About this Blog

Even though I am not (yet?) into this whole microblogging thing and even though I definitely do not need more things that are able to distract me from work, I created a twitter account today. What for I really don't know, but maybe it's a exercise being confined to 140 characters. Maybe it'll help to polish my texts, to make them more slender and more precise. We'll see.
Unfortunately the nickname "Riipa" was already in use and I had to find another. Neither was I ready to abandon my nickname completely nor did I want to use one of those cryptic names like riipa77_de. After something like an hour of try and error I remembered Neil Gaiman's account Neilhimself... hence I proudly present my Twitter account Riipahimself.

Some user seem to have problems posting comments to this blog while using Firefox or Opera. Right now I can't say for sure what is causing this problems but I suspect the captchas of not giving the right value. If you run in such trouble I recommend you to

1.) stay calm,
2.) make sure cookies are activated,
3.) wait for something like two minutes to reset the IP block,
3.1.) dance around your computer and mumble incantations and blessing of your preferred religion,
3.2.) get rid of the crumbs in your keyboard
3.4.) now really do activate cookies,
4.) reload the captcha until it shows a well readable three digit value by clicking it,
4.1.) read the text above the captcha that says "activate cookies" and activate them,
5.) send the comment again
6.) and celebrate your success.

Good luck!

Somebody bugged me a lot lately about adding a list of books I read and I am currently reading. The last time I had such a list was back in 1997 on my first homepage and maybe it actually is time to revive such a site. Well then, here we go.
I decided to add links to Amazon.de where you can find more information and customer reviews. Also these links do contain a referrer ID so if you choose to buy something after following the link you will make me incredibly rich!

Lately there has been some complaining about this blog being in English only. Well then, here we go. All new post will be available in German too. You can choose your favorite version with the nifty little box to the right or below every post.

You can't say I'm not listening...

Also there is a new category where I replicate my posts from our WoW guilds blog. Unfortunately they are all in German and will stay this way.

P.S. t -187d

After having a lot of trouble with spam on my news comments, I decided to migrate everything to a new technical base. I've chosen the weblog-software "Serendipity", which is quite popular and seems to fit my needs.