New Camera Obscura album. Here’s one well deserved good review. As always, a combination of clever, often sarcastic, somewhat mopish lyrics and supersweet tunes. What’s not to love?!


Here’s my first bento box ever. Bentos are traditional Japanese lunch boxes that contain a variety of food and are often nicely decorated. I have no experience with traditional Japanese food other than the occasional take-out sushi, so I filled the box with more common stuff. The largest compartment contains fried rice and is decorated [...]

Hope you all had a lovely extended weekend! Here are some photos of my Easter decoration and some plants on my balcony.
I am currently in the process of switching some servers from Debian 4.0 to CentOS 5.3. Almost all Linux distributions provide convenient tools to keep the software selection safe and current by installing updates. As I run multiple servers, these update processes are unnecessarily bandwith-hungry, because by default every host connects to the distributions update [...]



