It is a bit odd that exactly when others enjoy spring and summer most I start to suffer dealing with my hayfever.
For sure there are more worse things than that. But right now with changing conditions like actually it really starts to hassle me.

All today was  a great mix of sun and clouds with a wind going on all day and I guess that last is the really guilty part in that game.
So I ended up doubling my tablets  still running around with burning eyes and a running nose.

Thanks god not all days are like today …. :-/

This morning  the mild and sunny conditions are back and I’m aware that I should feel more gratefully about. Just I’m sure that the previously planned 4 to 5 days timeframe for a motorbike trip until the end of the week into the alps will now hardly work out anymore. :-/

Hmpf!!

Anyway thats a great chance for another day trip and I guess I will grab it now!

Recently I feel more and more tired!

Originally I had planned a bike trip into the alps for this week. Four days away from all and blowing me the wind around the helmet running one pass through the alps after another!

But following the weather forecast which just announced cold and rainy conditions for all the mountain region I decided to drive into the other direction following the promised sunny conditions heading to Belgium instead.

Now on half the way there after the 2nd hot coffee in a cafe close to the road and me going for my removable fleece out of my motorbike jacket I decided to return early. There is nothing more worse than getting through and through wet on a bike on a cold and ugly day!

Guessing that I unfortunately just missed the sunny and gorgeous conditions one week ago not being able to leave earlier because of a lot of appointments I had during this time.

But now suddenly being freed from all tasks and slowing down a bit I nearly can feel tiredness jumping on me. Used to usually sleeping around 6 hours a night, actually I still feel tired after 8 or 9 hours of sleep!!

Hey guys keep me busy! Where are the gorgeous new projects to deal with? I still can sleep when I’m dead ….

I have to confess that I’m somewhat addicted to statistics.

Nah! Not that boring stuff telling you about women usually live longer then men or well prepared speadsheets telling you about the 10 biggest export nations worldwide.

Right at the moment I’m speaking about website statistics. About visitors, returning visitor, used searchstrings and page hit counts and so on. Really! It is very interesting what statistics can tell you about your visitors and their behaviors and interests.

Unfortunately I have never found one tool giving me all the information I’d like to have and so I’m working with a couple of them comparing and mixing their information to get a final impression about all.

So for example I know when friends check my pages. But I also have identified a few people returning again and again from place I can’t really fit to a person I know.

What about you from Nuerenberg? Or you  from  Los Angeles, from Newfoundland or the one from Victoria (OZ)?! Are you shy? Why doesn’t you leave a comment or just send me an email to let me know about you?

I’m always happy to meet new folks (and I don’t bite!!)

I have to confess that I’m something like a version junkie. The message about a never version is available normally immediately switches me in explorer mood and whenever I can effort the few minutes downloading and installing the newer software I hardly can resist to do.

Isn’t it a great and good feeling, knowing about you run on the most recent code including all error and security fixes, as also a great set of new features to work with? And finally to finding out a about the new features the software does now offer to make your life simplier?

Just these days I have to say that it nearly gets too much. Counting all the time it needs to get the OS, the virus scanner, your major applications and all those thousands of little helpers you have installed up2date, I really start to wonder whether or not that all make sense!

When I want to power off the system - Why does it insist telling me to wait until all hotfixes are applied?

Really, it isn’t that long since software was shipped on zillions of diskettes  - Yeah! I’m speaking about those times before cds and dvds turned into the ususal installation media and updates were just one mouse click away like today - and nearly nobody did make effort patching or updating his/her software without a new major software version was available.

Is it really just me? Or do others also start to think about update should get splitted in obligate, recommended and nice to have and every software should offer you the option to choose between different update strategies?