http://philafication.com My Life. My Blog. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:16:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm about to go to the country of baconnaise, the home of hamburgers, fries and Dr Pepper. The land where you get asked a question and are not expected to really truly fully answer. Can't wait to see how Miki, my travel mate, will react to this. Entering shops, placing orders ... http://philafication.com/2009/how-are-you-doing-today/ As the summer months approached not too long ago, people board planes to get away from it all. We take our family and friends with us on all sorts of trips. Following that logic, we have to bring along the iPhone, of course. As we will see, a high-technological device like ... http://philafication.com/2009/trotting-the-globe-with-your-iphone-101/ I'm very happy to find myself in a position where I do like the course I set taking me down on university roads. Studying at WU has been one of the most surprising and interesting experience so far in life. Right after sipping down my first can of Dr Pepper. ... http://philafication.com/2009/that-was-it-my-1st-year-in-university/ Good question. Stupid answers. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ http://philafication.com/2009/whats-a-browser-anyway/ T-Mobile released its iPhone pricing. While the iPhone itself seems cheaper, their 24 months contract certainly are not. For now. Until June 30 Orange offers half its monthly charge for the entire span of your contract. That's a really great deal you're getting - See Part 1 for further details. ... http://philafication.com/2009/the-price-of-iphone-3g-s-pleasure-pt-2/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Ocean Road · matt.hintsa (found via flickr.com)"][/caption] I miss this. I miss the ocean. This is the Austrian speaking. http://philafication.com/2009/ocean-road/ What is described below should not happen with the money you're supposed to pay back with knowledge "purchased" earlier in life in college. If that "student loan" is a scholarship that your country gives you on a monthly basis, please understand that there comes certain responsibility. The tax payer will ... http://philafication.com/2009/student-loans-and-responsible-drinking/ "Family top, politics flop" is the headline of diepresse.com's article I took this chart from. This survey reveals how we Austrians tick. In a nutshell: We prefer family and friends to our job and politics. We don't agree with abortion unless chances are it's going to be handicapped in some ... http://philafication.com/2009/schnitzel-states-value/ When Apple announced the new iPhone 3GS, the all new updated version of their cellphone line, I decided I wanted this hot piece of technology. Now, as virtually nothing is free of charge, the price tag for some iPhone Pleasure in Austria is quite astonishing and requires some calculations before you ... http://philafication.com/2009/the-price-of-iphone-3gs-pleasure-pt-1/ Indiana Robert came up with a new font apparently inspired by now President Barack Obama's HOPE campaign keyword. Looks familiar? That's because the artist based this on the world famous LOVE Park font in Philadelphia. Instead of cherry red, I believe, he went for the TIME Magazine iconizing colors matte ... http://philafication.com/2009/hope-is-the-new-love/ The Guardian Art and Design put together a grid of everyday design where you can watch nearly 60 years in the change. Design items like corn flakes or cloths for flight attendants seem to go back and forth in time, picking up an idea there, changing it, tweaking it, putting ... http://philafication.com/2009/the-times-are-a-changing-more-or-less/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="High Line Opening Day · Michael Surtees (found via flickr.com)"][/caption] Adding this to the things I ought to see when I hit the streets of NYC. Those lounge chairs, to me, seem very inviting. Great views over the city. Let's hope it's not packed with tons of ... http://philafication.com/2009/high-line-nyc-just-opened-up/ [caption align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="San Francisco viewed from Port View Park, Oakland, Summer 2002 · /\/\ichael Patric|{ (found via flickr.com)"][/caption]I wouldn't mind going on a sailing trip in the San Francisco Bay. Especially on a sunny day like that. That's when reality hits me, reminding me of the fact that I'm ... http://philafication.com/2009/sailing-into-the-blue/ "So philafication is the hottest thing in town lately, eh?", a friend approached me on iChat. "Darn right, Mister" I countered. Please note that Phil's Blogging has been rebranded into this new, spicy and much better phonetically sounding Philafication. Experts agreed after short discussion that the correct pronunciation of this trend-word should be ... http://philafication.com/2009/repeat-after-me-phil-uh-fication/ Human kind of thinking is all about creativity. And so is business. We often have a vision, a spark of an idea and then, analysis of our chances of what we can do with that very thought tell us how to proceed. One moment the idea seems very much compelling ... http://philafication.com/2009/eureka-ive-found-it/