This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2016-01-19. I migrated this post in January 2026.

Bag is packed.

Next stop Istanbul. By tomorrow morning I should arrive on Katmandu.

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2015-11-29. I migrated this post in January 2026.

Google announced the Design Language “Material Design” in Summer 2014.

I think I first got in touch with it via the Google Now cards and the Google Keep App.

Now, one and a half years later I am still impressed. For me, it seems to be the right way to present digital content. It doesn’t try to simulate real objects, but it still is understandable - for a digital immigrant, as I am.

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2015-11-28. I migrated this post in January 2026.

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This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2015-01-21. I migrated this post in January 2026.

As I am now living in Bavaria, I have managed to visit New York, Rio and Rosenheim (Wiki). But now, I am officially allowed to sing along when “New York, Rio, Tokyo” (Wiki) is playing on the radio. As I just realized that this song did not enter the charts anywhere else in the world, probably only Germans might care about this.

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2014-08-13. I migrated this post in January 2026.

Liebe Oma,

das zweite Wort und schon das erste Schmunzeln. Ob Dein Vorname nun Alfreda oder Alfrieda lautete und in welchem Dokument welcher Name stand, werde ich wahrscheinlich nie verstehen. Für die meisten warst du einfach nur “s’ Alfredl”. Für meine Generation und sogar deine eigenen Kinder, warst du “die Oma”. Für die nächste Generation - deine Urenkel - warst Du schon zur “alten Oma” geworden.

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2014-07-02. I migrated this post in January 2026.

I thought about it so many times. Time to take action.

“I[…t’s…] good, I[…t’s…] gone”.

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This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2014-06-16. I migrated this post in January 2026.

My focus is currently on my “Inselrunde” project.

The idea is to swim around the island on which I grew up. This is Reichenau in Lake Constance.

Check out inselrunde.de

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2013-12-09. I migrated this post in January 2026.

When I started blogging some time ago, it was mainly because I did not like the idea that only a certain group of people has access to what I am writing about. It is not that I am spreading world changing thoughts here. But I wanted to participate on what I understood as “the internet” - or “web 2.0” to be more precise. Something that everybody who wants to participate in, can do so - also knowing that everybody else on the internet can access it.

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2013-10-08. I migrated this post in January 2026.

The idea to participate in the Berlin Marathon came up together with the idea to move to the capital. So that must have been around April or May. I had not been running all winter long. Seriously, after the “3 Länder Marathon” in October last year, I did not want to run at all. Looking back, that was a traumatic experience. Not that the result would have been bad, not at all. The problem was, that I just wanted to run this 42k to “put a check on this”. I was in quite good shape at that time, as I had trained for the 70.3 IronMan in Austria for quite a while. I just wanted to take advantage of this and then stop all of this endurance sports bull*. That’s what I thought at that time. I made it, but it was a horrible race. Pouring rain, cold, wind - real pain was already starting at k25. That is too early! So I was fed up with running after that. For sure, I did not stop with sports. I swam a lot all winter through, went skiing, practice yoga. But no running.

This post was originally published on d1db3k.blogspot.com on 2013-08-22. I migrated this post in January 2026. The original video which was shared with this post isn’t on YouTube anymore. I need to check whether I can recover it.

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