The European Outdoor Film Tour 2008/2009 stopped in Münster on Saturday evening. It showed a nice selection of the best outdoor short films, ranging from bouldering over kajaking to mountainbiking.

My favourites have been the alpine documentation of the Expedition Manaslu, Seasons (MTB) and the English parody Touching the stairs.

It was well worth the visit, so I can recommend attending the event, if it comes to a town where you live.

Today I bought a new backpack: a Gregory Palisade 80. It fit perfectly. I also tried other backpacks from Macpac, Lowe Alpine and Deuter, but I felt uncomfortable with them. At least when loaded with 15 to 20kg load.

The worst one was the Deuter AirContact Pro 70+15, no fit at all. That’s quite interesting, because for years I am now using exclusively Deuter bike packs (currently Trans Alpine 25) and also got a good fitting Deuter Futura 42 for short travels. BTW, the Trans Alpine also swallows a 13.3” MacBook without any problems. At least I can recommend the bike pack for daily biking to work.

So, my preference has been: Gregory > Macpac > Lowe Alpine. I cannot await packing my new backpack for my planned trip to Norway in March next year. So why such a big pack? Well, I have to get the alcohol with me…

Gregory’smarketing claim is Legendary packs for an extraordinary experience. So now I am officially an extraordinary experience. Hmmmh, I am not sure I like that claim for myself.

Jeffrey Zeldman wrote a nice blog entry about “20 signs you don’t want that web design project”.

Number seven would fit very well my current employed work situation.

7. Client can’t articulate a single desired user goal. He also can’t articulate a business strategy, an online strategy, a reason for the site’s existence, or a goal or metric for improving the website. In spite of all that, client has designed his own heavily detailed wireframes.