Eike's Homepage
Hello, fellow stranger. Welcome to my little homepage. Yes, it is
another one in the millions; though if you are not that much of a
stranger to me, you might find it interesting nevertheless ...
If you have any comments, thoughts, suggestions, or just a friendly hello to share, please drop me a line.
At the moment, not that many worthwhile things are on here ... I still need to get all of the former content back into shape -- no promises on when that will happen, though. Just bear with me.
Another seven months gone, another webpage-update :)
Not a lot happened, really. Well, I got older. They tell me I´m now 21. Also, I finished my third term in university, and worked as a tutor/T-A for the programming course (Java) for that time.
We also started on our (group of 10) Software Project, which will be graded for two terms. The first was rather interesting (in the sense that it´s not exactly what we´d have wanted it to be), the second should prove more challenging though (starting off with a Proseminar). Also on the menu are Soft Skills, Hands-on work in Technical Computer Science, General Economics 3+4, and possibly others. Makes for an interesting summer :)
As for life outside of university, practically nothing changed; some things
happened, but not much noteworthy. Well, I did
get to read a lot (lots of
computer-related stuff, as well as some more
fantasy, lots more Terry Pratchett,
a couple manga-volumes
and way too
many periodicals).
TV-wise, it´s
still
ludicrous
amounts
of
Anime, the
weekly dose of Buffy,
Farscape, and
Alias, and
a movie every now and
then.
Also, I got to see Nightwish in
Berlin, which was awesome. Really awesome. Hopefully I´ll be able
to see them again :)
Contrary to popular belief, I´m also capable of rearranging my room
(which I´m in the process of, but somehow the drive to do it has
declined since I do not need to learn for exams anymore. Ah well, it will
get done. :)
Some may have noticed that the page here changed a few things as well; Namely,
the Projects section has been added. For now
there are only some BitTorrent-related
things on there; that´s what I´ve been spending some time on in
the past few months. There are some more things to come there (some sections
are completely blank, they will be filled) in the future.
Also new is the Wishlist, where I´ll
quite shamelessly ask what I want and where to get it; I don´t expect
it´ll do much good ... if nothing else, it will help me keep track of
what to buy when I actually have money :)
I have finally realized that I´m ost likely never going to get around
to translating all these pages. Therefore the German flag is greyed out
and will just be activated for pages that DO have both versions (which are,
at the moment, approximately none.)
You might see some other updates throughout the week, depending on whether
I get around to it. Maybe some new pictures, as well :-P
Anyway. All new things come to an end, so I´ll probably let this
update go stale as well ... While I like to think that updates are forthcoming
soon, past experiences suggest otherwise :)
So long,
Eike
Nearly nine months have passed. That´s a long time.
This is still my homepage, so I thought I´d give it some
attention and post an update on what´s going on on my end ...
I still live in Germany, have just gone through my first year of
university (nicely enough all scores were passing ones :) and am facing
about 2 months of time off campus. I´m telling myself to get a job
for the time. Maybe I will actually listen ... More on that later.
From July 13 to July 15, I helped organize the
Lanparty Hude, where roughly
280 people attended; I was supposed to do network and server administration
as well as network security. All in all it was lots of fun, and from what
we heard, the guests thought so too. There are quite a few
pictures up on
wirebrain.de, a server
Patrick,
Andre,
Michael, and myself rented and
which I administrate (in addition to
TsunamiHost, on which this site is hosted; that server just moved a
few miles from Genotec to
Init 7).
Which brings me to the
next topic : www.ngoabi01.de (also
in wirebrain ;) is a board for the people that graduated from my former
school in 2001; It´s closed to the public, but maybe it will
be of interest to some of you ;-)
As for this site, the "People" and "Egosurfing" sections are now online. Nothing big, nothing all too interesting, just some basic homepage material. German translations have still not been done, and I have a sleeping suspicion that they never will get here. I´ll just have to hope everybody here at least understands English :)
Of course, one gets to see a lot in 9 months -- and I am no exception.
While I did not visit the movie theatre all that often (maybe three times,
all counted), I did get to see tons of Anime. Currently I´m
finishing up Rurouni Kenshin (at episode 70), but Chobits, Ai Yori Aoshi,
Hellsing, Slayers, Onegai Teacher, and some Miyazaki films (Mononoke Hime,
Sen to Chichiro no Kamikakushi, etc.) got their fair share of time as well.
Nowadays I even understand some sentences or even conversations in Japanese,
which makes them all that much more fun to watch. On the other side I got
to watch some new episodes of Farscape (which, lacking a better term, rocks),
while Buffy & co are currently on ice (in between seasons).
Literature has unfortunately not gotten much attention these past few
weeks; nevertheless I did manage to devour another two Discworld novels,
a few fantasy-books, lots of university-material, and loads of text
from the Internet. I hope to get a few reviews online later; knowing me,
that might never happen (unless asked for ;)
Some links for the bored : How much I type, what our computers are doing (RC5, OGR-25), where Computer Science students at my university hang out. That´ll have to be enough for today :)
I hope this won´t be the last update for the next 9 months ;)
ttyl,
Eike
So I decided to clean up my room finally (it looks like a site of anarchy gone rampant, at least according to my mother). Found some things I have been looking for for some time now (watch). Also found some things I wish I had not found (old school materials). All in all, it looks a LOT better in here. Maybe this time it will stay that way (yeah right!) :)
My Sister turned 18 on Friday. She had a big party on saturday, with lots of friends over for the weekend. It has been fun; although pretty stressful. One of these days, her computer will be finished and she'll be able to read this page, so I better not go into details :)
I finally decided to put the page online in its current form. It is still nowhere near where it used to be in size, but at least it's marginally functional (as in, there is maybe one broken link and no more :).
University is still going strong (actually, going stronger by the day). I just finished doing the current "Algorithmen & Datenstrukturen" and Java exercises, to be followed by the various Math problems and some Japanese vocabulary. Fun, fun. :)
ttyl,
Eike
Hmm ... It has been almost a year since I last updated, almost 9 months since this page was last online, almost 5 months since I decided to redo it all, almost two months since I started studying computer science, just about two days since I finally got around to this, and it will be a long time before it's all finished and shiny again -- but one has got to start somewhere.
I´m not going to bore you with every tidbit of change that has happened with me; just the fast rundown : in April, I graduated from school (got my Abitur), in June, I moved to my own little appartment (in the same house though), in August, I turned 20. In October, I started studying computer science at the University of Oldenburg. Funny how you can sum up 11 months in one sentence.
Technical stuff is important as well : This page has been taken off the
net somewhere around January 2001, since the previous host disappeared --
and I did not have much motivation to move it. I got the kefrost.net Domain
in August; the page is now hosted at
TsunamiHost, which I do sysadmining for.
This page now discontinues support for older browsers -- it uses the
current standards by the W3C, namely CSS2
and xhtml 1.1. This means that it will display very well on just about
any standards-compliant browser (including Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror,
Lynx, and Internet Explorer). It also means that if you are viewing this
page with an old version (i.e. Netscape 4.xx) it will look a lot less
appealing; sorry.
The computers at home have gotten a few upgrade as well. kankoku
(that´s the gateway & server) now has the amd k6-III 400 CPU,
512mb RAM, and around 75gb of HDD space. fangorn now features a Duron 800,
512mb RAM, and 30gb HDD space, as well as a GeForce 2 MX-400. All in all,
very good workhorses.
On to more current things : Being a student again certainly is fun -- especially since I get to do what I'd do anyway. I also enrolled in a Japanese class, which is a lot of fun as well. Who knows, there'll probably be a Japanese version of this page as well.
At any rate, thanks for stopping by.
