Yes, I know, life is what happens when you make plans.
I had my last day at my current company on friday 22. Dec. It was kinda weird, 'cause my colleagues are realy great people and I wont see them that often anymore, but what it made even more unreal is that they all don't know what will happen in 1. Jan 2007 - that made it almost sureal.
Anyway I gotta gonna own you the pictures from Berlin, I'm not in the mood as my mind is currently more busy doingn other things - like trying to organice a home in nuremberg for January and February and for later on as well.
Christmas was good, meeting some friends around my old place and I'm looking confident toward the next year, though sometimes the situation at BenQ still puzzles me. I'm not in that boat anymore but a lot of good people are and my best wishes go with them.
So without further delay, I think this will be my last post this year, I wish you all a good new year. Don't expect to many post from me in the first months, I don't know if and how often I'll be able to blog from my temporary home in nuremberg and after that it's moving and getting all stuff running again - again life is what happens, when you plan other things - time will tell, so cya next year !
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
There and back again
Last sunday:
Kamp-Lintfort - Berlin
Wednesday:
Berlin - Hamburg
Friday:
Hamburg - Kamp-Lintfort
Exhausting, yes, was it fun, yes, am I going to blog about it now, no, but I made some pictures, so be patient.
Kamp-Lintfort - Berlin
Wednesday:
Berlin - Hamburg
Friday:
Hamburg - Kamp-Lintfort
Exhausting, yes, was it fun, yes, am I going to blog about it now, no, but I made some pictures, so be patient.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Firefly Continues On As MMO - update
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72263-0.html?tw=rss.index
update: A more detailed press release on PR Newswire
I got it from and it seems there is a firefly-MMORPG fan forum starting right now as well.Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game.
Now that's shiny.
Multiverse, maker of a free MMO-creation platform, plans to announce Friday morning that it's struck a deal with Fox Licensing to turn the show into an MMORPG in the fashion of Star Wars Galaxies or Eve Online.
update: A more detailed press release on PR Newswire
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Sind die wirklich wirklich soooo blöd! - update
Ich kann es echt kaum fass, deswegen der frühe blog Eintrag, weil ich diese idiotische Ideen gerade gesehen gelesen habe:
Jaja, mal wieder total von den eigentlichen Problemen ablenken und das ist die Verantwortung der Mitmenschen und alles auf die "Killerspiele" schicken. Wenn das so weiter geht lauf ich mal Amok und keine Sorge, ich werd auch keinen Umbringen. Ich verspreche aber das bestimmte Leute ein sehr gutes Andenkene daran haben werden. Ich muss echt fast kotzen bei dieser schieren Dummheit. Nur um ein einen Moment sachlich zu argumentieren, in den 20-30 Jahren waren es die Comics, vorher die Bücher, dann das Fernsehen, später die Horror-Videos dann und immer noch das Internet und die Computerspiele. Es sind immer die neuen "Medien". Hat mal jemand den Abschiedsbrief gelesen? Steht da irgendwas von "Killerspielen motivierter Handlung" - Nein.
Idioten.
Update: Es war noch nie so einfach Idioten zu finden:
Fast noch besser ist das hier:
"Bürgerjournalismus", als ob nicht schon genug Idoten sich in der Presse zu Wort melden, Politiker allen voran. Nun sollen auch noch Sensationsfotografen irgendwelchen Unfällen hinterherfahren und anfangen die Rettungsarbeiten zu behindern. Das nur so als "unwahrscheinliches" Beispiel: "He alter ich muss hier mal auf der Gegenspur anhalten, weil es auf der anderen Seite der Autobahn gekracht hat und ich mit meiner Handykamera 'nen Paar Bilderschiessen muss." Jaja - LMAA.
Beckstein prescht mit Killerspiel-Gesetzesplan vor
Der Amoklauf von Emsdetten hat die Debatte über Killerspiele neu entfacht - jetzt wird es konkret: Bayerns Innenminister Beckstein will Herstellung, Vertrieb und Kauf solcher Spiele mit bis zu einem Jahr Haft bestrafen. Das steht in der Blaupause für ein Gesetz, die SPIEGEL ONLINE vorliegt.
Jaja, mal wieder total von den eigentlichen Problemen ablenken und das ist die Verantwortung der Mitmenschen und alles auf die "Killerspiele" schicken. Wenn das so weiter geht lauf ich mal Amok und keine Sorge, ich werd auch keinen Umbringen. Ich verspreche aber das bestimmte Leute ein sehr gutes Andenkene daran haben werden. Ich muss echt fast kotzen bei dieser schieren Dummheit. Nur um ein einen Moment sachlich zu argumentieren, in den 20-30 Jahren waren es die Comics, vorher die Bücher, dann das Fernsehen, später die Horror-Videos dann und immer noch das Internet und die Computerspiele. Es sind immer die neuen "Medien". Hat mal jemand den Abschiedsbrief gelesen? Steht da irgendwas von "Killerspielen motivierter Handlung" - Nein.
