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Large Hadron Collider

Boston.com features a series of gorgeous shots of CERN's LHC.

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Faema Faemina

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Smoke-Free Restaurants in Austria

The Aerztekammer's list here.

Hello Austrofred, Hello Vienna

Austrofred's new DVD was again authored by Alexandrow Paul and can be ordered already.

Syria 2007

This month I was invited to Syria to attend the Palmyra festival to make some demo jumps, which was planned to accompany hot air balloon flights as part of the festival. Here are some pictures:


More on the subject, when I get confirmation that the balloons have returned to Europe. For now, let's just say that not everything went exactly as planned...

Generelles Rauchverbot

Gute Sache: http://www.generellesrauchverbot.at

Net Neutrality

It seems that the discussion about Net Neutrality finally made it into Austria's IT mainstream: #1, #2 (both German).
I think I do not have to make clear, why I can't take people serious, who even consider putting this topic up for discussion (like clueless Rudi Fischer). This has already been argued by a lot of other brillant people.
The funny thing is, that at least one Austrian Telco has different pricing models for different types of content over the same connection without anyone giving a shit about it for years: One (this is the only one I know it of, but I guess it's similar with the others).
Customers of One (One Data that is) pay EUR 1,50 per MB using One's standard GPRS accesspoint. But just as long as they don't access any WAP content, which is blocked for no obvious reason on this accesspoint. For WAP you have to use One's special GPRS for WAP accesspoint, which charges you 15 Cent per 10 kb. Guess why they give you the Rates in MB here and in kb there... the latter adds up to EUR 15,36 per MB!
I don't know how the blocking is done, maybe by checking a document's contentType Header, but this is one of the most outrageous attempts to take customers for stupid ever made by an Austrian Telco.

One, you suck.

Fit mit Austrofred

Der Alexandrow Paul hat wieder mal bei einer schönen Sache mitgemacht: Fit mit Austrofred, des Champions jetzt auf DVD re-releasetes Opus zum topaktuellen Wellnessboom.

Hinweis: Leute, die sich dieses Produkt angesehen haben, fanden auch dieses extrem geil.

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