the past weekend i spent in italy. a good friend of mine had his wedding in the hometown of his girlfriend, now wife. i met kim seven (!) years ago, when we both made a kind of student exchange in australia and we both managed to keep in touch through all these years, amazing!
the wedding was the most spectacular wedding i’ve ever attended (it was my third ever by the way :-) and was held in the beautiful town of villasanta, near monza (the town famous for their formula1-race-track).

the first row of pictures show kim and samantha kissing during the huge diner they held, the newly-wed just before the firework and the firework that was held for them. the second row shows a panorama i made. it features the church of villasanta, where the ceremony was held (512kb .mov file)

kim, if you ever read this, i wish you and samantha all the luck in the world and would like to thank you very much for inviting me to your wedding it was “marvellous, splendid and amazing!!!” (little inside-joke)

if my new model-career is not gonna pay off i can still start working in the oil-business:

this is at least what the berufskompass suggested after i (quickly) answered 75 questions…

(if you wonder, “singer” and “inspizient” are both listed last. which is kinda weird, because i also work in a theater (but only at the bar…)

[via berner gazette] where some people also note that the job-compass might not be worth that much…

phil torrone has a much cooler belt buckle than i have.

the grand-raid was really exhausting. renzo and me underestimated how hard it can get to ride 76 km on a tandem.
the picture below shows the profile of the race (which we finished as tenth of eleven tandems). we started from Heremence and drove to Grimentz.

update: datasport has put the results of the grand-raid online. click here to see how renzo and me finished (look for CTan in the lower part of the page). 10 hours and 12 minutes and a mean velocity of 7.5 km/h, how pathetic :-)

from the 6th september on you might be able to see pictures of our effort online at the fotolaboclub. i have no idea how it’s gonna work. in any case, we’ve been riding with the number 7005, this might help to search for pictures…

tomorrow renzo and me have a new project with his tandem: we’re gonna ride the grand raid christalp (76km mostly up and down :-).
i’ll keep you updated on how we manage to compete with the other ten teams.
and now i think i’ll just go to bed, cause we got to catch an early train tomorrow morning. maybe i can tell you something about the (surprisingly good) movie i just saw later on.
for now i just wish you a good night.

i’m back home, it was wonderful.
more on that later on.
now i start have to sift through all the mail i got. (i think about 800 mails are actually spam, mostly comment spam on this blog)

rachel from the velokurier bern has won the european messenger championships in poland.
yesterday she returned and then was superbusy instantly, because she had to give quite some interviews.
today she was in some newspapers:
– 20Minuten, complete with link to the suicmc04
– Bund
– BZ
and on friday there will be coming a telebärn-crew to make an interview with her, so she’ll be busy all week long.

congratulations rachel!

This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet; results and commentary will appear there in the future.

Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate — the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.

The GUID for this experiment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq6 2010920352598gawstw98qwrt189849813907azq4 (this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google for all results of this experiment). Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post at Minding the Planet; Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.

INSTRUCTIONS

To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and fill out the info below, substituting your own information in your posting, where appropriate.

(Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
1. I found this experiment at URL: http://powerbook.blogger.de
2. I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing or Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Newsreader Software
3. I posted this experiment at URL: https://habi.gna.ch/blog
4. I posted this on date (day, month, year): 04 August 2004
5. I posted this at time (24 hour time): 10:07:35
6. My posting location is (city, state, country): Bern, Switzerland, Europe

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):
1. My blog is hosted by: gna.ch
2. My age is: 27
3. My gender is: Male
4. My occupation is: Bike Messenger
5. I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: Net News Wire light
6. I use the following software to post to my blog: ecto
7. I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 17 October 2000 (but not here). Here my first post dates from 08 July 2003
8. My web browser is: Safari
9. My operating system is: Mac OS X 10.3.4