1. Summer I enjoyed this summer very much. This year the sun was shining very much and as a freelancer i had the time to lie around in parks and the river-side beach with friends and read books like "dune" which i would strongly recommend to read while sitting in the hot sun with a bottle of water in easy reach. Also very nice was to take a boat to the other side of the river (where i don't go in ordinary city-life...) and hang around in an open-air bath. 2. MFOC After the sad breakup of the alrt office-community, I found a new place to work. It's a bunch of people that are mostly related with music. One is the manager of a fomous german hip-hop artist, one is looking for new artist to be released on the label "K7!" (maybe you know the DJ-kicks series, Funkstoerung or Herbert?), the next is performing desinformation as promotion, another is doing the booking for underground music artists. The rest is doing freelance-work: design, web-design, party-visuals and programming. Everyone is also involved with saturdays MFOC-sessions at the "Golden Pudel Club" where the latest electronic music is played, and surprising live-acts from around the world can be discovered. 3. iPod After a time of heavy CD-consumtion, where i seldomly found a deep relation to the music, i rediscovered the love of music with my new iPod-MP3-player. I am carrying it around mostly all-time and specially use it while riding the bike. With the iPod i always have the right soundtrack for the current situation. Filesharing this year was more a personal thing - more exchanging music with friends and not downloading it from the web. 4. Gamecube More hardware pleasure... I gave my old nintendo64-console away and bought a Gamecube. As expected "Super Mario Sunshine" is very nice. The visual quality blew me away althought i missed some of the creative game ideas of "Mario64". Now I have to take care not to spend too much time with it! 5. Conspiracy Never before I cared a lot about conspiracy, because I always found the ideas and explanations of those theories too simple to explain how the complex world is working. Now I read a book by Mathias Broeckers which is called "conspiracy, conspiracy-theories and secrets around the 11.9.". The author takes a more scientific look on conspiracies and describes the Bin-Laden/Al Quaida-thing as the worlds biggest and official conspiracy-theory, launched by the U.S.A.. Still it remains a theory but he delivers a lot of facts, motives and reasons around the war in afghanistan that made me strongly doubt the official version of the story. Most of the people actually think/know, that the war is more about oil than about terrorism.