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Vacation

I’ll be gone for the coming 2 weeks — I am visiting my grandmother in Mallorca, Spain. First “proper” vacation in 8 years…

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Full Spectrum Warrior

Little warning: Bought FSW this Saturday and for the first time the German version seems to be German only (i.e. I cannot change the language of the menues / subtitles to English). This pisses me off somewhat as you cannot … Continue reading

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iTunes Music Store

I had an extended romp through the newly opened (in England, France and Germany that is — not really an “European” launch) iTunes music store. It is now obvious to me why there is quite a bit of buzz about … Continue reading

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Dancing Stage Unleashed

I’ve been trying to get my hands on “Dancing Stage Unleashed” (or “Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix” as it’s called in the US) pretty much since it was supposed to be out in the beginning of March. But is is very … Continue reading

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Interconnected

While chasing up on Emmy Rossum from “The Day after Tomorrow” (watchable, too much American pathos and a predictable happy end, nice FX (water / wolves / ice)), I found out that Richard Kelly plans a cinematic re-release of Donnie … Continue reading

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Server Trouble

Seems like the HDD of the server acted up a bit. The support people then wiggled a bit and I’m back up. Email should still have gotten through…

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Lazyness and Legacy

I’ve uploaded vStrip and the Wavelet Kompressor (upper right corner). The old links (at least from the imported Blogger entries) are probably invalid as they were relative to a different site-structure. Update: Actually went back and fixed the links from … Continue reading

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Postfix

I’ve been trying to set up my mailserver in a way which blocks virii. That worked reasonably well by blocking executable attachments except for those pesky NetSky-variants that come inside ZIP-archives (which some idiots obviously do open). In any case, … Continue reading

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Default Template

As SixApart has announced their new pricing scheme for MovableType 3 (which I incidentally read about on the WordPress Dev-Blog), I am quite glad I didn’t install MovableType. The “fear” of a multitude of default WordPress templates popping up in … Continue reading

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Moving is (NOT) fun!

Seems like the server move has happened… Still are things very preliminary around here (and knowing myself will probably only get better very slowly), and most content is still offline. In any case, I’ve gotten rid of Strato, which is … Continue reading

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Under construction!

The site may be down soon-ish as I’m moving hosts (or at least trying to… My old (current) host Strato does not seem to be cooperating as much as one would hope).

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UX-50

After the easter holidays, I took 4 days off but then used most of those to refurbish the ceiling in a flat in Hannover. That didn’t stop me from picking up a new toy: a Sony Clie UX-50 Palm PDA. … Continue reading

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