I am happy to announce that the photos of the latest Lavin ski weekend are now online.

Apart from this blog entry, which shows only a sample of the nice weather we had, I've put together a gallery at the usual place (The stoop.net gallery) unveiling the perfect meteorologic conditions we had throughout the whole week.

As a special goodie for those snobs of you having broadband access, try this slideshow (yagr, that was a hell lot of work).

No snow...?

... there you go!

The band hanging around in Tirano

Real man work hard
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Some days ago, I was looking for an album by Hilltop Hoods. Unfortunately, iTunes Switzerland did not sell it (this alone would be material enough for another blog post).

Given these circumstances, I asked Google for help searching for "buy MP3" and "legal MP3 downloads", since I understand that artistic work has real value that should be paid for. Besides, searching endlessly through p2p networks together with the hassle of slow download rates just isn't worth the few bucks of the legal download.

Sadly, though, of the many results Google returned, not a single legal one offered MP3 files! They proudly call themselves mp3.com or claim to be "the largest MP3 music store" but in fact they just lie. ...