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Tweet Up in a Brewery #tub2
Posted on August 23, 2010, under daily life.
After the success of the first tweet up in munich, we rested for 4 months and now recovered and regrouped. Not that there is a need to celebrate new things, we will will still do it.
The background : A few English speaking tweeters in Munich have come together and decided to have an informal tweet up. It’s open to everyone, the language is generally English, but most of us speak-the-german too. Think of it as an open coffee club meeting with beer !
Details of TUB2
- Date : Wednesday September 15th 2010
- Time : 18:30 (6:30pm CET)
- Location : Unionsbrau, Einsteinstrasse. (near Max Weberplatz)
- Transport : U-bahn : Max Weberplatz
Map :
HashTag for the event : #tub2
Attendees
Total Attendees: 9| # | Name |
|---|---|
| 1. | Adrian |
| 2. | Carlo |
| 3. | Dave |
| 4. | Hans |
| 5. | Mario Witte |
| 6. | mat |
| 7. | Mike |
| 8. | paul |
| 9. | Rob |
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Tweet Up in a Brewery
Posted on May 4, 2010, under Living in Germany, daily life.
A few English speaking tweeters in Munich have come together and decided to have an informal tweet up.
Details of TUB1
- Date : May 11th 2010
- Time : 18:30 (6:30pm CET)
- Location : Augustiner Keller, Arnulfstraße 52, 80335 München
- Transport : S-bahn / Tram Hackerbrücke
Map :
HashTag for the event : #tub1
Note : If the weather is bad we will meet inside, in the basement / keller if it’s open. Otherwise we will be out in the beer garden.
Attendees
Total Attendees: 7| # | Name |
|---|---|
| 1. | @aptmunich |
| 2. | @Carlo (Zottmann) |
| 3. | @mikewest |
| 4. | @natfriedman |
| 5. | @RobLoBue |
| 6. | @savagepaul |
| 7. | @weimann |
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The event have ended - no more registrations are allowed.The world outside my window
Posted on January 8, 2010, under Living in Germany, daily life, irishblogs.
Just back from 2½ weeks in Ireland, and while the weather was quite bad at times, i.e. lots of ice / cold / snow, it was still great to be back. I’m not going to comment on how the County Councils could run of of salt and grit, or fail to have adequate material dispersed on the roads, because, well it doesn’t happen every year.
Generally I am a fan of the “bad weather“, snow really makes the city streets quieter (it absorbs the sound), like the brightness in the mornings, and the feeling of a few flakes landing on your tongue as you walk down the street. I’m a big fan of the mountains and skiing and I’m really looking forward the season ahead. I’ve missed a bit of the season already, so I’m eager to hit the slopes.
I didn’t mean to ramble on, what I wanted to do was share the view from the office today :
now it’s time to get that snowboard waxed …
Another motivational speech
Posted on August 7, 2009, under daily life.
Here is a quite a cool promotional video for the Heineken Cup. It’s a bit like Al Pachino’s in Any Given Sunday Speech, but it’s adapted to rugby.
I quite like this idea, how would your organisation do a motivational video like this ? Do you feel passionately enough about what you do ? Can you instil this passion in others ? If you and your team were to tell people about what you do, how would the people feel about what you do afterwards. Would their opinion change ? What is your mantra ?
Whether you are a professional rugby player or a programmer (like me), you need to be passionate about what you do. It doesn’t have to be something glamorous or humanitarian.
If you are not passionate, then maybe you are doing something wrong. Life is too short to be miserable every day or not loving what you do. You don’t need to love every part of what you do (like having to fill out and pay taxes) but, it’s the overall feeling of enjoying what you do that is important. 
Looking for book recomendations
Posted on May 12, 2009, under daily life.
I just got a gift voucher from a nice client for Amazon books and I think I need a hand picking some out. As this was work related I wanted to get books that had something to either do with business or programming. Do you have any recommendations of books for:
- starting up a business
- running your own business
- web development
- programming
- PHP
- Ruby on Rails
- CSS
- Database
As I’m am new to the world of working for myself I think that I should at least get a few books on this topic.
Any help would be greatly appricieated, the more recommendations the better !
Update : I’ve started to keep the list online here in case anyone else wants to view it.
Being able to work anywhere
Posted on April 27, 2009, under daily life.
There is a lot to be said for being able to work anywhere around the world. Today I find myself in Kilkenny town in Ireland, and overlooking the river Nore and the local castle. We are staying in the Kilkenny River Court Hotel, which is quite nice, and not too far from the train station here. Here is a look of the view across the river this morning.
Since starting to work for myself I can’t really complain with where I’ve traveled to and the work schedule. I guess the main thing is that you need to be well organised, so that you know you have everything you might need to work out of a hotel room.
After lunch I took a trip to St. Canics’s Cathedral , who have a nice public round tower from 1285AD ! Here I am at the top.
Snow in Munich
Posted on February 13, 2009, under Living in Germany, daily life.
Finally after 2 years there has been some decent snowfall in Munich. Over the past few days it’s gotten a little colder and it’s finally snowed ! I love when it snows as the noise levels in the city drop, as the snow acts like a damping factor.
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