train of thoughts - Episode 1

...looking back at sunsets on the eastside...

Silence for too long...

Hit it!
Every year before christmas customers get giveaways from companies. Pens, wine, etc....
Have you ever thought about getting a xmas giveaway from a undertaker? Someone told me - she is working at an old people's home - that she got xmas giveaways from the undertaker. Isn't that wired? Crazy? Sarcastic? However.

Something else...

Need a coffee now.

Merry X-Mas

I don't know if I will be able to blog something before xmas again, because I won't be home before 2007. I am at work now. Everything is prepared, just a few things to do here at work. My bags are packed - hope I didn't forget about something importent - and I am ready to go. After work I will go to a xmas party and tomorrow I am going to the house in the mountains. I am so glad that my holidays are just a few hours away.

Mery Xmas to all of you!

get ready for christmas

Yesterday I finished the presents and the checklist I made to remember myself what I have to take with me.
Today I will do the hard work - Packing my stuff. I have to do it today, because it's the last day before I leave home for 12 days.
Tomorrow will be a cool day. After work I'll driv to villach to a xmas party at villach. I am really looking forward to this. On saturday I'll drive into the mountains where the rest of my family allready waits for me. At this plays I will stay for a while, celebrating xmas and new year.

the cursed door

Standing up in the morning is always cruel, but today it felt like I am cursed. After putting myself together, dressing up and leaving the bathroom I went to my car. As usual.

I opened the door - as usual - and got myself into the car. Then I wanted to close the door, but....

THE DOOR DID NOT CLOSE!

It opened itself every time I tried to close it. It took me 15 minutes to close and lock it to make it stay closed. As I arrived at work the door closed like nothing had happened and without any problems. How could something like this happen?

...won't worry about it....

Cables Chaos X-Mas

Xmas is comming closer. Haven't packed the present yet, but I began to think about all my multimedia things.
Where ever I go my PSP is allways with me. I will be at the house in the mountains for about 10 days, so my PSP must come with me. To keep it dry and warm I need 4 different bags for every way of transport. Further I need a cable to charge it and a special USB connector cable to connect it to my laptop.


My laptop. 10 Days without it? No way! So I need the laptop-bag my Logitech G5 mouse, power cable and the card reader, for transferring the pictures from my digicam.









Also my digicam also has to come with me and according to that both accumulators, the charging station, theUSB connector cable and the AV connector cable won't stay at home.


Also my Xbox 360 has to come with me because there is a HD TV there - can't miss that chance. Taking the Xbox 360 with me includes to take two wireless controllers, charging kit, games, power cable and HDMI cable with me.


Thank god my car is big enough, because after putting all this into it I have to add the presents and clothes.


You see beeing a geek isn't that easy. Welcome to my cable chaos X-mas!

lucky snow

YEAH!!! IT'S SNOWING!!!!

OK, just a bit, but it does. This means in the mountains it may snows a bit more, so there maybe enough snow to have fun when my holidays at the house in Turrach begins.

I wasn't really in a christmas mood, because of the warm weather, but now I am.

HIHI... SNOW.....

Happy is what I am.....

a week , today, and everthing else

SICK! Yes last week wasa bad week for me. I fell ill last monday and styaed ill the whole week. It was cruel. Slept from monday to thoursday. I don't want to tell more about, it was so terrible.

Today I feel very well again. Work is fun and it is the last week before my x-mas holidays.

This is a picture taken by a webcam just a few minutes ago at the turracherhöhe, which is the place I will spent my holidays at.
I was there two weeks ago and I was shocked! NO SNOW! It was a lot to warm, but now it seems as snow is comming and maybe it will be enough to build a little snowbar for the new-years-party.

I am really looking forward for my holiday. My last one is so far in the past.

Catching light - Calling it reflection

My Picture archive is complete now. Works fine. I added a link in the link section in the sidebar - My Pictures. This link guides you to a subsection of my homepage. I try to keep it up to date and I'll try to add new pictures as fast as I can., so have a look every now end than.

The new forum system is still in development. Nothing to test so far, but I think it won't take me too long to finish it.


