Yearly Archives: 2006

…and the annoyances continued all through the day.

After [I spent several hours trying to get to work](/2006/11/01/trip-to-work/) this morning – I spent several hours trying to get back. Everything was fine until I arrived at the central station at about 18:00. Turns out some idiotic students had (again) occupied the central station as a [demonstration against tuition fees](http://de.news.yahoo.com/01112006/12/studenten-besetzen-frankfurter-hauptbahnhof-erste-zusammenfassung.html#) (link in German). Continue reading

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Trip to Work

Normally, going to work takes me about 50 minutes – door to door. Today, pretty much the entire subway service seems to have been disrupted. After they announced “at least 30 minutes delay”, I tried to get to the airport … Continue reading

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Daily Show Clips Removed from YouTube

It seems that Comedy Central sent YouTube a DMCA request to take down all Colbert Report and Daily Show clips. A pity. Really. I know I would have continued to post the best of the Daily Show here. Do you … Continue reading

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Halloween 2006

It’s October. It’s dark and cold and rainy and you know what that reminded me off? Halloween is coming up again. And like every year, I will get myself some Halloween style candy and watch good movies late at night. … Continue reading

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Rumsfeld Caught Lying

Nothing really new, but there you go.

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Total Surveillance

I just found this rather disturbing story on BBC, and unfortunately I must say it is not quite unexpected. The [BBC reports](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6044310.stm) that the University College of London is developing a technology to tag and track passengers at an airport. … Continue reading

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Insomnia

Well this is no fun. It’s now 3:35 AM and I am still wide awake. I even tried playing [World of Warcraft](http://geek.pandemonium.de/2006/06/15/10-reasons-why-world-of-warcraft-sucks/) for a while… but then the server went down for maintenance. Didn’t make me sleepy either. I have … Continue reading

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New Phone Number

My mobile phone number has changed. I have sent an email to some of you. If you didn’t get any email and need my new number, please let me know. The reason is that my employer switched to T-Mobile.

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Another Quiet Day

Tomorrow is a holiday here and today has got to be the most quiet day ever. Caught up on a few things, going to go home early. It’s cold, dark, gray, and very rainy. Perfect for playing with the Neverwinter … Continue reading

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There goes my spare time

The [Neverwinter Nights 2 Toolset](http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewforum.html?forum=100) has been released. Expect me to not have ANY spare time for the next six months or so.

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