You appreciate the finer things in life. You have a split personality – wild or conservative, depending on your mood. Wherever you go, you like to travel first class. Luxury, style, and fun – who could ask for more?

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A hotel has just opened on the German island of Rügen having equipment according to my taste: Instead of installing a TV set, an expensive telephone, a radio and CD-Player and of course a DVD-player in each room, they did something else. All hotel rooms are equipped with an iMac having TV and radio functions and, naturally serving as CD- and DVD-Player. Of course combined with WLAN, the telephone is based on VoIP and additionally they equipped every room with an iPod docking station.

The Nymphe Strandhotel seems to be the right thing for a confessing Apple follower.

Just decided to skip the backlog of translations from our German blog and to have a fresh start with this English version. So watch out for new articles!

At the beginning of this year we finally managed to pay the 10,000 prize for ten thousands visitors for the German version of Hannaxel. We had a nice tapas dinner at the  Meson Espanol at the corner of Wühlischstraße/Gabriel-Max-Straße.The next occasion will be at reaching 10,000 visitors on hanaxel.com.;)

Well, during all year I commute between Hamburg and Berlin and during the weekends I am not too keen on maintaining Hanna’s laptop (she agrees that there are better things to do then). These days we wanted to play our favourite game (Patricians 3) and, well, it did not work.

Therefore I had to begin maintenance, and worked at it for about 5 hours. To start with, defragmentation was busy for 2 hours, her disk was extremely fragmented. Patricians of course did not work after that, I did not really expect it to. But it was a start. Next was repairing the registry. Downloaded shareware, which immediately found more than 250 errors, which it was able to repair. Why does Windows not have an integrated repair programme, if this is such a well known problem? How should a “normal” user know to watch the registry?

Patricians still did not work however. Well, next step to remove malware with Ad-Aware. It did find stuff, but did not help with the original problem. Then I tried to reconstruct what Hanna had done during the last days. And voilà, she had ceded to the urgent requests of MS-Updater and installed Internet Explorer 7. Well, I deinstalled it just in case and, o wonder: Patricians worked again. Installed IE7 again, and it did no longer work.

Now she has an Internet-Explorer-free system and everything works quite well (except that the updater is offering updates for IE no longer in the system). But we are lucky, there is something like Firefox. But why MS is expecting its users to undergo such an occupational therapy, I still do not understand.

After letting this blog rest for a month, I think I will start again. It is just enough fun to do it and I will see what can be done to get a bit more readership. Some things will be just translations from our German Blog, but others will be exclusively in English.

We will see.

Microsoft has published a Blogging Tool, Windows Live Writer, with which you are able to edit in a sort of WYSIWIG style. It is able to use the blog’s stylesheet, so that you have a good idea of how the post will look during writing. As a Mac person I am no Microsoft fan, but this makes a good immpression, though still Beta with some bugs.

Even Hanna Hanna was impressed by this program and how easy blogging is done with it. That does not mean that she is writing more often, she told me it seems so banal to her what she writes. But this is always sort of relative, what is banal for one might interest another. And such a private blog always is kind of banal, its purpose is not in publishing great literature.

To switch has a special meaning in the Apple-World: moving from Windows to Mac OS. A Mac-oriented German Blog, thze one of Admartinator, has used this word to mark what I now did as well: moving my blog fromRapidweaver to WordPress. Rapidweaver is a wonderderfull tool making web publishing easy and in a certain way it has brought me to switch. RW made me blog and has reached its limits with the number of entries, so that something new was needed. Thanks also to Rapid Ideas, whose Diamond Theme for Rapidweaver I liked so much that I tried  to recreate its look and feel here.

So have fun with the new page. What needs to be done?

• Not all links will work, internal links to the old page have to be changed by hand
• Some time I will integrate a photo gallery, until then you can reach the Rapidweaver photo pages on the right.

I have changed this site to a new software version: Rapidweaver v3.5 with the appropriate Updates for the Diamond Theme from Rapid Ideas. The changes are not that obvious, but there now are Permalinks and the archives are now following the design of the theme.

Please report any problems in the commentaries, I will take care of them after returning from hospital.

They played such a good season and then loose the direct Champions League qualification on the last day.

But the season nevertheless was better than expected.