Some of you readers and QemuX users may have wondered about the fact that nothing happened in the past few month… I want to tell you why:

I’ve been working at a German parcel service for a few hours daily to earn some money and you know, I also got a bit lazy. The thing is that I had to arrange my own life, I needed the time. I also thought about the future of QemuX in consideration to new circumstances: Apple’s Intel switch, perspectives for QemuX regarding my programming skills, competition with other apps, other projects I wanted to participate in… Now I settled down here where I am now, taking new steps in life, I can make some things clearer.

Life: Finishing my Abitur in 2003 I knew that I wanted to study at university. Directions were unclear for a long time, social work was considered, computer stuff, helping third world… You know, there is a time in life for a young man, where one asks himself: “Well, what is my task, what is my destiny in this system?” – And I don’t mean system stands for capitalism, society, social state, I think of destiny in a greater system, in a bigger context… man, it’s hard to describe.
Well, one would think helping the third world as a development aid worker would be the, let’s say ,’best’. My opinion about this changed in the last 2 years – I have another plan, but that’s secret… You will see. Something in society has to change, we have to built up a fair world, that’s not the way we can go on. We all should have learned from the past 2000 years and more… but we didn’t. Unfortunately. But things will change, for sure…

From October on I will study IT-Security at Ruhr-University Bochum. I think this can take me to a new direction- it’s interesting, powerful, responsible. Of course it’s a 600 kilometres move away from home, my first own flat, living alone… Thank god I have a family that supports me, my mom, my lil sis, my brother, my lovely grandparents…

Now I already live here in Bochum for about two weeks and I feel pretty comfortable! I visit a mathematics preparation course now from monday til’ friday and it’s quite cool, despite the fact that I feel a little lost, cause the topics are really hard.
In preparation to my courses and lectures I already bought some books: “Basics of electrical engineering” and “Java 5: First steps in programming”, in German, of course. Setting up Java 5 (which is not 5.0 but 1.5, crazy, he?) on OS X will be covered in another article later.

I hope you are now up-to-date and will read on here in my blog. I promise that I will from now on post a few more articles here.

So far, yours, cordney*