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Accepted at LIFT-Austria Conference

leobard — 2010-01-28T18:59:00Z

I submitted a short proposal to speak at LIFT-Austria and got my acceptence mail!

See you there on March 1820 in Vienna, its going to be interesting. My talk will be about something around "tools for thinking - how semantic personal information management is going to change our way of thinking"

Looking forward to the event and to meet others in the field, and to drink a beer. If you are also going, ping me.

Input for a possible RDF 2.0

leobard — 2010-01-27T10:17:00Z

There are activities towards updating the RDF standard.

Here are my thoughts on what problems and solutions we have:

Leobard's thoughts about needed changes to RDF.

Problems:

1) Reification is not an aesthetically appealing model because it forces the triple/statement structure on quads. Therefore it is not used much and discouraged by some "named graph" enthousiasts. Nevertheless, the need to identify and annotate single triples and their values is there.

2) rdf:value, datatype, language, and reification all address the same need and are redundant.

3) The relation between a web resource (i.e. a web page in html) and the RDF document (named graph) containing the RDF data of the web page can NOT be expressed with the RDF standard. There exist various, scarcely documented methods such as the HTML Header tag "" or 303 redirects, or content negotiation. Some of these methods are described in "Cool Uris for the Semantic Web"). This has been causing personal bellyaches for me since editing "Cool Uris for the Semantic Web". It is not aesthetic as this central feature of linked data and RDF can't be represented in RDF.

4) Statements about reified triples must be possible for sets of triples.

Suggestions for Solutions: [syntax: problem->solution]

1)->S1) On the core level of RDF, add an URI identifier to a triple. Let Serializations allow to add this URI to the triple. Add a triple identifier to the core of the spec and APIs.

2)->S2) Deprecate rdf:value.

3)->S3) In RDFS we already hint at HTTP dereferenciation and linked data in rdfs:seeAlso and its subproperty rdfs:isDefinedBy. In foaf we have foaf:homepage that links a resource to its web page. In SKOS we had skos:isSubjectOf (but it was removed) I propose """ rdfs:describes a rdfs:Property; rdfs:domain rdfs:Resource; rdfs:range rdfs:Resource; rdfs:comment "The subject RDF resource is metadata for the object document." """ . This solution seems to add problems though, as the relation between document and resource is dynamic and ever changing.

3)->S3.1) Leave it as is. The problem of linking between HTML and RDF representations is on the level of HTML and not on RDF.

Mannheim Lawyers go beyond law - sue twitter user "mannheim"

leobard — 2010-01-24T17:19:00Z

The german city "Mannheim" is suing the twitter user "Mannheim", a guy living and working in Mannheim. CAN YOU HAZ TWITTER?

read the original post:

Mark has now received a letter via registered mail from the City of Mannheim, which says that he must sign the letter and give up the Twitter account, or suffer the full force of a citys legal team as they try to drag our a**es through the courts.

In my opinion, the city of Mannheim can fuck off. If they forget to register their own name on twitter, they are clearly years behind. And they will always be too late in all the good services, so if they start doing this with Twitter, where will it end? The german legislation allows you to sue for DOMAIN names, which is kind-of-ok, but with web 2.0 accounts? Anyway, I am with the small David here against Goliath.

A late NEPOMUK deliverable: the personas

leobard — 2010-01-23T15:10:00Z

In the NEPOMUK EU project, we have created standards and implementations for the semantic desktop. Based on which assumptions?

To get an understanding what people do at various companies and what support they need, a set of personas was created. Based on interviews with real people, a persona is a fictitious person that represents a user group.

Here is Claudia, she and her colleague Dirk were the two most popular personas within our project group:

The personas helped us to think about what the software must do for the users, demo the software, create prototypes, and create test data for unit testing. As they helped us, maybe they can also help you, so I asked around in the consortium if we could publish them, and we could, so here they are:

NEPOMUK personas.zip
NEPOMUK testdata (this was public before, both is related, so having the link here will help you)

A definition was given by the authors from the Human Computer Interaction Group at KTH:
A persona is a fictitious person that represents a user group. They are based on users studies on real people.

Personas are a detailed description and a visualisation of the users. They have a life, goals and scenarios where they fulfill their goal. They help us to focus on the users during the design and give all stakeholders in the project a clear picture of the users' needs and requirements. Everyone in the project has the same view of the users and personas are also a constant reminder of the users.

