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Yes, it's a fake. But I love it!

Time to look back. It's been the first year since a while that I stayed home during the summer instead of going abroad. So I spent time with my friends and met Philip during his short visit, good times. Speaking of traveling, two great 2007 memories are, attending Martin's tech talk, and being at the Diggnation live taping in London. Two short trips with long term memory potential.

But actually I wanted to do a little unconvential review. Did you ever try to sum up a year by just referring to songs? Well, the songs that describe my 2007 best (in terms of mood, importance and times listened to) are:

• Flight Of The Conchords - You're so beautiful (FotC rules) UPDATED
• Gavin DeGraw - I don't want to be
• Tenacious D - Tribute (I became a big Tenacious D fan this year)
• Natasha Bedingfield - Soulmate

How does your 2007 soundtrack sound like? Comments...

I am looking forward to meeting lots of my 'Holm buddys at the Euro Cup in the Alps. Also, 2008 we'll launch youwote (this time for sure). And it is finally going to happen, I am coming close to the end of my study . Did I put that vague enough ? Sad news, my sister and her boyfriend will be moving away from Cologne .

Embrace 2008! May it bring joyful surprises into your life as 2007 has done it to mine.

Hej hej vänner!

It's been quiet here for a while. Looks as if I turned into a über-blogging-pösmunk . Due to popular demand (ok, due to my liking), here is the totally rad rocking santa again.

I wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year, may you celebrate it with the people you love and care about.

To all my 'Holm bros and sis, I hope we meet in Austria and Switzerland the coming summer during the Euro Cup! Alp guys, prepare your apartments for some serious couch sharing.

Here are some cool new and old links for Christmas greetings and games. Some ecards might look familiar from your inbox .

- DIY pop-up greetings cards, I've done one of them. It works!
- 3D rotating Xmas Tree ecard
- The new version of last year's Elf Yourself
- Pimp My Sleigh
- Santa Tattoo, ink that jolly bad-a**
- Hand Bell Hero, if Guitar Hero is old news to you
- Christmas Shooter, if you need to get something off your chest

Best costume ever. Apple Fanboys stole iPhone advertising displays and made customes out of them.



My super rad Halloween song 2007: Tenacious D - Tribute.



Happy Halloween!!!

Update: Latest news has it that it wasn't a medical chopper, but some law enforcment guys. There were two men rushing out of the chopper right after the landing. But they never came back. What a Halloween story. Orange pumpkins, orange choppers. Coincidence?

Cologne: Being a student isn't as easy anymore as it used to be. Traditionally teachers try to give no lessons on a Friday so that business students can stay home and have a nice long sleep. But not today. In a world where people are ambushed everywhere with guerilla marketing (subway hold-on straps in shape of lingerie) the good Friday sleep-in-the-day is ruined. Today even our military rescue chopper team does guerilla actions. Today at 9am a frakking rescue chopper set down on the playground in front of our home. White bling bling SUVs with spinners are nice, but landing your chopper is P I M P! Well the color job is way uncool, but hey it's a frakking chooper.

I really have no idea why this guy put his chopper down here. There is a big hospital just a sec away. As soon as he touched ground people came rushing in and behind every window you saw flashes as people in Pyjamas (like me) were making pics and vids of that weird event, hilarious!

The chopper just left while I am writing this. Ah nice... the whole place smells like gasoline. It totally remembers me of Apocalypse Now 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.' Totally rad!

What do you think was behind all this? Write down your comments.

I've went to London on Oct 3rd to attend the Diggnation Live Filming. Check the pictures in the gallery or my facebook site. I arrived at Stansted and took the Express train to Liverpool Street. It took less than 24h and I was already home. I just came to London for the show. That's what you call a fan I guess. Everybody please check out Diggnation and TotallyRadShow (they were there, too). These are my two favorite weekly podcasts.

We got kicked out of the pub at 1h. I must say I belonged to the guys who joined the Pre-Drinks first and left the After-Drinks last. Afterwards I took the bus to Stansted around 2:40h. I arrived at the airport around 4h I guess. Stansted is the worst airport, you can't sleep there. The benches have fraking armrests for every seat, almost impossible to lie down. I took my plane back home at 8h. It was a kinda messed up night sleep-wise. But totally worth it!

Here are some video impressions.