Idioten.
Update: Es war noch nie so einfach Idioten zu finden:
Schützenhilfe für Beckstein aus Niedersachsen und Brandenburg
Wenn man keine Ahnung hat, einfach mal die Fresse halten!Fast noch besser ist das hier:
Reuters will Amateurbilder vermarkten
Yahoo und Reuters wollen künftig an fotografischem Bürgerjournalismus verdienen. Ab morgen können Hobbyfotografen ihre Bilder über die Seiten der beiden Unternehmen hochladen - und vielleicht sogar daran verdienen. Wie, ist noch unklar.
"Bürgerjournalismus", als ob nicht schon genug Idoten sich in der Presse zu Wort melden, Politiker allen voran. Nun sollen auch noch Sensationsfotografen irgendwelchen Unfällen hinterherfahren und anfangen die Rettungsarbeiten zu behindern. Das nur so als "unwahrscheinliches" Beispiel: "He alter ich muss hier mal auf der Gegenspur anhalten, weil es auf der anderen Seite der Autobahn gekracht hat und ich mit meiner Handykamera 'nen Paar Bilderschiessen muss." Jaja - LMAA.
Monday, December 04, 2006
So, it's official now - Nürnberg
I made my decision.
Applying and looking for a new job with the current situation here at BenQ mobile I had two very promising alternatives in addition to the one staying here and hopeing that the isolvency manager would "rightsize" the remainings of the company and at the same time finds investors who would be willing to take over the buisness.
For me, i's going to be Nürnberg.
There have been nice and shiny other options, some of them including moving pretty far out but I made myself a certain deadline till when I should have made a decision and I like to at least try to stick to it.
I didn't make this decision easy for me, because the people I'm working here with are realy great people on every base, profession and personal. They are all "do-ers", they know what to do, they do it, they got the knowledge and the experience and I have learned a lot of them and it is realy a shame how in the management one mistakes has been followed by another finally leading to the insolvency. And when I'm talking about "the management" it's not totally related to the people in charge but more or less to the whole management structure. BenQ Corp. didn't managed to slim the decision making management to the "right" size speeding up decisions. The way it has been set up the responsibility has been distributed to as many people as possible so nobody was in the end able to make a decision or that group of people who should make the decisions didn't had the knowledge or expertise to take that decision, which resulted in reports from those who did, going forth and back and endless meetings discussing things over and over again.
Examplary of the fall of BenQ mobile is on a poster on a wall here in my office:
"Each company is only as good as it's processes behind it."
I can't even start talking about how wrong this is in o so many ways. Even with my limited experiences of 9 months in the "free industry" rather than at the university even the simplest mind must recognize how wrong this is.
But this blog is about me, so ....
... I'll be moving to Nürnberg to an other company in the same buisness but on a different level. One step closer to the R&D and the baseband and one step away from the making the final phones to the pre development you might say.
The plan is first: the fun stuff, visiting my godchild in Berlin, visiting my brother in Hamburg and later christmas, meanwhile trying to find an appartment somehow from KLF overthere. My contract starts on 1.1.2007 but having talked to them I got the opportunity to start on 8.1.2007 and have the option to get a room over there while I'm searching in January - I still hope they pay for that, but these details have to be clarified in the near future. One step at a time. My appartment here has been cancled, I should start packing my stuff but again one step at a time, now it's time to plan my visit in Berlin and Hamburg.
Anyway, what ever comes, I'll keep blogging from time to time - for sure.
p.s.
I graduated from yellow to orange belt in Hu Chuan Pai Kung Fu - even with a cold, yay !
Applying and looking for a new job with the current situation here at BenQ mobile I had two very promising alternatives in addition to the one staying here and hopeing that the isolvency manager would "rightsize" the remainings of the company and at the same time finds investors who would be willing to take over the buisness.
For me, i's going to be Nürnberg.
There have been nice and shiny other options, some of them including moving pretty far out but I made myself a certain deadline till when I should have made a decision and I like to at least try to stick to it.
