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At the canteen

April 16, 2010

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I had lunch at Tommi Hirschs Kantine. It's a new canteen right next to work, which also doubles as the headquarter of a caterer. The food is always of outstanding quality, not just for a canteen. Sometimes though, since I'm a certified glu...

DBMA: London – The Hawksmoor

March 16, 2010

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Being a dililgent reader of this blog, you do remember the announcement published here a couple of weeks ago that I would be visiting London. Well, that visit came and went, and here I am now, with a couple of new experiences under my b...

Of Sausages

February 23, 2010

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I am, as you might have noticed, quite partial to meaty business. Like pork roast. Or ham. Or sausages.This weekend I managed to get my hands and mouth on quite an Austrian delicacy. Sausages in different variants, roasted slowly inside an o...

DBM Abroad: London

February 18, 2010

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I'm going to be visiting London in March. I've got a few places singled out I really want to visit. On top of that list is The Hawksmoor, a steak and burger place in the heart of London: View Larger Map I've seen a couple o...

Die Presse am Sonntag – von Headlines und Anekdoten

February 16, 2010

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Diesen Sonntag hat Fleischhacker doch tatsächlich in der “Presse” darum gebettelt, man möge seine “Presse am Sonntag” nun bitte abonnieren. Die ist ja jetzt auch nicht wirklich schlecht gemacht, abgesehen von den unsäglichen Leitartikeln des Chefredakteurs und seiner Adjutanten. Allerdings merkt man der “Presse am Sonntag” auch ein bisschen an, dass sie nicht von einer [...]

Freakish Toblerone

January 21, 2010

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I'm not much of a sweet stuff person, but once in a while I don't mind feasting on chocolate. Last week I was, by chance, the recipient of a piece of a freakishly huge bar of Toblerone. It's a though one to eat, unless you go at it with a k...

The GDrive – don’t fret it, Dropbox (and others)

January 15, 2010

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In tune with my method of forming headlines that distra [...]

Jagd auf die Grippe

January 4, 2010

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Eigentlich ist es ja nicht unsere Art, uns über Schrei [...]

Of past and future decades

January 1, 2010

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During the last couple of days I read the usual plethora of end-of-year lists, reviews and rants, and was mostly unphazed. Except for those that resonated with me (which is already expressed by the usage of the word “except”. So yes, I won’t stop using bad grammar, not in 2010 and not in the many [...]

Of Trees, Food, Nativity Scenes and Rain

December 30, 2009

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So there we go. We’ve all spent weeks collecting presents and honing our social skills to survive the getting together of large quantities of human beings only for it all to be over in a mere two and a half days. That’s Christmas for you. But, as always, it’s two and a half days that [...]