We love Google...

... who doesn't? Because it's always fun to browse Google's site for features and get inspired about something new we can do to shape our online life. So here are two additions to our site, that someone may find useful:

• Elke's And Olivers NYC: This is a map where we mark places where we love to go. Check it out for some tips about good places to eat out or to party or to have some other kind of New York moment.


• Elke's And Oliver's Events: A calendar with events where we're planning to go. Unfortunately it doesn't mean that we can make it, but we'll try hard.

Digital Loss

Since we meet Swati from time to time at one of our favorite bars and her CD “Small Gods” is one of my current favorites, I thought it would be nice to have her sign the CD. However I downloaded the album from iTunes, so the only way would be printing the cover art, having her sign it and then scan it again and add it to the iTunes library.
Now this seems a quite geeky thing to do and probably not worth the effort, but it makes one think about what we loose during the transition from physical media to free-floating bits and bytes that travel wires and the air in light speed.
We still have a couple of hundred vinyl records on display in our apartment (although we have to turntables at the moment) and each of them tells a story of where I found it and what my life looked like at this time. And then, of course, there's cover art, booklets and other stuff that made a record seem precious. Some records used to be mysterious in the pre-Google age, because I didn't know more about the musicians than a (probably fake) name.
Now this is all gone, all information is plain in the open and music is available 24/7 from everywhere with a mouse-click. That's progress, no doubt, but again, something certainly got lost.