I was a user of ma.gnolia. In February, ma.gnolia lost all user data irrecoverably. This meant for me that all my online bookmarks — pointers to interesting sites and articles that I wanted to remember — were gone. Luckily, I could recover most of my boomarks from my blog archives and the Google cache. However, [...]

In September, we went on a road trip to and through Spain. I did not blog much about it (I was too busy enjoying myself…) but it was quite a trip. I just loved it. And I fell in the love with the very idea of a road trip. Constantly driving, seeing the different aspects [...]

As I found myself asking for the author’s blogroll over at rc3.org I realized that I had never put up such a thing on my site. A blogroll — for you non-techies out there — is a list of other blogs that a blogger reads regularly. Luckily this is very easy to accomplish in Google [...]

So I did it: I bought an iPhone 3G. I was lucky, actually — I got the very last one that was in stock and only at the third store I tried. And I must admit to loving it almost unconditionally. Sure, it’s not perfect but it’s probably the closest thing to perfect that I [...]

Cotopaxi Crater Originally uploaded by magnusvk.

Before I came to Ecuador, I had never been above 4,000m (~13,000 ft) of altitude. Back in Mexico, I was dreaming about climbing Iztaccihuatl (5,230m / 17,158 ft) — but that didn’t work out. Between traveling, studying and partying, there was [...]