Picked up my social security number today. Nobody in the office could remember how they got theirs, so I had to google a bit around: find your next “Administraciones de la Seguridad Social” office - bring passport - bring N.I.E. I went to my local office at C/Mercader 5, Barcelona. The lady at the desk was very nice and even spoke english. She was a bit surprised that I had a two year old N.I.E. and no social security number.

I see I have been really keeping up with this during my unemployment. Well, I did some freelance work. I started a new job yesterday. The job is splitted between two companies one standard web design company, where I will be technical director and one open-source startup, where I will be just programming. The programming language is tcl, which I never worked with before, but seems to be the choice of the openacs system, which we use as the base for the system. ...

First day of unemployment! Though it didn’t feel like it, because I had to scan & sort flyers for krass.com, maybe I really skip that service next year. The weather isn’t nice today, I hope that this clears up for the sake of all the beach parties.

The parties for Sonar 2006 line up nicely. The krass.com sonar party listing contains again too much choice and will make this weekend rather unhealty. This year I will concentrate on the beach and free parties, the only sonar party I will attend is the friday sonar by day event. Today also some more details for the m_nus & bugged out! beach party on sunday showed up, with Richie Hawtin and Villalobos in the evening lineup.

As always it is bloody difficult to make up a nice name for anything on this internet thing. Finally I went for prophet5 which is a classic synth by Sequential Circuits (wikipedia page, hyperreal machines page). In my old company we named all our workstations after the synths from the hyperreal list, so we got prophet5, tr606, tr808, sixtrak and so on. The only one who has survived (including name) is stratus. Our main web servers were called Vaeth and Hawtin BTW. ...