Just saw this on local Munich TV channel - Tico Torres, Bon Jovi drummer, opened a new store selling his label, Rock Star Baby.

Under this label, he markets baby clothes in rock design - black and white with skull and tattoo motifs.

Frankly I wouldn’t buy something like this for my little daughter, I am not quite into these moods, nor would I shell out 30€+ for a baby t-shirt, nevertheless that’s some bright star in the otherwise murky baby-shop firmament in MUC. I mean - really - most of the baby-related shops around here look like if time stopped in 70’s and nothing changed since.

Now I am happy, I know where to shop for baby clothes, I shouldn’t moan. But the reminiscence of our peregrinations, before we found THE places, still gives me creeps.

I’d say that Munichean baby stores are like slow real-world parodies of internet shops - miserable sortiment in-place, what they don’t have (eg almost everything), they could order - often with upfront payment - within 6 weeks. Add to it a month’s time for paying the suppliers, and you get a 10-week zero-interest credit, sweet! :-P

Sooooo I started this blog, I made it greenish, quite to my liking. What I was missing was some unusual design element, a special twist, extraordinary touch. So I came up with the idea of using the titles in Morse code, their linear appearance making for good separators. The idea is not fresh, namely one of my cds - global communication 76:14, has the band name written in Morse on the cover. So I dug out the cd:

And it is greenish! Like this very site! Argh!

That’s not the first time it happens to me - Now and then I discover that I put efforts into reinventing someone else’s wheel - like when I was taking classical guitar courses, for instance. I composed a march, In what I believed was a genuine creative effort, I wrote what was playing in my head. A couple of months later I found my march in an etudes book! Hmmm… how did it appear in such a place? Mystery, mystery…

All in all, no-one, except myself, would have a faintest idea about any link whatsoever between this cd and my site, that’s a pure coincidence, so why should I worry? Just because I have a strong post-factum gut feeling?

Or maybe? What things could there be, that are someone else’s, but I sincerely believe are mine? Attitudes? Political opinions? Life? And how to really tell the genuine from a mere copy?

Back to the cd: It is a really good ambient-spacey-landscapes kind of stuff. Lengths of songs are their titles, same with the cd title itself - The idea is to not influence the listener’s imagination - so the authors. Good for relaxing, dreaming and falling asleep to (unless your stereo wakes you up with this stupid mechanical noise, when it turns off, as mine does :-))

Update: I have just seen a two-cd extended edition - one is THE 76:14, another is a bonus cd - don’t waste your time, you can throw the bonus away without much regret…

Argh! I have seen the code of Greymatter!
And I changed to Wordpress…

I really don’t want to produce too much sour rantings, if you want some idea what is wrong with the thing, go to greymatterforums instead.

One thing however, really bugged my professional self - a comment “merged in 1.3″ and a typo-kind of error in the next line.

Were all “my” developers to do such merges, I’d rather prefer a burger-flipping career, over configuration management!

Or why microsoft does save souls (sometimes)
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Basically I started this blog to have a new medium for my ehm… ehm… OK, I really don’t know what I will post here. Actually, I guess I will wait a while before going public. For the time being I’ll just play around with it, believing that I will work out some modus operandi, that’s not a bore.