Senseless Wisdom of Life

This is just a little reference to a new blog. My pal Roland spends the next couple of months in Japan and to keep everybody informed about his journey he started this blog: http://jagebuch.blogspot.com . As you might (or might not) realise this is in german only so you better get out your german vocabulary quickly. Tags: friends blog link … Read More

News at gamestar.de (german) Pretty cool: The next installment of the successfull adventure game ‘Ankh’ (g sounds like they already did dozens of it but it’s actually the second) will have a code wheel for copy protection! Remember Monkey Island? Before being able to play the game you had to enter a 4-digit code from two paper wheels with different … Read More

After watching this video of the speech Sir Ken Robinson gave at 2006 TED Conference I was really astonished reviewing my own educational biography up to now. One of his points was that the whole system of public education is build as a kind of preparation for creating university students and -on top of all- professors. They are somehow meant … Read More

Official Google Blog: 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google This is really a cool thing. A german Author self-publishes a book about the entertaining side of Google while offering the book itself on a Creative Commons license. Take a look! Btw. this seems to be my post number 50. I guess that’s also the total number of people ever … Read More

Well, today was a very lousy day because it started like this: Shortly before I usually go to bed (at 2 am usually) I decided to install a second win xp on my system. I should explain that I host a linux and Win XP 64-bit on my computer and there are certain things that don’t work on the 64-bit … Read More

Überraschende Entscheidung: Pluto ist kein Planet mehr – Wissenschaft – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten This is the (german) article at Spiegel Online about the ex-planet Pluto. In short: scientists (2500 from 75 countries) have agreed that Pluto together with other recently discovered celestial bodies are no longer planets. There has never been a proper definition of what a planet exactly … Read More

A day’s moon by =yodahome on deviantART As I didn’t manage to do it yesterday, I’m going to do it now: Yesterday one of the greatest art communities on the planet (if not THE greatest) grew one year older and aprt from that this is great on its own they also updated the website to the next software version that … Read More

Just recognized a great feature in PicasaWeb: You can geotag the images you carry in your Picasa DB with Google Earth! Just like in Zooomr, where you can add the information about where a picture was shot by using the Google Maps, you can (if you installed both the Picasa and the Google Earth software) simply zoom to the place … Read More

I actually managed to throw a quick eye on a game I was really looking toward to: “Dreamfall – The longest journey”. It’s been out for some time now but I was just too busy to look into it. I did now – and it is truly great! You start off with Zoe Castillo, (one of the very few games … Read More

Official Zooomr Blog : Even Stronger Than Ever I’m really looking forward to this. At some still unknown time during this Monday (July 17th 2006) Zooomr, the incredible photo hosting service will re-launch with its 2.0 software. The site was down for this maintainance but due to attacks by spiritually un-blessed, uninspired and possibly ugly in-duh-viduals this downtime had to … Read More

I guess you all can see this picture. Well, it shows all that I usually see during a day at the station. Where I work. Yes, they pay me for selling cigarettes and newspapers to fellow human beings. Well, not really, I’m selling to virtually anybody who can afford it. You don’t even have to be nice to me. Oh, … Read More

ZEIT online – Deutschland : Das braune Deutschland This is a german article about a (probably) german problem. While I’m sure that this is not understood everywhere in the world, we still carry the burden of being the evil country from WWII. However there are forces especially in Eastern Germany (which is the part of Germany I live in) that … Read More