It is truly amazing how a computer can still surprize you and make you shake your head in wonderment, even after twenty years of computer experience. Since weeks I’ve had the problem that Flash movies were stuttering on my computer so much that I couldn’t even watch ordinary YouTube videos anymore. And I don’t mean the [...]

What’s that? What is this flying elf sitting on? A tiny flying disc maybe? Or a Quidditch broom? Hey, wait a minute, she’s sitting on … nothing?! There must be hanky-panky going on somewhere! – Well, or maybe it’s just a bug in the quest [As the Crow Flies], where you should actually be transformed into a flying [...]

After more than three weeks break, we have now started on our first adventures in the Outlands. You can clearly notice that the quests here give you much more experience points than the ones in the “Old World”. Within a few hours, we had leveled from 58 to 60 – time to buy new horsies again. Strangely [...]

I’m currently working on a PHP project that needs to offer possibilities of internationalization, i.e. the application should be translatable into any language with minimal effort. Since I had already come to know the mechanics of gettext from WordPress and was highly enthralled by its simpleness and effectivity, I decided to use this system for [...]

Some people Windows users may already have noticed it on certain websites: Since the update to the current Firefox version 3.5, fixed images (or fixed containers with background images) start flickering terribly when scrolling, so much that it almost hurts your eyes. So it was here on my site with the photos on the left and [...]

Tonight I attended the prize giving ceremony of the seventh Cologne short story competition that is annually hosted by the German department of the Cologne University and that I had participated in just for fun. After reflecting for weeks over what my story should be roughly about, I typed it down in two days at [...]

Yesterday we did the prerequisites for our class quests in the Sunken Temple. Well, easier said than done: although my warrior pre-quest [War on the Shadowsworn] was pretty awful too, at least there was a prospect of an end. Coldinchen however had to do [Spirit Totem] – a quest that kept us in the Western Plaguelands [...]