Back from wonderful New Zealand. Felt a bit like back home in Switzerland but with a lot less cars and peoples. Truly amazing if you dig landscapes, animals and (lots of) driving. Above a few impressions, more on my Flickr photostream. We travelled from Christchurch to Lake Tekapo, then past Queenstown to Te Anau for a boat trip on the Milford Sound, back up to Wanaka, up the west coast to the Franz Josef glacier, over to the east coast for whale watching in Kaikoura and back to Christchurch. 2,200 klicks of awesomeness. Next time we must take more time though to do heaps of kayaking and hiking.

Here’s a few links from the past week:

• Common talks Softwear by Microsoft
• Woman finds Virgin Mary in her brain scan
• COED Magazine’s impressive collection of 225 demotivational posters
• Jack Daniels makers are thrilled with the state of the economy
• Bailout – Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year 2008
• Tutorial on how to batch edit images in Photoshop
• Socialcast brings social messaging to the enterprise
• Profy thoughts about whether blocking ads is the same stealing as downloading music from torrents
• NYT concludes that Canadians maybe have more friends than US peoples and CNN says happiness is contagious in social networks
• Wordpress competition from Microsoft with Oxite
• Girl vomits in airplane and the puke bag just doesn’t work upside down
• And last but not least YouTube added a terribly horrible search bar on top of embedded videos. Whilst I think it’s cool to search and watch within the video frame it should be party of the bottom nave panel and not in your face. Anyway, article about it on Profy.