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So, this has been freaking me out for the last two days. While Leonie has been learning more and more words in the last weeks and usually whispers new words, before she speaks them out loud, there has been one word appearing in her daily speaking, which totally suprised me.

google, google, google

Yes, right. I never said google when she was near me, nor am I browsing the web, when she is sitting on my lap for having a drink or some cuddling. So what?

She now keeps on saying

google, google, google

half the day and ignoring the past days favourite words like tree or chair.

Now what the hell did google offer my daughter that she keeps saying their name all over the day? It can not be money, so it must have been something else… chocolate? A bigger football? Hm… investigation continues.

As I am receiving quit a few mails and messages on ICQ if I am still alive, I decided it’s time to give a little update.

It’s been one year and two months ago, since my daughter Leonie was born and it was a busy life for me. Not only my whole life did change, but my own views of what life should be like or what should be of importance.

Today marks another point of change. Hopefully it will be the last larger change for quite a few years, so I can finally enjoy the nicer parts of life and enjoy life with my daughter. Yes, you guessed right, I will become a single daddy, as my wife has decided to start a new life without her daughter and me, to explore the possibilities for her future.

Well, no bad feelings, I’m just feeling sad because my daughter will now have to learn how life is without having a mother.

On the good side, I finally found a wonderful new flat for Leonie and me. It’s pretty much double the size of my current flat and has enough space to create a nice living room for Leonie as well as a small home office for me and it’s a very friendly place, where one can finally again have people invited to enjoy the good sides of life. There’s room for friends and I have already started to get things changing by calling around to get in touch with my friends, which I have not been doing for much longer time than I should have done. My luck, because they’re really good friends and they all are happy to see me coming back to life.

These days, I do have many stuff to think about. I still wonder how I could forget or ignore my own needs and wishes for such a long time and just reduce myself to a working machine and a housework slave.

I guess it’s these things, that make you change and find out what is important in life.

Today, March the 26th 2005, our daughter Leonie was born. With 8 pounds weight and a size of 53 centimeters, she is pretty large. Black hair and black eyes, very curious to see what is happening around here. And allthough several people came to visit here, she keept calm and concentrated on her left thumb :-)

Since we did not expect her arrival for today, I had to take some cheap shots with my mobile. Better ones will follow, done the classical way using analog media.

For now, I am totally overwhelmed and need sleep. Mother and child already sleep and since I am the one to take care for them I should get some sleep before they wake up. Good night.

As some may have noticed, this blog has been updated to use the latest release drop of WordPress, known as WordPress 1.5 aka. “Strayhorn”.

I have edited all posts and updated them to make use of the Markdown syntax. Markdown syntax is pretty easy to understand, as most people will know its syntax from editing simple text documents. Anyone using WordPress, should have a look at it. You can enable Markdown in the Plugins menu of your WordPress installation.

If you find any posts which seem to look strange, this might be one I might have missed updating. In this case, please post a comment with the posts name or send mail to dsr@best-off.org.

It has been a bit quiet around my blog lately, sorry for that. I am pretty busy with preparing a Reload of mostly all sites and services best off offers these days. As some may know, we have been working on a lot of projects around the topics accessibility and usability the last few months, plus preparing some new projects for the next years.

As of today, I have finished implementing a draft implementation of our new company-wide style sheet for both off- and online media and now we’re moving on to testing. Pictures of the reloaded design will be posted soon. Hopefully this draft will pass all W3C tests and make our test users happy.