Music was my first love and still is. The 1970s became my musical basis for my development. Sure, there were of course the first experiences in the late 1960s with the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Humble Pie and the first steps into the Nederbeat - everything except German Schlager.
I grew my hair and of course made the mistakes of childhood with bubblegum music, glam - all of which I still stand by today. The Disco time then gave me the opportunity to get to know the 1960s intensively and to pursue musical mind expansion until the end of the 1970s when New Wave came and music was saved for me again, but that's another topic.
As I work on this incredible database, music accompanies me every day - if you're crazy enough to collect Ferrari serial numbers, you've got the same quirk when it comes to collecting music.
Why the strange, off-topic introduction? And why am I writing to you today? Quite simply, anything that isn't straight forward and is a little Bullerby is Bubblegum to me and that's what today's update is all about. We are on the way to the final big one. We imagined it to be quicker and easier, but the important thing is that we're moving forward.
One of the final sub-steps towards the goal is for the database to be error-free as far as ZFF entries are concerned, and that's what we did in June: 1,143 entries are new, edited or, particularly this month, corrected. Of our 175,724 records with ZFF entries of this spring, 641 (0.36%) were considered relevant for processing. Of these, transposed digits were a total of 3 (0.0017%) and completely wrong entries (we apologize for that): 4 (0.0022%). The next step is a data reconciliation and then... the great big thing, we hope.
In addition to all the "bubblegum" there are of course 500 "new ones" and for those who like to search our database: this time there are three vehicles in it that no customer has driven on the road and of course... the Le Mans winner!
Yours
Matthias Urban
chief editor of F-Register