Samhain… again…
It’s starting again…
Month: October 2006
Googleschreiber
I’m sorry, this only works in German. But maybe you get the joke when I tell you that the German word for ballpen is “Kugelschreiber”. Thanks to Jörg who came up with this spontaneously when he saw the pen lying around at my desk. If you ever need a translator English/German/German/English get a quote from … [Read more…]
Happy birthday to me…
Since nobody from my online life seems to have noticed – I celebrated my birthday yesterday. There were a few automated mails from several forums of course. The nicest one coming from the Friends of Laphroaig, who sent me a nice postcard and a 10% discount in their online shop. Unfortunately the discount was only … [Read more…]
There's justice in the world after all
I was really angry and personally disappointed last May when a co-worker, who was new to the industry and got all his teaching at our company, quit and joined a competitor. Yesterday I learned that he has jumped horses again. Good riddance!
Canon in Berlin
They did it again. I always enjoy working at Canon events. Only that they could have had a few chairs for staff. My knees still hurt from two day continuous standing.
Recent books I read
Well, my vacation is over and today was the first day in the office again. I always end vacations with mixed feelings – it feels good to have leisure time, but I really like to work as well… This vacation I had plenty of time for reading, and I actually “inhaled” 3 books – and … [Read more…]
Poser 7 coming soon – but no features disclosed yet
Well, it seems the folks at e-frontier wanted to do an enticing marketing campaign, but not disclosing any feature of a major new release is quite strange. As rumour had it a while ago, there is really a new version of Poser coming. But neither the release date is given in the press release, nor … [Read more…]
My first day in Second Life
I learned about Second Life quite a while ago, not the least due to the coverage by BoingBoing. Being involved in 3D design myself, I was curious to see how an interactive 3D world actually works. But on the same time I was reluctant as well, recognizing the potential for addiction in such a community. … [Read more…]
Cinema 4D V10 was just released
The 3D community is speculating for a couple of weeks on the next release of Cinema 4D. As the Maxon Webpage became unaccessible this morning, rumours immediatly started to surface. A few minutes ago, Maxon went live with the new Version 10 – and since then their servers are pretty much swamped with all the … [Read more…]