This was 2008 …

niclas — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:51:25 +0000

With 2008 almost over, I am just want to take the chance to write a short "Goodbye" for this year. It was quite exiting! I fell in love again, which took quite some years. How it's gonna work out, we will see in 2009 ...

With 2008 almost over, I am just want to take the chance to write a short "Goodbye" for this year. It was quite exiting! I fell in love again, which took quite some years. How it's gonna work out, we will see in 2009. At this moment my girl friends visits her parents. She stayed there before christmas and won't be back in Hamburg this year. Some pretty lonely holidays I am misusing the time to play way to much World of Warcraft and preparing some skills I will need for my new job, which will start in Feburary 2009.

After nine years and four month at SinnerSchrader I am pretty nervous how this will be. It was my first employment after I graduated at the Fachhochschule Wedel. Hell I will really miss some of the boys and girls! But I am still convinced that this is the time for me to move on.

One of these "new skills" I am preparing is Adobe Flex, which is a framework to create rich clients for the internet based on the Adobe Flashplayer.
Quite an intresting and well designed piece of Software. This is still my first impression I'm pretty sure I will discover some very ugly facets later. I already ran about some bugs with the HTTPService which prevented my from setting the "User-Agent" header on a HTTP GET request. Damn I am demanding I know
But the WoW Armory refused to return pure XML until I pretend to be the Firefox 2.x Browser. WoW Armory is also a pretty interesting piece of software. It offers the facilities to query WoW Characters, Guilds or Items via the Web. If you are using a Firefox browser the WoW Armory returns only a XML which will be rendered with a XSLT style sheet. All the other Browser will get an "interesting" HTML page. Maybe I am blogging about this later.

One last thing left to do for 2009:

Wie man so schön in Deutschland sagt: Einen Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

Level 78.5 – tired and satisfied

niclas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:37:10 +0000

Last weekend I took three days off, bought my copy of World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King and locked up the door. After a very long Weekend my Character Whitewolf is now level 78 (50% to level 79).

This is pretty much at the maximum I expected. Level 75 would have been a satisfactory achievement but 78(.5) is quite outstanding. Especially if you take into account, that I restarted playing World of Warcraft just 10 to 12 weeks ago.

My special congratulations to out fast leveling guys which made couple of realm first Level 80 achievements (Gnome, Night Elf, Human, Draenei, Warlock and Hunter) - So grats to DasOpossum, Pepi, Hamzu and Hikaru. But great thanks and respect to all of my guild mates which are doing a great job leveling their characters and preparing to raid again. As far as I know the first 10 person raid instances have already been cleared.

Special thanks to Dashina for leveling most of the time with me

Greetings to all the Blizzard folks, you made an awesome new expansion! Keep improving the quest mechanics. There are very cool quests now. But also improve the moral standards of your quests. Torturing prisoners or stealing babies of some poor creatures is not a role model for young people in my opinion.

I am leaving now for work and trying to get level 80 this week, wish me luck

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This was 2008 …

Level 78.5 – tired and satisfied