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i had pre-christmas at work when after coming from my holidays i was presented with a new intel quad core pc. my colleages even already had installed a parallel XP/ubuntu on it. great, i thought "i can immediatly start working!". as long as the new monodevelop is not released, i am still stuck with eclipse (ganymede ). all i now had to do was i needed to install ganymede... after downloading ganymede from eclipse homepage, i fired it up but was very confused: eclipse behaved very sluggish.... ok, i am used to it behaving sluggish from my old machine (a p4 2100 with ubuntu), but i thought it should be quite fast with the new cpu. but i could barely work in a normal way: when doing a search, after pressing the shortcut i needed to wait for like 2 secs until i could press something that he'd recognize. and then after some time eclipse would crash with a "out of memory" exceptions. it also crashed sometimes with some other exceptions. this behavior and the fact that...

today i got back from my 3 weeks trip in cuba. it was an.... interesting trip. i had better though. it seems to visit cuba at the moment is not the greatest idea: there are still many signs from the last 3 cyclones/hurricanes (of which i had the honor to experience the lastest). They also greatly affected tourism and thus: you. Plus they may have affected the mood of the people like 2 cubans pointed out to me. putting that aside it might be wise to reconsider if you really want to go to cuba if one of the following facts apply to you: * you dont speak spanish * you get annoyed if you get approached every 10 minutes by somebody wanting to sell you something or trying to trick you * you want to make a not-pre-planned trip with spontaneous decisions where to go and hate to remake your plans 4 times a week. * you get annoyed by waiting in lines maybe i'll post some things and facts about cuba in more detail at some later point. for now, i will now give in to the jet lag ;) best bytes...

me and the people i am jamming with now think of doing a kyuss song together.my friend suggested to play the great song phototropic of their great album "and the circus leaves town".  unfortunately kyuss is still not so well known and there were no bass tabs for the song on the internet.  so i had to sit down and tab it out (which i am quite good at, but it is still work). actually i didnt plan to post any tabs on this blog, more so because they style of this blog is not designed for tabs, but i still thougt there might be some people interested in the tab to save the hassle of listening it out, so here it goes. If the line breaks / structure is not right with your browser/screen, you will have to copy paste the code into your text editor (/notepad). then it should look normal again. the bass should have a normal tuning, but some steps lower, starting with C instead of E.  0:30 |----------9---------------9--9-----9--9---------------- |--------------9--11--12------------------...

grreeeeeetiinnnnngsss, thought i should post something after a that long time. what has happened? quite some things, but i now decided to tell you one thing. i was in amsterdam on holidays for one week. which was nice. thats a very special city we have there in the middle of west europe. i just can recommend you going thru the red light district once  in the evening when you are there. plus, i can recommend to see the "all famous sex show".  i thought, well, once in a livetime one has to have seen a sex show, and amsterdam is definetely the best place to do that in a safe environment. if you wonder where to find it? just ask in a  tourist information center ^^ i was lucky because i attached myself to two american girls who asked and directed us to the right place.  second, i think everybody has to have been in a coffeeshop once... well, i did so thrice ;) very nice trips i had.... on two of those occasions i was so completely lost... i forgot the concecpt of different langua...

the last few weeks i got interested in how to write an RTS game. as an old die hard fan of c&c red alert (one) i began to search the net. i knew a few years back there was a project that took the released sourcecode of C&C and tried to evolve it. So what is there at the moment? The situation is somewhat confusing: There are 3 projects under sourceforge: 1)freeCnC 2)freeRA 3)openredalert those were created in that order. every one of them was created by taking the code of the former. freeCnC was the first project. as far as ive seen it was the also the biggest project. it seems to be dead currently.it aimed to support C&C Tiberian Dawn as well as Red Alert. they made the first port to linux, there was also support for multiplayer over tcp. it seems that (like for majority of such projects) being able to run it on linux was the utmost important target.... freeCnC is also relying on Boost (as well as on SDL and SDL_mixer). if you are not used to boost, i guess its a bit diffic...

yesterday i used up the rest of my salvia divonorum. at first i took about 1g of my 5x extract of salvia and mixed them with tobacco. after smoking it i felt quite dizzy, but hard to tell how much of that was because of the tobacco smoked without filter. as no hallucinations took place i then rolled another one containing nearly no tobacco but dried pure salvia and another 1g of the 5x extract.  results? well, i felt dizzy, and inducing trance was easy. on the other hand, still no hallucinations. this time though i did not feel as i was observed like i did last time.... so maybe thats a plus?  :) i then decided to make some music. it didnt really feel anything different than from normal. i decided i will buy some more. mainly to have something at home if i decide to do some shamanistic journey again at some point in the future. for this, this stuff seems to be potent.  for the rest, i dont know..... it just doesnt seem to work properly for me cheers

2 days ago i tested some dried plants called "dreamherb" that i bought from azarius a long time ago. since then they just lay around in my cupboard.  now i decided it was time to try it out.  after reading some preparation descriptions in the internet, i started: i made myself some tea with about 7g of dried leafs. i left it in the hot boiling water for about 15 minutes. at the same time i made myself something to smoke out of some other part of the dried leaves.  when i was finisehd with rolling i started to drink the tea. man, that was bitter!  that stuff is in the top 3 of the worst tasting things i ever drank! i had about 3/4 liter made but only managed to drink about 1/2 litre.  then i smoked what i had... created. the taste was not THAT bad, but anything is better than drinking these dreamherbs! i felt a little dizzy afterwards, and then went to bed.  well what can i say? when i woke up in the morning i could not remember any dream at all. in fact i also had the impres...