Stuff happening here. Two of my old friends are getting married; one, an old buddy with whom I grew up but have lately lost contact to a bit and the other a girl who I used to know quite well. Its like being in warp speed at the moment, years seem to fly by. Things are getting more serious, pressure and responsibility increases, but you just can’t shake the feeling that you still are the same. Anyhow… I spend some quality time with the old crew running a gig in the Netherlands . Good stuff. We played serious poker, smoked Cuban cigars and drowned our losses in straight single malt. You can only exchange stories from the past for so long, listen to your once favorite songs a couple of times, before the present is there. Well, its not the same as it used to be, but good none the less. The mundanites followed on heal the minute I was back. I ran upgrades on the server and killed my rails app. The transition from 1.2. to 2.1 saw the addition of plugins that are installed via gems (to name just one thing). It was a mess, I tell ya. I can’t even recall all the things I did to get it up and running again. Anyways… things are more of less back to normal. I had to add captchas to all forms. I was drowning in spam. Lost all comments during that procedure. Tough luck (actually a stupid mistake I made). Science is going well these days, interesting projects. My first publication. Two more in the pipe. Some neat workshops; went places, met people. All in all, I guess you loose some, you win some. I pondered on the right song for a while, passed The Shins “Gone for good” over The Coasters “Down in Mexico” and ended up deciding for something new (but be sure to check out those two if don’t know them). I happened to hear the following band on Dutch music television. It’s a white-stripish, pseudo punky, garbagy (but not as bad) two people british outfit by the name of The Ting Tings ; catchy straight forward fast food. Check out “Fruit Machine”, which I consider a minor win.