Every other book I buy and read should be a classic; that's a rule of thumb I once started to apply on me, why exactly I really do not know: must be some kind of socialization. In advance I am not always happy with this self-regulation, but hardly did I regret afterwards to have read a classic, though.   Similar with …

Bees gather not only pollen but also a lot of human sympathy: They are diligent, benefical, gentle - but with a certain sting. So, not only the Erste Stiftung (one of the major owners of the company I work for) has started a career as beekeeper, but also Marc Shuttleworth seems to find bees intriguing - as well as the …

It has been Discworld Novel #18 for me - I strictly stick to the proper sequence. I still suck the pages into the humour district of my brain, and quite often the areas of social criticism, history and science are also heavily used. Indeed, after quite a lot of stories I read about the Discworld, one or another …

One thing I enjoy wenn I fire up my private computer is one of my plasma widgets showing the daily "astronomy picture of the day".  Just today, a dark cloud (mysterious!) that sucks in all the light of the stars behind it. But whooo - maybe it's intelligent? At least more so than some people I know? (I resist the urge …

Last December a online dealer gave away the Blue Ray Special Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings for 50 Euros. Although I have the three DVDs of the cinematic cut and also I have seen the Special Editions on DVD (in a row, by the way) I could not resist. So I received the six blue ray discs and somewhat eleven or …