A new photo set about our Crete vacations

Our small family
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

I have uploaded more than 50 photos from our vacations in the Robinson Club Lyttos Beach on Crete. Charlotte's most favorite words: "Wasser" and "nackig"! :-)

Photos from our Juist trip in May

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Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

There are many nice photos online from our May trip to Juist (however, they are not all tagged yet).

Certificate of appointment as an assistant professor

Certificate of appointment as an assistant professor ("Juniorprofessor")
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

This is the my certificate of appointment as an assistant professor ("Juniorprofessor"). I have received it on Tuesday. At last.

Photos from my trip to Hawaii

Sunset in paradise
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

I have posted a couple of photos of my trip to HICSS-41 and Hawaii in early January. You will also find some photos of my 9-hours layover in San Francisco.

Charlotte was born one year ago

Charlotte, Eike, and I
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

Today it's Charlotte's birthday. Her godfather and godmothers are visiting us this afternoon.

Many new Charlotte photos online

Charlotte loves swinging
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

I have uploaded a couple of Charlotte photos today. Please have a look at my flickr pages.

Photos of our trip to Juist in early fall

Grass in the wind
Originally uploaded by Stefan SmolnikThe photos of our last trip to Juist are finally online. Still missing are the photos of Marion and Andreas' wedding. I have already uploaded them but still need to tag and describe them.

Playing with Flock

Review of Flock, the social web browser

This is an interesting review of a previous beta version of Flock. I have just installed the new release of Flock and started to play around with it. I am curious whether it will be able to remove Firefox as my favorite browser.

Blogged with Flock

Some new Charlotte videos online

I have uploaded 10 new Charlotte videos in the last days. Please visit Charlotte's Video Gallery to watch them. I have also uploaded many new photos. However, I need to name, tag, and group them before I can make them available for you all.

Started a Tumblelog

Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.

I have just started with my own tumblelog at http://tumblr.smolnik.net. Hopefully, I will be able to update this site more often than my regular blog.

German team wins the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

Germany is champion of the Women's World Cup again. Behind its trademark smothering defense and a crafty save by its goalkeeper on a penalty kick, Germany defeated Brazil 2-0 in the final Sunday. It became the first women's soccer team to successfully defend its title in the World Cup or Olympics.

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Emerald's Outstanding Reviewer Award

Outstanding Reviewer Award
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

For the first year Emerald has decided to name and reward the Outstanding Reviewers who contribute to the success of the journals. Each journal's editor has nominated the reviewer they feel has been that title's most Outstanding Reviewer. And yes, I have been chosen as the most Outstanding Reviewer at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007 for my work on Baltic Journal of Management.

Further information: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/authors/literati_network/awards/reviewer_2007.jsp

Ingo's Stag Night

Equipped with Stuff for Sale
Originally uploaded by Ingo Erdmann

Eike and Charlotte spent the last week in Oerlinghausen. I joint them at the weekend because of Ingo's stag night in Paderborn. Some (former) GCC colleagues, a cousin, his brother and I surprised Ingo on Saturday evening. Ingo had to offer and sell various products and services in Paderborn's city and was quite successful. He could pay for some rounds of (good and not so good) cocktails. We had a lot of fun and it was a pleasure for me to meet them all again.

Website and photos: Official Sandra & Ingo Wedding Website and Wedding Photos on Flickr

HICSS-41 2008 notifications of acceptance/rejection

HICSS-41
Originally uploaded by Stefan Smolnik

All decisions have been made! The notifications of acceptance and rejection have been sent out today by the online review system. As every year, there were very tough and close decisions because the quality of the submitted papers was extremely high. We will have two sessions with altogether 6 accepted papers at HICSS-41. Among these accepted papers is also the paper co-authored by Murray, me, and Dave. :-) It is entitled "Towards Measuring Knowledge Management Success" - it's abstract:

"Discussions at previous HICSS conferences have revealed that there is no general agreement on definitions of knowledge management (KM) and knowledge management system (KMS) success. We developed these concepts and presented them earlier this year. Using an expert panel approach followed by two exploratory surveys, we identify KM success measures. The research demonstrates that measures for KM success are required on multiple dimensions. This paper thus also presents a set of dimensions with measures that can be used to determine if KM in an organization is successful."

