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A Vote Helps You To Declare Yourself

The freedom to make decisions in life is something essential. It might be even so basic so that people don’t realize the real value of this human liberty unless the freedom of deciding themselves, voting for instance, is taken away from then. Please, go vote, even if you have the feeling that nothing is happening [...]

July 17th, 2008 · filed in All Posts, Miscellaneous · No Comments

Guitar Hero III Legends *I* Rock Soon-*ish*

Amazon.com: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock Bundle With Guitar: Windows & Macintosh: Video Games.
Usually this time of the year I would spend a large amount of time in front of a Playstation playing video games with my host brother. He’s in the lucky position, since he possesses a Wii, Playstation, Game Cube, Nintendo something [...]

July 15th, 2008 · filed in Mac Tech Obsession · 2 Comments

Increase in Productivity with Hands Free

While Austria is still failing to ban smoking in closed public places (like restaurants, bars, etc.), California state law already restricts smokers. Probably for the first time, Austria came first in banning something that CA had allowed until July 1, 2008: Driving and Talking (on a cellphone) or Talking (on a cellphone) and Driving.
Safer Roads [...]

July 13th, 2008 · filed in All Posts, Traveling the US · 2 Comments

Break-Up of Coalition in Austria

The ÖVP (right wing) demands new elections and jumps off the coalition board with the left-wing SPÖ. Here is a quote of an ORF article on the reliefing news that the drama finally came to an end today. One question, what have ÖVP and SPÖ done so far? Right, they only kept fighting about who [...]

July 7th, 2008 · filed in All Posts · No Comments

Euro 08 Enforcing National Pride

Schuster Bleib Bei Deinen Leisten (Cobbler, stick to your last) - Skiing, that is.
In opposition of my actual decision to declare my blog as a Euro 08 free zone I will now elaborate on the attempt of enforcing national pride in all of Austria. Being the co-host (next to Switzerland) we are automatically qualified and [...]

June 5th, 2008 · filed in All Posts, Miscellaneous · 1 Comment

The Myth of High School Cliques

American teenage subcultures are featured in the majority of American teenage movies. As a result, teenage movies are loaded with stereotypes. We’ve seen American Pie, we’ve watched Mean Girls and most Europeans love to watch American TV productions. You name them. Shows and movies dealing with teenage troubles automatically are set in a world that [...]

June 1st, 2008 · filed in All Posts, School Era · 6 Comments

Where No Phil Has Gone Before

 Quests we’ve been sent on by higher power
Lower Austria, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of the Red Cross KTW X. Its mission: a nine-month-patrol of the “galaxy.” To seek out and contact all alien (sometimes, it seems really alien to urbanized individuals) life or at least the one that is [...]

May 21st, 2008 · filed in All Posts, Community Service · No Comments

Ask And Ye Shall Receive

Obviously, starting a blog post to encourage the broad readership of today’s hip blogs is the newest things on the block, so here I am, going for it!
Ask a question - and by that I really mean any question - you always wanted to have answered by me (and not Einstein, so please spare me [...]

April 3rd, 2008 · filed in All Posts, Miscellaneous · 8 Comments