I didn't make this decision easy for me, because the people I'm working here with are realy great people on every base, profession and personal. They are all "do-ers", they know what to do, they do it, they got the knowledge and the experience and I have learned a lot of them and it is realy a shame how in the management one mistakes has been followed by another finally leading to the insolvency. And when I'm talking about "the management" it's not totally related to the people in charge but more or less to the whole management structure. BenQ Corp. didn't managed to slim the decision making management to the "right" size speeding up decisions. The way it has been set up the responsibility has been distributed to as many people as possible so nobody was in the end able to make a decision or that group of people who should make the decisions didn't had the knowledge or expertise to take that decision, which resulted in reports from those who did, going forth and back and endless meetings discussing things over and over again.
Examplary of the fall of BenQ mobile is on a poster on a wall here in my office:
"Each company is only as good as it's processes behind it."
I can't even start talking about how wrong this is in o so many ways. Even with my limited experiences of 9 months in the "free industry" rather than at the university even the simplest mind must recognize how wrong this is.
But this blog is about me, so ....
... I'll be moving to Nürnberg to an other company in the same buisness but on a different level. One step closer to the R&D and the baseband and one step away from the making the final phones to the pre development you might say.
The plan is first: the fun stuff, visiting my godchild in Berlin, visiting my brother in Hamburg and later christmas, meanwhile trying to find an appartment somehow from KLF overthere. My contract starts on 1.1.2007 but having talked to them I got the opportunity to start on 8.1.2007 and have the option to get a room over there while I'm searching in January - I still hope they pay for that, but these details have to be clarified in the near future. One step at a time. My appartment here has been cancled, I should start packing my stuff but again one step at a time, now it's time to plan my visit in Berlin and Hamburg.
Anyway, what ever comes, I'll keep blogging from time to time - for sure.
p.s.
I graduated from yellow to orange belt in Hu Chuan Pai Kung Fu - even with a cold, yay !
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Visitors
There we go.
I said earlier that I had something going on in my mind and I finally came to a conclusion. This one will involve a move and I'll post the details later.
Back to the title.
Jürgen and Heie grabbed the chance to more or less visit me here for the last time before I'll move. The next time they both will get here will be probadly to "help" me moving to my not more detailed new home.
Arriving on friday it was more or less what we call standard. Get something to eat, watch a movie and later hit the city. The three of us went to the Pulp in Duisburg and I think besides the point that Heie was slightly disapointed to missed the live band which was announced for friday I think both were pleased with the location. Only the fact that, as tante mentioned the people on the dance floor were more playing "who moves first is out" I liked it. Music was good company was good what do you need more.
Saturday "Döner macht schöner" as breakfast, for me and Heie, random tossing insults at each other, shopping so we don't starve later, another movie and later the Delta Park in Duisburg - because we were to lazy to come up with something more original. 4 areas, some "table dancers" who looked very bored and dozens of people again playing "who moves first is out" on the dance floor. But we didn't expect anything else so why bother :) ?
It is realy a pity that Asche wasn't able to join us. For sure because the Delta Park was intentionally to be visited together with Asche 'cause he would have fitted in for sure. An alternative would have been the PM but since my half announced move will take place end of this year the chance to hit that one or the Delta Park with Asche is dropping drastically.
Darn, Asche just get your work get done on time just once! There is only so much white russian I can drink alone. Next chance will be my move ;) ,
I said earlier that I had something going on in my mind and I finally came to a conclusion. This one will involve a move and I'll post the details later.
Back to the title.
Jürgen and Heie grabbed the chance to more or less visit me here for the last time before I'll move. The next time they both will get here will be probadly to "help" me moving to my not more detailed new home.
Arriving on friday it was more or less what we call standard. Get something to eat, watch a movie and later hit the city. The three of us went to the Pulp in Duisburg and I think besides the point that Heie was slightly disapointed to missed the live band which was announced for friday I think both were pleased with the location. Only the fact that, as tante mentioned the people on the dance floor were more playing "who moves first is out" I liked it. Music was good company was good what do you need more.
Saturday "Döner macht schöner" as breakfast, for me and Heie, random tossing insults at each other, shopping so we don't starve later, another movie and later the Delta Park in Duisburg - because we were to lazy to come up with something more original. 4 areas, some "table dancers" who looked very bored and dozens of people again playing "who moves first is out" on the dance floor. But we didn't expect anything else so why bother :) ?
It is realy a pity that Asche wasn't able to join us. For sure because the Delta Park was intentionally to be visited together with Asche 'cause he would have fitted in for sure. An alternative would have been the PM but since my half announced move will take place end of this year the chance to hit that one or the Delta Park with Asche is dropping drastically.
Darn, Asche just get your work get done on time just once! There is only so much white russian I can drink alone. Next chance will be my move ;) ,
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