My Town
We were asked to introduce the place we live in. Here we go - with greatest pleasure 
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For the past 20 something years I ‘ve been living in the town of Jena (Thuringia, Germany) - and I still like it a lot and wouldn’t move anywhere else.Why? It’s a small university town of about 100,000 inhabitants (20,000 students). Nice surroundings, small old centre. It combines the best aspects of living in a rather small place with the advantages of a university town: You know people, there’s lot of nice pubs and cafes, a fairly vibrant cultural life of all sorts… Just great to be here. Some people might find it a bit too provincial - well, I don’t.
Here’s a satellite view of the place:
And here’s a nightly view from my living room window:
If you like, you can have a look at one of Jena’s webcams. This one here is installed on top of the towerlike
high-rise building in the centre of town
(you see it in the nightly photograph).
You need to have Java installed to be able to use it! Enjoy…
And here’s a little voice message . Again, just testing…
Welcome to blogosphere, Uwe and it was great to hear your voice all the way from Germany. I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the second or third largest city in the world (about 18 million inhabitants)so life is very busy. I spend my weekends in the countryside though, to breathe some fresh air and hug trees
Warm regards from this side of the world.
Bee
Kommentar von Barbara (Bee) Dieu — 23 Januar, 2006 @ 10:39 pm
Thanks for the comment, Bee. Right now, Brazil sounds like a great alternative - we have about -20 degree at night. Gosh, it is freezing! BTW, your blog is great, very informative. And - it is WorPress as well
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Take care, Uwe
Kommentar von uwe — 24 Januar, 2006 @ 9:21 am
Hi, Uwe,
Well done. Like the blog. How did you post the sound file? Is it like posting a photo? I.e. can you just upload a sound file from your own computer, and must it be a file which is hosted somewhere on the Internet already?
Danke.
Kommentar von Marco Polo — 26 Januar, 2006 @ 2:11 am
Marco -
thanks for your comment. Yeah, photos (almost any file type, for that matter) are handled like that: In Worpress, you have a dialogue to upload and handle photos, soundfiles… etc just below the wysiwig editor. You upload your file and drag&drop it into your editor. Voila - that’s it. Works like magic
The only thing that is not standard is the nifty little player button that offers the tagging for deli.cio.us as well, this is a plugin. But it turns up automatically as well - as soon as the mp3 file is in place.
It is also possible to include files that are stored somewhere on the net.
I am not yet that long into Wordpress, but it’s a great tool. BTW, edublog runs on WP as well…
Take care,
Uwe
Kommentar von uwe — 26 Januar, 2006 @ 7:09 am
Hi there Uwe
What a nice blog- I like the visuals, and loved the music on the first instalment (it was quite long and I fast forwarded to get to the show!).
Looking forward to hearing how you learners enjoy making the radio show.
Carole
Kommentar von carole — 28 Januar, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
Carole -
thanks for the kind words. The second part will be “on air” pretty soon..
Take care,
Uwe
Kommentar von uwe — 28 Januar, 2006 @ 2:16 pm