In any case, it’s time for the yearly look back:

A year ago I left my job to start a new venture with a friend. We since grew to a 3-person team and by now we have a very early version of our product, while we’re still tweaking the requirements for the first release. Hopefully in a few months we’ll have something to show for. This is probably the year in which we’ll know for sure whether this project is destined to take off or not.

Being unemployed (and having no income) for so long is my biggest worry for the upcoming year. I was very willing to spend some of my savings on this project, but I was hoping it will be in a better place by now. Other than that, I don’t think there’s a lot to say about entrepreneurship that hasn’t been said before. The joys and sorrows of this road are well documented in countless articles. I’m otherwise happy with my life, something I wished myself a year ago on my birthday post.

Travelling: I was abroad twice – France/Germany and Switzerland. Both trips were great. Having already booked one trip for this year – to The Prodigy’s 3rd Warrior’s Dance Festival – I already made sure that I’ll keep “exploring the world” this year as well. Travelling has become one of my favorite things.

Side projects: I updated Dindy a few times in the past couple of weeks, hoping to address issues users have been experiencing for a while. I don’t plan to add any new features to Dindy – this was just to prevent it from rotting in the Android market. Unfortunately it hadn’t gained any new users for a long time now, yet it remains with a relatively high user score (4.2 out of 5.)

Another side project is my online will idea from nearly 3 years ago. I already have an almost fully functional version of it running on Google App Engine, but there’s still a long way to go as it lacks visual design (if you’d like to help me with that – let me know) and there’s still quite a lot of code to write.

Workouts: Having suffered some injuries I’m working out (running) only twice a week now. I’m not happy about it, but I’m still in pretty good shape so it’s not that bad. I hope my injuries will subside and that I’ll be able to get back to my 3-workouts-a-week routine at some point.

That’s about it, I guess. I hope you’re happy too.

1. The Prodigy have announced their 3rd Warrior’s Dance Festival to be held in Belgrade, Serbia September 15th. I already booked a VIP ticket to the show. Woohoo! If you want to come along, let me know :)
2. The Mars Volta announced their 6th studio album, Noctourniquet, to be out March 27th. The Mars Volta has been my favorite Rock band in the past several years and a new album from them is bound to be something I’ve never heard before.

So as my 35th birthday is approaching it appears this year is going to be exciting, at least on the music front.

Not a bad start.

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This show, number 9 over the past eighteen months, is my last for the year, as The Prodigy are having their last gig for the year today. They already announced a gig in April, which means I’ll have more chances to see them.

As always, my body still hurts and my ears are still ringing.

Good times.

Anyone wants to join?

In the meantime, here’s some recent good quality recording of Poison (with a new second part) and Omen live:

My back was badly aching two days ago as we went to see The Prodigy for the second time. Rinat was a sick and on the verge of exhaustion. But still none of us wanted to give up on the experience. We decided to enjoy the show by standing and listening instead of frantically jumping around.

That plan failed miserably. You can’t be in a Prodigy concert and stand the entire time. It’s simply impossible. But it was a new experience for me to try, as I was standing there during some parts of the show just watching the stage listening to the music.

Yesterday we went to some antique market (I forgot which one) and then just walked the streets of Paris, which is my favorite pastime when it comes to cities II visit. Not being able to fly caused the rebelling child in me to really want to leave for Berlin. We went back to the hotel and started making calls to arrange rides.

Later on we went to a very nice international pub where a pub quiz was held. We provided a couple of local guys 2 answers and later on sat down with them and chatted for quite a while. It was a great experience and we had a good time.

Still recovering from the thrills that are a day in Disneyland and two consecutive Prodigy shows, we went back to the hotel for our last night in Paris. Now it’s morning – time to pack our stuff and start the ~1000 km journey to Berlin.

I didn’t see too many people filming the show, but I’m hoping a decent video will show up on YouTube or something.

My ears are still ringing… tomorrow no alarm clock for us. We’re re-cooperating and preparing for the next show…. tomorrow night :)

I’m so happy.