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    Here you can see the lake i am regulary fishing.
     
    The watery-area left ot the little river is artificially made a few years ago. It was built to give the fishes and birds a save spot to breed. It is relatively small but neverthelless just after 10 years you no longer would guess it was man-made. On the northern end you can see they are currently extending it by a bit. the whole field in the west might get be done the same way too. The city council is still negotiating with the owners...
     
    Old castle. It looks more impressive here. The castle dates from the 14th century....
     
    Middle of Town, here i catch my trouts. (isn`t it great that one can actually catch trouts in the middle of town? I know i am blessed...
     
    Lake Faak. The water is so blue, you want to jump in the moment you see the lake... [pretty warm too in summer around 26 degrees celsius (79 fahrenheit)]
     
    More lakes i can fish. All not more then 5 miles away from home...
     
    Here i can fish the largest Salmonidae that you get in Europe, The huchen or Danube salmon gets pretty big, the official world record is 35 kg (77 pounds)
     
    Thats it for now, i go out and get some fish now!
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    Life Ball in Vienna

    By Viggen,

    The Vienna Life Ball, Europe's most colourful charity event will take place again tomorrow. This is the craziest, sexiest, strangest ball you will ever see. It started as an AIDS Charity Event, and exploded into a fashion extravaganza that you dont see on the catwalks of Paris, Milan or New York. Unlike the Vienna Opera Ball who is the most glamarous event in Europe, the Life ball is the most colorful one. There is a huge catwalk for the first part of the event, were outside of the Vienna city hall a massive show with free entrance for anyone takes place, and behold, no unknown little designer present their glitzy stuff, no the big ones, from Thierry Mugler to Jean-Paul Gaultier, from Vivienne Westwood to Versace, each year one can present their craziest outfits. This year its the lingerie gods of AGENT PROVOCATEUR`s turn.
     
    This ball is not only the biggest charity event in Europe but also a gathering of stars and starlets of the crazy sort. If you like outrageous fancy dress costumes, this is the place to be!
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    Austria wins Oscar

    By Viggen,

    Hmm, I am a bit late, but in case you missed it, Austria (my native country) won for the first time the Oscar for best foreign-language picture.
     
    The story goes something like this...
     
    The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen.
     
    Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who is there on a secret mission. Hand-picked for his unique skill, Salomon and a group of professionals are forced to produce fake foreign currency under the program Operation Berhard. The team, which also includes detainee Adolf Burger, is given luxury barracks for their assistance. But while Salomon attempts to weaken the economy of Germany's allied opponents, Adolf refuses to use his skills for Nazi profit and would like to do something to stop Operation Bernhard's aid to the war effort. Faced with a moral dilemma, Salomon must decide whether his actions, which could prolong the war and risk the lives of fellow prisoners, are ultimately the right ones.
     
    You can read a little more about this fascinating movie at the Chicago Tribune and watch the trailer (with even more info on this true story) at the offical home page!
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    Something to ponder about...
     
    ...let`s say you want to leave a message to the people in the year 4000. You could write that message onto a USB Memory Stick or a DVD or on a Hard Drive or on a piece of paper. What is your guess what the chances are that (assuming the sealed box would be found and all 4 are in good condition) archaeologists would be able to identify all 4 pieces as some form of a message?
     
    I have a hunch that the archaeologists of the 5th Millenium will have a very hard time to figure out what the heck the USB Memory Stick, the HD and the DVD actually is. Maybe a "gift to the gods?" some sort of jewelry? a primitive craft device? Now assuming there is an experimental archaeologist that thinks that this could be some sort of data storage device. How will he get to the information? I mean i have some floppy disks lying around and have no way of actually getting to this information, first i dont have a floppy drive anymore and second, those operating systems of today kinda dont like old stuff, and when i talk about old stuff i am talking of 10 years maximum, nevermind 2000 years....
     
     
    If the archaeologist of the year 4000 sees the piece of paper, chances are, he will grab it and starts to decipher the writing, right?
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    coin operated boy (oh boy)

    By Viggen,

    coin operated boy
    sitting on the shelf he is just a toy
    but i turn him on and he comes to life
    automatic joy
    that is why i want a coin operated boy
     
    ...those are the first few lines of a song that i cant get out of my head. I promise, i tried, but it keeps coming back...
     
