the latest patch of World of Warcraft introduced “RealID”: a feature that enables communication across servers (and potentially across games) within battle.net. it’s a nifty addition for sure since i do have a few real life friends that still play on different servers. WoW is at times a fancy chat (curse those raid down times!) [...]
Tag Archive 'real life'
chernobyl and me
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 [...]
things i wish i had known ten years ago
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 [...]
rise and shine?
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 [...]
ways to waste time
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 [...]
everything is better
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 [...]
shopping for furniture
Posted in random on May 10th, 2007
…is a nightmare.
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 [...]