…I noticed that my blog is one year old today – it started with (in addition to “Hello World”) photos from the Freddie Mercury Montreux Memorial Day 2004 and 2006.
Is that a reason to celebrate, even though it went quite quietly for a long time and half of the posts is younger than 3 months?
…since color TV has been started in Germany – activated on Aug 25, 1967 at 10:57 by Willy Brandt on the IFA. Or rather by an engineer – two seconds before the big red button has been properly pushed down (and all that apparently three minutes earlier than originally planned)…
The ZDF has a video clip about it.
In the war of the worlds between east and west, the construction of the wall began, which soon only the birds could easily cross…
(This combines an event in German history (1961), a date of birth (1899) and a date of death (1946), the latter represented by famous works. 
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[no, not just today, was some time ago]
Dear Deutsche Bahn, thanks for the “happy birthday” mail – I would have enjoyed it much more, however, if it didn’t start with an astrology sentence and the linked Flash animation didn’t essentially contain a year horoscope – I can do without such a lying, unscientific rubbish very well…
Edit 6 May/13 May 07:
I had mailed that at the same day to bahn.bonus, too – except for a standard text block reply (with name, though) at late evening (Sunday 22:48!), no specific answer has arrived yet. And if I am reading this sentence correctly [my translation]:
We will enjoy to make your constructive remarks and suggestions available to the responsible depatment of our enterprise. We are happy if you keep supporting us and thank you for your commitment.
then my mail is already in /dev/null, the virtual trash can…
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