    It all started with a commercial on austrian TV. The biggest austrian jam manufactorer "Darbo" had a weired (but very interesting) ad, promoting one of their products with this song. (you can see the original version
    ) 
    It is performed by the former street artists "The Dresden Dolls", who describe their style as "Brechtian punk cabaret"...
     
    American`s who name their band Dresden Dolls and their style "Brechtian punk cabaret", what can i say, love it!
     
    p.s. and what about the lyrics hehe, pretty obvious, what the lady is singing here about, isn`t it! ;-)
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    OMG, I am a prophet! As you can see on my previous post before the world cup, i did predict that New Zealand will loose against the french and that South Africa is going to be the next World Champion, (thats what happend) you may say Nostradamus to me!
     
    What a defensive master piece of the Springboks, and what a disaster from the english site to try (first half) to make that a kicking game, when the whole world knows the line out is Springbok-Territory!
     
    A very tense, defensive game on both sites.
    Not a pretty game, but what the heck, the Boks are world champions again Yipeeeeeee
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    Crossroad

    By Viggen,

    The good news, actually the unbelievable news is, we just had our one millionth visitor to the site for 2007!!!
     
    The not so good news is, our tiny little shared server (with about 40 other domains) that is made for mum and pops site is aching and breaking, sooner or later we have to make a decision to probably upgrade to a dedicated server, which means a server that runs just our site, the even worse news is, that such a dedicated server is only available from 160 dollar a month or more...
     
    We tweaked in the last couple of weeks the coding, images and such to get the pressure a bit off the server but as it seems just more and more people visiting the site, (which is cool of course) but making the server issue an even hotter topic for us right now...
     
    In case you are interested what a dedicated server means, it means we would be the owner of a whole little computer with cpu/memory and harddisk just for us, which means it is scalable (simply add memory if you run out of it, or add a new cpu etc...), it means you have all the resources for your site, which means of course a faster site, to make things short, sooner or later this "empire" called unrv.com will go to the next level...
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    Addiction

    By Viggen,

    An addiction is a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity.
     
    By that definition i am addicted to the internet,
     
    ..due to overload at work i can not log on to the net every day and it sucks, on an emotional and practical level...
    ...how did we manage without it before? (yeah i know we just were more outside sniffing fresh air, engange in recreational activities under something called sunlight and were talking with humans face to face)
     
    If there is something called heaven and paradise it better have an internet connection, cause being without one for just a couple of days already seems aweful, never mind eternetiy...
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    Stuck in the 80`s

    By Viggen,

    I don`t know what is (is there?) wrong with me, no matter how good a new artist is, or how intriguing a new pop/rap/rock/soul/alternative/whatever song is, i quickly loose interest and get back to my good old 80`s songs...
     
    ...am i getting too old for all those new "superstars" that i dont seem to catch on? Sure, some of "my" hero`s" are still around, but there are not many that made it all the way from the eighties into todays charts, so how will todays kids feel in twenty years?
    Do older folks then me cherish "their" time (if there is such a thing) like the 70s or 60s, is that just the flow of nature that your teens are the most influential period and you cant seem to move on?
     
    ...anyway, i am feeling a little nostalgic today and Vienna from Ultravox is just the right medicine for the moment!
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    Rugby

    By Viggen,

    Finally the Rugby World Cup has started, the most entertaining team sport (in my eyes at least) kicked of in France and the host already got beaten up by Argentina, a not so big surprise if you look at their last 5 encounters...
     
    So, everyone is talking about New Zealand and how they will be the next world champion, i tell you know it is not going to be easy, i got a hunch they have to take on France in the quarter final and will get kicked out of the tournament, leaving the door open for South Africa to reclaim their 1995 title
     
    ...ok, just a day dream, but if you want to see one very exiting amazing fast winger in action,
    for Bryan Habana, a rocket on the rugby field... 
    Go Springbocks...
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    Phew, now when we (PP, Moon and I) started in 2003 with Unrv.com we couldnt imagine how this all would turn out, all we wanted was a simple site with some basic info for a online role play game that theme was the Roman Empire...
     
    The growth of articles and members and contributers is growing in a pace thats just incredible, to give you some examples...
     
    Google has 58.000 pages indexed, now thats massive looking back starting with about 20 a few years back...
     
    2007 till yesterday Unrv.com had almost 3.000.000 pageviews and almost a million unique visitors
     
    I (not sure how many PP gets but assume plenty to afraid to ask ) get about 20 to 50 emails a day concerning Unrv.com
     
    We get contacted by bestselling authors, top universities and Professors from all over the world, and all that i have to manage in a few hours in the morning.
     