When personas are used in the design work and they make it easier to design for them. They "depersonalise" discussions on functionality and allow the designers to focus on designing for the personas.

you can also find the personas in the list of deliverables:
nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/Deliverables

p.s. The personas were so good, we continued using them at the NEPOMUK KDE Workshop. There, the story continues with news on Claudia's private life. In fact, she is having a wedding with her long-term friend Berit in Holland! Read the fascinating news and N3 files yourself...

My talk at ESTC 2009 now online

leobard — 2010-01-19T19:33:00Z

Videolectures has put my talk at ESTC 2009 online. We made 3rd place for gnowsis then. A true winner talk :-)

http://videolectures.net/estc09_sauermann_gno/

of course, it shows all our secret plans to take over the world, so enjoy watching.

Austrian Artists Zweintopf

leobard — 2010-01-08T18:11:00Z

Here they are:

"America? It looks like its full of Austria" - this captures the Austrian spirit quite well.

Zweintopf - I love these guys
http://www.zweintopf.net/Main/AustriaForAmerica

They used sheep to draw their company logo into grass (guided by electric fences)
http://www.sheep-ink.com/

Maiking the Tevion IWR 394 work with linux server

leobard — 2009-12-25T11:45:00Z

Ingrid gave me the great Tevion IWR 394 as a christmas present.

We named it "Adam", our iPod is called Eve, so they are a good pair.
Adam has UKW FM radio, playback of mp3s on USB drives, internet radio (the first station I listened to is, of course, slay radio), management of favorite radio stations via the wifiradio-frontier.com webservice, Wifi connectivity, LAN RJ45 connectivity, playback of your own media collection using microsoft windows media player 11 media sharing, and he also has an alarm clock.

See it in action:

now the problem is of course: how can Adam playback my iTunes library from my Apple iBook G4 "Eden"? I have a backup of this iTunes library on my linux home server "Franse" - so hosting some magic server on Linux should do it, right? right.

My device is a Tevion IWR 394. I can't find anything about it in the interwebs (crazy?! nobody bought this before?), so it is probably a branding of an asian white-label product. The menu shows a software "ir-mmi.arts.ven6-jupiter6.1_V1.5.6.21635-1A19". It connects like a baby to a breast when using UPnP and my Windows XP laptop. FM/UKW radio, usb, also work easily.

Background: accoring to microsoft help of windows media player 11, the following ports should be opened to have media streaming working:
1900 UDP, 2869 TCP, 10243 TCP, 10280-10284 UDP. There is a wikipedia page on the Media_Transfer_Protocol which is to connect your media library to your USB device. For network media streaming, UPnP_AV_MediaServers seem to be the right place. There is a upnp server comparison table on wikipedia also.

My own requirements:

host a lot of mp3s from my iTunes collection (ideally, also host my DRM protected itunes files, but thats probably impossible)
be piss-easy to install on a headless ubuntu
import my iTunes playlists and song ratings

How they meet this:

xbmc is installable, and it can do a lot more on the playback side which I don't need for a headless box
brisa sounds hard to install and more a framework than an app
coherence sounds ok, but is a python easy_install
x360mediaserve has no proper sf.net homepage
fuppes looks fine but a bit dead. it has no ubuntu package mentioned on its homepage
MediaTomb is in ubuntu universal and has a headless option. fine. also there is loads of "this rules upnp on ubuntu" feedback
mythtv supports all I need and someone hacked an iTunes xml library-to-mythtv-playlist converter script. but its not headless.
ps3 media server is said to have itunes playlist support, but its missing a clear "headless" installation

ok, having found mediatomb as my "easy way to go", I try
sudo apt-get install mediatomb-daemon
fine! I see it installs it as daemon on rc2.d also, so it will start on system boot.
The various install instructions (ubuntu, official) go on:
sudo nano /etc/mediatomb/config.xml
hm, seems I don't have to change anything in config.xml, that looks fine as it is. The password and username, ok.
I go to my server using
http://franse:49152/
(franse is my server name. it won't work at your place)
Ok, I see a very minimal user interface, fine. Somehow I find the folder I want to share and click "+", it starts indexing. That makes the mediatomb process jump to 80% cpu time on "top" for some 10:50 minutes. good.

But - most amazing - the files show up on my Tevion IWR 394. Life is good!

