Jan´s Blog Spot

Already almost a week since the last post, time sure flies these days, but at least I’m back home in Paris from a long weekend in home/Munich. After living in Paris for what will be three years in about two weeks and finally giving up my apartment in Munich two months ago, I really can’t say where I feel more at home.

After spending the better part of Friday in the Pangora’s Munich offices, it was yet again time for goodbyes@Pangora, this time Martin, head of the reporting & billing invited for farewell drinks, leaving only six more people who have been working for Pangora longer than I have. It will be interesting to see the rest of the fallout the Pangora-Mentasys merger brings. From there I went to have dinner with Bernhard and Stephanie and was delighted to see their son Noah (who was born three weeks ago) for the first time.

The rest weekend itself was quite nice – Munich lived up to its reputation of being more of a village than a big city, as I ran into a friend from Paris who moved to Munich three months ago by pure chance. Turns out that he’s the new neighbor of an old friend of mine… …what are the odds? (Usually I would have said “slim to none” but given that we’re talking about Munich: pretty good, apparently.)

Anyway – after dinner we went to see the Eurovision Song Contest which usually is an event that is just painful to watch, since the voting system is as bad a joke as most of the songs and (for lack of a better word) artists are. But I must admit that I was surprised to see that it can actually be fun, given you have the right crowd around you and enough alcohol handy.

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Just in case you’re wondering: I am of course aware that the design (or lack thereof) of my home page and also this blog is very non-web 2.0 – the lame excuse good reason for this is that it is hand made HTML, since I wanted to try out the HTML bundle of TextMate, which is my new favourite editor on the Mac. Making the pages prettier will be step two, bound to happen rsn…

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Yesterday’s brunch turned out to be much shorter for me than I had planned, I left early since I didn’t feel too great and slept most of the day, so it is only now that I get around to follow up on the first posting. Maik actually beat me to the chase and posted a comment

The other big event in France yesterday (next to the brunch) was the final round of the presidential elections here in France. As I guess most of you have heard not everybody was happy with the majority’s choice and so a group of Sarko’s biggest fans staged a reenactment of the French revolution at the Place de la Bastille, which is just around the corner from where I live. Since the French riot police CRS decided to also play it really became a quite remarkable show.

The one thing I have to hand to the French is that they have become a lot more political again, my colleagues discussed the whole SOS (Ségolène Or Sarko) thing for the last six months straight. It’s going to be interesting to see how well président Sarkozy lives up to his promises – after the occasional verbal rioting he did as minister of the interior I must admit I’m a little sceptical, but I guess we’ll just have to see what’s going to happen…

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…it finally happened. Not only did I start to work a little on what is supposed my virtual presence on the net, i.e. the pages you can find on www.gaensler.com, but I also set up the blog that I recently learned my web hoster was kind enough to add to the package I got from them.

So all that remains is that I actually put some (allegedly) interesting things here, and I’m planning to do so later on, starting sometime after I’m back from the brunch at Paola & Christian’s place.

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