Koebenhavn
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 ;-)
Wait. You moved to Denmark?
Joe Clark | 30 June 2008, 14:01 | link
Yep. Not to small town Copenhagens in the USA, but the real deal. You should visit, it’s pretty awesome.
Mark Wubben | 30 June 2008, 14:19 | link
Enjoy your time in the city Mark, I enjoyed living there, as you know. Looking forward to seeing you on the road somewhere and hearing about your adventures.
Kars | 2 July 2008, 19:15 | link
Velkommen til byen!
And - if you really need a gig in CPH, drop me a mail.
Casper | 3 July 2008, 10:02 | link
Hope your loving your new home and having a blast and that you will get back to blogging here on a regular basis your blog misses you!!
Mr Latty | 7 July 2008, 11:28 | link
Hi dude…
Welcome to Copenhagen… Hope you like it, and Denmark as well.
And thanks for sIFR … made my life happier… ;-)
“Velkommen til København”
Kenneth B | 12 July 2008, 16:08 | link
Denmark! Yay, good luck! You are in an amazing place there… make the best of your time! (You will. I know.)
Martin Roell | 14 July 2008, 09:19 | link
Oh my, it sounds like you have been keeping busy, good luck on your home hunting, that is always a challenge. Do make time to post now and then, OK. Respectfully, Betsy Buchanan
Betsy Buchanan | 15 July 2008, 18:27 | link