I am planning to write a more or less full rundown of the year past for a few weeks by now, and I finally faced the fact that it won’t happen anytime soon—i.e. probably never. So I’ve decided to simply jot down some corner stones of a year that was strange, cool, tiresome and good to me. Proudest overall moment: Standin on ~80m2 of laminate flooring after installing it. I did it all by myself within 2 full days; yes, you can see it, it’s not perfect, but I installed it with my own hands.

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Ich bin schwach. Hendrik erzählte mir interessante Sachen über den neuen WoW 2.0-Patch, und eh ichs mich versehe, habe ich den Patch runtergeladen, installiert, und meinen Account reaktiviert. Super, ganz toll. Ich bin so schwach. Ich hab zwei (für mich) ganz neue Ansätze ausprobiert: Untot & Magus. Dummerweise hab ich jetzt wieder Spaß, allerdings hab ich auch noch nicht so lang gespielt. Wenigstens hab ich Urlaub; eine gute Ausrede. Danke, Hendrik.

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When Jon Stewart mentioned “Hanukkah Harry” the other day during an episode of The Daily Show, I thought he had made that name up there on the spot. Or at least made it up as a joke for that particular show. Turns out I was wrong. Hanukkah Harry actually has his own story and everything. And it’s so much better than Santa’s. Oy, presents!

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A few weeks ago I was minding my own business at work, writing a Greasemonkey script to solve a problem I had, when I noticed that apparently I had found the solution for a GM problem that not only I had but a number of other people as well. So, I tinkered and tinkered and tinkered some more and discovered that I had managed to write something fairly wicked that I had never seen before.

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A dirty, dirty, dirty keyboard can be cleaned thoroughly easily, it doesn’t necessarily have to be thrown away—you can reuse it! Here’s how. Unplug the keyboard. Then disassemble it, usually that means taking out the screws in the back and ending up with one plastic board holding all the keys and the (more or less) fancy casing. If the cable can be detached, even better. Now, take the key board and the casing and put it in a dishwasher.

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Gots me one of them Wiis the other day. Got Monkeyball and Rayman, but always ended up playing Wii Sports with Dana for hours so far—mostly Bowling and Golf. It’s surprisingly, insanely fun. Really well done. The fact that she likes the Bowling game so much alone was well worth the price. I am sporadically online, if you want my Wii code, drop me a line, you know how to reach me.

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Heute Deutschlandstart vom Nintendo Wii. Geh gleich los, Holger und ich fahren zum Saturn an der Theresienhöhe und warten vor der Tür. Hendrik wird dann kurz vor 10:00 Uhr zu uns stoßen. Er wird also nicht von Anfang an bei uns sein, was aber nachvollziehbar ist—wer will schon seinen 30. Geburtstag vor einem Saturn beginnen? Sind wir meschugge? Möglich. Werden wir uns die Kronjuwelen abfrieren beim Warten? Vielleicht. Werden wir Spaß haben?

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…ist raus. Exzellentes Addon für Firefox, das jedem ans Herz gelegt sei, der Webseiten entwickelt oder Javascript schreibt. Persönliches neues Lieblingsfeature nach zwei Stunden seit Installation: das Network Monitoring—sehr praktisch! Das war mir doch auch gleich eine Spende an Joe Hewitt, den Entwickler, wert. Die hat er sich mittlerweile redlich verdient. :)

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So… [Heroes][http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/]. I watched the pilot and the first episodes over the last few days, and to be honest—I couldn’t stop. It’s all around a great show so far, from story (great) to writing (great) to acting (great) to everything else (great). ![Heroes: Mohinder][https://attic.czm.io/blog-assets/2006/12/hro_1001_057.jpg] Somewhere, I read something about the show along the lines “X-Men, before they became X-Men”. And actually, it’s not far from the truth. The story (or stories) are those of ordinary people today who discover they can do extraordinary things; they are the next steps in human evolution.

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Heute auf dem Heimweg traf ich an der Bushaltestelle einen mir unbekannten jungen Mann. Ungefähr Mitte 20, geistig behindert, sehr freundlich, trug ein Spielzeugstethoskop um den Hals und einen Spielzeug-Erste-Hilfe-Koffer in der Hand. “Ich arbeite hier!” sagte er zur Begrüßung und zeigte nicht ohne Stolz über die Schulter. “Hallo.” antwortete ich ihm. “Ehrlich? Wo denn?” “Da, beim Roten Kreuz!” und grinste. “Oh, da helfen Sie dann Kranken?” – “Ja!” – “Klasse, find ich gut.

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Am Samstag war ich mit meiner Holden mal wieder im Kino, es lief ‘Scoop – Der Knüller’ von Woody Allen—durchaus heiter! Gut, Woody Allen muss man mögen (was bei uns beiden eigentlich nicht zutrifft), der Film hat aber durchaus seine Momente, was allerdings sowohl an der eigentlichen Geschichte als auch am Ensemble liegt. Hugh Jackman, Scarlet Johansson… Der zerknitterte Herr Allen hat zwar auch ein paar ziemlich gute Zeilen (“Ich wurde im hebräischen Glauben erzogen, bin dann aber zum Narzissmus konvertiert”), nervt auf Dauer aber doch sehr durch das typische, bemühte Woody-Allen-Auftreten.

