Swine flu – what was it like?

I got the swine flu and I survived ;) At least in Germany there is a big confusion about “How does it feel?”, “Do I need a vaccination?” or “Is it lethal?”. A little log about this hyped illness.

House M.D.

I think I’ve been watching House M.D. (or Dr. House?) since 2006, not regularly but every time my television was running in the evening, 10.15 pm. I really started to get addicted to this series in 2007/2008 which was already too late to be up to date concerning the whole story of Dr House and his crew.

pdfDivider – open Source PDF splitter

If you were thinking about extracting certain pages from a whole PDF document you may consider this tool as a primitive solution.

• load common PDF documents
• extract custom pages
• merge them into one new document
• no need for Acrobat Reader or PDF print software
• built as GUI on the PDFSharp library
• requires .NET 2.0 or later

Oblivion and the Shivering Isles

Wow! That’s a short summary of what I’ve been playing for around 100 hours since April ‘09. Years ago, I played Morrowind and its AddOns, hard piece of work: long ways to travel, a huge but empty world, finding quest relevant people and caves and some annoying enemies (cliff runners? that’s what they’re called in German).

AGA der Bundeswehr – Rückblick

Da ich eine Zeit lang nicht wusste, was ich nach der Schule tun sollte, entschied ich mich für die Bundeswehr, gemeldet hatte ich mich beim Heer, gekommen bin ich zur Luftwaffe, am 01.07., gleich nach der Schule – ganz nach meinem Wunsch. Die ersten drei der neun Monate, die der Allgemeinen Grundausbildung (AGA), verbrachte ich im Luftwaffenausbildungsregiment in Goslar. Ein kleiner Bericht über die Zeit dort.

Helldorado

It’s ten years ago, I think, that I first played Desperados, the wonderful isometric tactics-shooter in the American western. A few years later, Spellbound decided to release the second part in 3D which… eh… yeah, resulted in something between Desperados and Serious Sam. Helldorado is the real Desperados in 3D.

F.E.A.R. in the dark

As there’re some lucky incidents I do have time to play on weekend. In October I’ll be moved close to my hometown which promises even more free time.

Finally F.E.A.R. was available for 10€ and I have not been playing a horror shooter for a very long time, good investment.

Logging off …

From now I have to serve for at least 9 months in the Bundeswehr (the German army).

This should mean that I’m not going to have time to play games or to develop software.

FYI, I created a GemRB v0.5 build for Windows, it shoud be up at sf.net soon.

Far Cry – Far Ahead

When everybody was waiting for Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, Far Cry from Coburg, Germany slipped through and so it was rather the first next generation than those two.

I was playing v1.40. Now I’m done and in my opinion, Far Cry is one of the best serious shooters I know.

Lots of VMs inside the Matrix

If the Matrix is running on some kind of hardware, it is a program.

If the Matrix is a program, any computer system projected inside is a virtual machine.

If there’re persons inside controlled by the brain of their sleeping bodies that are plugged to the hardware, they are clients or even avatars.

If the Matrix is the host and every telephone and computer a VM, they represent one side of the interface to the web, some kind of shared memory between the host, the VMs and the clients.

If the Matrix is the host and the humans inside clients, the blue pill is some kind of Rootkit-remover.

;)