The World According to Nils » Munich

Work Photos

Nils — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:07:54 +0000

Dark Clouds

Nils — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:07:37 +0000

Definitely need a better camera…

My Internet's Down

Nils — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:22:48 +0000

For the past five days now, my Internet at home has been offline. Well, intermittently offline: When it’s only it “only” disconnects all existing connections every ten minutes – and it’s slowly as hell on connections. Wasn’t even able to download a new RC of OpenOffice.

The whole mess only happened because my landlords have this company, bits GmbH, which is doing the Internet stuff for all apartments. I didn’t want to buy from them but they basically told me, “hey, we control the wires, what are you going to do about it?”

It’s quite easy what I will do about it; I’ll actually shop around and buy my Internet connectivity from someone who actually knows what they are doing. Until then, my apologies to everybody who tried to talk to me over the weekend, and especially to Pedro for not being able to continue our Assassin Duo team play on Guild Wars.

Having no Internet at home sucks big time.

Update, a week later: Took them pretty exactly a week to get this fixed. I am really not happy.

English Garden

Nils — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:54:21 +0000

Today a friend of mine from Frankfurt visited, and so I actually went downtown a bit. The English Garden is actually quite nice, and we walked until our feet hurt. Didn’t take nearly enough photos – I am always shy of being “the tourist”.

I fell asleep for a few hours after I got home. What can I say; I am just an aging geek.

View of the Alps

Nils — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:47:39 +0000

It turns out you can actually see the alps from my apartment… sort of:

View of the Alps

I hadn’t noticed this before. As you can see it’s just a little gap in between the buildings, but hey, it’s still kind of nice.

BBQ Pics

Nils — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:25:51 +0000

Fun in the, er, rain:

I say we shall have to practice this at a later day.

Sleepless in Munich

Nils — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:21:32 +0000

Well – Not quite. I fell asleep sometime after 4pm and woke up sometime after 9pm. Guess I really needed it – the sucky part is, it will just result in insomnia again. I know they say you should get about seven to eight hours of sleep per night; I get around six on a good night. Usually, it’s between four and five. If you think that’s cool in any way, then you clearly never had this problem.

Tomorrow I’ll go on a little road trip with two of my co-workers; I hope that’ll tire me out enough for a good night’s sleep.

Arabellapark at Night

Nils — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:06:37 +0000

Some night views from my new apartment.

Day and Night

Nils — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:02:09 +0000

To show off the new image layout, as well as to give you an impression of where / how I live:

Munich

Nils — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:34:58 +0000

I’ve arrived in Munich. It’s good to finally be “home”, especially if it’s a new one. My move’s mostly complete, with a few odds and ends left. It went pretty well. I already unpacked most – but by far not all – of my stuff and the only thing I actually seem to have lost – so far – is one cup. Not even a very special one. Life continues.

My first day on the new job went pretty well; I like the new company a lot. Got a shiny new notebook to play work with, too. And did I mention I get to battle spammers on the actual front lines?

I haven’t really seen much of Munich yet. My feet are killing me because of all the walking I did last week, so I am not even sure if I will go out on a discovery tour this weekend or not.