It does not read/interpret my itunes playlists, though. Googling for itunes playlists in mediatomb does show an empty graveyard. Ok, but its possible to convert an "iTunes Music Library.xml" to several .m3u files using itunesexport, a java tool (here java bytes me again). Sadly, the ericaugherty sf version causes an out-of-memory even with -Xmx300m, so thats a bit annoying. There are zillions of shabby scripts out there to do it, but most don't work, maybe this one does, as the author says. It does! But it needs some tweaking for folder names, which is done using the "-d" parameter. So the command is something like this (note the trailing shlash at -d) which I put into updateplaylists.sh
#!/bin/bash
python /home/leobard/local/bin/itunes2m3u.py -d "/home/media/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/" /home/media/music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml

(at this moment, my newly discovered and totally weird emap.fm internet radio station plays the amazingly happy disturbing song "It's so chic to be pregnant on christmas", greetings to the pregnant-women-we-know B+S)

It seems importing m3u playlists into mediatomb is not out of the box. It goes something like this:

check the playlists are allright. do they point to the right path? are the characeters fine? do the directories exist?
in my case, the playlists are in /home/media/music/playlists folder and contain lines that look something like this: /home/media/music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Christoph & Lollo/Schispringerlieder/04 Mika, Du Saufkopf, Hast Du Wieder Verloren_.mp3 - that means, absolute paths do work fine for me
I import the playlist using the explicit "+" button for the filesystem folder in MediaTomb. Other things didn't seem to work, especially the autoscan did not work.
I thought about script the adding of the playlists by using the mediatomb --add command ... but that is not optimal. It starts a server and adds the file, but the server is not shut down. Not ideal for a command line thing.

So to sum up: it would be good to have a DAAPD and upnp server in one, which could read iTunes playlists. BUT I am equally happy with my Tevion IWR 394 "Adam" and mediatomb.

Donate to wikipedia, now

leobard — 2009-12-16T22:34:00Z

You read wikipedia? You think it should be there for your children to read and learn about the world? Then donate. No excuses, this is fecking important.

I just gave 75 eur
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:ContributionHistory?offset=1261000310#383322

quoting a good ol rocknroll wisdom:
"...to see my smiling face on the cover of my wikipedia page..."

IT-City Vienna

leobard — 2009-12-13T14:52:00Z

"Vienna will be evolving into a city of knowledge, away from repetitive work to a diversification of simple manual labor and high-skilled jobs. This already happens and must be aknowledged by economic politics."

somehow like this go the introductionary words of an Article titled "IT Stadt Wien" in "Information Professional" 4/2009, the magazine of the UBIT IT guild in Vienna.

What caught my eye is the wish for more software products coming from the Vienna region. As we have a lot of semantic web companies around, that could potentially also mean: how can we do semantic web products in Vienna? Currently, a lot of software is bought from international corporations (lets call some names: SAP, Microsoft, Siebel, ...) or done from scratch in software development projects. What we need are more product-producing software companies in Vienna. Especially we need them because by going for a beer with people working in productive companies, others can learn how to run a business (the author of the article put it "the needed knowledge is not here...").

My 2 cents:

yep, when I finished university, the choice was "install microsoft windows server 2000 for the rest of your life". or try something on yourself - which I did because the alternative is boring
what about Altova?

To my knowldge, Altova is the only company in the Vienna region that sold a PRODUCT. With PRODUCT I want to say: they have a software that has the quality, marketing, features needed to sell it worldwide as an off-the-shelf product. They opened up offices in Beverly, MA, USA also, as far as I know to improve sales in the US market (did they also move development and taxing?). Who else did this in Vienna?

Is Altova open to share their knoweldge? I would be the first one lining up to learn from them, being in the situation to try to do a similar feat.

Another point: the wko magazine didn't mention article author's names - for a magazine this is a no-go, I want to know who wrote what and to whom I can address letters. Add names!

gnowsis.com homepage relaunch

leobard — 2009-11-26T19:19:00Z

gnowsis.com has a new homepage. And a new corporate identity. I like it, makes me proud to lead this as CEO.

background info:
Gnowsis.com is a European startup developing a product for personal information management.

Information is stored in many different applications, but you can´t look everywhere. You know there is something you are looking for but don´t know exactly where. Gnowsis makes your data accessible in an easy and effective way!
Save hours of wasted time whenever you´re trying to re-find a thought because you don´t know what the information is related to or where it is filed. Be sure things don´t get lost and have all relevant information immediately at hand.

Gnowsis talks to your applications and relates documents with your information. Just like human thoughts, a network of projects, people, topics, events, and others is created. This is presented in a standardized format (semantic web) to lower integration costs with enterprise information management systems and SaaS solutions. Users can create semantic wiki pages to take notes. Via plug-ins, the semantic automated gnowsis recommendation system is available in everyday office applications, to go beyond what is offered today. The product is based on results of the Integrated European Project NEPOMUK, the EPOS Project, and the gnowsis project initiated at the DFKI.

psst: product is currently in private alpha, to stay informed I can recommend you sign up for the newsletter.

