The goddess of opera

Anna Netrebko

I read about the wonder in opera first in SZ Magazin Anna Netrebko and was fascinated by her at once – not only about her success as a sopranist and her steep career, but more about here looks and her natural behaviour. After having checked out her website and listening to her voice I desparately wanted to get tickets for “Traviata”, which she would play four times in Munich. But everything was – of course, as the magazine article told me already – sold out. Even the “Don Giovanni” in Vienna. So listening to her and seeing her will be at least for some time a dream…

Mozilla Firebird – the future of web-browsing!

Since yesterday I am an enthusiastic user of Mozilla Firebird, which is really the fastest and most convenient browser I have ever used. Additionally it comes along without any advertisments and one can be sure that it will be developed steadily further because of its open source idea. Right now Firebird is just a technology preview in its 0.7 version, but I am using it as my primary browser though it is even more stable than Internet Explorer ever was. And beside Firebird the new version of Mozilla 1.6 has recently been released, which comprises a whole Internet application suite with an eMail and newsgroup client, an IRC chat client, and HTML editing tools – based on Netscape’s design.

The most striking innovative features are in my eyes of all Mozilla products, including Firebird: The embedded pop-up blocker and search engine, which I already extended with the LEO Dictionary search tool, as well as the download manager. But above all the tabbed-browsing now allows you even more seamlessly than in Netscape 7 to navigate and organize yourself while doing some research or other things online. Not to mention that also the security and the better transparancy of your privacy are arguments to use Mozilla.

Nevertheless I am now using Firebird as my primary browser I will keep on using IE for mission critical tasks, like online banking and purchaeses over the web. But I am looking forward that and this is going to speed up when more and more people do join Mozilla & Co. Find here 101 reasons why Mozilla is better than the IE. So what are you waiting for?!

My 25th birthday party

Just woke up with a big headache and a bit without any orientation. The only things I did so far was uploading the pics from yesterday’s party and writing this posting.
So my 25th birthday party took this time place at the “Stern” with lots of cocktails. Afterwards the surviver of the first round went to the “Sausa” for some frozen Magarithas and more shots of Zubrowka I got from Poland. See some pictures here. Thanks to all of you again for this terrific night!

A new year begins…

Hope you all came well into the new year and work eager on your resolutions coming true.

I have extended my time in Poland a bit and returned at 7 January 2004 to Ingolstadt after a troublesome return by car with Rob and Steph from Frankfurt/Oder. We were confronted with flash ice and snow in Brandenburg just an hour after our departure, but somehow we made it with 50-60km per hour till Thueringen, where we stayed at Rob’s grandparents. All in all my way back from Wawa to IN took a bit more than 24 hours – new record!

Life in Ingolstadt is pretty the same than last year and the years before, which is really unspectacular: Learning people everywhere – including me.;)