Still alive

Lots of stuff is going on in my life lately so excuse my not-posting too much.

• By now I’ve taken my part in founding another start-up company. Things are looking good, the company seems to be bound to stay. At least I’ve get to work with people I know and like both in a professional as well as personal level. Getting C.T.O. of a (albeit small) company with age 25 doesn’t sound to bad, huh?
• That new assignment brought me to the United States of America. The precise location was Scottsdale, Arizona which is situated near Phoenix. I can’t say anything more than the typical European observations about America, so I will just skip that. But if you’re nearby check out the Skeptical Chymist and an unnamed sportsbar for food. Although I must confess that an Irish Pub without smoke and smoke-stained interior just seems wrong to me.
• On my trip to the states I also bought a new camera. I’m now a proud owner of a Nikon D40, 18-135mm objective. You can see my misguided attempts of photography here.
• If you dig Radiohead, look at Amazon’s CD box. It includes all albums sans the latest (“Rainbow”) to a very low price.
• Also I smoked on my trip to America. Again. Still it seems like that I’m over smoking.

By now I’m working at reimplementing some Ruby on Rails backend code in plain old Java with some Spring help. Maybe I can convince myself that Ruby didn’t fail me, but I’m just doing the right software engineering thing: writing a prototype with a script language and then reimplementing another production system in Java. But it still stings.

The beat of your heart, the slow burning away
Of the bitter fires of the devil’s arcade

Bruce Springsteen, Devil’s Arcade

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