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When Hendrik dropped a few bomb shells about the upcoming EVE expansion, I was feeling a bit unsure at first. On the one hand, I love playing with him. (Yes, I know how this sounds.) Plus, EVE consumed quite a bit of my time in the past; actually I dropped out and in a few times by now right from the beginning. On the other hand, my relationship with EVE was always somewhat …abusive; I wanted to like EVE, I actually still do, but she kept hitting me over and over again.

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I am one of the “if you want to do it, do it right” school. I try to make it apply to everything. This is the reason why I am kind of ticked off when I hear people say things like “Oh my Gosh!" or “Jeeebus!". Anyways, this “conversation” occured two minutes ago in our office: A (female): “Fudge!” me: “The word is ‘fuck’, not ‘fudge’. Curse properly, woman.”

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Well, the decision has been made—it certainly feels weird. The nice (?) side effect is my newly written Wordpress importer for RSS 2.0 and Blogcomments Module support (catchy name). Download it, put it in your WP root folder in /wp-admin/import/ and rename it to rss_2_plus_blogcomments.php. Then run the import from your WP dashboard, that’s all there is to do. Use it, abuse it, spread it, have fun. Which reminds me: why is the original WP 2.

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Pure Ironie; ich mag mal wieder über Verschiedenes schreiben, empfinde G-Blog.net, die Blogging-Site, die ich selbst vor Jahren geschrieben habe, aber mittlerweile als zu beschränkt. Ich fürchte, ich kann nicht mal g’scheit Artikel mit Codebeispielen schreiben – die Formatierungsroutinen würden die Beispiele zerhackstückeln. An I18N darf ich nicht mal denken – da kommt mir das kalte Grausen. Plugin-Architektur: Fehlanzeige. (Die schöne Schlussfolgerung ist, dass ich in der Zeit, seit ich das Teil geschrieben habe, eine Menge gelernt hab—sonst würde ich die Mankos nicht erkennen.

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My good friend Hendrik gave birth (ewww) to a new site (phew…) called 25peeps.com. Now, here’s the scoop: I have no fucking idea what this site is. He wrote it in just 2 hours. At the moment, my picture is pretty much at the top, which makes this site so much more attractive. ;) It’s sort of a social-networking-meets-pr0n-thumbnail-gallery-site-meets- linkblo g-meets-OMG-I’m-on-the-internet thing. As I’ve said, I don’t know what’s up with it.

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Congratulations to the team – we’ve pushed de.movies.yahoo.com live earlier this evening. It’s been my first bigger project here at Y!, here’s hoping there’s MANY more to follow. :)

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Bought an Hakkari Coin at the AH for the great price of 5g 78s. Wanted to resell it for a better price (better for me). When I realized I had put it up for auction for 7s minimum bid and 9s buyout, it was to late. Argh! Well, live and learn. Thank God it wasn’t real money. :) World of Warcraft, giving you all the joy and excitement of Ebay without the real life pain you might go through…

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w00h00! It’s official now, it seems! Excellent news. I was suspecting that del.icio.us would be bought sooner or later by one of the major players, but I’m glad to see it’s us. :)

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By the way, I’ve cancelled my US subscription and set up shop at Argent Dawn EU. Ambea, Tauren druid. A wholly new experience. First, the damn timezones “lag” is gone. The first evening of play in Mulgore I was wondering whether my video card was broken, until I realized I was witnessing night fall. Oh right, none of that -6hrs shit anymore! Very good. Then there are so many people. Again, playing in the same timezone as everyone else is really making a difference.

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Huh, a few months since my last post, eh? Bummer. Time flies when you’re having fun or when you’re busy. Or both. Since I’ve joined Yahoo! Germany in October the size of my brain has increased a bit, I think. Awesome company. My abilities are useful here, and I’m learning quite a bit, which is a great combination in my book. I feel welcome. During the (rather lengthy) interview process I’ve had the feeling they are actually interested in my personality; turns out I was right – I was in fact tested for “group compatibility”.

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What a wonderful little story I’ve found over at Spreading Goodwill: THE MAYONNAISE JAR AND 2 CUPS OF COFFEE When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee… A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

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Discord :: View topic - Roleplaying Realms Rule: Out of sheer boredom and the need to do a little PvP research, I recently found myself exploring the Deeprun Tram on a local roleplaying server. With exploration under way, I trekked deep within the confines of the tram and found something rather unusual. What was this standing before me? Two naked night elves of course. Hijinks ensued. Update 2007-02-07: Apparently I still get a number of hits from Google for this story.

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2-days shopping spree in order to get dressed for next weekend, where two of our friends are celebrating their wedding. I just remembered how much I hate buying clothes. It’s not that I don’t find anything at all, but I get angry by looking at price tags. A jeans for €189? A jeans? WTF? Is the part where my package is held laced with platinum? It’d better be. Anyways, after visiting the usual suspects (Esprit, H&M, a number of local men outfitters etc.

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I need some translators for BetterSearch, since the upcoming version 1.9 will introduce localization. I have English, German, Italian and Catalan language files so far; I’m looking for French, Spanish and everything else at the moment. The translation process is rather simple, you’d have to edit two text files and replace English phrases with ones in your language. :) If you want to know more, take a look, please. Thanks!

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