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Machines don’t feel lonely?

By Yashima, on June 22nd, 2006

Via: Wonderland: 360voice.com

It’s a blog that your XBox 360 writes for you. Sign up with your gamertag, and 360Voice will broadcast to the world what the hell you’ve been up to.

Just read this, it sooooo funny:

Hypothermia’s Xbox – 06/02/06

Hypothermia decided to play today. Check out the 7254 gamer score! He . . . → Read More: Machines don’t feel lonely?

Ehegattensplitting ins Antiquariat

By Yashima, on June 13th, 2006

Spiegel schreibt vom Ende der Teilung: Familienpolitiker wollen Ehegattensplitting abschaffen

Der familienpolitische Sprecher der Unions-Bundestagsfraktion, Johannes Singhammer (CSU), verteidigte dagegen das Splitting als zeitgemÃ¤ÃŸ. Im Fall einer Abschaffung der bisherigen Regelung wÃ¤ren vor allem die Frauen benachteiligt, die ihre Kinder aufgezogen und dafÃ¼r auf ein eigenes Einkommen verzichtet hÃ¤tten und nun im Alter – . . . → Read More: Ehegattensplitting ins Antiquariat

All the lights are green

By Yashima, on June 13th, 2006

This morning on my way to work … I stopped at a local market stall where I often buy poultry and eggs to buy beautiful petite strawberries and an apple for lunch. The same tasty lunch I already had yesterday. So the man working there says:

“Only one apple?” “Yes it’s for lunch, I . . . → Read More: All the lights are green

Encoding trouble revisited

By Yashima, on June 12th, 2006

Searching on my blog for articles on encodings and how to deal with them will yield quite a few results.

As if there could be a project without encoding trouble. So I’ve been searching for the reason why unix diff finds differences where none are and those are of course caused by some funky . . . → Read More: Encoding trouble revisited

To raid or not to raid

By Yashima, on June 7th, 2006

We always said we would not be a raiding guild.

We also said, that we would try the 20 man instances Zul Gurub and The Ruins of Ahn Qiraj. Those are raid instances. (Upper Blackrock Spire does NOT count as a true raid instance … much too easy!)

What exactly makes a guild a “raiding guild”? On first glance one might believe it is the tight schedule of raids to which members must appear, the enforcement of “optimum” talents, equipment, buffs and the concise commands everyone has to follow during the raid which reduces quite a few classes to “two-buttons-per-encounter” classes – but those are merely the obvious symptoms, those people hate the most. These cause people like myself to abhor raiding and decide to create a guild like ours a “non-raiding-guild” (We are quite exotic in that our bylaws contain this phrase and that we always said we will never do 40-man instances as a guild. Many people on the realm don’t believe when they hear that the first time and then they call us crazy …)

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