Rainy Sunday

Instagram anyone? I caught this one last Sunday with my cell phone and beautified it with one of the awesome filters that come with the app. If you like, you can find me right here. Here is an iTunes link to the app for the newbies among you.

Google Page Rank 5/10

A couple of days ago I noticed that the Google Page Rank for fluck.de went up to 5/10. I think the last time I checked was more than a year ago and I remember it being 3/10. And this was stuck there for a long long time. I'm wondering if switching from blogspot.com to a self-hosted Wordpress had any influence. I know that regularly adding new content helps. The main boost comes probably form other pages linking to here. At this point, thank you guys for doing so - I'm glad you are enjoying the blog!Page Rank

Wiesbadener Fototage

Wiesbadener Fototage is a festival of contemporary photography. I don't want to miss letting you know that it is starting this Friday (ending September 25). This is a juried exhibition taking place in 18 galleries all over the city. I'm very much looking forward browsing through all these places and enjoying the amazing works. This is also the first time my Prison Chess project is being exhibited.

Ich möchte euch eben wissen lassen, dass diesen Freitag die Wiesbadener Fototage beginnen, Thema: "Wagnis Fotografie". Das Fotografie-Festival dauert bis 25.9. und ist auf zahlreiche wiesbadener Galerien aufgeteilt. Sieben meiner Prison Chess Bilder werden im NIZZA DES NORDENS am Kranzplatz zu finden sein. Die Ausstellungsstücke werden von den original -von den Insassen ausgefüllten- Fragebögen begleitet. Mehr Informationen über Teilnehmer, Veranstaltungen und Ausstellungsorte findet ihr auf der offiziellen Webseite.

Man Sitting in Doorway

Cuba, 2010

Website got hacked

Thanks everybody who sent me emails, Facebook & Twitter messages about issues with the website. My online store was using a popular script for re-sizing images. The script is called TimThumb and happens to be part of many Wordpress themes. This means that probably thousands of blogs are currently vulnerable. I think the whole thing started just a couple of weeks ago when Mark Maunder detected a security issue with this script. Shortly after the issue got public, my site started to behave strange in several ways. It's pretty weird when you suddenly have to fix things on your website even though nothing was officially touched. Anyway, I don't wanna go more into detail. If you are generally interested in what is going on with the timThumb problem, you could start reading on net-security.org.So now after resetting passwords, I simply deleted all scripts from my website and installed Wordpress fresh from scratch. Even though the blog looks almost same old (and messy) as before, everything behind it is very much up to date and very clean.The online store is not back to life yet and I won't rush with it as I'm thinking of revamping it.