It is over but still it is relaxing

Had a rather different christmas this year. First, no longer member of the club we had a very relaxed winter solstice celebration.
Now we will start with the preparations for the new years eve dinner.
It will be a 5 dishes menu with the theme of "Mozart and its time".

Looking forward to it, expecially cause all our kids are big Mozart fans and love his music at least as much as i do.

Christmas fast approaching

Thank god last friday the release version of the project i am working on was delivered and approved by the customer. Yesterday we launched it and I now can have a really relaxed holiday season.

And with my new umts stick I can be online wherever I am.

And no, I am no internet addict..But a near miss ;) Call me geek and you are never wrong....

Weekend already over again.

The testing showed some minor glitches but overall, the saturday work went rather smoothly. We still have two minor glitches in the whole system but the basic technology finally works smoothly.

It is no longer following my personal design principle for good software (KISS - Keep IT Small, Stupid.)

But hey, I get payed therefore I will obey ;). I still can do it my style with the work I do for the community ;)

(Not really) great news for the evening.

I have to do extra hours on saturday.

And I will be the only technician at work, other than that its only the customer being present.

Great. It could have been a great weekend and now it is just a pile of badly wasted time at the office. (cause either everything that will be tested is ok, or we will have to fix it on monday. I am not the guy with the customer knowledge but rather the technician..But that does not bother anyone ;) )

About off road kids

Heard a great lecture about kids living in the streets and how an organization called "off road kids" helps them in finding back into a normal life.
I will try to support them by spreading the word and maybe collecting some money for the good cause.

To find out more, check out :www.offroadkids.de

Being a year older

Birthday is over and i got some great gifts. First of all, some great gifts handmade by my kids of which I am extremely proud. then a very special edition of "The lord of the rings" in leather all three books combined into one. And a very interesting book about Mozart AND recipes of his lifetime.

But really the greatest thing are the self made presents by my kids. And all three where so excited, much more than i was.

Back from the lecture

I think it was rather successfull and I hope to be one of the first to start a tradition in Mannheim.

Wish all the best for the future of the majug2 and I will for sure watch the further development.

Looking forward to more lectures of which i will listen to on or the other.

preparations for my lecture in Mannheim

Two students and founders of the mannheim java user group have invited me to give a lecture on the usage of java and frameworks in my company.

So i am in final preparations for holding a lecture on software development strategies at the university of mannheim on tuesday.

Looking forward to being in the inspiring environment of a university again.

On majorities

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

Committed to change

Back from the parliament I already had two press interviews and one article in its draft version already looks very promising.
As we all as parlamentarians have comitted ourselves to make the change in our life that we want to see in others I am now looking for more ways to save energy or use it wisely.

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