To quote James Brown: "This is a man's world, this is a man's world - But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl".

I stumbled upon that awesomely hilarious and hot ad for a men's magazine.
That is definitely how a man's world would be like. Happy phone-number-hunting guys!

It has been a while since I last posted. Therefore here comes a hottie! It is not an insider clip anymore with over 2,6 Mio viewers but I didn't know of that video until I saw it on German TV news. I am a big hater of candidates TV duels. But this video sold me . Why isn't "she" running for office?


Update: Two more videos which you have to see.
Obama Girl vs McCain Mama


Obama Girl vs Giuliani Girl (thanks Jona for the hint)


As a side note. The US have one of the most embarrassing news landscape (read FOX), here is an example. Everybody who likes to see more, watch the movie "Outfoxed".

Hi guys! Last weekend I've been in Barcelona meeting Stockholm friends. Read all about it in our Stockholm blog (incl. pics).

I followed a recommendation of this week's "The Totally Rad Show", Flight of the Conchords. They are a folk music comedy duo from New Zealand and they are frakking funny. They just got their own show on HBO. But you can check them out on youtube as well. Just to show you how great they are, here is the clip Business Time but you gotta have to check out Jenny, Think About it Think Think About it and Albi (racist dragon).

I just came acroos that video and had to share it with you guys. What a great tribute to the master of chill-painting (as I call it), Bob Ross ("We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents."). I love "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross". It just makes me chill, calm and happy.
Everybody who has no idea what I am talking about, go and youtube Bob Ross.

Hola!
Last Saturday I had the pleasure to join Martin's tech talk at his farm on Menorca. He invited entrepreneurs and geeks to join this very interesting and casual event. Besides learning a lot and getting to know awesome web entrepreneurs I also talked with people about youwote.com. We are working on the prototype right now. We that are Thomas Voigt, Philip Berg and me. As this was my first time attending such kind of event with so many important and interesting people I first had to learn on the fly to drop my natural shyness and just approach people . Luckily I just finished printing and cutting my business cards before I left Cologne. Having business cards ready to exchange is mandatory as I learned.
Check out Loic Le Meur's blog as he has a lot of footage like this video (I am in it as well, at the very end). Martin also posted some links with summaries and photos.



I can't tell you how special this event was and how happy and thankful I am that I could join it. Muchas gracias Martin!

One last thing. Attending the event was like a last minute decision. So I had to find flight connections quickly but affordable for my student budget. I checked all low-fare airlines and had like 7-9 different possible routes including ferries times 3-5 different airlines. This totally felt like "The Amazing Race". All my fellow racers (friends who love the show) know what I mean: "I need the fastest flight to ...". I was lucky finding a set of flights which finally brought me on time to Menorca, although I almost didn't sleep the whole weekend. But it was worth it.
One problem I was facing was which part of the whole journey do I book first? Hotel? 1st Flight? Connecting flight? Return Flight? All at once? I just prepared all booking processes as much as I could so that I could almost book them the same moment. You might say that I wasted too much thought about that procedure, but I am German and we love procedures .

Mega LOL! I live in a small street with almost zero traffic. The street gets even smaller when cars park on both sides on the sidewalk. But just now there was a major knot of cars stuck in front of my house. My mom wanted to leave the house with her car but couldn't as she was locked-in. I guess there must be a big event in the church around the corner. There were two cars terribly parked on both sides of the street leaving space for a bike to pass but not more. So the other cars coming along the street from both sides did not get thru and my mom could not leave our garage. But off course people still tried if their ridiculous big cars fit thru that tiny gap. I love those situations because you can see people think in slow-mo and under stress. Result: Nobody moved, total brain dead, almost zombie like. So I stepped up to the plate and took the role of the conductor. I told the cars to back off and asked the two ladies to park their cars better (sorry girls, not my fault that it were women who caused the troubles). I took less than 1-2 minutes and the traffic knot was gone. Now, APPLAUSE!
This actually felt like a part of an assessment center.

It is no secret that I like to design things like logos, websites, flyers and wallpapers with my computer for various occasions (church, commercial or just for fun). Actually I have two left hands when it comes to drawing (only thanks to my sister I passed a lot of art homework ), but my computer eliminates that handicap. When I came across that video today, I really enjoyed it and had to share it with you. Hopefully you enjoy it, too.