Ambient Techno is my Friend.

Music in a small world

Sitting, drinking coffee, working, sharing

I know, i'm posting this before i announced my blog. Just for making it seem a little less non-active...

Me and Philipp are just sitting here having another Geekoffice/Geekbüro (sadly, so far noone joined, yet it seems Harald is coming soon).

About 20 minutes ago, a nice woman came up to us to ask a little question. She just bought an iBook and isn't very common with Mac OS X or iTunes yet... And now she sees "nietzsche.itunes" in her list but she never created that playlist. We explained her that this is the "local sharing" feature iTunes has, and that she can't download the music without something like OurTunes.

So i helped her downloading our music, and i accidently opened her address book. The entry i saw was "Luc Gross". Familiar name i thought. Turns out she is the girlfriend of the Metroblog Vienna (which Philipp writes for and i wrote for, which i already mentioned) poster with exactly that name.

And she likes some of our music. Roxx0r.

S-S-S-S-S-Starting (yes, really, it's not April 1st yet)

My blog, which i prefer to call "journal" for mostly phonetic reasons, is finally going online.

Everyone, celebrate my announcement! You may now notice, the old plan to use zine as URI is withdrawn - face it, it's an ugly name.

No wait, i actually wanted to bring something interesting in the first entry.

Maybe a little past and surroundings to why this is up now?

I've been talking about creating a blog for quite some time now, that being about two years. Software wise, i've worked a little on SimpleBlog and Quills, which are both based on Plone, to fit my needs. Ultimately i wasn't able to get where i wanted to be, and as i'm very picky about what i use, i just sulked and wasted time. This time it's real, despite not being finished (at all).

I actually wanted to get together a group of people (a few of them are Karin, Maecks and Markus) that share a system, with their own design and all, yet all available on one frontpage (kind of like a groupblog), but like most my own projects that involve more people than me, it didn't get to be reality.

I've been jealous of my friends blogs, at least some of them. I'd like to see more activity though. And i'd like to see more people in my environment blogging, also about their personal lives, because i want to know whats going on. I hardly know what they're upto at the moment.

This leads me to a question: do you know how painful it is if you feel you have a lot to say but you "can't"? I've got an uncountable number of notes for entries in the notebooks (made of paper) i've used over the years, from music to art to Vienna to work and not to forget, fun with code. I'll probably catch up a little, mainly because this still floats somewhere in the neverending space located in my head.

Oh yeah, something that i've been already asked a few times before i even went live: so why do i write in english? It may sound strange but i have the feeling that i'm far better at expressing myself properly in english. Apart from that, some of my friends and parts of my audience (hopefully it'll appear at some point...), aren't capable of understanding much or any german. However, some content will be written in german, but a rather small portion, and i'll probably provide a translation as well.

Have i forgotten anything? Hmm, i don't think so. Man. I'm here now. So far i've only written a few entries (2 or 4) for the Viennese Metroblog.

But now i've got my own! So i need a cliché line:

WOO! YAY MY BLOG IS UP!