Posted on Sat 29 September 2018 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
I’m writing this while I’m still on sick leave, so not terribly talkative or inspired. I played a lot more Assassin’s Creed 3 since I blew through the most interesting content in the latest Final Fantasy XIV patch in just two evenings. I even got around to …
Continue readingPosted on Wed 05 September 2018 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
I’ve been very active in the Discord belonging to my MMO group lately, including hosting a choose-your-own-adventure style game that’s held regularly. It’s a very fun exercise for me to come up with entertaining texts fitting a scenario as well as the input of the players. I …
Continue readingPosted on Sat 01 September 2018 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
I find that I want to spend more time writing and am inspired by Matt Gemmell to publish more personal piece as well as shorter articles as well. Quantity doesn’t mean quality after all. To start this I’ve polished up my notes from Rome and published them as …
Continue readingPosted on Mon 13 August 2018 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
It’s been a while since the last post because I’m still busy handling all the paperwork that comes with changes in lifestyle. Meanwhile I’ve watched some new anime on Crunchyroll: Caligula, Phantom in the Twilight, How not to summon a demon lord, Isekai Izakaya: Japanese Food From …
Continue readingPosted on Fri 18 May 2018 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
Recently I’ve spent a lot of time playing Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom and some Tomb Raider, in addition to one of my classics, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2. I’ve also taken some time to revisit Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift, my favorite title …
Continue readingPosted on Mon 19 February 2018 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
I spend most of my time with Final Fantasy XII recently which has been remastered for PC and is as great as I remember. Some light reading, novels and writing job applications are what the rest of my free time was invested in. Apart from that I continue to play …
Continue readingPosted on Sun 13 August 2017 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
~Onatcer tells devastating things about the new exams required to study Computer Science in Vienna in Der TU-Aufnahme-Test: Pleiten für alle! (German).
Troy Hunt provides a new service where one can check passwords against a gigantic collection of millions of leaked passwords with Introducing 306 Million Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords …
Continue readingPosted on Wed 26 July 2017 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
Pieter Hintjens has Ten Steps to Better Public Speaking for you. Amongst them is to avoid using slides since they send the audience into passive ‘consumer only’ mode. I’m definitely guilty of doing that as a listener.
Here is an interview with Craig Schaefer, author of one of my …
Continue readingPosted on Sat 15 April 2017 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
I feel bad about dropping so many things into the Sidenotes uncommented - however not putting out this post for longer only makes it worse. I’ve been very, very busy in the last few weeks and expect it to stay this way for some more time.
Here’s a great …
Continue readingPosted on Tue 10 January 2017 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
Trying to reduce the backlog of unread Read-it-later articles and feeds. Little else to say this time. Some work to catch up with, sick over the holidays. Additionally, Final Fantasy XV turned out not to be as awesome as hoped which saddens me.
No False Users by Kim Foale (Twitter …
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