Category Archives: PC & games

hooooot

Posted on Saturday, Jul 30, 2005 by Andrea

apparently austria has just experienced the two hottest days of the entire summer so far. with temperatures up to 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F) it was too hot for most of the people around here but i had a … Continue reading →

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dream system

Posted on Sunday, Jul 10, 2005 by Andrea

when i am not busy riding my bike or watching the Tour de France i am about to put together my new computer. this next one is going to be special. why? for starters i have been talking about getting … Continue reading →

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no more slacking ftw!

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 21, 2005 by Andrea

these days i am busy riding my road bike and thus i am only online in the evenings. it wasn’t an easy decision to quit WoW since the virtual world the game presents is quite seducing. whereas we are experiencing … Continue reading →

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goodbye, azeroth!

Posted on Monday, Jun 6, 2005 by Andrea

i just decided that i am not going to renew my World of Warcraft subscription by canceling my account. my human warrior hit lvl 60 more than a month ago and there is not much left to do now besides … Continue reading →

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back to routine

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 22, 2005 by Andrea

life is back to normal now after all the frenzy regarding my defective harddisk. and i guess my alter ego, my char in azeroth has settled down a bit as well. the first ten or fifteen levels are always a … Continue reading →

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ready to rock

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 16, 2005 by Andrea

being paranoid as always i got a second new harddisk drive to avoid further impending desasters. i need to make some final formatting of my PhD thesis before i have it printed. plus — you may have guessed it — … Continue reading →

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busy friday

Posted on Saturday, Feb 12, 2005 by Andrea

well, here’s just a short status update: thanks to my backups on CD/DVD i was able to restore most of the data lost on the defective hdd. getting a new harddisk drive was – however – a lot more difficult. … Continue reading →

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hdd failure

Posted on Thursday, Feb 10, 2005 by Andrea

today something rather unfortunate happened when i turned on the computer: my second hard disk drive had died. it didn’t crash or made strange noises, nope, it died silently and is no longer recognized neither by the BIOS nor the … Continue reading →

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the phenomenon MMORPG

Posted on Sunday, Jan 30, 2005 by Andrea

MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role playing games) have been around for some years now, so you can hardly talk about a new “phenomenon”. still, it continues to amaze me how players are fascinated by such games and virtually (pun intended) … Continue reading →

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world of warcraft final beta

Posted on Tuesday, Jan 18, 2005 by Andrea

so i finally gave world of warcraft (WoW) a try… i was rather reluctant to do so for several reasons. first off, mmorpgs take time, a lot of time… you usually end up spending your entire spare time in the … Continue reading →

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