I was in Munich from Monday to Wednesday, and it was a fun trip - I met up with Lars Weinand and we discussed strategies, where AMD currently has the upper hand and what we need to do to commute that to the press and the public. It's an exciting thing for me, basically because times are continually changing and with a position like mine, I have to constantly adapt to new challenges. I believe I can handle it though :) I loved the trip for one more reason: I hadn't spoken any Deutsch for about seven years, and this was a perfect opportunity for me to see whether I remember anything. Well, to be honest, the first day was hilarious because I could understand maybe 10% of what I heard, but the second day was much better, with the percentage rising to 60%! That actually made me hopeful that I'll be able to converse in German again very soon, which is good.
As an added bonus, I met up with Terry Makedon on Tuesday night and we went out for some dinner (thanks again Almut for the recommendation!). I hadn't seen him for over eight months, so it was catch up time mostly. Oh, and I also fell in love with the waitress that served us :heart:
Apart from all that, it's business as usual. I went to see the progress of my car today, and I am hopeful that by early next week the comrad shall be mine again :)
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I am also going to Muenchen for the first time tomorrow afternoon. It'll be an excellent opportunity to remember my Deutsch, for which my vocabulary is non-existent these days. But I trust that it'll all come back to me eventually :)
March! Winter is behind us (although I do wonder what kind of winter this was; it seemed more like a prolonged Autumn here in Greece) and it's the time to start something new. As I blogged last week, as of today I no longer work for Siemens. Instead I will be helping out a little company called Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD in short. I don't believe in karma and stuff like that, but I find it a strange turn of events that I will be able to work with the company I have been a supporter since I first got a computer - just the fact that in my 15 years of owning a PC, I've only owned three non-AMD processors (and trust me, I have upgraded more than three times :p) should tell all. I will be helping out as a Technical PR Manager for European Online Media, a far cry from the C++ programming I did for Siemens the past year.
Because of that, I had to resign from my SuperModerator status in both Rage3D and Driverheaven, which was kind of awkward because up until a month ago I never saw myself doing a thing like that. I also had to stop being a freelancer for PC Magazine here in Greece, for the same reasons, which are pretty self-explanatory I believe.
So, as I said, new month, new challenges ahead - hopefully all will go well :)
P.S Wonder if I should start dropping hints on future AMD products in order to increase my blog's visibility now :sherlock:
