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World of Weakness

Ich bin schwach. Hendrik erzählte mir interessante Sachen über den neuen WoW 2.0-Patch, und eh ichs mich versehe, habe ich den Patch runtergeladen, installiert, und meinen Account reaktiviert.

Super, ganz toll. Ich bin so schwach.

Ich hab zwei (für mich) ganz neue Ansätze ausprobiert: Untot & Magus. Dummerweise hab ich jetzt wieder Spaß, allerdings hab ich auch noch nicht so lang gespielt. Wenigstens hab ich Urlaub; eine gute Ausrede.

Danke, Hendrik. Vielen Dank. :P

How Hanukkah Harry saved Christmas

When Jon Stewart mentioned “Hanukkah Harry” the other day during an episode of The Daily Show, I thought he had made that name up there on the spot. Or at least made it up as a joke for that particular show.

Turns out I was wrong. Hanukkah Harry actually has his own story and everything. And it’s so much better than Santa’s.

Oy, presents!

Schöne Weihnachten!

Für meine deutschen Homies: Was auch immer Ihr feiert — Weihnachten, Hanukka, Kwanza, Wasauchimmertag — habt Spaß und fresst nicht soviel.

To my foreign peeps: Whatever you may celebrate — X-Mas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, politically correct “winter celebrations”, whatever — have a good time and don’t drink too much egg nog.

To our glorious Glorgmaridd overlords: tukgnab ‘gnort — blurm, Hanukkah, Kwanza, grt — bnarh suk suk trolo.

To the internets: you are most certainly crazy, but happy holidays nonetheless.

My First Tech Article

A few weeks ago I was minding my own business at work, writing a Greasemonkey script to solve a problem I had, when I noticed that apparently I had found the solution for a GM problem that not only I had but a number of other people as well. So, I tinkered and tinkered and tinkered some more and discovered that I had managed to write something fairly wicked that I had never seen before.

Now, when it comes to my own code, I always tend to be somewhat cautious about getting too excited about it. I myself might find it pretty cool and elegant, but I always have the nagging feeling that I might have overlooked some glaring problem or messed up otherwise. (Interestingly enough this behaviour surfaced around the time I started working at Yahoo!. Heh. That’s what happens when you know there are real top dogs around. Honestly, we pack some serious talent around the world, which can feel a bit frightening at times.)

Anyways, I finished it up and posted it on one of our internal mailing lists, and after getting back some very encouraging comments I decided to show it to Eric, one of our major Javascript famosos.

Turns out he found it interesting enough to ask me whether I want to write an article for one of our public dev blogs. Holy crap.

So yesterday I finished a working example, and today I’ve submitted my article. When all goes well, and after some (hopefully) serious proof-reading (to make sure I don’t make a fool out of myself after all), it will be presented to the interwebs.

Now, I don’t want to tell you where or what, mostly because I am getting increasingly paranoid about bragging. But quite frankly, I am amazed I made it this far, and even if it isn’t published after all, at least it was considered interesting enough to let me take a shot there.

And for me, that is quite something.

Linkblog

I have a linkblog now. Basically it’s a list of more or less interesting links I come across during the day, and which don’t warrant a full post. It even comes with its own RSS feed. Hurray!

I’ve set it up to aggregate the stuff I share in Google Reader and/or that I bookmark using Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 — excellent.

Moo.