I'm just writing a report and was looking for another word for dilemma. dict.leo brought up this wonderful picture:

to hold the wolf by the ears

in einem Dilemma stecken

It's one of the powerful metaphores I've ever imagined. Could you see yourself with the roaring, snarling animal, being safe for the moment but without any chance to change the situation but getting seriously hurted?

Weather influences

Now that we are living in New York Cites Upper West Side, we ake lots of different experiences. For example, today, the weather forecast was really, really bad - and it was right. So we spent most of the day at home, and I was pleased to spent a lot of the day playing with Nathalie.


This was great fun, but sometime this afternoon, I was not sure if Nathalie missed a potty time. I detected lots of liquids on the floor, which turns up as water. Good, from a cleaning point of view, bad becuse I detected that the water just drips out of the wall. It was not that much, so we left here a towel. Later that day, about 11.00 pm, I was looking for Nathalie again, as I wondered about a periodical noise in her room. After inspecting this more deeply, I found out the it started dripping through the ceiling. which I never ever experienced in even much, much cheaper apartments.

So what's next? Call the super and hope he may fix it.

Übercaster

Last night, by chance I visited the ubercaster website. On that site, they offer a very cool podcast software called Übercaster - which obviousely seems to be a german product. I played around with it for half of the night and must consider that this is a really nice piece of software.

The look is very stylish. For my point of view - and for my old eyes - a bit too stylish, because to font is way too small to read. S most of the time I have to guess what I'm doing. Making the fonts 2 points bigger would help a lot. And even if I like the cool black surface, it is "a la longue" not very funny to work in a black box. It would be great to have some skins or customize options.


The programmer knows about podcasters needs, most functions come to you intuitively, beside one: the deleting of sequences. This could be done more easily than by dividiing the soundclip in a couple of pieces and then deleting the one that was not correct. If you made a recording with some noises, coughs etc, I think you would not be very happy to edit like this. would be way better to just mark the piece you want to delete and press the delete-button.
A great feature is the option to directly record skype and iChat conversations. That's cool for interviews, chats, you name it...
One thing to remember - it's made for Mac.
Anyway, for about 80 Euros it's a deal for all of you who are about to enter the podcast world.