http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop Views and Tales from the Border of the Bavarian Mountains Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:31:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All´s well. So although I tried to read slowly and sparingly I finally reached the “close” of both “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and the whole saga today. I was not one of the early HP fans, I started to read in 2001, when I bundled up for ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/08/04/regular/all%c2%b4s-well-the-deathly-hallows/ I am cataloguing the books I own - quite a lot of work, but Librarything.com helps a lot and seems a good place to store my list of books. My list (go to http://www.librarything.com/profile/cnrenner is a work in progress - it will take a few weeks to ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/07/28/regular/librarythingcom/ “Smile I can and murder while I smile” is not all that is to know about Richard III Plantagenet . Author Josephine Tey aka Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Gordon Daviot managed to write a sparkling little mixture between mystery tale and investigative history journalism, first published in 1951: ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/06/27/regular/book-review-joesphine-tey%c2%b4s-the-daugher-of-time/ For some hours now this photo and some others with similar messages have been spreading across the Flickr photocommunity. People are fighting back! Without a reason I know about the photocommunity www.flickr.com (owned by Yahoo!) started a censorship measure against users in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore: “If your Yahoo! ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/06/13/regular/censorship-on-flickr-the-community-fights-back/ Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/04/22/regular/what-kind-of-intelligence-do-i-have-if-any/ Teddy in Munich is quite an outstanding idea: they organize a sightseeing tour for your favorite soft toy. You send your bear or tiger or ape or whatever to the organizers in Munich, Germany who take the toy on a guided tour, a Munich-by-night-trip (in small groups!), a ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/03/21/regular/teddy-travels/ WWW.WEST-OF-HOUSE.NET has three blogs now: Hillside Meditations as my personal blog which I will try and resume in the way I have used it in the past. The Mountain Star* is meant to be a much more political and opinionated blog where I want to blog about my ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2007/02/18/regular/threesome/ Just what the title says… please stay tuned. http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2006/12/15/regular/a-new-beginning-a-last-entry/ It is Hillside Meditations´ s First Birthday today!!! 320 Posts, 87709 words, 302 comments (thank you!) in 12 months. I had thought of doing some special things on this occasion, but as I have been a bit silent as a blogger in the last months this is only a quite ... http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2006/03/12/regular/happy-birthday/ These two photos made it to Flickr´s Explore Group ! Makes me a little bit proud … Flickr, photo+management, photo+sharing, community http://www.west-of-house.net/hilltop/index.php/2006/03/11/regular/showing-off/