About this blog

This is a personal blog, currently without any grand scheme. My motivation is this: I want to take the opportunity and muse about things that remain on my mind and that need clarification – mostly for myself but offered to the public. As Merlin Mann says:

 [...] to this day, almost everything I’m proud to have written on 43 Folders started as a letter to myself.

For the time being and a lack of a better place the blog will also be the platform to about noteworthy occurrences in my private life, allowing friends and family to get the occasional update. We will see if I will ever become productive enough as to justify (and motivate) a separation of blogs.

My current idea about topics is as follows

1. Observations and Opinions about Software: In the course of projects and research, as well as our humble IT-blog, I run into enough topics from different perspectives to believe that I have something to say about them that goes beyond just repeating the buzz.
2. Research Methodology in Software Engineering: While certainly a niche topic, the blog might turn out useful as a sandbox for ideas that one day might turn into my completed dissertation (or as an intermediate step conference and journal papers). Maybe it is just another playing field for procrastination, we will see.
3. Intercultural exchange, mostly US-EU: Being married to an American and and the resulting network of international friends gives me ample opportunity to watch cultures collide on various levels. While there are many great blogs on this already, I might find it appropriate to add my 2 cents to the the mix.
4. Random observations
5. Private stuff

This list and the whole blog can be most certainly considered work in progress.

First Entry

First entry in this blog. Completly without content