Attention, notebook dump incoming. Brace for impact.

• Federico Viticci of MacStories has a great idea of how to implement file storage for iCloud
• Nice suggestions on how to improve your writing by using the correct terms and grammar - via lifehacker.com
• Ars Technica had a very amusing parody review of …

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I’ve read four new fantasy books. All of them were written quite well and I’ve only found one obvious case of self-copypasta (as in: an author pasted parts of a previously published work straight into his next). There may be a more detailed analysis to follow, but I …

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I read quite some books over the days I was with my family during the holidays.

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Oliver Bowden)
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (Oliver Bowden)
• First Frost (Jennifer Estep)
• Touch of Frost (Jennifer Estep)
• Kiss of Frost (Jennifer Estep)
• Jumper (Steven Gould)
• Born at Midnight (C.C …

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Intended activity for today: writing gamescom preview for FFN.
Actual activity today: watching Anime with a friend.
So much fail.

But yes, Howl’s Moving Castle was fun. I’ll admit that much, but I’d rather not discuss what I saw as many, many errors in the movie’s …

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So I’m still recovering from a little over a week without internet, catching up with Google Reader and doing some organizational stuff I’ve been postponing. (like the university related posts, but they’re coming. promise.)

Also I’ve just finished Secret Files: Tunguska today. A while ago I …

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Just a very short update here: Ubisoft is going to upgrade its Facebook game that belongs to the Assassin’s Creed universe according to this post in their forum. On an unrelated note I’ve just finished reading the Trauma Center: New Blood LP.

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Easter holidays are progressing quite quietly so far. Things I did:

• tried Borderlands with a friend
• got rather into Radiant Historia for the NDS
• tested Stacking and bought the full game
• read the Da Vinci Code (English version) after the book has been lying around almost half a year
• watched …

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For some time now I’ve been rewatching the old Stargate series and especially Stargate:Atlantis which I prefer over the original SG-1. Doesn’t seem to be a big deal, I admit that. But the fact is that instead of my mother tongue German, this time I watched everything …

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