When I wanted to sign up for my driver’s license at 17, I had to pass a quick eye test just like everyone else. After I had guessed the final, completely blurred characters correctly, with more luck than skill, my optician let me get away without the obligation to wear glasses when driving. Nevertheless, he [...]

Almost nobody believed in it anymore, and I too hadn’t expected the opening of Northrend any sooner than the date when Blizzard already launched the next addon. But today was the day: About one year after the release of “Wrath of the Lich King”, we can finally level up to 80 on our server, too.

For a while I’ve been looking for a way to integrate the top-posts of my site, that have been established by the WordPress stats plugin, into my template. I wanted to have a list of the five most visited posts, preferably with the number of comments. I remembered that I had once seen a plugin for that: [...]

This issue is certainly known to a few, and I too have had the problem for a while that I couldn’t leave any comments on my own blog when logged in as admin (I could comment only from the back end, but not from the website). Today I have finally taken the “time” to go [...]

In these days you get more and more overwhelmed with commercials for online dating on German television, from “neu.de” to “parship.de” to “elitepartner.de”. And although I would never try and find a partner through such a service, three quarters of my own relationships developed – at least partially – via the Internet. But by what criteria do [...]

Sometimes it can really drive you crazy, this Windows … It hadn’t been too long since I had managed to make my shared files accessible to everyone on the network without entering a password, but now it was again broken, although I hadn’t changed any settings since then. Again, I was prompted for username and password [...]