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..weeping for the memory of a life gone by⁰¹

As the song goes on, there are two lines, stating “It’s late and I’m with my love alone, we drink to forget the coming storm” — and it’s pretty much reality for me, because tomorrow⁰² will bring in some clouds and quite heavy rain.. Additionally, it’s definitely late for me since it’s pretty hard to keep my eyelids open..

Anyway, not much work has been done to Firefox V3 recently, because I’m focusing on an GUI-Mod⁰³ for the well-known “Bounty Bay Online”⁰⁴ as the developers, named SnailGame⁰⁵, are pretty lame and normally take — honestly — about six months for a “real” bugfix-update.. And although all players around the globe⁰⁶ are experiencing a bug called “autofire-bug”, they’re up to now “unable to reproduce the issue”.. :-@

Still, the BBO-community here in Germany is really great and our provider, named Yusho⁰⁷, is heavily interested in getting its customers satisfied⁰⁸.. And that’s why I started to create the mod and together with another player, we’ve made some heavy chances to the interface⁰⁹ which are very appreciated among the rest of the community..

So, Firefox V3 is still in the works, but it maybe takes some months until Firefox V3 will finally be released — I’ll keep you guys posted, I promise!

Now I’m off, getting some rest..
Take care,
Martin..

1. Not Ultravox’ original song, but a cover made by Freedom Call which is IMHO definitely better.. [↩]
2. Oh, my clock shows 02:42 right now, so we’re already there! :D [↩]
3. Mostly on the texts/titles, not the graphics itself.. [↩]
4. Right, one might not know BBO, but it’s, well, “father”, the MMORPG called “Voyage Century Online” or “VCO” for short.. [↩]
5. Located somewhere in China, next to Shanghai AFAIK.. [↩]
6. Americans, British, French, Germans, Japanese, Koreans — and even Chinese! [↩]
7. That means “Fair victory” and comes from sumo [↩]
8. We’ve got the opportunity to choose between item mall-based servers and a monthly subscription.. [↩]
9. Well, especially he did much chances to the crafting-window, I’m more on the titles- and naming-part.. [↩]

Did you ever hear what I told you?
Did you ever read what I wrote you?
Did you ever listen to what we played?
Did you ever let in what the world said?
Did we get this far just to feel your hate?
Did we play to become only pawns in the game?
How blind can you be, don’t you see:
You chose the long road, but we’ll be waiting..⁰¹

Well, this time neither DragonForce nor HammerFall lyrics, but again one from Nightwish.. The reason is simple: up to now, this track spins about 80% of the time I’m running Winamp..
Though, there are indeed special things going on in my personal “real life”, so I thought that I could use “unusual” lyrics/artists once again..

As the day is drawing to a close, this post needs to be done a little bit faster than I usually do posts here.. So, let’s make the story not too big and let’s get down to business:

About a week ago, I finally signed up my employment contract with a company operating in the integrated store processes-sector.. The signing itself was quite “strange” as my hand which held the Biro was a little bit shaking, but that might be due to several dreams coming true:

• Getting a job after two years at a technical college full of stubborn and arrogant teachers is just amazing — especially, when the employment contract is open-ended!


• Doing a job which is almost exactly what you expected your job would be like is nearly unbelievable..


• Earning enough money to pay the bill(s) and still having some money that you can save for your “next big dream”⁰² gives me a feeling I can hardly describe — it’s just overwhelming!


• The workmates seem to be really great⁰³!


• The company absolutely believes in the idea that only satisfied employees are employees who put 100% of their effort into their job and therefore offer a great work climate — YEEEEES!!

I also met a new friend.. Christin is her name.. No guys, it’s _not_ that type of “friend”, she’s more like a sister to me than a girlfriend..

And yes, the smilies will be changed back to Nomicons soon!

Uh, quite a “rough” post this time.. But I’ve got to go and get some sleep⁰⁴..

Take care,
Martin..

1. Nightwish — Bye, Bye, Beautiful [↩]
2. Just use Google to get some pics of VW’s “IROC”.. [↩]
3. Especially the female ones.. [↩]
4. I had only 8 hours in the last 48 hours.. [↩]

.. the hiding amaranth
In a land of the daybreak

Apart from the wandering pack
In this brief flight of time we reach
For the ones, whoever dare⁰¹

Hey guys,

this is just a very quick update about Firefox V3 and some stuff related to its “merchandising” after it will be released⁰².. — So here it goes:

There was a mail in my inbox some days ago, asking me about Firefox V3’s licence and restrictions I might put upon its usage.. Yes, I do know that the current restrictions are quite, well, kinda “hard”.. That’s why I reconsider(ed) my way of dealing with licence(s) and limitations..

You’re asking for my conclusion? Much less restrictions — definitely!
For now, I’m thinking about abandoning my Creative Commons-driven “licence model” and instead selecting something like GNU’s GPL V2⁰³ or so..

So, as you can see, Firefox V3 will be an “all-new version”, since there will be much more than just a “refreshed” theme..

Take care,
Martin..

1. Well, no DragonForce or HammerFall song this time, but one from Nightwish’s latest album Dark Passion Play called “Amaranth”.. [↩]
2. Yes, I’m working hard on it and managed to build about 33% of the digital layout! :D [↩]
3. Maybe V3, I don’t know that for sure right now.. [↩]

.. and their ever staring eyes
Now is the time to defend your ground
Destiny will call, to remind us all
Now fly free, so far from here
This life we know will end
In dreams of everlasting pain
The fallen now rise again⁰¹

As this blog is all about a life’s trouble, I want to pour out my woes to the world this time..

So, let’s get things right: my life sucked.. It wasn’t completely worthless since my mates were always around, keeping me alive by providing kinda “life support”, words of advice and stuff like that.. And they’re also always the ones I can count on whenever life comes in with another hit right into my face..

But honestly, I don’t want to complain about all those troubles⁰²) as it simply wouldn’t help.. And so, I just keep asking myself “Who the fuck feels so pissed off that I get knocked down again — just one second after I regain my feet?” Because every single way towards the finish line is full of obstacles somebody put in my way⁰³..

I really don’t know where my life’s going to⁰⁴), but I’m still hoping that things will be better — _soon_!

Though, I’m facing a typical German proverb right now: being right doesn’t necessarily mean that you are in the right⁰⁵! — Or as a long story:

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1. DragonForce — The Flame Of Youth [↩]
2. Hey, I _am_ right here, in the center of the TroubleZone! ; [↩]
3. No, I won’t give up — it simply doesn’t exist within my vocabulary! [↩]
4. Does anyone know this? ; [↩]
5. I couldn’t find a “correct” equivalent idiom for this, so I tried my best to “built” one.. [↩]

..As you sought you inner dreams and visions⁰¹

Just as promised in my last post and as my Xmas-gift for you guys, I’m proudly announcing the immediate availability of Firefox V2, version 2.5!

You can grab your copy by visiting its page: Firefox V2

The changelog in short:

— Fixed many bugs⁰²..
— Dropped German version
— Added the sidebar to the single post-view

I hope you like my stuff, although WordPress’ new widget-system doesn’t fully work with this version⁰³)..

Take care and merry Xmas to you all,
Martin..

1. Yes, the one and only HammerFall — Restless Soul [↩]
2. Including those calling plugins which some users might don’t have.. [↩]
3. I’m working on this and there’ll be another release in the near future.. ; [↩]