For you who don’t know what Kings is: Kings is a series set in an alternative reality where there still are kings. The story follows king Silas, king of Gilboa. It practically is a modern re-enactment of the story of David (vs. Goliath). Now I’m no believer, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have to like this series.

It’s something new, something refreshing, no drama, no action, no fantasy, no western, it simply.. IS.

Oh well… maybe they’ll decide to make a second season sometime in the future, but until then, we can put it in one box with all the other amazing series that were Too Good To Last together with Firefly and many others…

In any case, if you ever get your hands on this, buy it, watch it, and write angry mails to NBC!

If you really want a Stargate game to play, sign up for the Stargate MMORPG beta.

Now, right now I am sitting in one of my banks hoping and waiting that they find a lost wire transfer. The story goes like this:

I moved from this bank a long time ago because they are really slow and they are amazingly slow and inexpirienced with international money transfers. But by accident, one of my older clients transferred a big amount of money to this potheads. At the same time I have to move to a new appartment and the last day that I can pay is today, in about 20 minutes. Additionally they turned off the power in my old appartment, so i’m kinda in a Murphy’s Law situation right now.

Anyway, no electricity = no Internet + no free wifi around. So if you are going to read this eventually: everything turned out fine. Only that I am mighty pissed.

Today, the German federal cabinet passed a new law to filter websites based on a secret list compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office. The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs communicates the law as a remedy for the prevention of child pornography. While we strongly support any attempt to stop the abuse of humans and children in particular, we doubt that this is the real reason for the law.

For months, experts of all fields have impeached the facts and figures that were communicated by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs as well as the technical implementation of the filtering process. We mistrust the planned non-transparent process, we regard it as ineffective and amateurish and we believe it is counterproductive and a possible threat to democracy.

Since illegal sites on a list must be known beforehand, we urge the government to shut those sites down and prosecute the operators of those sites.

In times of a nationwide election campaign, we regard political populism as highly inappropriate when it should be about the fight against the abuse of minors.

Who would have thought that all these Science-Fiction movies about a total-control-government would some day become true. It’s sad, very sad that Germany is turning more and more into a state of total control. It’s almost like China and Great Britain combined.

Shivers me, it really does.

Yeah, that is probably how YOU are going to look after reading this.

I keep frikin’ promising that I will soon have time. But you have to understand my current “employer”, shall I say rather “client”. He always comes up with some new idea, some new thing here, one tiny weenie little problem on that page and if I have some spare time maybe I can help on that other website.

I don’t say no, because he pay’s well and frankly I need the money.

(Look up, what did I tell ‘ya? You’re facepalming right now!, aren’t you!)

And it is for YOUR benefit too. I am putting lots of money into Portico, paying modelers, programmers and other people to give me exactly what I need. Why? Because I’m picky and most people don’t tolerate pickiness without being paid. So I can’t get free models, sounds and stuff because people get angry at me for telling them the 5000th time to change this and that and make that little thingy there a little smaller.

What do I have in mind for keeping you entertained weekly? Originally I was planning on “Nerd TV”, weekly posts to give you some tip on what new/old interesting TV Series to watch that could appeal the Standard-Nerd. But I wrote them on my iPhone and for some reason the WordpressApp doesn’t work anymore. So you’ll have to bare with me until I get to write them anew.

Don’t worry though, I think I might be even re-writing them this weekend. It’s the only godforsaken time I don’t have to work anyway.

But as mentioned before: UNRELIABLE. I have seen myself waiting for over an hour and doing lots of calls to hear like five different excuses, of course all of them referring to someones elses fault, until I finally gave up.

It’s sad, and frankly a huge waste of my precious time. Even worse: they know it is.

In the words of Elliot Reid from Scrubs: “double frick on a stick with a brick”.

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools"

Quite a good guideline if you are making a game/application foolproof.

What happened to coniserver.net after we switched from conitecserver.com?
There’s something going on… *suspicious*

Now don’t take that as a “I don’t work on Portico anymore”. I do! Bust just not as my main occupation right now, too much going on in real life. But I will try to keep you posted!

Huge Kudos to David Lancaster!