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.

Weiterlesen →

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.

Continue reading →

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.

Continue reading →

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.”

Continue reading →

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.

Continue reading →

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.

Weiterlesen →

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.

Continue reading →

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. :)

Continue reading →

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…

Continue reading →

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. :)

Continue reading →

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.

Continue reading →

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”.

Continue reading →

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.

Continue reading →

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.

Continue reading →

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.

Continue reading →

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!

Continue reading →

So, let’s see… DING – Graun reached season 50! Then I’ve had a very nice conversation with a human priest or warrior (?) named Ptalaphose about the future of the Alliance. I met a friendly Night Elf priest named Avaa which in Felwood. Our paths happened to cross a few times again. A overly pleasant lass. She invited me to run a few Zul’Farrak errands together with her and a few of her friends.

Continue reading →

It’s great, get it now. (If you don’t believe me right away, then take a look at the Between Interval site. There you can listen to the whole album for free; that’s right, 75 minutes of ambient pleasure for your ears. Doesn’t cost you anything. Nothing, nada, bupkis. Then, if you like it (and if you, like me, like a healthy dose of ambient music, you’ll love it), you can buy it as DRM-free, high-quality MP3 files for €5.

Continue reading →

We had tickets for the U2 concert here in Munich last night, and we had a blast. Great concert. Bono saved the World two times, I think. :) Unsorted impressions: too much rain (1.5 hours, we were soaking wet), Keane as warming-up band, I stood in line for beer for 45 damn minutes, public transportation was overloaded (‘twas like Woodstock without the music), nice symbolic slogan (“CoeXisT”), too frickin’ loud.

Continue reading →

We went out to watch Mr. & Mrs. Smith last night. Despite the mediocre reviews the flick is receiving, I have to say, it was a two-hour fun ride for me. Pitt and Jolie seemed to have fun in their roles, and it showed. It was a thoroughly enjoyable romantic assassination comedy. Recommended if you’re looking for silly, funny, romantic and not-overly-deep summer movie.

Continue reading →

So, over the last few weeks I have posted almost no entries. What can I say, my life was wicked and weird. We went to Ireland, that was great. Still married, which is awesome. Planning to learn Spanish for no particular reason. Learning Ruby and Rails and dusting off my Perl skills. Then of course, major point, I wasn’t really happy at work anymore. I tried to keep my mouth shut about the office, which is a clever thing to do, methinks; still sometimes, the unhappiness showed.

Continue reading →

Herzlichen Dank an die kreative Seele, die beim Versuch, unser Moped in der Tiefgarage aufzubrechen, eine Feile ins Zündschloss steckte und dabei abbrach. Herzlichen Dank dafür, dass ich das Ding in gut eineinhalb Stunden wieder herausholen durfte. Herzlichen Dank dafür, dass ich das in der prallen Sonne machen musste, um überhaupt etwas sehen zu können. Herzlichen Dank dafür, dass ich dabei das halbe Moped auseinanderbauen musste, um überhaupt irgendwo heranzukommen.

Weiterlesen →

I need a license for my new Firefox extension, but I can’t find anything that I like. Here’s what I am looking for: The freedom to run the program for any purpose The freedom to study and modify the program for personal use The freedom to copy the program I don’t want users to have the freedom to redistribute modified versions of the program, specifically because there are links to stores etc.

Continue reading →

Got this from a co-worker today, think it’s great. :) The Washington Post’s Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners: Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Continue reading →

A few of you have done this already, so it’s my turn now. :) 1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? Driving on the left side of the road for four days straight. Yes, I’m talking about our trip to Ireland. 2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn’t have any resolutions. I don’t think you need the “magic of the new year” if you want to accomplish something.

Continue reading →