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Posted in personal on Jun 24th, 2010
what is about to follow is a very personal blog entry. today is the 18th anniversary of the death of my father. he died from colon cancer aged 42 back in 1992. i don’t know why i feel compelled to write about this though… it’s something that has been on the back of my head [...]
as the last hours of 2008 tick down i have to admit that 2008 was a fairly good year for me. but i’m not the person that likes to talk about past things. so here’s to the future, to 2009! what is a more fitting view at the future than going back to the moon? [...]
Posted in personal on Jul 31st, 2008
i have finally made up my mind regarding the hardware and components of my new computer. case and accessories: SilverStone Temjin T10 black with window Enermax Infiniti 720W Noiseblocker Multiframe MF12 S2 fans Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22″ widescreen display water cooling: Innovatek G-Flow CPU water block Innovatek Coolmatic GTX 280 GPU water block Innovatek HPPS Plus 12V [...]
i am taking my road bike out for a ride almost every day now. these rides give me a perfect opportunity to think about various issues that come to my mind when pedaling happily away. so i figured it might be a good idea to put some of those thoughts into writing before they fade away… [...]
Posted in personal on Mar 8th, 2008
i honestly intended to write about this weeks ago but life has been very busy the past few weeks. a lame excuse i know, but sadly it’s the truth. however, things a settling down now and i hope to have more time to write in the future. anyway, i am a regular reader of “zenhabits” and the recent post [...]
i have started to re-view all five season from Babylon 5, most likely my favorite science fiction television show ever. although i used to be quite a fan of Star Trek in the 1990s and early 2000s, i could never accept it as a possible future of mankind. Star Trek is pure utopia, a perfect [...]
i have a confession to make: i am playing a mmorpg again (*sigh*). it’s “Lord of the Rings Online“. before jumping to fast conclusions, hear me out. i strongly believe that playing an online game is – like almost everything in life – about self-control. you do not have to let the game “get you”. [...]
not surprisingly i have stumbled across an article that deals with the question “Why are people leaving WoW?” well, i can only speak for myself here and what i experienced in my “WoW life” in over two years; for me the expansion ruined the game. true, it added some content and new areas to explore, [...]
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 [...]