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Early days online: 1996 – 1998

My history on the internet and the World Wide Web starts in late 1996 when enlisting for the winter courses at the Chemnitz Institute of Technology. Had some years…

6. Juni 2016

Souls at zero

Tage am Meer… Auf dem Weg zum Strand im schweren, staubigen Kombi. Kofferraum vollgepackt mit Zeugs, kreuz und quer durcheinander. Eine Kiste Bier, einige Flaschen besseren Weins. Dinge,…

7. Oktober 2015

trains, lights, insomnia

Soundtrack: Opale – ‘Sleepless’ Capturing the quiet mood of empty train stations long past midnight. A strange perception of restlessness and loneliness.

28. September 2015

GNOME: 18 and moving

Well, what do you know: The GNOME Unix desktop project is about to celebrate its 18th ‘birthday’, anniversary, … by tomorrow, August 15, 2015. I guess there’s more…

14. August 2015

Streams

11:24pm. 27°C. System offline, all communication endpoints detached. Not a recipient anymore for tonight. Eyes closed, looking inward, trying to filter out and ignore the noise of the…

17. Juli 2015

antergos: simple, straightforward Linux desktop

Installed antergos Linux on my everyday working laptop yesterday after quite a while running ubuntuGNOME. After upgrading 14.10 to 15.04, some things on my installation became somewhat messy…

25. Juni 2015

Complexity and the book.

Spent most of the evening trying to track down an InstantiationException thrown in some arcane branch of a procedure way too long to handle, let alone understand. Grown…

24. Juni 2015