A beautiful glitch from my broken iPhone screen. See the closer view after the jump.

24 pieces of candy, a framed canvas, colored paper, several hours of cutting, glueing and building: This is how the handcrafted advent calendar for my wife looks like this year.

First I admit that this is heavily inspired by works of others. Venn diagrams and storytelling by infographics is popular these days. Here is my take, dealing with aims and constraints.

Four more fracture graphics. Two of them are published in the Warrior‘s new issue number 3 of Licht magazine. This also means: I‘m back in business after my two months off with the family!

Unfortunately my new website is currently spread in pieces all over the place. Some parts work already, but the front end still needs lots of love. Let‘s see when I can get back to it, now that my day job and university teaching have started…

Hello dear visitors. Things have been a little slow here. This is because:

• a) Tweets do not get through to this blog anymore, because of Gnip‘s spotty behaviour.

• b) I am on Elternzeit (parent time) now. That means that I do not work. Not at all. And I still get money from the german government. Neat, isn‘t it? For the time from August until middle of October, I will stay with my wife and baby Linn, which is obviously absolutely fabulous. And if I can find some time between pushing the stroller and enjoying the last days of summer, I will spend it on c)...

• c) I am building a new Content Management for this site in the back. I would like to be able to post faster and shorter and tie in the feeds from Flickr, Twitter and Del.icio.us. The current idea is to build on the very clever Sweetcron, create a custom theme and add all the functionality that I am missing by myself. Fortunately Sweetcron was done on the php framework CodeIgniter, therefore it is clearly structured and relatively easy to build upon. Still I don‘t know where this is going and if I can get it off the ground, but it‘s fun so far.

For a look at my offline activities, please drop by on my Flickr page. See you soon!

Thinking about a holiday in Mac OS 9. (Twitter)

Welcome to tonight's visual quiz: What's wrong in this picture? http://twitpic.com/agiiw (Twitter)

A few months ago I came across a new internet service named Gnip. Although it looks very technical and abstract at first look, it may be the key to a bad dilemma of personal publishing on the web today. Here is why, and my experiences of using it for this site.

Excellent bird's eye shot of the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge in construction: http://bit.ly/2epTYF (Twitter)

Just because XHTML2 is abandoned does not mean XHTML1 is not a good choice anymore. It will live on in HTML5. Clarify: http://bit.ly/DIzd4 (Twitter)