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Geotagging Issues

The bad: discovering after months that the clock of the camera was set to CEST instead of UTC
The good: exiftool and some few lines of perl to the rescue!

Roadtrip 2008: The GPS Track

I've finally visualized the GPS recording of the RV Trip with my parents last Winter. Unfortunately, LJ does not allow me to embed the interactive map, thus you have to click on this static one to play with it:

Home office today

We've been suffering a total power outage today. Fortunately, the vital parts of our infrastructure are located elsewhere and built with redundancy, thus I was able to work from home. But this incident shows that redundancy doesn't mean that one's completely safe. We have two independent power lines at that building, apparently both broke.

Restaurant & Fast Food Meme

Bold the establishments you've been to. Underline your favorites. Strikethrough the ones you don't like.

New music on the shelf (4)

And now for the second batch:

New music on the shelf (3)

I bought several CDs recently:

Did you?

On hunting mice...

I got the bastard. It wisely avoided my traps, it ignored the toxic baits. But it let its caution drop. Rummaging through the Yellow Bag filled with recyclable packaging while I'm at home was just careless. So I closed the bag, brought it to the balcony, closed the door behind me, opened the bag and... off it went. I never saw a house mouse run that fast.