Chuck norris doesn't follow links

leobard — 2009-11-24T11:12:00Z

Chuck Norris doesn't follow links, the links follow him.

background: The gnowsis team is currently looking for a semantic desktop product name, and this is one of the results of the brainstorm. We are worth our money.

Semantic Web Demozone

leobard — 2009-11-20T18:28:00Z

If someone asks me "what is the semantic web", I have a new answer: go look into the demozone.

http://demozone.semantic-web.at/

Gratulations to the team of the semantic web company for launching this, I see these guys now as the world premier semantic web consulting agency: in a vendor-neutral way, they show what semantics you can get.

Before this, I only had the W3C SWEO use case collection, now I have two answers. Good work!

(early adopters: yes, its out there since some weeks now, but I still think we should blog about it)

ESTC 2009 - business semantic web and gnowsis.com - special reduced fee - come to...

leobard — 2009-10-30T17:38:00Z

Hello readers, now one of the first blog-posts here about our work in the startup company www.gnowsis.com. People need tools to write down information, we are working on them and I will give a preview on what we do at the ESTC 2009 conference in Vienna - and you can get a special discount on the entrance fee to talk to us.

http://www.estc2009.com/
The conference is packed with top semantic web technology providers and consulting agencies able to help out, gnowsis is also presenting in a
talk and we can meet and I can introduce you to many people at the
conference.

We have a special reduced fee for gnowsis partners:

Normal Prices:
Early Registration: 270 EUR (available until 30th of October - that is TODAY)
Regular Registration: 320 EUR

With gnowsis partner code:
250 EUR.

Want one? please ask now, and I send you a coupon code (we got only 5 left!)
Mail me at info@gnowsis.com

Besides the reduced fee, staying in Vienna in December for a few days is
a good chance to buy charming christmas gifts at the Wiener
Christkindlmarkt.

best, Leo Sauermann

Japanese: Addicted to virtual girlfriend

leobard — 2009-10-27T19:25:00Z

An excellent blog post and interview over at boingboing about virtual girlfriends.

the game has got all men need: holding hands, kissing, telling "i love you" - on nintendo ds via mic and touchscreen. The article says the game is successfull because men are simple.

Our Winning Journey to the end of the night 2009-10-17

leobard — 2009-10-18T08:37:00Z

Yesterday night I participated at http://journeyvienna.at/. "Journey to the end of the night. Join us for a free street game of epic proportion; a pursuit across Vienna in multiple parts." Basically, its a game of "tag" done in the whole city of Vienna, spreading over many square kilometers and a rough distance of 10km and more. Its fun, its geek, its exercise, its social.

I wondered if I should participate because it started at 18:30 and I just arrived on 16:05 on Vienna International Airport coming from Thessaloniki from a meeting of organik-project.eu ad: organik is drupal+semantics for SMEs to help knowledge management, it pays my bills. So, when exiting the airplane I checked with some people I know if anyone else participates and Marius Kintel did, so I decided to go. First reason: exercise! I haven't been running or sweating for a week, so any reason to exercise is a good one for a geek like me.

I guess a lot of photos will pop up today, I made a view and I made some "live action" videos for you to enjoy. Below also a video of the award ceremony. To better show what happened, I tracked my route with walkjogrun.net/

My Journey: btw: when I usually speak of "war stories" (term I will use below) I mean the term in the meaning used in project management, when people talk about experiences, but here it also works well

(original walkjogrun.net track)

Arrived late at 19:00 at Werkzeugh where a big crowd already gathered. I guess you will get pictures of that soon. Didn't see Marius, but I didn't want to run alone, so I asked Richard if I can join his party. He introduced me to his group of 5 people, including Tim: an Australian living in Germany who just arrived for a weekend in Vienna and was invited to run by his friends - excellent. Spotting Marius, I chatted with him and was impressed by his geek preparations. He already scheduled all public transport on his iPhone and had a backpack of equipment with him, I thought my chances to win are higher with him, so I asked him and Daniel if I could join. So we began...

