Bring old Socks to Life!

Babara - the genius - grabbed one of my old pair of socks and transformed it into this cute little doggie coat for puppy Moose.

What you do: you cut the foot part off above the ankle, measure the length of the neck and distance of front legs and cut little holes. Done :)

Fighting Fair

A friend at work showed me following article from the Aviation Medical Bulletin. I find the points about communication within a relationship or even marriage very valuable and therefore would like to share them with you:

1. Realize that you can't change your partner into your ideal person. Accept your differences and even appreciate them.
2. Remember that compromise is essential to marriage.
3. Try to separate your thoughts from your feelings.
4. Don't expect your partner to read your mind.
5. Cool down before you address your partner. Things said in the heat of anger are often things you would give anything to take back.
6. If you are really upset, try writing back and forth to each other.
7. Bring up an issue at an appropriate time and place.
8. Don’t use your children or friends to get back at or communicate with your spouse.
9. Don't use intimacy (or the lack of it) to manipulate your partner.
10. Don't hit your partner's weak spots. If you do, you will have lost his/her confidence.
11. Don't withdraw by saying you don't want to discuss it.

I would like to dedicate this to my dear friends Dominque and Liam who will be tying their knot in May. I am so proud of you :)!

Heavy Bird

Check out this fully loaded Russian Ilyushin IL76 cargo plane. With only 4 engines it can transport 50 tons of cargo!

The IL-76 is a stage 2 aircraft and is therefore not allowed to fly to and from countries within the European Union. This aircraft is also not allowed to fly into the USA.

The only exception to this is exemptions granted on the basis of the flight being for a military or humanitarian purpose.



See for yourself how physics barely lets you believe that this plane can fly - from a runway just long enough for it to take off. Enjoy the comments of the Australian air traffic controllers talking about the "The Vodka Burner".

Watch free TV epsisodes from overseas

Do you like watching ABC's free episodes? Would you like to follow up on your favorite FOX show but are abroad?

After trying several solutions to hide my IP - by setting an US or anonymous proxy - and nothing worked I finally found following solution: http://www.usaip.eu

It is not free but it works and is totally worth it. Now I can launch the episode player from anywhere in the world again and stay connected to USA TV programms while I am overseas.

Food For Thinking

"Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism"

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867