after the Chinese government continues to block free internet access to the internet for journalists covering the Olympic Games, Reporters without frontiers and other organizations have started to publicly protest. the story however got a whole new twist once voices arose that Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee has personally assured the [...]
while i am writing this i am looking out onto the lake. i just did an interview, had our photographers take his pictures and finally wrote down the story – all with my laptop, sitting at the water’s edge. funny enough today, we have all the means technology-wise to work differently, live differently but [...]
i just couldn’t fall asleep though it was a hard day, awake astrid and me lay there. up until this point it was a chain of one thing leading to another – finding an apartment, getting the loan approval, choosing colors, a new hardwood-floor, making dozens of decisions big and small. then i sat there, [...]
it was my first day of high school. tanzenberg, an old monastery, sits on a hill about 15 kilometers from klagenfurt so basically you have to take the bus there. it was my grandfather’s duty to get me to the bus stop which is pretty close to where i work nowadays. when we arrived there [...]
i spent two hours today looking at different kitchens. i looked at panels, refrigerators, stoves, microwave-ovens, dishwashers, i was sitting there choosing colors, surfaces. i took me really 1 1/2 hours to decide on everything considering the budget astrid and i have for our kitchen. i took me a good 15 minutes to realize [...]
i’m right back to normal working life, getting there around 11 and leaving at 8. go through some stories, try to get pictures from a German agency who apparently only consists of one person. talking to michael hennessey about his cause (ironmanforkids.com). we ended up at the sunset bar with a friend of mine, talking [...]
me: so what have you been doing lately?
you: studying, going out – yesterday i had barbecue with my friends.
me: wow, why didn’t you call, i would have loved to be there.
you: stefan, it was just people my age.
me: what ?!?
you: you’re nearly 30, you’re too old.
me: …
i love my little brother, 20 years of age.
i [...]
i sometimes wonder why i am so easy to hurt. the past four or five weeks at work were hard and still i felt good about what we did, because we were a great group working together, spirit and weird songs on youtube included. but that was in graz. not that i feel bad back [...]