Hi!!

My name is Sven Schirmer, born in 1975 in the former German Democratic Republic. I grew up in a very safe & good environment =). After living in Germany for 25 years I decided to move to Ireland where I lived from August 2000 until December 2002. The main idea of this move was to learn English as well as getting the Irish & their culture to know. I also wanted to improve my knowledge in a professional way. So I started with simple HTML coding and went over some Java & PHP scripting into Networking. Before I left Ireland for my big Asia adventure I successfully certiefied as Microsoft MCSA. Dublin, the capital of this country is well known for all these pubs, pints & a fast growing IT business. Live is different there, compared to Germany. But if you are interested in that you have to come and feel yourself. For myself I really enjoyed living and working here as well as the little journeys around the island during weekends.
After a long time longing for - trip circumstances brought me back home. Reality reached me quickly. My country seemed to have lost illusions & perspectives, morning about Euro - inflation, industries resettling in Eastern Europe and far East. Or is it just mourning on high level? However bare any descent job or carrier opportunities I decided to run for a computer science course in my home area. Even though it is fairly hard stuff after all these years off school I do actually enjoy this experience.
Originally this site was set up mostly for testing reasons & will remain in such a stage.
Every single thing here is coded with notepad. I decided to leave out all flash files because I believe in the Internet mostly as an informative media. Good excuse for being too lazy to learn HTML - editors, ehh? Well, some of the pictures from Ireland are a bit bigger then expected, but that's just for quality reasons ;). Most of the pictures are taken & prepared by Julia who kindly supported this project with time & patience =).
The site itself is named by a Leonard Cohen song I really like. The background music is a Midi compiled Cohen song, "Nancy".

Thanks & Cheers