About

Hi, I am Timo Zimmermann and this is my private domain. For those of you who are not concerned about the long story, I am self employed, a geek, a gamer, a financial consultant and much more.

History lesson

I was born in 1986. I started my first business when I was 16 years old. It was a small company focusing on teaching. Teaching companies how to use new technologies like wikis, groupwares and other new web 2.0 stuff.

This does not mean that I am uneducated. Well to be honest I am since I did not learn anything in school that really helps me in my life but I completed my diploma.

When I was 18 and were still occupied with school I started an in-service training as financial consultant at Deutsche Vermoegensberatungs AG.

Since I finished school I am working as a self employed financial consultant.

On Christmas 2011 I was talking to my girlfriend, my oldest friend and my parents. I had the feeling that I have to change something and do something new. Something I love, something I can do the whole day and still enjoy it. In January I founded blazeit. I am back in the IT business and enjoy every minute.

Private

Beside work and school I also got some hobbies. Sometimes I even manage to squeeze them in between other stuff.

As you could have noticed - IT. Mostly new and exciting products. I am a usability junkie so I prefer Apple equipment. This does not mean that I would not get my hands dirty with some *nix boxes or even boot Windows to play some games.

I practice martial arts for 12 years now. I started with Karate, went to Taekwondo and Aikido and also visited some friends to train Kung Fu.

I enjoy evenings with my girlfriend or just my friends, a good movie or some TV shows and from time to time a good book. I was never in discos or a fan of loud and crowded places with drunk people. Pretty boring, I know,...

Hopelesscom

I started my private site around 2002. Hopelesscom was a domain I registered for a WiFi wiki that never made it live and at some point I started using it as my private domain. Even if I am not pretty happy with the name it works fine for many years now.

In 2011 I developed a blogging software called Zenbo. It is a static site generator. You write your text files in markdown run Zenbo and after some Python and Git magic your site is online. You only need a webserver. I prefer Lighttpd. I do not have to care about bugs and security problems in Wordpress (my previous software) and just have to make sure that my webserver is up to date. No resources wasted for a database that is basically only a worse text storage solution or PHP which is still known for,... well, same argument again, security problems.

Links, Opinions,...

Everything you find on this domain is my opinion. If you click on a link I have nothing to do with it. If someone hijacks a domain and starts publishing stuff that should obviously be something else I would appreciate a short notice.

Web 2.0

As you might have guessed I have several accounts across various social network sites.

There is no point in searching me on Facebook. I only add people I meet on a regular basis and I would shake hands with when I meet them. If you do not have me on your Facebook friend list it is likely that you do not belong in this category.

Contact

If you cannot guess how to contact me now or if you are a known Web 2.0 hater you can send a mail to timo (aet) hopelesscom (doet) de or a letter

Timo Zimmermann Otto-Bartning-Strasze 13 69239 Neckarsteinach