Archiv für May, 2007
So I’m in sweden again, this time it’s Linköping again due to work. The flight was very easy. Nürnberg – Kopenhagen, Kopenhagen – Linköping. The machine from Kopenhagen to Linköping was a very small one and the airport was the smallers airport I’ve seen so far, you almost get out right at the runway. Funny but still it serves it purpose.
Our hotel seems to be right in the middle of Linköping and due to a delay because of DHL we have a easy later afternoon/ evening. Let’s hope everything will go smooth tomorrow.
Anyway I’ll add some pictures later.
Update Pictures:
Our Hotel
View from the entrance:
My room:
Plata, very good dinner!
The church from slightly outside, the city is really rather small 
While some start thinking about a social network regarding a self induced regulation to improve themself in an overall sense, trying to discard bad habbits or to improve their own character, others are just trying to get “their belly off”.
In the end, both are just different levels of self reflecting on ones lifes to improve it along a certain scale, a simple physical or a higher moral one.
I followed the concept, but I called it “living like a monk” – just in my mind, but that’s just between me and my mind.
The idea was, that when I moved out to my first job assignment, I moved to a very – I mean very very – small town and apart from my work and a martial arts school nothing else what it offered to do and that I would concentrate my life on the basic things again, a certain “back to the roots” or as others call it “a simple life”.
So I started stripping my life down to just a few basic needs, naturally including stuff that I liked, but in general the idea was to have a strict timetable and getting a real routine in following it. Humans tend to do follow habbits, in that we just follow a behavioural condition, which is either imposed to us by ourself or somebody else.
For children this tends to be the good willing parents, teaching you to brush your teeth everyday and at a certain point it sinks into your daily pattern, that it’s just something you do. When we get older there are less people that have such a strong influence on our life but my aim with my “living like a monk” idea was to try to sink in as much as possible behaviour patterns that would be good to me. It ended up at least for me in KLF to a opimization or fine tuning of my time management and it worked out.
I was getting more stuff done in the same amount of time, while at the same time having more time for the fun stuff, which I, as mentioned before, also put into my daily/weekly time table.
I still follow this behavioural pattern, the timetable has changed, since I moved away. I had to put in more “dead” times as nuremberg is not KLF and you “loose” more time traveling from one place to another – which is a good example of how small KLF was – but in general it is still doing me good. As always there is still some room for improvements, but that’s not really the point. The point is, that I get all the stuff done I want to get done and have even time to cramp in some more without stressing it by just slightly “fine tuning” the timetable.
I sah this today in my current sysadmins office and since I know some more of those:
Have a nice day!
I just remembered something funny.
Amick asked me about half a year if I could help here move out of her old appartment into a new one.
I didn’t really had that much time but promised I would drop in for an hour or so to help, ’cause the date was just the date my sister wanted to drive the 3 1/2 hour back from my parents place.
Anyway as I know Amick, she used to have a lot of friends, capable of carrying a lot so I didn’t execpted a lot of hassle. It appeared I was wrong . First thing we arrived was, that she had locked herself out of her new appartment. Luckily she had some roommates but to find them was a bit tricky, but in the end we had someone opening up the door again. The second thing was, that she was doing the whole move with just like 4 people and two cars. Moving up into the third floor (IIRR) that’s a lot of stairs to go up and down. Anyway, I like moving as long as it isn’t my own move so me and my sister helped her moving stuf up. So that’s 5 girls and me.
So eager I am, I carry the heavy stuff, not that there is so much heavy stuff, which wasn’t that heavy at all but anyway I carry it, and I seem to impress the girls, flattering already but that wasn’t what I sprung into my mind again.
It was Amicks comment to that. She commented it as “Ein Physiker halt … “.
So far I had perceived that the stereotypical physicist in the common population was a “star wars/star trek loving techno babbling computer geek playing weirdo fantasy games and listening to angry musik with long hair either under or overweighted due to lack of physical excercises and unhealty food”.
Well, I hit, apart fromt he lack of physical excercises, due me being a martial arts junkie, all those stereotypes – okay .. I cut my hair but it’s getting longer again – but still, the stereotypical physicist would not be able to handle those crates that easily.
Anyway, Amick corrected that pictures as well ” … one who does a lot of sport” but still, to her for a brief second I changed the picture of that stereotypical physicist to include being physical in good shape.
That was flattering .
Tante schickte mir gestern diese (allerdings gestern schon von Golem berichtet), hier aber mal vom Spiegel:
BenQ- Pleite: Entlassene Mitarbeiter müssen Millionen zurückzahlen
Bei den anderen 140 Betroffenen fielen die Beträge zwar teilweise noch höher aus, doch es treffe in der Regel gut verdienende ehemalige Führungskräfte, heißt es bei der Insolvenzverwaltung. Sie hatten im Jahr 2005 beim Verkauf der Siemens-Handysparte an BenQ Bleibeprämien zwischen 18.000 und 75.000 Euro vereinbart. In einigen Fällen gehe es aber auch um Boni bis zu 200.000 Euro, erklärte Prager.
Ich denke sowas nennt man Vetterwirtschaft.
Und nein, mich erwischen die nicht .
So viel Geld bekomm ich nun auch wiederum nicht.
I did some testing with my graphic card, again, and I got it to work, again.
Not sure what caused the breakdown of it, but so far it is working, although I’m closely monitoring it. I also checked the warranty and it is 24months, so I have some time to check if it just was a hickup in the system, the card not fitting or if it is somehow broken.
Apart from that, my DSL WLAN Router is still off duty because, it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting randomly, what makes surfing the internet and especially gaming rather difficult.
I’m also thinking about stopping on my WoW adventure for a while, or at least change the subscription method from credit card to game time cards. Although it is really fun to play with my old SWG mates and hang around and game with them, it just doesn’t appeal to me. Having that said, expect tante to comment here in 10 … 9 … 8 …
So now for the good news:
I mentioned it to some already, Tako announced last week tuesday that some of the new people at Kendo, among them myself, would receive their armor this friday.
Well, she changed her mind, I got mine already yesterday 
wooooot!
Some are good, some are bad.
I recently found this:
Which probably is … well getting old, but just reading the sideboards, I noticed that
was mentioned. Now that was one of a kind fantastic movie. More so this got my attention that much that I looked further and found this a link to this:
And that is a movie I’ll be waiting for.
… and it’s 11 days + 1 year ago I bought it :-/ .
I’ll see what mindfactory wants to about this.
