Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

Happy New Year from nrrd.de!

The nrrd.de core team (housetier and hadez) has met in Berlin for the 25th annual chaos communication congress.

We’ve been planning on re-orienting and re-launching nrrd.de and affiliated sites for well over a year now and finally managed to allocate some time to work on this together.

Here’s a small glimpse into the future of nrrd.de:

• ‘das buch’ will be separated a bit better from the blog content
• nrrd.de will be re-purposed for blogging
• we’ll launch the nrrd affiliates network
• new design

We’re still looking for contributors!
If you think you can contribute content to our -isms (tech-ism, urban-ism, style-ism, social-ism) you’re more than welcome to help.
If you have no clue what what the -isms are, just wait for one of the next blog posts to explain it in more detail.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

We can be reached on irc on irc.paranode.net #breaks or mail to housetier@nrrd.de and/or hadez@nrrd.de.

Today I did what I was planning on for a couple of years now.
I finally went through with my secession from the roman-catholic church.
All I had to do was cough up 15 EUR at the registry office to get the official paperwork done.

Being agnostic and having a strong dislike of the church as an institution it was time to leave before they can start leeching on my income.
Yes, here in Germany the church (for roman-catholics and protestants) takes 8 to 9% of your income.
Conveniently deducted right off your paycheck.

Hell no!

Coincidently I found the approval mail from CCC in my inbox on the same day!
Not that it’s much of a substitution, but the best improvement possible at the time :D

In contrary to GI and BITKOM, CCC does something and gets noted for it.
Looks like they are the only IT “lobby” (yuck, I hate that word) that’s really making a difference.

Definitely 100000x better to support them rather than spending money on any church out there.