Why, you ask? Well, i did a backup and the “backup window” suddenly vanished which lead me into thinking it was over or something. And instead of waiting for an actual confirmation i just restarted the backup again. Shortly after that everything went down.

Oops!

In other news, i started my new internet-stupidity project:

Whenever i now watch a youtube video, i will put a stupid comment on it. Something totally unrelated. So yeah, keep an eye out for those comments of mine when you are on youtube!

After almost a year i decided to revive this blog. The main reason was that i finally got a new server which makes this blog a lot faster than before.

Now why did i leave you guys in the first place? (I doubt anyone still reads this anyways, but if you do, leave a comment! )

Well, on 1.10.2009 i had to leave for the mandatory army service in Germany and by now i extended my duty to 2 years. Meaning i still have a few months left there.

But yeah, i promise to update this blog more often from now on.

Here is some of what i’ve doen while i deserted all you guys:

Luftwaffe is still awesome! Even though this makes me look stupid

I have been going to the biker's place in france a lot

...and did everything i could to collect as many new kilometers as possible on my trusty cinquecento!

So yeah, expect to see more boring stuff about my boring life on this blog again from now on!

If you are a reader of this blog you probably know my car, it’s old ,there is always something that needs to be fixed and i totally love it.

Anyways, there is this one gearbox mounting bracket that is completely broken and really needs to be replaced. I’d usually do this myself or with the help of my stepdad but this bracket is hard to replace without a welder and a nut splitter tool and especially impossible without some kind of lifting platform. Of course i don’t have any of that (yet).
So because this car repair shop – Schaller Leonberg – was recommended to me by my stepdad and since we get 10% off of the labor costs involved, i thought i’d consult them about the whole problem and have them fix it.

Friday morning i got up at 8am, turned in my car to get it fixed and went home. Nicely enough one of their employees drove me home.
Two or three hours later they called me, appearantly they weren’t able to buy the gearbox bracket because it was not available. I told them that i was at several spare part dealers and other workshops several weeks earlier, trying to get prices for that spare part and all of them had it available.
Anyways, they told me to pick up my car because they were not able to fix it without the bracket and so i did. Upon arrival i nicely told them that i’d try to get the bracket and come back.
The employee then told me told me that they wouldn’t service my car anymore because they don’t need customers that go from workshop to workshop, always only looking for the cheapest price to get their car fixed.
Needless to say i was really confused about this whole situation.
Of course i go to other workshops and spare part dealers if i need something, because i’m not a rich guy and need to save money too, but i always thought that this was one of the best and most reliable workshops in our town, especially because my stepdad was a longtime statisfied customer at their place.
So i left and went to a Fiat store to order the bracket, and of course they had it on stock, so either it was a misunderstanding on their side or just a cheap excuse not to fix my car because they only want customers that dedicate themselves to one workshop FOREVER.
So yeah, i don’t hate them for doing this, i mean this is supposedly a free country and people are supposedly able to do whatever the hell they want, so if they don’t want customers, it’s their choice. I’d just love to know the real reason behind all this, because i honestly don’t quite understand this.

You can basically add any other game to xfire that way, but it’s a little bit more specific for wurm, since wurm doesn’t run on it’s own executable.

Note:

- Wurm will not show up as wurm, the name is not in.

- You will get statistics

- It bases on the javaw.exe

- you can record ingame footage.

Proof:

Here is how it goes:

1. Go to your java bin folder, example path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin

2. Copy the javaw.exe and rename it to you_are_empty.exe (yes, seriously)

3. create an empty text file and turn it into a *.bat file, name it whatever you want.

4. Get process hacker

http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/

It’s open source, you can trust it.

5. Install process hacker, open it

6. Start an instance of wurm

7. Find the entry javaw.exe and double click it.

8. Copy the whole entry “Command Line” in the attributes window of the javaw.exe process

9. Paste this into the empty *.bat file you created, replace all entries of javaw.exe with you_are_empty.exe

10. save it, the java file should be in the bin folder of the java installation you are using. This is what you will use to start wurm in the future, so create a            shortcut to it somewhere if you want.

11. Go to your xfire stuff and open the options.

12. Go to the games tab.

13. Find the game entry “you are empty” (Note: you can use any other game, as long as the game uses the Open GL renderer. If you want to do this, change the other steps according to what your common sense tells you.)

14. Click manual setup and write the path to your you_are_empty.exe in. It is C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin for me.

15. Should be working now. Start wurm over the batch file. If xfire gives you a “you_are_empty.exe not found in blahblah” error, you skipped some steps or did a typo.

Because i’m way too lazy to book a hotel room and because camping is much more fun, i packed up my tent and went to the Games Com Camping area.

It instantly turned out to be a good choice to go to the camping area, because i quickly met new friends who also had a lot of booze and smokeables with them. Then later the first evening, the german tv channel ZDF arrived and interviewed me, because they were appearantly looking for a stereotypical nerd. This is awesome.

I actually didn’t see much of the convention itself because i’m lazy and all that. Instead i met some friends i’ve known from teamspeak and such for a while and together with them i got some really neat ‘exclusive’ access to some EA things.

It was great being able to play Bad Company 2 without having to wait in a line at all, while the normal proletariat had to wait in line for about 4 hours. We also got to talk to Gordon Van Dyke, one of DICE’s great Devs, at the Community party on saturday.

Well, that’s it for now, i’ll leave you guys with some pictures:

Here is a good base, something i’ve wanted to say in public for a while:

…ich finde die ganzen Warnschilder nervig. Wenn einer sowas nachmacht ohne über die Folgen nachzudenken, dann nennt sich sowas natürliche Auslese. Hat früher auch wunderbar geklappt, aber heute muss man für jede Gefahr ein Schild irgendwo hinpappen, damit die Leute gar nicht erst zum nachdenken animiert werden…

(posted by some random guy on winfuture.de )

For our non-german speaking readers, this translates into (NOT an exact translation) :

It’s people’s own fault if they do something stupid and suffer from it. Don’ try to warn them, it’s natural selection if they die. Stop putting warning signs everywhere and people will finally start to think again.

This interpretation might be a little out of context and offending, not that i care anyways, it’s just what i wanted to say.
So yeah, if people do something stupid, e.g. Perform something they’ve seen on Mythbusters or delete the contents of their harddrives or fuck with the mafia, it’s their own fucking fault. Let them suffer from it and they will learn. If it is too late for them to learn from it, others will see the  mistkaes they’ve made and learn from it at least.
To sum my rant up:

Remove warning signs -> People die when doing stupid things -> Less stupid people

Napoleon Dynamite

Here is a first example: