Happy Easter! Frohe Ostern!

The personal value of keeping a weblog

At On Deciding… Better, James Vornov writes:

“I think the weblog is an unmatched tool to help one lead reflective life. Simultaneously both private and public, it can help one become the person that one aspires to be.”

Books with books in them

Craig Jensen of BookNotes has started a community project: Books as Characters.

Trip to the USA

Today we have something for Duncan Smeed!

Day 22: First day at Yosemite National Park. In the evening, we met John Muir.

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22. Tag: Erster Tag im Yosemite Nationalpark. Abends machten wir die Bekanntschaft von John Muir.

Am I being watched?

Hearing all those things about how you are being watched on the web via cookies and what not all, this almost scared me:

“Andrea Frick came to this site today. Welcome, Andrea! Heh, heh…fun with macros.”

How does John know I’ve been visting his site? (I mean other that just guessing that I come by every day.)

I signed out to see what happens – and yes, that part was gone. Phew!

Now how do you do this??? Must find out.

Trip to the USA

Day 21: From Utah back to California – and a visit to Mono Lake.

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21. Tag: Von Utah zurück nach Kalifornien – und Besuch des Mono Lake.

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Day 20: Angel’s Landing at Zion National Park.

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20. Tag: Angel’s Landing im Zion-Nationalpark.

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Day 19: Zion National Park. Faithful readers of our journal will meet someone they have encountered before…

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19. Tag: Zion Nationalpark. Aufmerksame Leser werden einen alten Bekannten wiedertreffen…

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Day 18: Grand Canyon, second try. Much more sucessful than the first time!

Update: I added a scale to the map of our trip.

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18. Tag: Grand Canyon, zweiter Versuch. Viel erfolgreicher als der erste Besuch!

Update: Die Karte mit der Reiseroute hat jetzt auch einen Maßstab.