Fin announced the rules and started the game - off we went in south direction Zentagasse. Took a tram (together with 2 other runners with whom Marius, Daniel and I shared a small softdrink I brought - team! :-). Exited the tram directly in the safe zone at checkpoint 1. Prayed for my sins at checkpoint 1 (that was the task), then back to the tram. Chaser! Because we were sure to still be in the safe-zone on Paulanergasse, we discussed him away from us (ha, arguments can safe you, the pen is stronger than the chaser, etc.). Still, we wanted to cross the street to get on the tram again, and the tram station was not safezone. So while standing next to the baffled chaser who was occupied thinking about life, Marius, Daniel and I slowly moved towards tram station, when the tram arrived in the station and had doors open, we hit the tires and ran. The chaser suddenly realized his dumbfoddledy and was behind us, we split and entered the tram from three entries - safe zone on the tram. phew, nobody lost. Ok, getting off tram and to 13a to get to Südbahnhof. We planned to cross the park cleverly but got lost, and the cell-based tracking of Marius iPhone was not precise enough to tell us the truth of our fate. Although we used every bush and moved very indian-rogue-style, we ended up Arsenalstrasse again. Shit, ok, but instead of following original plan of "through the shadows of the park", we gave it a try and went down arsenalstrasse. Spotting some chasers, we went into the park again and went from bush to bush. Nearly in the safe-zone, we were walking behind someone who seemed to be a runner - but he didn't move as suspiciously as a runner (looking back every 10 secs, being nervous, etc) and we noticed too late when he turned around and chased us. I crossed the street, Marius and Daniel and I split, and I was on safe-zone at Arsenal, Checkpoint 2. Marius got cought here, which was his team sacrifice to make our team win at the end (see video below :-). I did not find checkpoint 2 and ran around arsenal uselessly but surely scared one guy walking his dog when I was hiding in the bushes. Found checkpoint 2, danced there, and met Tim again (whom I didn't recognize now as someone I knew already) and met Wolfgang. I asked Tim if I could join him, but his plan didn't sound convincing. Wolfgang's plan sounded much better - taking long extra walks to avoid chasers at all. Ok, so we went SOUTH-EAST of checkpoint 2, which took us really far down.
As far as this rotten fence in the middle of some military compounds, probably 800m south of checkpoint 2 (crazy).

We had to run south of the complex there and ended up on Landstrasser Gürtel and then went up Landstrasse Hauptstrasse. Our plan was to enter checkpoint 3 from the east side, through Barichgasse. We jogged the whole part up to Eslarngasse and once we saw the Juchgasse, we knew we were in chaser-area again. Everything went well according to plan, the park was safe-zone and we had to find "a LAZOR", I guess correctly that someone would have setup the lazor-bike and would lasertag on one of the ww2 bunkers in the park. Right, on the west side of the park we found a lot of chasers lasertagging.

Excellent, Wolfgang and I tagged and went on. None of the chasers followed us (ha!) and we ran into a group of 5-10 blue ones who said that the way we came in is safe - ok! So we exited through Barichgasse, but on Landstrasse Hauptstrasse a chaser was on us. We accidentially split and I ran down Messenhausergasse, following our plan of "run along the danube and then come to checkpoint 4 via Radetzkyplatz". I was alone, here is the moment on video:

And I took a wrong street and ended up at Siemens (oh shoots), but used the moment to call my wife Ingrid to say "everything is fine, it rocks". I stuck to Wolfang and my plan, running along danube, and expected to find him. But he was already ahead of me, as I later learned. I didn't want to go up Radetzkyplatz, as I didn't know the area too well. Wolfgang knew it and would have known some shortcuts. But I know the area around Strandbar Hermann good, so I went there to get up to Vordere Zollamtstrasse at the Strandbar ramp. That was really awful - going alone up there, sure to face a few chasers. No one in sight, I crossed the street, 50m to safe zone... chaser behind me! running... chasers in front of me (in the safe zone) ... running, avoiding the front chasers just out of instinct, falling into bushes, tagged, but on Zollamstrasse, which is safe zone and they accepted this. Ok, didn't find checkpoint 4 on the front, went around the building with two chasers who also looked for the checkpoint (this is so fun, that you can talk and socialize with chasers while in safe zones). At checkpoint 4 I met Wolfgang again! He was already finished safing the nucleus, so I asked him to wait for me which was fine with him. Here is the task "free nuclear science":

Wolfgang and I went with a bigger group who wanted to take the tram. Wolfgang said he knew a shortcut through the buildings and across the bridge, which would bring us cross the 200 meter to the "ring" safe-zone. As we didn't know how the "getting the tram" plan of the bigger group would go, we split from them and went across the bridge to ring. We met chasers at the ring, inside safe-zone, they asked us where to find runners (ha-never). We also met runners who asked for a safe passage and we passed on the route we took, which was probably not safe anymore. On ring we were safe, so we wanted to run along. Instead of running all, I suggested to jump one station on U4 to Schottenring, fine.

