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Mein erster Ausflug mit zukünftigen Kollegen eines in Karlsruhe ansässigen ISP, der sich zu 2 addiert, wurde vom anfänglich etwas schweigsamen Thaifoodkonsum zum OMFG WTF Event. Nach dem Essen entscheiden wir uns spontan noch im Irish Pub ?Scruffys? die letzten Einstiegsverhandlungen bei Bier, mehr Bier und Singlemalt auszuhandeln, bis zwei dann eine rauchen waren und [...]

Today is my 5th day of my new 4-day work week. A couple of weeks ago I decided, that I need some more spare time and want to have less working hours. Thanks to the two CEOs of the company I work for – both of them act as my bosses – this week will be my first 4-day work week of many more to come. I'm really looking forward to this huge add-on to my spare time, which will most of the time be Friday each week.

Whenever I told friends and colleagues about my plans or – later on – about the company allowance, I was asked for reasons, why I did this. I'll "earn" a loss of salary together with a loss of vacation days, so this question is eligible. Well... In the last months I did some deep thinking about myself, my role in the society, what I want to accomplish for me and my environment/friends, and where/what I want to be in a few years from now. Partly, those thoughts were initiated and accelerated by some gallbladder disease I suffered from beginning this year, partly I was highly unmotivated at my day job as a Unix systems engineer and consultant. Coming all together, I did some calculation on my monthly bills and decided, there's headroom enough to waive some money in order to gain some more quality in (my) life.

People also ask me, what my plans are, what I intend to do in the gained spare time. Well... There is quite a huge pile of unread books (grows quicker than I can read off), I will intensify my career as a spare time drummer. There are lots of ideas in my head for macro photography, my soldering iron is full of dust, there is a microcontroller development board under the same dust layer begging for attention for months already. Then there occasionally is some house work to do. Cooking for Her, laundry, dishes. And then there is some ongoing discussion and negotiation with some friends and family about an alternative, very nature and people friendly way for our future living, which also needs some time which I am willing to spend. Besides all that and knowing me for several years now, I'm pretty sure, there won't raise any boredom :-) From time to time, some outcome will be posted here in this blog.

I'm really looking forward to this one more free day a week and I'm really thankful to my company for engaging in my wish. Thank you!

Leider wurde es auch bei Android 2.2 (FROYO) versäumt, oder nicht für nötig befunden dem HTC Desire die Funktion zu spendieren, sich mit einem AdHoc Netzwerk verbinden zu können. Obgleich das lang ersehnte 3G HotSpot Feature integriert wurde und einwandfrei funktioniert. Es ist zwar wirklich sinnvoll, dass es endlich die Funktion gibt, sein HTC Desire [...]

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Ich hab wieder eine wirre Sammlung an Schmierzetteln, Mails und Links aussortiert. Heraus kam:

Check Point CLI Reference Card & Cheat Sheet [pdf en]

$2.07 billion for 3PAR - a company just working in the storage area - ... now i'm sure that $7.4 billion for Sun was a steal.

Beim Aufräumen habe ich die Tage eine alte IDE-Notebookfestplatte aus einem IBM Thinkpad 770Z gefunden. Nach dem Anschließen machte sie leider mysteriöse Geräusche und so schaute ich mir das Ganze mal von innen an – und, was war es? Headcrash, richtig. Schade.

I sat a on my fingers for all the weekend but now i can't take all this comments in the blogs and the mailing lists any longer. Ten years ago, i would have gone ballistic long ago... but the fuse got longer of the past few years. However i'm still able to detonate, however despite the undirected explosion 10 years ago, it's more directed today.

And this article is such a directed explosion. I worked a while on this article and this was one of the reasons why it was relatively silent on this blog the last few days. At first i didn't wanted to publish it, but some events of today led me to think otherwise. I don't know if this is a wise move, because the torch of this rant will burn down some beards. On the other side, i think the article is worth the publication, but you have to judge about that.

However i try to prevent me from exploding thus i used this weekend to play with my new toy (i purchased an iPad last week and it's really fscking cool, i just thought "Like Enterprise ... i just wouldn't gave them away like they do in TNG" ) and worked a lot on the planing on the modifications on my newly purchased building.

However the mail by Garrett d'Amore asking about the removal of SVM was a drop. It was one of those drops, that led to a severe spill-over. So this blog article will be a long rant. If you don't like rants, just skip this.

And keep in mind, it's a rant ... it's not meant to be fair or objective ... think of it as a way to write down my frustration about a lot of events in the last few weeks and especially in the last few days.
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