Bees and butterflies in the garden
Today has been a lovely day – not too hot at 22°C and the insects have been enjoying the sun as much as we have.
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We went to the Nacht der Museen (Museum Night) in Frankfurt yesterday. This annual event is always well visited, and is a good way to see inside the 47 participating locations in Frankfurt. The tickets cost 12 Euro for unlimited visits to any of the museums last night. As well as being able to visit the regular exhibitions in the museums, the organisers also lay on special events for children and a wide range of musical performances for the adults. You can get an idea of what was on offer here (zipped PDF file, 3.3 MB). It’s impossible to visit everything in the time (19:00 hrs to 02:00 hrs), but we enjoyed visiting the Museum für Angewandte Kunst, the Museum der Weltkulturen and the Museum für Kommunikation. Recently Ruth asked me to set up a new website for her and some other textile artists who she has met. So I set up Use Your Eyes for them. Ruth was quite taken with the design, and decided she wanted her own blog Sew2Speak changing to use a similar skin, which is what . . . → Read More: Ruth’s new websites
View from our lounge this morning And the same view from upstairs It has been snowing since last Wednesday. And we and the neighbours are starting to run out of places to put the snow we’ve cleared. Since I took these pictures, it has continued to snow, and snow is forecast . . . → Read More: Running out of space for the snow I’ve mentioned before, that we both use mind maps – they are a great way of sorting out ideas for a presentation or sorting out what work needs to be done in a project, before you get as far as producing a project plan. Recently I have been looking for a tool . . . → Read More: Good tool for documenting ideas Not only birds appreciate our bird-feeder! . . . → Read More: Breakfast time Ruth unloading her summer tires Ruth ordered her Honda Civic on July 5th, 2008. It was finally delivered yesterday evening. Time to deliver: 231 days or 7 months and 16 days. Difficult to understand that Honda has just closed their factory in the UK, where Ruth’s Civic was manufactured, for four months, when . . . → Read More: Crisis? What crisis? You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be . . . → Read More: Gravators I have changed the template used for this site over the last week. And I have decided that I have spent enough of my life fiddling around with all sorts of hacks to fix the appearance of sites I have produced so that they appear correctly in Microsoft’s web browser. All versions of Internet Explorer prior to version 8 are extraordinarily poorly programmed. They wrongly calculate border widths of elements that make up a typical website and put background images in the wrong place. Web site development is a hobby for me, not a full time job, and because I don’t work every day with tricks needed to make MS IE behave, I end up spending at least half of the total time I need to develop a site fiddling around making Internet Explorer display it correctly:
Not any more. If you use MS IE 6.0 or earlier to view this site, the site header is not displayed correctly, and you will see a message telling you that you are using a older browser and suggesting you install one of a number of browsers that work correctly. I must admit I hate exercise. Apart from cycling, perhaps. We have cycled from Munich to the Czech border and back in two weeks a few years ago. But where we live now is at the top of a 12 km long uphill climb of about 500 meters and when we first moved here, . . . → Read More: How to keep young |
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