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If you put your photos online with Flickr, you normally want the viewers to know where these photos were taken. You can do this the low-tech way by giving them a tag with the name of the City or the like. However there is also a better way to do this by assigning a georeference to the photo by latitude and longitute coordinates. This way the photos can be viewed on maps like Google Earth. To achieve this you got to "geotag" your images.

Geotagging your photos in Flickr has always been a hassle. You could manually add tags with logitude and latitude coordinates for each photo. With Google Earth and a nice little networklink from Flickrmap you can do this very easily now. Check their tutorial, how it works. Once your photos are geotagged they show up on Flickrmap and (with the right networklink) on Google Earth.

Here is a photo I took recently. It shows … That part, you gotta find out. The first who tells me the correct answer gets 10 US$ from me (As long as I can meet you in person or you have a paypal account).

Click on the image to view the image in a larger size. Post your answers as comments. If someone got it, I will contact him or her. Have fun!

Hi was just browsing through the logs my fellow cachers wrote for today and the my eye was caught by an ad for Geocaching Cruises. WTH? Actually today, while caching, we talked about some wild and crazy business models for geocaching. But this one tops ‘em all: Geocaching Cruises organizes boat cruises through the Caribbean, even Alaska for cachers to visit famous caches on the islands. Sounds like a heck a lot of fun but something tells me that it won’t be cheap They even offer Single Cruises to meet other single geocachers.

Woot! I just found my 100th Geocache today. Ok the Cache itself was not that spectacular but still I tought worth a note in this blog. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so you gotta imagine my smug smile

Since I finished my studies, I finally hat time to… - guess what - …take the last test (Developing Web Applications) to become an IBM Certified Application Developer for Lotus Notes and Domino 6/6.6.

After a few days of studying for it, you can now call me "IBM Certified Application Developer"

I just got a note from a fellow geocacher that the ZDF is airing an episode of SOKO Kitzbühel that deals with geocaching. The air time is the 17th Feb. 06 at 18:00h (cet). If you are interested, you can find a recap here.

A few years back, I bought one of these PC games compilations. Among the games, I found an adventure game called Broken Sword. I had never heard of it, but since I am a huge fan of old school adventure games like Indiana Jones III and IV, Monkey Island etc. I gave it a shot. I turned out to be one of the best adventure games I ever played. The same goes for part 2 which is also awesome. The third part however disappointed me a lot since it had not the nicely animated 2D sprites but an ugly 3D design. On top the game control was horrible.

In the mean time some fans started developing a fan game called Broken Sword 2.5 - The Return of the Templars, which takes on where Broken Sword 2 left off. The game looks really cool from the screenshots and the demo. It is obvious how much effort these guys put into this game. According to the project’s website, the dubbing has just been finished and the game will be released soon. I really can’t wait till it is finished.

In the mean time, if you like those kind of adventure games I can really recommend "The Moment of Silence", which is certainly one of the best adventure games ever.

This weekend I was at an intercultural training seminar from my scholarship program. I gained some interesting new insights into the Chinese culture and met all the people of the program who are going to Asia or just returned.

Hence, blogging was not really top priority this weekend. However, I got some changes done on my site. As you can see, there is a new menu bar at the top. Not every section is complete yet, but the Links and Photos work. As a little bonus, I uploaded some winter pictures I took the weekend before. That cold icy winter day was just made for photography.

So stay tuned for more as I will put some content into the new sections.