Do not forget: It is time to make plans for the trip to Hawaii now!

Travel Information . . .

Three of my photos inluded in Schmap Guides

Schmap Guides Online has recently included three of my Hawaii photos in their latest online guides about Hawaii. One photo (of the Maui Ocean Center) has been published in the Maui and Molokai Schmap Guide and two photos (of a tour with Safari Helicopters) in the Hawaii Schmap Guide.

Charlotte and her new hobby: blowing!

Charlotte loves to blow air out of her mouth since a couple of weeks. But in the last days, she has learned to make some "sound" with the blowing. She is soooo cute.

Charlotte is moving through our living room

About one or two weeks ago, Charlotte has started to move also forwards through our rooms. You cannot really call these movements (high or "hands-and-knees") crawling but it is de facto low crawling (on her stomach). After today's baby swimming, I have also the impression that she sometimes tries to get her knees on the ground. And she is getting faster and faster each day. We really need to start making our apartment childproof.

Charlotte's Videos

• 2007-09-22: Charlotte standing at our closet. (new)
  

• 2007-09-08: Charlotte and me during the baby swimming course (6). (new)

• 2007-09-08: Charlotte and me during the baby swimming course (5). (new)

• 2007-09-08: Charlotte and me during the baby swimming course (4). (new)

• 2007-09-08: Charlotte and me during the baby swimming course (3). (new)

• 2007-09-08: Charlotte and me during the baby swimming course (2). (new)

• 2007-09-08: Charlotte and me during the baby swimming course (1). (new)

• 2007-08-26: Charlotte is making fun in our kitchen (2). (new)

• 2007-08-26: Charlotte is making fun in our kitchen (1). (new)

• 2007-08-26: Charlotte is making funny faces. (new)

• 2007-08-25: Charlotte in a Pampers box (2)

• 2007-08-25: Charlotte in a Pampers box (1)
  

• 2007-08-15: Charlotte is sitting in her baby's high chair and is having fun.

• 2007-08-12: Charlotte rather quite.
  
  
• 2007-08-09: Charlotte and her new hobby: blowing!


• 2007-08-08: Charlotte is moving through our living room.


• 2007-07-24: Charlotte is performing her sidewards roll.

(Last updated: 10/26/07)

Faster Internet access and new toys

A couple of days ago, our new phone and DSL rate Call & Surf Comfort Plus has been activated by T-Home. We now have a DSL 16.000 Internet connection and first measurements have shown that we indeed reach this connection speed. :-) Among other features and add-ons of this new rate, we can now access the Internet at all German T-Mobile/T-Com Hotspots for free. I tried it successfully yesterday at McDonald's in Schwalbach (of course without "enjoying" the "excellent" fast food). The new rate contains furthermore a very low ping (like the fastpath option). A short test with Counter-Strike showed a ping of 9 ms. Hopefully, I will find some spare time later to play a round or two.
To benefit fully from the faster Internet connection, I also ordered two new power line adapters, that have been delivered today (Netgear XE104 85 MBit/s Powerline Ethernet Switch). As they are full plug & play enabled, I just needed to plug they in the power outlets and voilá, we now have a nearly 16.000 kBit/s download in (potentially) every room of our apartment. :-)

Charlotte in action

In addition to all the photos of Charlotte, you can now enjoy our sunshine with moving images. Eike took a first short movie with our digital camera about two weeks ago and I discovered another amazing Google service (http://video.google.com) last weekend. Let's hope that we will be able to manage to shoot and upload more movies in the next days and weeks.