Will code (insert language here) for food.

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Yes, I have to face the truth. In April I will become 26 years old and that was reason enough to get some mail from the family benefits office (Familienkasse). Unfortunately they told me that I will no longer receive child allowance after March. Fortunately I served my time (9 month) at the German Bundeswehr directly after finishing school. This means that I will get money until 2009.

Nevertheless I wasted nearly one year, doing absolutely nothing for completing my degree in computer sciences. Instead I was wasting time getting drunk, trying to play guitar or doing other senseless stuff. But as you have probably reasoned after reading my last posting (Rambo), I belong to the working part of society by now. Yes, I sold my soul to ATB Bremen, an «Institute for Applied Systems Technology». Like the other students there I was mainly engaged to code for food money. Continue reading →

When you’re pushed, killing’s as easy as breathing.

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The title says it all. Yesterday I went to the movies and watched »John Rambo« (aka »Rambo« in the US). Oh my God, what a splendid movie! More than half a year ago (or even earlier?) I saw the first trailer and it swept me off my feet. It was absolutely oldschool like the former Rambo parts, but with a lot more violence and gore. Being a fan of the old movies, the decision to watch it came straight away.

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Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg

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This morning I traveled with some friends of mine to Hamburg city. Although we’re all soccer fans, this was not the reason for visiting the city state. I personally think, HSV just stinks, except when they are loosing against Werder Bremen or winning against Bayern München. Nevertheless we wanted to take a look at the Miniatur Wunderland, located in the famous «Speicherstadt». Miniatur Wunderland is a model railway attraction in Hamburg, Germany, the largest of its kind in the world.

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Record what is played on Vista

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As some of you have probably noticed Stefan Raabs SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD (“Stefan sucht den Superstar, der singen soll was er möchte und gerne auch bei RTL auftreten darf”) recently finished with Stefanie Heinzmann as its winner. There were obviously many talented singers at the final elimination stage and the 18year old Swiss won with hear song «My man is a mean man» which I really like, although I normally don’t listen to this kind of music in general.

On myvideo.de, a German pendant to Youtube you can take a look at the final performance of My man is a mean man. I really like the song and wanted to listen to it from time to time. Therefore I tried to save it to my hard disk, but withouth the Flash video (for this kind of task you could use something like UnPlug if you use Firefox, and I think you should do that). So as I was using Windows XP I could easily set my stereo output of my soundcard as the recording input. But setting this under Vista took me some time, because some steps have to be performed to record what is currently played.

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