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Welcome to the New Year!

Now, here we are, finally having arrived in 2008.

All predictions have been made, all retrospectives undertaken, Q4 announcement are pending, another year lies ahead of us for us to use according to our natures.

Since I don't have anything too interesting to say right now, I'm going to make my new years resolution to fin interesting things to write here, full of wit, humour and occasional sparks of insight.

For those who read this, here is a short introduction to me, quoted from a facebook message:

Sometime a few years ago, I switched over to studiying graphic design and should be finishing the grundstudium, which I flunked royally last, sometime at the end of this semester.. the luxury of having your education paid for by her chanceloresses government...
but it is depressing seeing everyone I know turning into professor this or doctor that while I linger...but then I am enjoying my studies much too much to care. It;s all very arcane... while other people learn useful things like building a house, running an economy or defending other people in court, I deal with the minutae of discretionary ligatures, PDF-x3 formats and how to correctly kern a font... all very useful stuff, if you believe the world can be improved through intelligent design... not necessarily graphic, but it's a place to start.
And where that is concerned Berlin is one of the places to be... this place is like a renewable energy in that every day something new and somehow exciting happens here. Sometimes those things even happen to me!
But I enjoy berlin with the thougt that I am going to leave it as soon as I can, because this country is... somehow wierder than other places. More on that some other time. Suffice to say that I am sick of having to deal with German burocrates every day of the year.. and the winters are too cold.

Sums me up quite nicelythat does , and the winters are, I am very dismayed to report, indeed turning cold once more...

until next time!
C

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