Firefox 3.5.4 fades the colors of flickr.com pictures

I never liked the new Firefox 3.0

1) It crashes more frequently than the last 2.xx (which NEVER crashed)

2) It’s damn’ slow on my eeePC

3) My pictures loaded on flickr.com look almost completely DESATURATED with the new Firefox – not with Explorer, not with the old Firefox

Do I have to switch to Explorer? My flickr.com pictures look like if I left them on a sunny week in my car – only when I browse them with the new Firefox …

Any help?

Weesen – Walenstadt: from dawn ’til dusk on the Walensee

What a nice daily hiking today on the north side of the Walensee. 12 brave men and women who managed to wake up before the sunrise, 12 hours of tough and beautiful paths through colorful autumn forests. No cold, no fatigue, no wine could stop them! I love it when a plan comes together.

Here the reportage on flickr.com

My Nokia 6700 classic review

After 1 month I used it both in Europe and USA, I can say:

- Call quality and voice quality is ALWAYS excellent
- Where many other mobile phones do not find the network, my Nokia 6700 ALWAYS does
- When I have now a plastic mobile phone in my hand, I really appreciate the metal shell of mine
- The GPS is quite slow to find satellites from time to time, but it brought me where I needed with the free maps you can download online
- The 5MP camera is ok, but i prefer my Canon EOS 450D
- I am positively surprised by the MP3 audio quality, but probably because my last phone was very old
- There are for sure longer lasting batteries than this one, but this one is still ok: I’ve to recharge approx. every 3 days.
- Very useful the possibility to recharge the phone via USB
- The keypad is not the best; it is true that the last line is quite small: this is the most annoying feature of this mobile phone. Nevertheless, you CAN write SMS with one hand only.

So, if you need a reliable and solid phone for excellent quality voice calls, this is it!

Wir wollen Schweizer Bauern sein !

Hi tech jobs, job careers: over with it. I am fed up with the kind of results my job produces. Today we were by Ballenberg and we enjoyed so much being Schweizer Bauer for a day. In Tessin it was good, but also in Berner Oberland, Uri, Graubuenden and Jura it did not sound bad. Look at our picture on flickr.com - and, very important:

If you know a Bauerhof in need of new owners, here we are. We promise hard work, blog updates and all the interviews you want for a new reality show Just let us produce vegetable, eggs and milk!

Hard disk crash? Data recovery? Data Doctor Recovery!

My eight years old DiamondMAX_Plus Maxtor 120Gb hard disk died last week. First I thought it was only a Windows problem, as the error message I got after crash was: “Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM”. However, when I tried to access the command prompt through the Windows repair console, the new message was: “Disc unreadable” !!!

I hate flying

I left the JFK in the late afternoon on the way back home. In the red square, Manhattan. Last time I’ve seen it still had the Twin Towers. It was very sad (and scary) to see the new version passing by so close.

I watched out of the plane window for the following 8 hours – view on the ocean by night, top;  view on Europe by night, bottom. The green thingy is the end of the wing.

Alternatives: movies. Easy Virtue (bleah) and Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2x bleah). Turbulence: quite often and strong and unexpected. It has been quite a crappy flight back home …

Hasta la vista, San Diego?

That’s all, folks. I got used to the Pacific time. I got used to the mega big American style breakfasts. I even got used to Pamela- like women strolling downtown- ok, this last was easy …

I got used to my very nice hotel (post pictures), but I did not get used being single. So, today was shopping day for my wife, for my colleagues … and even for myself: isn’t it cute that carved and painted pumpkin filled with the holy family ready to be put on our Christmas tree ? I love it.

So, tomorrow could be the end of my Californian experience, or the beginning of our longest journey to the New World, there, where Lorana has never been, yet. Only time will tell.

My first half a day of holiday …

… this year. Yeah, holiday! I forgot what is holiday about. Strolling down the streets of a beautiful new city, taking pictures with my Canon and eating a sub with meatballs and cheese in the port area is something very similar to what I remember is defined “holiday”.

Click on the post picture to open a flickr.com slideshow about my half a day of holiday.

PS There’s nothing official about moving to US: it is more a wish of many friends of us who hope we will move to a cool seaside area

I love black and white …

… but some colors do not disturb …

OBSESSION

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