Followups: October 21st
  from: The Online Photographer on October 21 2011
• ‘I’m Going to Destroy Android, Because It’s a Stolen Product’
  from: Daring Fireball on October 21 2011
• People Don’t Care About Your Competitors – (by @baekdal)
  from: Baekdal.com on October 21 2011
• Periodic table of swearing
  from: Boing Boing on October 21 2011
• Schrödinger’s Cat on Yahoo Answers
  from: Math Fail on October 21 2011
• Intervju z vodjo razvoja pri Pipistrelu
  from: Kvarkadabra blog on October 21 2011
• The history of the typewriter recited by Michael Winslow
  from: kottke.org on October 20 2011
• Decades-Old ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Strip Succinctly Explains Occupy Wall Street Movement
  from: Daring Fireball on October 20 2011
• ProVideo Coalition.com: CUT.N.COLOR by Steve Hullfish
  from: provideocoalition.com on October 20 2011
• ProVideo Coalition.com: News by PVC Staff
  from: provideocoalition.com on October 20 2011
• National Geographic features the Sami
  from: Rob Galbraith DPI on October 20 2011
• An American Tourist in North Korea
  from: Wired Top Stories on October 20 2011
• Gorniški filmi v Mariboru!
  from: Friko.si – slovenski plezalni portal on October 20 2011

An overview of interesting articles that came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently

• Stockholm Archipelago – s kajakom
  from: www.mphoto.si on October 19 2011
• 10/17/11 PHD comic: ‘Dress Codes’
  from: PHD Comics on October 18 2011
• Skin writing
  from: kottke.org on October 18 2011
• Photoshop Image Deblurring
  from: The Online Photographer on October 18 2011
• The Austrian Way — Beacon Check or Jail
  from: – The Backcountry Skiing Blog on October 18 2011
• Why HTTPS in facebook is not what it claims to be | DroidSheep
  from: droidsheep.de on October 18 2011
• Reuters: Accusations of financial impropriety drive Olympus shares down
  from: Rob Galbraith DPI on October 17 2011
• 48-camera Matrix rig pushes GoPro’s tech limits
  from: FreshDV on October 15 2011
• Popular Science -: Throwable Camera-Ball Captures a 360° Panoramic Photo in Mid-Air
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on October 14 2011
• The GM College Anti-Bike Campaign
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on October 14 2011
• Film Fading to Black – Creative COW
  from: magazine.creativecow.net on October 14 2011
• The Cool Hunter – Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 2)
  from: www.thecoolhunter.net on October 14 2011
• Gallery: Chris Burkard Surf Photography
  from: The Cleanest Line on October 13 2011
• Hacked! – Magazine – The Atlantic
  from: www.theatlantic.com on October 13 2011
• The Man Who Sailed His House
  from: Longform.org on October 13 2011
• New Google Maps WebGL
  from: Mapperz – The Mapping News Blog on October 13 2011
• Wild Britain with Ray Mears on ITV1 – Series 2
  from: Woodlore Blog on October 13 2011
• RAM vs. Energy Consumption
  from: Daring Fireball on October 12 2011
• Rangefinderforum.com: ARRI, Panavision and Aaton have ceased production of film cameras
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on October 12 2011
• LensRentals.com – Lens Genealogy – Part 2
  from: www.lensrentals.com on October 12 2011
• LensRentals.com – Lens Genealogy Part 1
  from: www.lensrentals.com on October 12 2011
• Lens Genealogy
  from: The Online Photographer on October 11 2011
• Globokomorska neumnost
  from: Kvarkadabra blog on October 6 2011
• Google Cloud SQL: Your database in the cloud
  from: Google App Engine Blog on October 6 2011
• Score This: Photog 1, Cheapskate 0
  from: groozi.com on October 6 2011
• Further by Teton Gravity Research and Jeremy Jones
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on October 5 2011
• A View of Aconcagua
  from: Mountain Photographer on October 5 2011
• We've All Been There
  from: The Online Photographer on October 5 2011
• Nano House
  from: Cool Hunting on October 5 2011
• 1000-piece stick bomb video
  from: Boing Boing on October 5 2011
• Blue Obsession, Climbing Receding Glaciers in Alaska
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on October 5 2011
• 11 Travel Books for Bums
  from: Alastair Humphreys on October 5 2011
• Kickstarter Hit With Patent Claim Over Crowd-Funding (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
  from: Techmeme on October 5 2011

