Some friends I miss more than others. Stumbled across this on YouTube.

Many of you are already aware of the news, but I wanted to mention it anyway. I’ve accepted a position at AeriaGames at their Berlin office. Consequently am moving to the Capital city but I’ll bounce back and forth between Munich and Berlin until I’ve found a permanent residence.

AeriaGames is a company that offers free-to-play MMO’s (MMORPGs and others; for example we also offer an online racing sim). Needless to say, it’s a very interesting and challenging job. My new co-workers made me feel very welcome, and I am very happy that I am being given the opportunity to work here.

On a more personal note, Berlin is the hometown of my father, and my mother lived here for a time as well. It’s a bit of another step in my re-tracing the family history, even if it is less ironic than my visit to Qingdao. Hopefully, I’ll find time to finally research the origins of the Jeppe family.

Passed my first LPIC exam today, the 101. More to come – but I am now, finally, on my way to being a certified Linux geek.

I just discovered something on YouTube that let my geeky little heart beat faster. Something from the good old days, when MTV would still should the occasional white person on their shows. You know, even way back before they ceased to be a cultural icon.

YouTube has a handful of Zig & Zag clips.

Yes, I will out myself, I used to watch Zig & Zag when they were still on TV, and I liked them. Go ahead, call me a nerd. Call me weird. Hell, call me old man. If you were born after 1980, you won’t remember these guys.

Halloween is my favorite ‘holiday’. It is not celebrated here in Germany (but of course shops use it to sell candy, and nowadays Halloween party are quite common) and is probably the one thing I wish I had had in my youth. Trick-or-treat, spooky decorations, fog, scary stories, things that go bump in the night, the legend of sleepy hallow, jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, ghouls, vampires and zombies.

In the past years I always had a private Halloween movie marathon. This year, I somehow completely lost track of it and so I didn’t borrow or buy any scary movies. I still have a bunch that I have viewed before, we’ll see. I’ll probably spend the entire night working on the NaNoWriMo thing anyway.

I signed up for NaNoWriMo 2008. NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month, and the goal is to write a whole novel in 30 days. Quantity matters, quality doesn’t. Head over to Are You A God?, my world-building blog that I also use for my other creative endeavors, to follow my progress (and, perhaps, watch my fail live and in color).

Oh my god, it is full of stars…

I got my first computer pretty much 20 years ago. I’ve been a gamer and I’ve followed the cool stuff the demo scene put out. I thought I was a hardened user, one which simply doesn’t get “wow’ed” anymore.

Enter Apple and iTunes to prove me wrong.

Their new visualizer is simply stunning. Words would be wasted, take a look:

Needless to say… I am currently going through my classical music collection. The Blue Danube is playing as I write this, and it is stunning.

World of Warcraft implemented the International Talk Like a Pirate Day:

Draenei Pirate

Coolness.