text: About this site · Jan Krüger's blog
  Loads of personal information. I have maintained a website with information about myself and my general beliefs in the past, but I believe that this website is interesting to a larger audience and I can't do everything at once. Additionally, rambling about yourself all the time gets old after a while. My "about the author" page should be enough to provide a bit of context.
  "Dear diary" articles. I will attempt to provide you with things that interest you, rather than things that demonstrate how superior and funny I am or something like that. On the other hand, this website will (supposedly) become a collection of:
  Articles about life, the universe and everything. Mostly about life, though. An earlier witty slogan I had for this website was "life & knowledge engineering", which was supposed to hint at the focus on "life engineering". So what's life engineering? Quoting Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. So, by extension, life engineering would be the design, analysis and/or construction of practical works related to living life, i.e. things that (hopefully) improve life in some or another way.
  Other topics, either purely engineering (computer science, software engineering) or purely creative (music, art), or blends of both (design). You might wonder what connects these topics sufficiently to maintain a joint website (other than my personal interests). I will argue that engineering is just another form of art. It combines theory and experience with personal insight and creativity. Often enough, engineering is about creating something new, and that means you need creativity.