Entering and exiting the station is not-safe, so we were careful and stood guard while waiting for the tram, also we picked the waggon which would be right in the middle at the "stairs" exit so we would have three ways to run if trouble came - which did not. Anyway, the preparations are all the fun. Back on ring, we met Tim, who was a yellow "respawned" runner and I recognized him from checkpoint 2 and we asked him to join us. He recognized me also, he was with the group I initially joined but left for Marius. So, regroup of this team in the middle of the night. At checkpoint 5 we were sure to die, as we have been warned of many chasers south of it. We came in north, Neutorgasse, it was fine. Of course, every pedestrian, every couple, every guy-walking-dog peacefully could be a chaser, so it was tense... :-)

btw, you see guys-walking-dogs everywhere on the streets around game-time. If they were safe-zones, the game would be easy :-)

Checkpoint 5 was fun, we were greeted with the task to improve a theater play. The girl said she prepared some roles for us, one was "Astronaut", and I immediately said: then the others have to be Captain and Dolphin - which was true. I guess right - it was from mp3experiment two. I was the Captain, Tim the lovesick Dolphin, Wolfgang the astronaut. I centered my play around "searching for love" and we had a dance at the end, Disney would be proud of us. I want to see the video!

We went back the way we came, no chasers but again tense, and decided to stick together. Tim said it was his first time in Vienna and he had no clue about the city and show the instructions to strangers to find his way, awesome that he made it so far! He is really motivated. We met some chasers sitting on a tramstation on Ring, but that was safezone. Phew. Took the tram to Rathaus, walked next to metalab (whew, I thought we will meet some chasers there, just BECAUSE, but we were lucky) and into the backstreets to Lange-Gasse. Our plan was to approach checkpoint 6 from West, Burggasse, as this is opposite of the obvious entrance. We planned our entry to checkpoint 6 on my Nokia E70 with google maps (ah, E70 rocks (careful-explicit language behind that link)).

No chasers, but still used our proven approach: "gentlemen, it is an honor to know you. This could be the last time we see each other alive, if we have to run, run towards the safe-zone, good luck".

Inside safe-zone, we learned that 6 blues arrived before us (amazing!) but were drinking and partying with a wedding that was in the pub that was the checkpoint. We drank some shots and decided to win the game now and party later at the final checkpoint (you know, don't eath the marshmellow yet, our parents gave us the right values...:-).

Ok, Museumsquartier would be tough because that was the final point and chasers would be everywhere. Tim, Wolfgang and I decided to approach the back-entry at Breite Gasse through narrow side-streets and, if things go wrong, run south to Mariahilfer street to take the entry there. No chasers, we smoothly went throught the back-entry. Safe-Zone! Finished! To have a clear winner, I said to Tim and Wolfgang that we should stop and run down the stairs to the Electric Avenue, who is there first is the winner. We did so, I was first, but at Raum D where the finishing line was actually upstairs in the Quintessenz office, so I entered this after Wolfgang, who knew. We were happy! As we did the whole thing together and we also did the last sprint ex-equo, we said we were there at the same time, thanks to Wolfgang! We arrived at 23:08 (my watch).
Tim was also good in the field of respawned runners.

Here is the war stories Wolgang exchanged with his buddies:

I also exchanged war stories with Marius:

Fin came late to give the awards ceremony and Chris asked me to do the bar of Quintessenz for a moment, so I had a reason to drink - I would miss the last bus anyway, so I could also have a longer party now. We got our prices, gave our talks, had a lot of fun.

JourneyVienna - final price celebration from leobard on Vimeo.

Thanks to the organizers!!! you rock, and I hope you had as much fun as we did.

At the ceremony I met Christian "Twistie", a guy with whom I studied and whom I didn't see for years, so we had many things to talk about and catch up on things happening in our lives, like, for example, the vineyard church I would usually be at on sunday mornings when not blogging about jtteotn, or his work of improving the java jit-compiler. Wih his friend Geri we hang out at Cantina until 3am, and met Sophie and Susanne, who also raced, they were on the table next to us. Sophie made the winning shoe I and Wolfgang got.

(As childish as I am - I am very happy about keeping the shoe for us and will expose it at the www.gnowsis.com offices, Wolfgang was fine with our price being on exposé there).