As you might have realized by now (if you aren’t a feed reader, that is), Terhech.de has been updated in a significant way. First and foremost the site presents itself in a new design. Not only the layout, but also the logo, claim and colorset recieved bold changes. My personal understanding is that this site vaguely reprents my personal image online. Not in a CV or Biography type of way, but rather the type of image one would recieve if being friends with me. This can easily be set into context when reading the various topics I adress on here. Thus, just as I mature and olden, this site needs to change respectingly. During the past two years I internalized a broad accumulation of experiences, each being interconnected in the one or other way with my study and insofar highly valuable. This means that my pace of change has been seriously accelerated and today I differ perceptibly from who I was just two years ago. The old terhech.de claimed to be ‘on fire’; a description far from true today, I settled and rather than being enthusiastic, on fire or jumpy I’d describe me as thoughtfull today; taking time, rethinking decisions.
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As you can see, I just got my iPhone today. Software version is, due to Carrier-Reasons still at 1.0.2, and I plan to keep it that way for some time.
First impression is: Awesome. Absolutely awesome and amazing.
Although it lacks some of the features which I would take for granted in modern Mobile Phones, it shines on many other feature-comparisons.
I’ll write more soon.

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First of all I’d like to apologize for the sluggy pre-school english I’m using in this text. I seriously need to emphasize the learning of writing and expression in english again. It’s off little use to read tons of english books and watch tons of english films, if the actual writing of english stuff recieves no training at all. So, with that said, I hope somebody will still read this
 text about my recent Hamburg vacation

Roundabout 2 years after my last serious visit to Hamburg I finally found some time to start another vacation to this fabulous city. Mind you, of course living less then 3 hours from Hamburg it would actually be easy for me to go there just for a weekend, but tight schedule and a lack of interest in taking on this journey for less than 2 days of actual staying kept me from doing so. Now still being on my university summer break I thought this would be my best shot at another rather lenghty vacation before study and thus the tight schedule comes back haunting me.
So last weeks thursday I drove off to Hamburg with the main intent of visiting my cousin, who has since my last visited moved to a new location which i accordingly hadn’t seen yet, and with the secondary intent of meeting many of my friends from the university who, just out of a rather lucky coincident, happened to be in Hamburg just the same weekend.
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Ich hatte am vergangenem Wochenende die erfreuliche Möglichkeit, im Rahmen meiner journalistischen Tätigkeiten bei Sport-News.de am Red Bull Air Race in Portugal teilnehmen zu können. Das Air Race wird jedes Jahr von Red Bull (und einigen weiteren Sponsoren) veranstaltet und gleicht einer Formel-1 der Superlative. Extrem wendige Kunstflugmaschinen sausen hier mit Geschwindigkeiten jenseits der 400Km/h durch einen haarsträubenden Parkour, um ihn unter Auflage von schwierigen Kunstflugmanövern (Rollen, Schrauben, etc) in Bestzeit zu meistern. Dabei wirken Fliehkräfte von über 10G auf diese, zu den Weltbesten gehörenden, Piloten ein.
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Ja, San Francisco war natürlich super. His Steveness live zu sehen toll. Ich werde auch noch ganz viel darüber berichten, aber erst, nachdem ich den Klausurstress verlasse in dem ich mich gerad unangenehmerweise befinde. Das wäre dann der 18. Drückt mir die Daumen, dass alles gut geht, danach sind ja laaange Semesterferien, und für mich die Überlegung, diesen Blog mal wieder upzudaten.
Ach, und ich hab mir eine neue Kamera gekauft, schönes Ding (ich konnte dem $$ zu Eur Verhältnis einfach nicht widerstehen ), daher werde ich auch in Zukunft mal versuchen vermehrt hier oder bei Flickr meine Fotoergüße zu posten. Wer übrigens schöne Fotos (also das Gegenteil von dem, was ich vermutlich produzieren werde) sehen möchte, sollte sich einfach mal die Seite vom Andreas Levers anschauen Sehr geiles Zeugs darunter, immer wieder faszinierend, was dieser Mensch in den wenigen 24 Stunden pro Tag an Leistung unterbringen vermag.

The past posts in this blog were, for the most part, weird. I grant you that. But I had to cope with a serious psychological burden which I needed to express somehow. Those who read between the lines might even find the one or other hint revealing the true story.
Anyway. It feels as if everything is slowly finding it’s track again, in my life. I hesitated to blog about this, fearing that the magic “safety” would burst immediately after me mentioning it, but it doesn’t seem so, I’m not dreaming; It seems that after all those years, I’ll be able to catch that glimpse of normalcy, glowing on the horizon.

So, I created a Twitter and a Jaiku account, to aid me in mini blogging for I often have things to say but I hardly have the time to write a fullfeatured blog-post.
I’ll integrate the Twitter/Jaiku data into this blog as soon as possible (in fact, I already integrated it, it’s just not in the rss yet and the stylesheet currently hide’s the div elements). But I’m working on that. So: new hope.

