Two Hours in One Second (Life)

Yesterday I signed up for and installed Second Life. “Great, yet another member joins our ever-growing, ever-shifting paradigmatic community” some of you may say. Some others will be more like “Second Life, that’s so gay, man… quit being a f***** n00b and pwn some WoW now”.

Well for all of you, here is my short account on my first experience with SL.

Ich, Franzi und die Zwerge

After many many nights dreaming of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White – and other occasionaly narcoleptic beautiful women – I finally got a friend of mine to babysit me on a trip to Grottenbahn to visit the many dwarves that live there, the narcoleptic babes, among others.

…und wie heißen Sie?

Today I had my first lesson of “Deutsch Als Fremdsprache – Intesiv I” at Volkshochschule Linz. Worst part was telling the time :\

Now I’m in the process of packing my stuff up so that tomorow I can move everything – or almost everything – to my new room in an apartment near Unionkreuzung.

Meanwile, I’m waiting for my Arduino Mini and USB module to arrive, as well as a couple of sensor modules. Being already in posession of a seemingly nice low-frequency RFID reader bought at Conrad, I am increasingly eager to plug it to the Arduino microcontroller and try it out. While this doesn’t happen, I am a happy Java ME noob developer using NetBeans and any tutorials I can get my hands on. InStory for mobile phones is coming…

As a closing note, I would like to say that Spring is coming (early in Austria) and the eternal cycle of renewal drives every single one of us onward.

In loving memory of granny Maria – can digital kisses reach you? *****

Back to school

After all the hustle of preparing a paper for Laval Virtual 07, updating my PhD workplan and submitting a scholarship application, now I’m back to having classes.

This semester I’m up for such cool stuff like Sabine Seymour’s Fahionable Technologies and Robert Praxmarer’s Games Workshop.

In the meantime, I am desperately waiting for all the components for my prototype to arrive (I really can’t wait to start assembling it) and I am also programming a new version of the InStory Client, meant to run in Java-enabled mobile phones.