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In 2017, I played multiple times at Stall6 where Richard Csizmazia organised the Signal Zirkus Zurich meetups.

On a business trip to Prague I brought my iPad and used my time on the plane to and from Prague and at Prague airport to create three purely electronic pieces.

Contrary to what the last blog post was (or wasn’t suggesting) I didn’t die while fasting - I just lost 7kg and the will to finish the 100 day blogging challenge (call it 95% success) And then a Wordpress update led to me not being able to access the back…

So we are running an OpenStack installation based on Folsom, but with Ceph as our underlying storage engine for volumes.

Almost at the end of day one of the fast - this was both more and less difficult than the last time I remember.

Tomorrow I will start a 7 day fast.

Contributing to a large OS project (OpenStack) means to jump through a lot of hoops to get the necessary agreements in place and tools installed.

My good friend Daniel Frei is embarking on several new exciting projects.

As I am slowly winding down the 100 blog posts, another brave soul has started a 61 days blog marathon - but with much longer and more useful blog posts than mine have been.

The last 10 days of the blogging challenge… Not much to say, really, I have been busy making music and enjoying the day off today.

Happy birthday to my wonderful wife - she turned 50 today.

(Yes, gentle reader, I missed a post yesterday - again!

Fallout from the Songwriting course was a link to Leonard Bernsteins 1973 Harward Norton Lecture “The unanswered question”.

Daniela and I have been taking Argentinian Tango lessons for the past two months.

Tonight at Kammertheater Stok: Philipp Schaufelberg, Pierre Favre and Dietmar Fuhr - a great concert, lots of improvisation and long discussions with Philipp and Dietmar afterwards at the bar.

Why do just one course at a time, when you can do two?

The “Introduction to Music Production” course has ended and in the next days I will get a certificate stating that I participated in it.

Meta: This was written a few days ago - instead of a longer post.

The sunday house cleaning saw my wife working on the kitchen while I was in the roof, re-purposing old and new electronics to create a more permanent home studio. 1 2008 MacPro (now that it is not powerful enough to compute BitCoins anymore) 1 22" Monitor…

As I finished my “formal” education at the University of Liverpool in 2011, the MOOCs started to rise.

Just a quick shout out to Hibiki-An, a japanese green tea producer, that has a good website, a good selection of great green teas and assorted accessoires and excellent and quick shipping.

I’ve got a fever - in the morning, fever all through the night.

Finally the “garden working” days have started.

Finally the sun has come back into our world - the last few weeks have been way to gray for my taste.

Back in 2008 I read “the most amazing piece of software I have seen so far” by vowe where he described software that was able to do Direct Note Access (DNA) on recorded sound, effectively giving you the tools to change the notes (pitch or timing) of compl…

Today my computer alerted me to no more room on the main disk - strange, because there were over 140 GB free.

What a ride the BTC vs any other currency has made in the last 48 hours.

Slept way to little tonight, so no blog post from me.

What a Wonderful World | Playing For Change from Playing For Change on Vimeo.

Thanks to Lutz Korte I have a ADA MP-1 MIDI controlled Tube guitar pre amp on loan (to see if I like it).

Bitcoin is currently all the rage.

Incredible to not only see, but to work with Frank Doran Shihan, who is in Zurich the 25th time.

It was Kickstarter payback day today (yet another one) and two black Pebbles arrived (I am still waiting for a red, a white and a gray one) First impressions (after half a day of wearing it): Bigger than expected Not as polished and small as an Apple prod…

Chengchen started his Mobino internship this week and he has been totally overwhelmed by all the information and complexity of the system he needs to learn.

Every Apple user will have met Skeumorphism - faux leather in the calendar, tape reels in the (old) Podcast iOS app etc.

We had released the first (of many) updates to our Mobino iOS app over a month ago, but got shot down by the droids at Apple for using the word “beta” on our splash screen.

This long weekend comes to an end.

My kids love their iPhones (My daughter even bought herself an iPhone 5 for x-mas).

Just a quick note of outrage.

The weather being what it is, what better to do, than to rent a bunch of movies from the friendly neighborhood video rental (highly recommend if you are in Zurich, we have been customers for around 15 years and Lillian who runs Filmriss is just a wonderful

This post has to do with rabbits (in a way) and is therefore the perfect start to a long easter weekend… I have been investigating message queues in quite a bit detail lately.

Thanks to my presentation on BitCoin, I have been invited by one of the German Pirate parties to mumble about my take on BitCoins in one of the following weeks.

My friend and partner in crime (rather InVisible) Keith Bingman is leaving Europe tomorrow morning.

I have been aware of BitCoin for over 2 years (at a time, when mining with a 8 core CPU still yielded a nice number of coins).

My friend and colleague Alvaro (who is responsible for the wonderful Mobino iOS and Android apps) has been working on an application of his own.

I finished week 3 of the Coursera songwriting course.

Feed reading on my tiny tiny RSS instance is quite nice.

In my quest to “own my own data” I spent the last few days to get an alternative to Google Reader going.

The one thing that my scientific mind likes about having a terrible cold is to experimentally find out, which sort of herbal tea goes together with which kind of schnapps.

I have been ill the last few days, which has given me time to oscillate between reading and sleeping.