At last! Again a normal vacation! The last one in November 2007, going to Spain, got cancelled and I ended up in Finland for work (oh, was fun too!). But now, in a few hours I’m flying to Madrid! Actually, my little sister is their on a language course, so I’ll have a guide showing me around. Well, she already knows a place to go for dinner tonight! Good sis!

Yesterday I attended the Franken Web Montag meetup in Nürnberg. This time the nice folks at insertEFFECT hosted us and opened up their terrasse. Florian Bailey opened with a talk about Facebook applications. It was quite interesting. To me these applications are just annoying, but I can see now how they are used, and how success can mean making money within Facebook. They made also a test application called ‘Who is the Kitchen Master?

I’ve been on a diet since February 2008, and lost like 12 kilo (that’s about 26 pounds). And damn I feel good! Actually, I should still lose another 10 kilo but I tried to do some running, and now I can’t stop! Taking the bicycle and going for a drive for an hour along the Main (river) is also no issue! Also, I’m keeping track now of the exercises using my Polar F6 and data is now also online using Google documents!

I’m moving away from MobileMe, after being a Mac user for a year.. Push doesn’t work as it should, maybe it’s a bit early to give up on it, but the magic is gone. 100 EUR for such a lame service is not worth it. And a website everyone else has for writing emails, is not going to help.. I’m gong to try Spanning Sync or other tools and use Google Calendar and Contacts.

We’re getting an error on our Epson CX11 NF Laser printer, C0082. After quickly checking around, I got a hint testing our Macs. And indeed: when my sister opens up her MacBook, the printer gives the error message. It works fine with the Windows workstation on. Looking further, I couldn’t find a good answer. I’m suspecting the Bonjour protocol messing it up after the Tiger and Leopard upgrades this week.