Dave Arneson… Rest In Peace

Dave Arneson, Co-creator of the roleplaying game genre

Dave Arneson, co-creator of the roleplaying game genre, passed away on the 7th of April. After Gary Gygax‘s death last year the second and last founding father of our hobby has left this world. I’m deeply saddened by this since I have been following his late Blackmoor publications with great interest and always was amazed about his fantasy campaign and its extremely long run. My sincerest condolescences go to his family and friends. Dave, rest in peace, and fare well on the next big adventure!

My Smiley Fetish

Since I started this blog I once more became aware of the fact that I use smileys too much. I really love to annotate my messages with smileys when I feel happy , when I try to be funny like talking about a smiley fetish , being annoyed or angry >:-(, being doubtful :-^ and whatever else. I just use them too much. But who’s perfect ?

Belstaff Watches

I love Belstaff leather jackets – I’ve always loved leather jackets. But since I stumbled across Belstaff (thanks, George ) I’m a happy man. And now Belstaff is going to have watches produced. I would love to see that work out as well as the leather jackets…

Amazing iPhone Text Input Support

I love my iPhone. I really do. I never again want to switch to another device. At least none I know. Nonetheless it just happened again: I continue to be amazed that my iPhone dares to offer “York” as a textual replacement for “Dirk” (a perfect and common German name) or “ferneehen” as auto completion for “Fernsehen” (which means “television” – the replacement in English would have to be something like “remotemarriages”). I guess that the german dictionary (if there is one) is just woefully incomplete and tries to do some amazing deductive work – usually it’s for me just an annoyance. Does anybodyknow how the iPhone tries to learn new words?

But maybe it’s just me using strange words

Skater Design?

A friend made some jokes about the current blog design… oh well.

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Apples… and Oranges?

I’ve been a huge Apple fan for some time… not necessarily due to the computers (I’m a Java geek and always felt somewhat neglected on MacOS) but rather because of its iPod line of MP3 gizmos. Recently I finally got my shiny new iPhone and my personal Apple hysteria has been on a constant rise since then. Here’s why… and why I’m slightly annoyed (maybe just because I’m getting grumpy in my old days …

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Bilingually busy… live!

Finally I got around to redesign my (for the longest time defunct) personal website. Grand plans for a multitude of pages in two language, professional photos and a lot more have gone to the backburner because my time is running out and I am too busy for such grand plans right now… as usual

Thus for now I decided to use a basic WordPress installation with a nice theme in order to build all the pages I wanted to have.

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