Lots of time we are usually wasting in the virtual world. If not working on our computers, we are chatting and e-mailing. A friend does something he calls “casual surfing” with his brandnew iPad. We live in a high speed world and that’s terrible sometimes. Good that there are so much other things around. My wife took this great snapshot below from our gelding this weekend and it reminded me to sit down, relax and enjoy my existence. Having so a beautyful companion like our young horse is making everything much more easier. I want to share my wifes photo with you and hope you’ll also find some time to step back very soon.

The years is on it’s end and this is finally the last post (I guess). It was a very hectic year. On day life I worked on two different huge projects. At night life I joined Apache Software Foundation as Committer for Commons, Committer and PMC for Log4PHP and today I have been elected as PMC for the Logging TLP. That’s great, I really enjoy working with the Apache people. And could learn lots, of course. In that time I helped with Commons Compress 1.0 and Log4PHP 2.0.0. Unfortunatly I had several ideas for which I simply had not time left. So I wanted to put my Json Component to Commons and write a Compression Component for Apache Camel. Well, maybe next year.

I read several books this year, but could not find any extraordinary ones. Except for the very good new novels of Boris Koch. This man is quite a rising star in germanys youth book division. Even when I am not exactly what people call young, I enjoyed his books very much. If you like fantastic and great stories, you should try him. Of course, only german – at the moment. In the technic section, there is only one book I want to mention. Its Extending and Embedding PHP from Sara Golemon. I am afraid that it’s currently sold out, but I hope there will be a new edition out soon. Well, my efforts of compiling PHP are not succesfull currently, but maybe next year I will get it running and then with Saras help I might be able

Only less articles have been published in 2009. But I in autumn I created several new stuff for the PHP Magazin. Hopefully they will appear in the next two issues. Let’s see.

Musically I have started to play Shakuhachi which has become very important to me. It’s a long way to go with that bamboo flute, but I will try. On the synths part of life, I upgrade to Logic 8 which is MUCH fun. Unfortunatly shortly after I bought it, Logic 9 came out. Guess I will not update the next time….

Let’s see what the new year brings. I wish you all a merry chrismas and a happy new year!