The Museum for Communication Berlin currently runs the New Realities. Stories of Art, AI & Work exhibition. I went to the opening on April, 25th. The opening started with a chat with the curators Dr. Annabelle Hornung and Maren Burghard (the third curator, Stephanie Müller, could not attend the opening). The …

2023 has been a year of waiting for the German bureaucracy to get its act together. Most of it is now sorted and we have mostly moved into our new flat. I joined the Blaue Ampel, a group of photographers which I enjoy very much. Both boys have changed their …

After an uneventful start, apart from the now sadly traditional strike for better working conditions, the year 2022 turned out to be full of change. I stumbled across a job advert for a position at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. Berlin has been on our list of places to …

We are well into the process of rearranging our lives. It is now also time to work on my digital migration. I have never used facebook and see no reason why I ever would. I do have a presence on linkedin which I don't really use. I don't quite see …

In the small town where I grew up there were essentially two places where you could buy records and CDs. They also sold personal stereos, TVs and washing machines. They had a pretty good selection but nothing unusual. I had to go to the city for a specialist record shop …

Another year in the grip of the pandemic has passed. In many ways it was a very uneventful year filled with work and local walks. We seem to be getting the hang of the pandemic and ended up with 3 1-day self-isolation periods while we waited for our test results …

It is the end of the year and I am looking through my photos on flickr to select my photo of the year. It is a good time to reflect and the photos remind me of all the things that happened this year. This is obviously the year of the …

After I published my last post on how our world has become smaller during the Covid-19 crisis I was asked about how this compares to previous years. Well, I have all the data and with some python scripts this question can be answered. The histogram shows the percentage of blips …

We don't own a car. So during the Covid-19 crisis our world was reduced to places we can walk or cycle to. Given that I geotag most of my blip journal entries and I tend to collect GPX tracks for my photo walks it seems quite a natural idea to …

We are now more than a quarter of a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and the first wave of the outbreak has subsided. Time to reflect about the state we are in. News of a new viral disease came at the end of 2019. It quickly became clear that the …