WHY SHOULD I SLEEP?

Life

Coding is fun. I spent the last two evenings with creating a little picture gallery. Will use it. The next thing will be a new forum. These two things were the only things that somebody used on my hp. so i think I will reduse my hp two these things. Two completly independent things. Easy to refactor.

I am bretty happy that this week work end on thursday, but who isn't happy about that? Today I am alone at work. A bit boring, but work lets time go by pretty fast.

Life isn't that bad.

mCORE phase1 - Complete

Found a funny IT-Hardware shop yesterday.
Wanted to buy a Case, but....







Bought a lot of things:

• D-Link PCI USB 2.0 Card
• Ultra-Silent Fan
• LG DVD-Drive
• Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

After putting it all together (a lot of work) I connected it to my TV. The Ubuntu LIVE-CD worked fine until the X-SERVER started up. Then the screen was black.
So I decided to use a simple Monitor to configure everything.





Ok it looks a bit wired. Today I try to get the TV connection working. I hope it is just a problem with the screen resolution.
Then I have to install all the multimedia packages such as mplayer, xmms and so on.
After this phase 1 is complete.
Phase 1 you ask? Yes phase 1. The next step - not sure when this will happen - is to add a TV-Card and build my own Harddrive Recorder to record TV. I Hope.

One additional thing to do is to mod the case. Fun work. Paint, lights, fans. Maybe next week.
So let's see what happens to this project. You can read about this here soon.

pile of broken glas

..that's how it feels.
Chaos is the beginning of everything - I hope!
Yesterday I managed to get a connection to my TV. After this I dismantled everything. Now I have a huge heap of micro-electronic.
My first idea was to build my own custom case. I came, I saw, I resigned. So I will buy a suiteable case today.
The next challenge is to get a operating system that fits my needs. Ubuntu? Of course, but Gnome is a little to heavy.
So I will install Fluxbox after configuration work is done.
What will happen then? I don't know. I will write about soon.

PS: Here are some more pics of my work at the moment!

M-CORE Project

I have a dream...
Some time ago I wanted to build a multi-media center for watching dvds, digital movies (avi, divx, mpeg, ...), playing mp3, cda, .... etc.
That doesn't seem to be a problem, that can't be hadled by my dvd player, but - and here comes the point - I want it to have a harddisk and a firefox for browsing the internet!
So I have to build a customized pc.
My first plan was to customize an old dell Desktop, but there was no AGP bus on the motherboard so I had no chance to connect a graphic card with S-VIDEO output.
Now my plan is to mod my sister's old pc. A lot of work, it seems.
I will write about my troubles and advantages soon.

I played on emergence day

Friday 17th of November 2006:
Putting the Game into my XBOX 360 - Watching a boring EPIC LOGO fly over the screen of the HD TV at home - Entering GEARS OF WAR main menu.
Me and my girlfriend began with the CO-OP campaign. The first pictures we saw weren't really impressive, but....

...just a few seconds later we were stunned by a graphical perfection we have never seen before and a really cool movement and camera system.

I won't tell you much about the story, but I can tell you that it is worth watching the cutscenes. (everything made with this great ingame graphic - Unreal3 Engine Rocks!!)

The gameplay is really really cool. Keeping your head down is the only way to survive. Hiding behind walls, cars, or anything else that's big enough and jumping from a safe place to the next. You can just fire some shots blind out onto the field or stand up for a second to get some precise shoots. I think my words can't explain how great this feels and looks. You have to do it on your own.
The Locust Horde - your enemies - aren't only ugly big and brutal they also act very tactical. You will never see one of them standing in the field just waiting for you to end its virtual existance. They are allways hidden behind something that's big enough and just lean out to do a few very pricise shots or to give one of the other enimies cover.
Sounds difficult? Sounds like a lot of fun!

Multiplayer:
JUST GREAT! Playing with some other guys a 4on4 deathmatch in a photorealistic enviroment with endless tactical possibilities is so much fun.
XBOX-Live really does a good job. Nearly no lags and very high framerate.

