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Happy New Year!

We’ve returned home after an extended stay with the family and the in-laws. I had a lot of school work waiting for me, but was sick for a couple of days. Now all that’s left from the Christmas holidays is three days – and a lot of work…

As usual, it was nice to see families again and to spend some time with old friends over the holidays. We rang in the new year with our usual game of RoboRally and a walk in the woods – in the snow! Snow in Northern Germany is a rare occurence, but we got some 10 to 15 cm between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

Autumn Colours

When I started to use WordPress, I intended to start with a basic theme or layout and modify it myself, but I’m afraid I don’t have the time to learn about CSS and so on, at least not at the moment. And with WordPress Themes and sites like WordPress ThemeViewer, Alex King: WordPress Theme Browser and WP Themes.info it’s easy to decide not to do the designing work yourself – but hard to pick a theme because there are so many great ones. For now, I chose one called Dark Maple by Moshu. After a long wonderful and perfect summer I’m getting to terms with the fact that autumn started two days ago.

Shout-out

Thanks for the warm welcome and for spreading the new link,

  • Hal – blivet 2.0: Serendipita
  • Ralf – Rush my log: Andrea goes WordPress
  • Daniel – Cowjumping.net
  • Al – code: theWebSocket; Another member of the Manila Mafia moves on
  • Garret – dangerousmeta! Not by chance I find Serendipita…

    • Incidentally, every single one of these weblogs is also powered by WordPress. Looks like it really is the new hotness.

    Hello World!

    Welcome! Looks like you found the link to my new digs. After five years and almost eight months it was time to say good-bye to Manila and the very generous free hosting over at UserLand. My weblog has grown up and got its very own domain.

    Please excuse the hammering and sawdust while I fix the odds and ends. Most of the site should work, although some links might not (yet) and lots of photos are too wide for the current template, which I’ll replace as soon as I’ve got the time. Right now, it’s a mix of old layouts and the generic WordPress theme that I use; I replaced the image at the top with one of my own, but other than that, I haven’t gotten around to anything yet.

    After extracting five and a half years worth of archives from the old site, my lovely husband André spent a lot of time importing and making them work in WordPress. There are no links yet, but to go to the archive for this month, for example, simply type /2005/09 behind serendipita.org. The travel journals and photos etc. are all still here, but the list of pages was too long to include on this page. Until I come up with something better you can find most things right here on the site index.

    Please let me know if you see something that doesn’t work like it should or not at all via the comments or email – my new email address is my first name at this domain. And if you want to subscribe to my RSS feed, go right ahead.