This year some has changed. Just a small detail but with big impact! It is my first Christmas break which isn’t a real break, because I do have to work from 28th till 30th. Okay, as it is holiday season, there was not much to do, but still I had to get up early. I took the chance to work on my final thesis, which is near completion. I hopefully will hand the whole thesis to my professor in the second week of January. Then it shouldn’t take that long, because he read already 70 pages of it and should easily review the missing 20 pages. Therefore, I am expecting to obtain my degree in February and the ceremony should take place in March 11th or 12th.
At the moment there is a more important event coming on – the New Year’s Eve! This year, I used the long weekend to make it a Christmas present to Nadine. It includes the trip to Sabine & Bernd, with whom we will celebrate in Milan. Moreover, we even will have the chance to watch Bernd’s game on January 3rd and have some time to show Nadine the city along with expensive boutiques, where she definitely will start dreaming. Therefore, I am lucky to still be a student – excuse-vice! :-D
So Happy New Year to all m friends & family!

Will be back on January 4th to make all the kissing and hugging!

Hotel Costes 12

It seems as Santa Claus along with "Christkind" stopped by earlier than expected!

As I just found that the new Hotel Costes 12 was released on 9.9.2009. Completely behind my (and Bernd's) back! Therefore, I have to postpone the release of this note due to a surprise present for Bernd, Andy, Bine on Christmas Eve.

Just me listen to the chill sound!!! :-D





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Now playing: Unforscene - Alright
via FoxyTunes


Story behind Hotel Costes series:

10 years ago, Stéphane Pompougnac decides to gather together the best tracks that he plays at the Hôtel Costes in a personal selection.

Shortly after, the first «Costes» compilation makes everyone to discover the luxurious, eclectic and sophisticated universefrom the resident DJ of the Hôtel Costes.

Immediate French and international success, the compilation quickly becomes a series, a unique and yearly rendezvous awaited by all the regarding music lovers.

TripIt for Travels - iPhone, Mac and PC

TripIt is a website, where you can manage and aggregate your travel activities and see your friends’ one. It is really consumer friendly by accepting booking confirmations, which you forward to a certain e-mail address. I started it yesterday, and could easily add past trips within few numbers. In this matter, my Gmail account was very helpful, because I never have deleted any mails since I joined Google-community.

There are more features:

1. You easily can create your own iCal “TripIt” and subscribe it with your iPhone, iCal or Google Calendar. Moreover, you can send it to your family to share your trips, that everybody knows your arrival and departure times respectively.


2. Add the app TripIt to your iPhone and sync all your web content to your mobile device.


3. You receive a nice statistic about your travel activities and records. You could compete with your friends, if you wish...


4. With another iPhone App “Flighttrack Pro” you even can get pushed notification if your flight is cancelled or has a delay.
   

To summarize it, you easily can add your flight details to your calendar, which makes it very convenient, because you don’t have to type any flight track numbers or times into your calendar.

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