life

I finally managed to take a week off and I declare the following week as the week where I will do things which I love (thank you, Mr Roosevelt for the following quote):

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Another link which emphasizes the above quote comes from one of the Github founders, Chris Wanstrath, who gave a keynote at Ruby Hoedown. Time to look at my github account again and devote some hours to some projects (anyone in need of a OpenStreetMap -> Shape-File converter?).

Zach Klein wrote a few days ago a story about his flaws. He said that when he was asked about them in college, he couldn’t name them.

I can’t name them either.

But I’m working on it, even if I actually don’t want to. Today I discovered one of them.

I’m impatient. I guess I’ve always been. When I was still a kid, not too young anymore, I knew where my mum hid my christmas presents. I did have a look at some of them, not all, but some. That didn’t annul the joy when I actually got them, because I know what was lying under the christmas tree (again, not all of them, I didn’t unpack them or so).

I was also one of the guys who where quite unhappy when it came to the mid of summer because I knew school was still not going to start for a long time. And I guess I’m a doer. I was never one of those guys who was passive at school, who waited for other students to say something or to act. I wanted to show what I can do and I did.

Now I’m no longer a student, but an employee. And it makes me quite nervous to see what our competition did while we were talking about what we might can do. I wanna build things, I wanna do something, I wanna make progress, actively.

I guess that’s also one of my flaws in my personal life (well, no, I do know that it is a flaw). I can’t wait for things to happen, I need them to happen, I want to influence them and just can’t wait for it). Why do I write all that? Well, because I guess things are changing here. And I can only wait and see. Which makes me uncomfortable and pretty much puzzled.

Does anybody know where I can get Sharpie markers in Vienna?

I’m asking because I’ve seen this photo on Flickr yesterday and he’s using a Sharpie Extra Fine Point Marker. It might be a marker I really enjoy (how strange sounds that!?)

• Take more photos
• Launch at least the two projects I’m working on
• Spend a few days at the seaside with my girlfriend
• Get my degree
• Spend a weekend in at least one European capital
• Move to Vienna
• Go to the theatre, at least once twice
• Go running, two times a week minimum
• Find a cool internship for August
• Get a job (in the web industry)
• Plant herbs
• Do a painting together with my girlfriend
• Contribute to some Open Source projects
• Learn another programming language
• Learn Cocoa
• Find a flat without a pre-installed kitchen
• Learn Swedish again
• Spend more time cooking and baking
• Watch ARTE more often (or quit my subscription)

[to be continued]

• My website seems to be blazingly fast at the moment. Could it be that the move of the cluster which I’m on to a new data center is the reason for that? Hope that it stays like that.

• It sucks when Google is down (I think I’ve used that clause already on this blog, it sounds so familiar). Nearly everything I do in the web starts at the top right of my browser window.

• Movable Type is Open Source! I remember the day when I switched from MT to Wordpress because they started charging money for their software.

• I’ve written some wonderful code today. More on that some time later.

I’ve never watched Big Brother or any other real life soap. They featured dull people who hoped to get some fame, publicity and maybe money.

But at least since Tumblr has started, I found some interesting Tumblr’s. I do not say that all people who’re using Tumblr or any other form of weblog or “what’s happening in my life” wanna get famous or do it just for publicity, but some are clearly streamlined to draw some interest. Which is fine. It’s not so that I pay money for it or I can’t switch away from it.

It’s merely appealing to read about some really smart guy living in New York, founding a kick-ass web service and leaving it all behind, including his girlfriend. Every day, every post, is like a two-part TV series where the real action just stops, the screen fades to black and you read ‘To be continued…’ and you have to sit in front of the TV at the exact same time a week later to see what will happen next. God damn, how I hate that thing.

…is probably the most relaxing thing for me (followed by driving my car at night).

You know that you have some real friends when one of them tells you that you look like you’ve been partying for the whole night, but you’ve actually just returned from holidays.

Summer semester is finally over and I’m looking forward to enjoy my holidays in July (I will do an internship in August and fly to Corsica in September for one week with my girlfriend). And I hope to take more photos, write more blog posts and finally find some time to get fit. Wonderful holidays.

…If you write software for NASA then you might want consult your lawyer before you admit fault…

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