ginsterbusch's journal

Last friday we made the final step: Moving all the neccessary stuff over to our brand-new flat. One that'll be big enough to accomodate not only us but also friends from far and not-so-far away, who are going to visit us. ;)

Some stats right now:

1. 65 qm, kitchen + bathroom not counted in

2. 3 rooms - sleeping room, living room, small office/work room

3. located in a town / small city which itself is located at the begin of the GermanBlack Forest - thus we've got a great view ;)

4. cheap - including all extra charges it's just 460 euro per month I gotta chip of my salary ;)

5. quite amazing fact: I pay half the price for electricity I've been paying in Karlsruhe for a one-room appartment!

6. it's just 2 km to the next big city, Pforzheim* (which itself sucks ... a lot. but at least you've got lots of shopping malls there ;))

* note: I'm using the German wikipedia articles, because there are nearly always English equivalents AND the German ones are normally way better than its foreign versions.

This post was edited by ginsterbusch on Jun 04, 2007.

So NAO itself is moving (at least its physical self) and with me, life is changing once again.

Old company out, new one in.

The same is up to my notebook - after replacing both RAM and the CMOS battery, I still wasnt able to get it working again, thus it has to go. Aka: being sold in parts via Ebay and Quoka.

So my next notebook will be a brand-new one, probably either some Toshiba or the Lenovo ThinkPad Z61m, which will be payed by installments.

Next up on my schedule is another flat with at least 2 rooms. Reason: Although both my financial situation and my relationship has improved a lot, having to drive about 1 1/2 hours all the time to visit each other gets on our nerves. It doesnt matter if its 30 or 300 km, it sucks all the time. Now moving together will help that problem ;)

Thats it for now from my humble self - more to be found at my weblog (mainly written in German, sorry).

cu, w0lf.

I've got to finish the base functionality of an ASP.NET + C#-based shop till tommorow evening, else I'll immediately get the pink slip. IMO there's a 50:50 chance to reach this goal.

So thats the darkening.

But the lightening about this is: I've been watching this development for months now and I dont like it. I lose all the abilities and knowledge I trained hard for during the last 6 years. I have to completely switch myself just to fit into this job. There are a few nice guys at work, but also lots of .. lets say. .. maddening crowds. 08/15 types of people.

So this would be the chance to concentrate on something better, getting on with life.

So we'll see whats happening tommorrow evening. Maybe I'll be first, maybe my boss will be first.

cu, w0lf.

Once again I have to say farewell to a company.
Although its not official yet, I'm already searching for a new job.

If you're from Germany or understand German, take a look at my new 'in search of again'-page.

If you know about a good job related with keywords like PHP 4, PHP 5, Semantic Web, XHTML, CSS or Usability, just tell me. If you know somebody who'd be fond of having an employee with the before mentioned skills, I'd be happy if you'd tell him or her.

So its up once again .. the hunting, the heading and the stress. And all this while I'm still employed. :-/

cu, w0lf.

So once again my damned bank has a server outtake. Not only did they crap up during the DST time change, but tonight they made a crapper, too!

So I have to stay hungry till morning, just because them fuckheads cant get their bloody servers running properly!

Is that the reason why I pay 5 euro per month? Hey - my webhoster's servers have got a far better uptime than this! And I pay just 99 cent more than for my bank account.

Lets convert every hosting solution to a multiple bank/webspace hosting thingy. That'll solve all the problems linked with the banking idiots that still - in the age of electronic communication - aint able to do a money transfer in less than 3 days.

phh...

cu, w0lf.

This post was edited by ginsterbusch on Nov 03, 2006.

Now, there is this WinXP theme I stumbled over via Alp Uckan's Weblog. Take a look at it yourself:

What I like most about this theme is: it tries to copy the Look & Feel of KDE 2 / 3 by not cloning too much the style of Mac OS X and still keeping its own character.

Black's beautiful. :)

I'm getting nearer and nearer to the final goal: Switching to linux, at least with one notebook - even if its not the one I have to do my daily work with.

This evening I auctioned a nice second-hand Dell Latitude C610 for my personal joy. I'm not sure yet what I'm going to install onto it - the non-Windumb system which fits best into my needs will make it. One of the following propably: OpenBSD, Ubuntu 6.10, Mandriva 2007 or Fedora Core.

Oh, and much more things of joy: I've been so busy these days I've forgotten to do the wash up for almost 2 weeks. What a joy, what nice odour. Good luck I didnt eat anything before starting to do the clean up, else I would have had a nice talk with the toilet bowl for a while. Next thing I gonna do is covering this whole room with frankincense to get the awful, puke-like smell away.

Well, the bright side of this is, I'm not hungry anymore. :->

Thats the news for this month, aside the fact that I've been very busy with work, being employed as "Software Developer Web" for 2 months now. Which is also one of the reasons I've turned into a fellow reader but not a writer in here.

cu, w0lf.

This post was edited by ginsterbusch on Nov 02, 2006.