Archive for June, 2008

Koebenhavn

posted June 29th, 2008, 8 comments, tagged ,

So, I’m in Copenhagen now. It’s been a long while since my last post here, and people have been asking me to update more frequently – especially now that I’m an expat! Luckily I set the bar quite low, so no problem there ;-)

I got here last Tuesday, courtesy of Ton Zijlstra and Elmine Wijnia (thanks!). I’m in a temporary place, until August, so in desperate need of slightly more permanent housing. Going to check out two apartments on Thursday, hopefully that works out.

This past week was spent on Reboot, which again was pretty awesome. Spoke a lot of Danes, who were extremely kind – thanks for making me feel welcome! Next week I’m going to be at Roskilde. If there’d be a Danish integration course for foreign geeks, I’d have passed by now!

On a somewhat more professional level, I’m still figuring out what to do. I’d like to stay flexible though, so freelancing seems like the obvious answer. Consider this my Mark is on the market announcement. Read what I wrote about myself back in February. One of the things I’d like to do is finish sIFR – and given the cost of living in Copenhagen, it’d be great if I could find a (few) sponsors to enable me to do that. If possible, Danish sponsors, since I do need a residence permit in order to stay here. If you’re interested, get in touch.

Besides finishing sIFR, I want to finally write server-side code again. I’ve got some pretty neat ideas for this website, as well as a dedicated sIFR website. More on that later. A new site should also stimulate me to write more, which I really need to do – too many great (or I’d like to think so) ideas go to waste cause I don’t write about them.

In other news, I’ll be in the Netherlands end of August / early September. Then Brighton for dConstruct. I’ll be in Amsterdam around PICNIC to work on RFID stuff with Mediamatic. And, of course, I’ll be in Lisbon for SHIFT in October, followed a week later by Singularity, where I’ll give a presentation about web typography and sIFR. That’s probably in Copenhagen.

I’m going to see where life takes me, and where I can take life. Mark out ;-)