Linking up
You may have heard that Technorati is a blog search engine that has risen to fame in modern Internet use. I’m curious what it can mean to a blog to be linked up to this mammoth, so today I registered my blog to see what happens.
Surprise! Back from vacation
The very nature of a blog is that it’s public, open to friends, family, and the random Internet surfer. You’d be surprised sometimes how a blog can connect people together; I think it was only a month ago that a random visitor from Texas contacted me asking if I knew how to arrange concert tickets for some band performing in Frankfurt. The thing is, if you follow a person’s blog carefully you can get to know a frightening amount about them. So, for just that reason, I didn’t post in advance to my blog that we were out of town this week on a 5-day vacation .. but now I’m back and ready to tell you all about it.
We went first to Leipzig, then to Dessau, then to Berlin (yes, we stayed in Germany). (more…)
Dunkin’ Donuts experience
Tim and I ate breakfast this morning at Dunkin’ Donuts. Most of you are probably familiar with this donut-slash-bagel chain that, at many American locations, is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The orange-pink branding of the place is hard to miss, so even if you aren’t planning to stop by, it is easy to be lead astray by the attractive, even festive exterior and the promise of scrumptious donuts or fresh bagels with cream cheese.
Today was Tim’s first time to eat at Dunkin’ Donuts! As an American, it is of course my duty to make sure he is at least to a small degree familiar with this super-American concept. We ordered two bagels, a donut and a big coffee and sat outside to enjoy the food with our German newspaper (in the shade, it is already warm today). The bagels were perfect: appropriately toasted, still warm, with just the right amount of cream cheese. The donut was also nice, fresh, but a little standard (Tim picked it out:P): cinnamon-sugar coated and filled with apple. Naturally, the let-down was the coffee: pure American-style, weak and tasteless! The Haagen-Dazs coffee is much better.
I think before we leave we will get a double-chocolate donut. Or maybe a butternut-coated one. Mmmmmm. But no coffee. For that we will stop somewhere else!