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• 29Aug 09

  August 29th 09 - Another month past

  So almost another month since I blogged last. A lot has happened in my life and yet so little. Got sick twice, went to a few parties, saw a few movies and all stuff like that. In general, I think that it was a good month.
  
  Thing is this, I had this month off at work and everything to study for my last exam which will be next Friday (yes it's crazy to have an exam right before the new semester works. I hate the people who come up which such crappy schedules). It's not like in the US or so where you have all exams in two weeks - here they get spread over the whole summer...
  I have quite a few problems with the topic and I worry about the exam on Friday...
  
  Due to my work position I was able to get the final release of Windows 7 and install it on my notebook. It certainly is interesting and it looks like so much that Vista couldn't do is now solved in this version. And it indeed uses way less resources. I like that. So far I only have it on my notebook not yet on my desktop because I plan to replace that one with a high end system once again. However I'm not yet sure if I shall spend so much money on a new PC or not.
  
  What I also plan to buy is a new mobile phone and the first of which I think can compete with the iPhone. Check it out here. Don't get me wrong, I grew up with an Apple, I am an Apple user (although use PCs as well), I just don't like the iPhone much. For me that's just an iPod with phone function. That phone promises some nice stuff.
  
  In other tech stuff, I turned my back on Fedora OS, since they don't appear to be able to get an installer working for me on any of my computers. OpenSUSE crashes once I upgrade to KDE 4.3 - so I ended up with KUbuntu. It took me a heck of a long time to get the PXE server configured to get it working. No wonder when there are typos in the example code on their Wiki page. But finally I got it working.
  
  

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  It certainly was a strange summer for me here. I worked full time for two months, had several though exams, some I passed, one I didn't. As I wrote above, I did a lot this months - and one thing sticks out - no holidays.
  Now in mid-September semester starts again. As I still have the urge to get away, even if only for a couple of days, I have organized a few trips now (as finally I could find people who have time to come along). Only (long) weekend trips, but still. For starters I plan to go to the IAA, Europe's biggest car show. That will be mid-September. By the end of the month, I'll be traveling to Amsterdam to have some fun there. And then by the end of October my annual London trip is up again. And more surely will come around to keep me busy till Christmas.
  
  

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  Here on the site the only staff member that really appeared to care is gone and a new one came and was lost in the dark hole aka the nowhere. We at least got the back to episode link back after cast submissions, but now we no longer can import cast.
  It's obvious that somebody is constantly working on the site, as minor things change quite often. Still the lack of communication of staff with the users and the failure of keeping promises (new cast form announced by danmod, as example) is just taken to the extreme.
  In June I was in the team that built a new website for the place I work for. Before we went live, we tested for one week and could proudly say that we didn't encounter any major bugs, because we caught them. What is happening here is just ridiculous. Here people forget to add simple tags or decide to switch meta tags for no reason which mess with the site. I don't get it.
  What surprises me most is how long this site has survived so far.
  
  

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  I think that's all for today. Thanks for reading and take care!
  • Posted Aug 29, 2009 2:31 pm PT
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• 4Aug 09

  August 4th 09 - Been a while

  Yeah it's been a while, but with the blogs down, I expected that when you create a new one, either your old ones would be lost or the new one when restored. I was right, the new ones got lost.
  
  Not much happened around here. I missed my last exam because I was sick, got results for my CAE English exam. I only got a B, because they gave me a really bad grade for the speaking part. The task there was "talk with your partner about some pictures provided to you" - well what when your partner refuses to do just so? Exactly: you're screwed. Just what happened to me...
  
  

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  TV.com messes up the episode tab, the blogs and makes a desperate attempt to find new editors, when more and more are leaving instead of trying to keep people around...
  TV.com apparently hired somebody that now spams Facebook people with "news". Seriously invest that money into a tech guy!!
  
  

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  Not much else to report around here. I wrote a couple of recaps and try to stay on top of the currently running guides. Not always that easy...
  
  But now I have almost an entire month of to study for an exam and I really hope I'll find some time to submit a bit more around here...
  
  

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  Also considering buying a new PC, but I hate to spend so much money for what I really would like to have... as you guys maybe remember from my last PCs I bought, they are always the latest on the market what comes with a price.
  
  

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  Take care!!
  • Posted Aug 4, 2009 2:54 pm PT
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• 27Jun 09

  June 27th 09 - First results

  So from the four exams I had so far, I failed one, passed one and think I did well in the two others. I'm supposed to study for the next one already, but somehow I'm not motivated enough currently.
  So things are pretty mixed around here.
  
  

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  Staff finally is fixing stuff around here. I'm expecting great things from the new cast/crew submission form. It almost sounds too good to be true! I really hope we won't see any new major bugs due this - but then again this is tv.com...
  
  

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  I'm planning an incredible expensive three day trip in the end of September - mainly to go and see a concert. Not sure yet if will happen, as I don't wanna go alone and have yet to find anyoneto share the trip with.
  Interesting is that flight prices are as low as never before. Especially if you wanna fly business cla$$ It's like 10 bucks more than a regular ticket currently!
  
  

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  I've not been watching a lot of TV, but I love the new BBC series Personal Affairs! It's excellent and has such a hot cast!
  Sadly the series has only five episodes.
  
  Then I started with the second season of The Girl from Tomorrow, something I wanted to do for a very long time now. The first recap is in as well.
  
  

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  Take care!!
  • Posted Jun 27, 2009 3:27 pm PT
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