March 25h, 2006
Christian and Jens threw a great party together. It was Jens' 30th birthday and Christian's good-bye party. Christian is going away to Munich to become an Accenture consultant. Jens broke the 30. I took some pictures, check them out here.

March 21st, 2006
This was my birthday, nice day, sunnny after a long winter. We had a good party at night together with Laura, Sarah, Danny, Doro, Stefan, and Uta. Got phone-calls and emails from many nice people and even some presents. One was was a digital camera (yeah!), and I took some pictures with it. The results are here.

March 8 - 10, 2006
I was at the Free University of Berlin at the 30th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society - Gesellschaft für Klassifikation (GfKl), a member of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), focuses on data analysis, learning of latent structures in datasets, and unscrambling of knowledge. Held a presentation together there, check the academics section.

March 7th, 2006

Just got back from a great skiing trip in Schladming, Austria. We went with a groupt of people, Laura, Sarah, Tina, Martina, Doro, Danny, Stefan, Roland, Stephan, Timo, Christian, and myself. The trip was great, lots of sun, lots of snow, lots of fun. All the pictures are here.

February 17th, 2006
Mario (45) and Sabine's (40) birthday party was held at media art FORUM in Bad Soden near Frankfurt. The party was really great.  Roberto, the owner of media art FORUM, organized a bunch of live-acts. I hope to get the pictures soon.

February 12th, 2006
This weekend I went to see Tennis Daviscup Germany against France in Halle in Germany. My friend Alexander Waske, who I know from the old days plays double for Germany. His partner is Tommy Haas. You see them both on the picture, Alex is the guy on the right. Until this weekend the double Haas/Waske had been unbeaten, but this was unfortunately changed by the french team. The french played really well, and let Haas/Waske little chance to get into their usual powerful game. However, Haas/Waske showed an incredible first set, which they won in the tie-breaker. The second set was lost, in the third set they had some very good chances, which they could not take advantage of. In the fourth set, the french team did not give them the chance to fight themselves back into the match. The results were 7:6, 3:6, 4:6, 1:6. One last remark, the french fans were great.

February 10th, 2006, 00:05 a.m.

Just got back from an awesome concert. Balkan Beat Box at WUK in Vienna. A band of Isrelis from New York playing electronica mixed with balkan sound. It really rocked. The picture to the left, that's them. More pics on their hompage and on this photo blog.

January 29th, 2006
Got back from Frankfurt today, was visiting my parents. Last week I was in Nürnberg at the Open Source Meets Business conference. That was great, good keynotes, good presentations, met many great people.

January 23rd, 2006
The server was down for about a week. The reason was that the motherboard of the machine the  homepage is running on crashed. I had to get that fixed, which took a couple of days.

Then  I had to move the server away from the  Institute of Information Business where the server was running while it was under testing. Thanks folks, thanks Klaus.