There is an Indian restaurant in the middle of Linz that serves authentic Indian food: Royal Bombay Palace. I really enjoy hot and spicy meals and I’m one of those people ordering everything extra hot.
Try it, it’s the best Indian Restaurant around.
If you like your meal very hot just order a glass of salted (or [...]

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For those of you who are going to visit Linz in the next time, I have found some interesting projects for you:

Tiefenrausch gets you to the Linzer underground and
Pixelhotel — which is an effort for next year’s big European capital of culture event — brings hotel rooms into the city.

And after Austria’s football/soccer debacle yesterday [...]

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There’s some rumor that Google is going to build a datacenter near Linz.

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Yesterday I ran as one of 14.500 poeple the half marathon in Linz in 1:59:17,1.
Great weather, great fun and I finished under 2 hours!

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After I have completed registration for the upcoming Linz marathon I received an email today from the organizing team. It’s an invitation to attend an information evening about pain-free running.The email itself was not so pain-free. They included all recipient’s mail addresses in plain text and I counted 825 unique ones. For a moment I [...]

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Everybody knows Spencer Davis Group’s single “Keep on runnin“. The song is about a man running after a woman, and she keeps running and hiding.
Well, I just thought it’s maybe more satisfying to run with and not after someone and I have just registered for the Halbmarathon in Linz on 2008/4/13. I’ve never ever run [...]

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While waiting in my car on the Linzer Hauptplatz I saw a Segway driver. They are a very rare species here in Linz.
And he then recognized my small Asus Eee PC on my lap. So everybody’s got something of interest, I think.
Well, the WiFi hotspot here is slow, but after such a wonderful, fun filled [...]

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Flock 1.0 is out. Flock calls itself a social web browser and to keep it short, Flock has finally reached a state–not only by leaving beta–that makes it a great social web experience.
I really can recommend it for people who are using social sites as Flickr (batch photo uploader), Twitter, Facebook, … it even has [...]

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Heute am Linzer Bezirksgericht wegen eines Rechtskraftstempels gewesen. Nichts besonders mitgenommen außer Ausweis und eben zu stempelndes Dokument. Eine halbe Stunde dann am Service-Center mit Warten verbracht. Während der Zeit Schulkollegin getroffen – nun Richterin dort – und über alte und neue Zeiten geredet. Die Dame im Service-Center teilt mir mit, dass ich falsch bin [...]

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Die anhaltenden Regenfälle der letzten Tage bringen die Flüsse zum Steigen. So auch die Donau hier in Linz:

Im Moment steht der Pegel kurz vor der Hochwasserwarnstufe (550cm).

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