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Posted in personal on May 27th, 2007
i’m a nightowl and i stumbled across this article today about “10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It“. getting up early is a huge pain for me and i simply cannot imagine myself getting up at 4:30am (!!). i sometimes have to get up at 6am and that is still a big [...]
Posted in personal on May 19th, 2007
i am in the process of finding better ways of “wasting time” than playing a repetitive online game like *cough* World of Warcraft. in plain english im looking for potential new hobbies that do not involve computers or computer games. i don’t want to start “pressing that button” ever again. during summer this is not [...]
Posted in personal on May 14th, 2007
last week was pretty busy since i wanted to get a few things out of my normal way of life done. among other things, i’m about to refurbish my spare bedroom, so i went shopping for furniture. naturally, i have to get rid of the old bedroom furniture as well which is not an easy [...]
Posted in random on May 10th, 2007
…is a nightmare.
Posted in internet on May 7th, 2007
social bookmark websites like digg or reddit are a great source to find out what makes the internet “buzz” at a given moment. its not really new and i have been reading other feeds like neowin for quite a few years now, but that sidebar widget for displaying feeds on your vista desktop took it [...]
as mentioned below i stopped blogging pretty much exactly two years ago. you may wonder why and let me try to explain what happened. it all started at the beginning of 2005. i had just finished writing my PhD thesis and was in a sort of “no man’s land”: nothing to do but to wait [...]
Posted in tv on May 3rd, 2007
i have been an avid watcher of “24″ since the very first hour so to speak. the fifth season of 24 was sensationally good, almost too good. hence my expectations were quite high as far as season 6 was concerned. granted season 6 started out very strong, the first four hours were just breathtaking and [...]
Posted in internet on May 2nd, 2007
not sure when “Harald Schmidt” starts today and being lazy with setting booksmark, i headed over to google to check the tv schedule for today. vaguely remembering that the “ARD” actually goes by “das Erste (deutsche Fernsehen)” i entered “das erste” at google and got as expected “www.DasErste.de” as the very first hit. now here’s [...]
so here i go, embarking on a new blog adventure after two years of silence.