Apart from that I always tried to understand this blog as a part of lifejournal, too; Helping to remember, someday in the future, what I’ve been up to. So I’ll give – once again – a short hint on what happened in the past months;
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Purple haze lingering above me, glowworms of all shades and colors swirling around me. Impressions ransack my mind and negate contaminations of the past.  Floating free I cannot surmise the direction I am heading for. Flickering uncertainity forms the chaos novel that surrounds me every fragment of a second.

“The tree’s look different. He hasn’t been to this part of the forrest before. Fresh air fills his lungs and makes him feel comfortable – even though he went astray days ago. He sets for the direction of the sun, as he seems to know that each path implies a similar level of insecurity.
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It’s been a while. I admit it. Actually it’s been the longest period of silence this, my little blog, had to endure so far. My life has been a macroscopic version of a roller coaster ride to hell and back ever since I wrote that last short article babbling about my beach party adventures. However, first the good news: Contrary to what Roger had already suspected, I’m not dead (yet), and second, I really managed to start studying now, just as I planned to do, and third, I had a very nice vacation to Mykonos (Greece) this summer. Examinig those three points again I can’t but agree that those are the only good things which happened since that last blog-entry in June.
Not only the actual difference regarding the amount of good vs. bad news, but also the difficulty surrounding the explanation of the bad ones, just as well as their emotional background ( that which I’m not really willing to expose here ), lead to an awkward level of complexity, which naturally refuses to break down into smaller, simpler, (albeit still bad) pieces that could be explained to you, my dear friends. That means that I’m not really willing or able to explain everything that happened, and even those which I am to disclose won’t be discussed to great lengths but merely “mentioned”.
Apart from this, I still have a dim shimmer of hope leading to the tenuous assumption that I might be able to write a bit more in the future; And (which is even more important) that I’ll start to read your blogs and livejournales again (because I not only dropped out of my life and my blog and whatnot, I also dropped out of the internet, keeping me from being updated about the current state of your lifes).
So, without further ado, here’s my list of very-bad-things that happened during the past months (only those which I feal can be discussed here, there’s a lot more ) (non-chronological order)

* I had a serious illnes which resulted in my ears not working anymore and was close to a ’stroke of paralysis’ (I’m mostly better now, tho)

* Our dog, Corrie, died due to rat poison

* A rather big transition phase (which started about 1.5 months ago and will continue until January) keeps me from having almost any free time at all; I’m always busy, always on the run, and way too nervous. If I don’t manage to calm down here, the above-mentioned Illness might very well come back

* I lost quite some money due to a stupid error

That’s it; As mentioned above, I’m kinda on track, currently moving back into what some people would refer to as ‘normality’, that’s why I have high expectations for 2007. There’s a ton of other (lets call them ‘neutral’ news right now) things which I’d like to adress here, before I leave for study-preparations: I moved to Münster, a nice, quaint (god I love that word) town not too far from here;  I got that MacBook Pro I sought after (DE); Meaning I switched from a 4-Computer workflow to a 1-Computer one. It feels so much better. I managed to go to some extraordinary good parties in between, met a lot of interesting people and generally feel well thinking about my social life (although I know that I desperately need to call some of my closer friends again because they, just like Roger, will suspect death otherwise – and I don’t want them condolence cards to arrive right now ) I’ve read a crazy ton of books this year (I kinda just realized that last week when I cleaned my shelf) All those books I read on the airplanes to Stuttgart as well as what I read while I had to stay in the hospital really adds up to some crazy number.

Ok, I hope that the above text was somehow understandable; My current lack of english communication (no icq, no blog, no aim, no phone calls, the friends from argentina went back home till next year) reveal via this blog entry that my english tongue has been degenerated down to a new level, but I hope that future blog posts (as well as an added emphasis on icq communication) will help me train it again, so that those future postings might be a tad more understandable and or readable.

I’m back – still choking – but alive; and the wet clothes are beginning to dry.
Thanks for reading, Benedikt

After 6months of hard work, after 6 months of extremly busy schedules and a almost non-existant private life (read, no spare time either), after all this I had a week of vacation. This week really helped me, it was my first vacation in about 9 months and I spend most of my time refreshing, relaxing and regenerating.
Next week will be my (hopefully) last week in Stuttgart, another really busy time but afterwards the whole project should be done. I’ll write about the project, the impacts and more at another time, and switch topic to this week’s beach party now:

Our local club had a Beachparty going on this week, from Wednesday to Saturday. It was a really really good Party, lots of people, beautifull women, great overall atmosphere, and it felt so good celebrating after all these busy weeks. I needed this party so bad, and thus I really enjoyed it – although the next day was always followed by some serious headdaches, but hey, that’s life

I uploaded some pictures:

just like phoenix out of the ashes, mutilation led to a unexpected renaissance, something I’ve been dying to happen for over the past 2 years.
You don’t know that I’m talking about you here, but thanks for being a reason.