    So please excuse me if my replies are sometimes slow, or a review isn`t published right away, the newsletter is not as often, or you dont see me around as much as you think i should...
     
    We have hundreds of ideas how to make Unrv.com even better or more interesting, however we all have a day-job, so implementing new stuff takes unfortunatly more time then we want...
     
    ...sometimes i wonder if i should just ignore all the monthly bills that i have, quit my job and work full time on Unrv.com...
     
    ...anyway thanks to all the contributers that makes this place special...
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    Under 20 Soccer World Championship in Canada
    OMG,
    something is wrong on this planet, Austria actually has a damm good soccer team for a change!
     
    Just a few minutes ago we have beaten the USA to advance to the Semi-Final. It was an excellent game with much more chances for Austria and so the win is more then well earned. I can`t believe it, we have currently one of the four best youth-teams in the soccer world
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    Feedback!

    By Viggen,

    One of the great things of the net is instant feedback (most of time time at least), now i am proudly announce recently that our newsletter is now capable of Html and what do i get as a feedback from long standing member? "Huh, you guys got a newsletter?"
     
    Hehe, well we added now a newsletter sign up box at the forum, for everyone to see even for those who never leave the forum...
     
    thanks for the feedback, because we are listening...
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    Romans and Italians

    By Viggen,

    I was wondering about one thing for a long time, is it just me or does it feel that italians of today dont really care about their "roman" heritage? I live close to the italian border and have so lots of contact with them; Every time i mention our site and that the site is about "their" glory past, they sort of shrug shoulder, maybe a "nice" and move on, no interest whatsoever.
     
    Did i just have bad luck, or is it just the way it is, Italians dont care?
     
    cheers
    viggen
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    We recently upgraded our newsletter script so we can send now in HTML. This is nothing radical and we wont, as far as i can see, do anything else with it other then insert links, but nevertheless a nice new touch i believe. We "tested" this new functionallity today on our newest promotion we just sent out, so check your mail [if you have subscribed] (or the front page or the Trajan Forum) for more details...
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    Quo usque tandem?

    By Viggen,

    Si vales bene est ego valeo...
     
    I had it all, fire in the house, crappy work-situation (and i mean crap when i say crap), one surgery followed by another surgery and voila followed by another one. To sum 2007 so far up ---> Hell
     
    I have now hopefully all surgeries done for this year (vene surgery for anyone who cares) and allowed to sit 15 minutes and then have to rest for an hour and so on...
     
    in anycase good to be finally back...
     
    Yours
    viggen
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    I had this today in my inbox, and thought its pretty funny...
     
    This was written by a guy... it's pretty damn smart. Girls -- Have a sense of humour! I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women diffe so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing.I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.
     
     
    FOR EXAMPLE:
     
    One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says, "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me." I said, "WHAT??!! What was that?!" So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear... "You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.
     
    The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take, so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said, "Lets get a pair for each outfit."
     
    We went on to the jewellery department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you... she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis.
     
    I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation, she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier."
     
    I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled,
     
    "WHAT?"
     
    I then said, "Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"
     
    Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least that girl knows I'm smarter than her.
     
    Alright girls. Repost this if you agree. Hell even if you disagree, forward it.
     
    Men, repost this because you have balls.
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    Well, my five year old daughter wanted recently desperately ABBAs Greatest Hits, so i listend to it too...
     
    My favourite 5
     
    5. Mamma Mia
    4. Voulez Vous
    3. SOS
    2. Fernando
    1. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
     
    ...but to be honest, (just like my daughter), I like all of them (for example Take a Chance on Me is just such a great song), and back in the 80s when it was released for the first time the Rolling Stone Magazine summed it up for me...:
     
    "...there are more infectious melodies, grabby hooks, and danceable drum beats on one side of this two-disc set than in most artists' entire catalogs...
     
    Amen...
    (and yes, i am old)
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    Comcast...

    By Viggen,

    ...has the biggest share of all network providers that visit Unrv.com
     
     
    followed by
     
    SBC Internet Services
    Verizon Internet Services
    Road Runner
    America Online
    Cox Communications
    BellSouth.net
    British Telecommunications
    NTL Internet
    Charter Communications
     
    It seems there is no world giant in the Internet Service Providers industry, Comcast the Nr.1 (at Unrv) is used by just over 7%...
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