I played nearly all the time this weekend and I am really looking forward to play more multiplayer matches this week and finishing the Campaign in CO-OP next weekend.

EVERY WHO IS LOOKING FOR A REASON TO BUY A XBOX 360 - GEARS OF WAR! One of the best games ever.

I PLAYED ON EMERGENCE DAY

UNCUT FOR AUSTRIA

I hope this pic says more than a thousand words. Lucky day for austrian xbox 360 owners like me. GEARS OF WAR - UNCUT! I LOVE IT FOLKS!

release date

Today it is the 17th of November 2006. It is early in the morning and I am sitting at work. In a few hours I will run to my car and go to a games shop. I realy hope that the realse dates of the two games I was wating for so long is realy today.


That's one them. I have allready played the demo and I was extremly impressend. After Tony Hawks 2 the series got worst with every new version, but this demo makes me feel like this one could be the best I've ever played!

The other one is GOW. Gaming magazins are talking about it as the best game 2006. It won't come out in germany, because it is to brutal. I am a lucky austrian.

So lets hope I will find what I am looking for today.

I don't know what I am ought to say!

I've got an F and C and I've got a K too. The only thing that's missing is a....

Sorry, I can't get this song out of my head.


...like U.



I feel like my creativity has forsaken me. I don't know what to say, to do or anything else. Damn.

a overhasty speech

Dignified audience!
First I want to thank all you guys walking this path with me for two long years. It wasn't easy and it won't get better I think. We all through away our selfs and trusted the ones that guided us. Now we know better. Trust does no longer exist. Dependence is the only thing that keeps us following this path.
I learned a lot of things in the last two years. About trust, deception, friendship, worship, truth and that this world isn't like it seems (and that everybody knows this, but no one is man enough to say so).

I learned that a word doesn't mean anything. I learned that beeing your self and giving your best doesn't help you at all. I learned to cope with this.

SALENDRON

My TV hates me!

TV is getting worse every day - nothing new, but yesterday I really felt like TV hates me!!!

I was watching TV-Total and Stefan Raab's showband was playing a Metallica song while a german wannabe rockstar entered the studio.

I do not say that the band is bad, but for me hearing this band playing a Metallica song, is like hearing Tori Amos (and that's not bad enough) playing NIRVANA songs!

In fact she did play nirvana songs. Some years ago I found a 'Smells like teen spirit cover version' by Tori Amos. That was scary.


So after this shock of seeing a showband playing and destroying a song from metallica, TV gave me the next frustrating thing to look at.
Sky Du Mont with an Alien-Ware laptop playing the new Anno-Game. I don't know if Sky is interessted in computer games, but I AM! - Ok I don't care about Anno, but about the Alien Ware Laptop. For the first time in my live I envy Sky Du Mont!

TV hates me and TV likes to frustrate me. Just think of any washing powder commercial. They are uncreative, senseless, unrealistic and the actors are allways so bad! Or think about soaps or telenovelas or rington commercials! Look what they have done to my former best friend! My TV.

Hello, Mr White.

Close your eyes and see the sky is falling.

Ok, it's snowing, but it always feels funny when you wake up in the morning and the first snow covers everthing outside the window.

I like mornings like this, even if it means that traffic is pure chaos. When I was driving to work today I wasn't really pissed of by traffic chaos, because the snow made me feel like nothing could be so bad as to make me feel bad.

So, let it snow, let it snow, let snow!

a 'monday' like no other.

Sry, but I really like this pic. Itsn't it better than any boring progressbar?

So here comes what I really wanted to say. I am a bit confused. It is monday - ok in fact it is thursday, but it feels like monday. Isn't that funny?

Ok in fact it is kind of wired to have two days that feel like monday in one week. Who this could happen? Easy. Yesterday was a hollyday. I like hollydays at the middle of a week.

Usually these 'monday' don't feel so extremly like a real monday, but this one does. So let's hope that this friday tomorrow will feel like a nice short friday!


A few thoughts running through my mind:
If I go crazy, will you still call me superman? - thx to three doors down.