An overview of interesting articles that came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently

• Lunch with a Nobel laureate in Economics
  from: Philip Greenspun's Weblog on October 5 2011
• Hidden In The Woods
  from: English Russia on October 4 2011
• Maths Routine (video)
  from: Math Fail on October 2 2011
• Kdo plačuje novinarja?
  from: Kvarkadabra blog on October 1 2011
• Why is Sergey Brin so good at Angry Birds?
  from: kottke.org on September 30 2011
• Biology Inspires Better Wind Power
  from: IEEE Spectrum on September 30 2011
• Japanese Co-Pilot Hits Wrong Button, Plane Goes into Dive
  from: IEEE Spectrum on September 30 2011
• Comic Sans is not official
  from: 22 Words on September 30 2011
• “Guy On a Buffalo”, A Destined Classic
  from: TetonAT.com on September 30 2011
• Lifehacker: Keep Sponges from Getting Grimy with One Cut [MacGyver Tip]
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on September 29 2011
• Icebreaker Really Makes Some Strange Decisions
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on September 29 2011
• Q&A: Avoiding Cross Shadows When Rim-Lighting
  from: Strobist on September 29 2011
• Being Elmo trailer
  from: kottke.org on September 28 2011

An overview of interesting articles that came through my Google Reader subscriptions recently

• PSA, What’s Available in Polartec Neoshell?
  from: – The Backcountry Skiing Blog on September 9 2011
• Commitment To Your Work = Taking An Entire Year To Make a Single Image
  from: Chase Jarvis Blog on September 7 2011
• What we SHOULD have been taught in our senior year of high school
  from: The Oatmeal – Comics, Quizzes, & Stories on September 7 2011
• Jeb Corliss Flies Through Chinese Cave in Wingsuit
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on September 27 2011
• Z vejk desko in vitlom proti tonam drveče vode
  from: FAJN.SI on September 27 2011
• Trije logiki pridejo v bar …
  from: Kvarkadabra blog on September 27 2011
• Štiriletnik vpenja smeri do 6a! (Video)
  from: Friko.si – slovenski plezalni portal on September 23 2011
• information aesthetics: Submarine Cable Map: All Cable Systems and Landing Stations
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on September 23 2011
• “Mac n’ Cheese”: Painterly animation, nothing to do with food
  from: John Nack on Adobe on September 22 2011
• The world's rudest hand gestures
  from: kottke.org on September 22 2011
• Always Full
  from: Math Fail on September 22 2011
• Long Exposure Photos of Yurikamome High Speed Rail Transit | Colossal
  from: thisiscolossal.com on September 22 2011
• ProRes Codecs now a free download
  from: The Video Road on September 21 2011
• He Who Giveth
  from: Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes on September 20 2011
• My favourite work on Vimeo
  from: Philip Bloom on September 19 2011
• The amazing lyrebird can mimic anything
  from: kottke.org on September 19 2011
• Coyotes Move Into California Home
  from: Backcountry.com: The Goat on September 19 2011
• Extreme schooling
  from: kottke.org on September 16 2011
• Photographing Monster Storms
  from: lens culture photography weblog on September 16 2011
• The world's funniest analogies
  from: kottke.org on September 15 2011
• Popular Science -: The Mystery of Wrinkly-When-Wet Fingers, Solved
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on September 14 2011
• In the Surf
  from: In Focus on September 14 2011
• Golf mi lomi srce
  from: Kvarkadabra blog on September 10 2011
• DVICE: Super accurate Russian GPS coming to a cell phone near you
  from: Temboz – interesting articles feed on September 9 2011
• Job misunderstandings
  from: kottke.org on September 9 2011
• Koliko energije za eno iskanje na Googlu?
  from: Kvarkadabra blog on September 9 2011