System.out.println("Hello World!");

Joke of the {day|week|year} (I'll let you decide which one of the mighty 3): Romi starts blogging.
Ah, whom am I kidding, 'starts' is just such a strong verb and makes the whole sentence more a sophism than a postulate, so it really should be 'tries' if I want to be practically correct.
I am not a big wordsmith meself, I consider meself one of those (few), who believe that quantity does not implicate quality, therefore I'll make it short:

It all started in March 2008 ... nope, I can't start like this or the short story will become a long one and smell like bad code which would then need some refactoring. Well a better try:

A few months ago I gave meself a promise, that IF I complete this term with excellent results in all of my subjects (altogether 10 subjects of which 9 were examinational) I would start a blog .... It would seem that I am blogging, so by now you must have already guessed how I did (26 credit points with a weighted average grade of 5.0).

As I mentioned before - I am not big on words (paraphrased) - so this will probably become another photo blog on the WWW. This way it is easier for ME (egoist as I am :P) and also YOU (who ever you are) won't have to put up with my not so good (not to say bad) English. So mostly photos, maybe some laconic comments also.

So, a photo blog, this brings us to the question of GEAR. Well, as I am not a professional photographer (more like an ever learning hobbyist) I don't need [read: cannot afford] cutting edge stuff. As arbitrary crap would also not meet my requirements I've gone with a DSLR camera. Let's not descend into debate about why digital or why that specific camera choice ...

My equipment:
Camera body: Nikon D80
Lens: currently only AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED, but plans are big: 70-200mm f/2.8
Flash: Nikon Speedlight SB-800
Tripod: Manfrotto 055XPROB
Head: Manfrotto 488RC4

But even with a good semi-pro camera (yeah I can assure it is great - Nikon this is promotion for you, hope you won't forget me :P) like this don't expect me to post every day something new. I think you'd still be too optimistic if you hope to find weekly updates. You know "shit does NOT just happen, shit takes time, shit takes effort!" (these golden words were said by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie The 51st State). So be patient.

Now I've finally come to the end of my first post. In addition, this post will probably be last of a kind, by that I mean - so massively long :) Remember: less is more - my credo ;)

P.S. haha, note the date (hint)