TroubleZone.Net

.. To save us from the master of all evil sign1!

Alright, time for some news.. Yes, the sidebar shows it already — nearly all remaining bugs are fixed!!
Only some graphical stuff is left to be fixed. But this time, there’s no ETA, but a PTA2. So, Firefox V2 2.2 will be available by the end of this month.

Everything else3 will be published afterwards, so stay tuned!

Cheers,
Martin..

1. Taken from “Black Winter Night”, a song from my new favorite power metal band: DragonForce [↩]
2. An abbreviation created by myself, short for “Promised Time of Arrival” [↩]
3. News about my personal life, job, etc. [↩]

Hey guys!
Yes, the page is very buggy if you’re browsing my blog with IE1.. And yes, I know that the blog shows up for about 2 or 3 seconds and then IE switches to its “Page could not be found”-error page.. — But that’s IE, so what did you expect?

More seriously, the problem is inside the new, flash-driven counter2 and I’m in close contact with one of the inventors to fix this issue.
Meanwhile, you could try an alternative piece of software which is worth a download.. – Honestly, you won’t ever want IE back after giving it a try!

Lastly, I’d like to mention that I’ve finally found an apprenticeship training position as a student3 and after 2 years of training, the apprenticeship will be finished and I’ll be a “technical assistant of information technology”4.

Cheers,
Martin..

1. That’s really funny, because you’re mostly looking for my “Firefox V2”-theme, aren’t you? [↩]
2. A service kindly provided by FlashCounter.com which offered the first Flash-based counter ever! [↩]
3. Not an university-one, but sort of a vocational school-one.. [↩]
4. In plain language: software developer.. [↩]

.. a lost fallen angel, helping mankind where I can1

But since a couple of weeks I’m asking myself one single question again and again and again and […]: Why is it me?
I’m talking about stuff, I’m hardly able to describe — so many fears, sorrows and so much pain, too. I’ve never ever won a prize2 and still I’m the one who has to pay for it.3
No, no, I don’t want to whine or cry all the day and even in the night — I’m far beyond that point, quite close to the “OK, my life is pure shit — but I won’t look down and give up!”-point.
At least I thought so.. At least until last Monday.. At least as long as my mind wasn’t shattered.. — But then Monday morning came and with it the mailman who gave me a registered mail. Damn, I’d have been better off staying in bed.. :x

The letter was from the university4 and the examination board wrote that my request for a second resit has been declined..
This isn’t a big thing for me as I started studying because I wanted to know if my skills are good enough for it. But my apprenticeship is bound to the studies, so in other words: no second resit, no studies, no apprenticeship — and here in Germany it’s quite hard to find an apprenticeship for people who want to train as a software developer..

Some of you might say “Tough luck!”, that I didn’t learn enough or things like that. But in fact, I did my best and therefore I think I should get paid5. Unfortunately, life didn’t pay back so far..

Anyway, as stated above, I’m not a man who whines — instead, I bear misery, keeping my dreams in mind for the day they will come true6 and as long as I get knocked down by life, I will stand up, again and again and again and […]

Theme development was on hold for a while now — it’s time for going on, right?

So, stay tuned, because I’m going to continue my work since I’ve seen people using my theme7!
Cheers,

Martin..

1. Yes, another quote and of course it’s a Helloween song: “The Invisible Man” [↩]
2. Only the junior-edition of Trivial Pursuit when I was about 10 or 12.. [↩]
3. And I can’t remember a different situation.. :x [↩]
4. As you might know, I’m studying at an university of cooperative education. So it’s not a fully-qualified university.. [↩]
5. With “paid” I mean some “prizes” which I (in my humble opinion) deserve and not “plain” money.. [↩]
6. And they will, for sure! [↩]
7. This is really a source of power for me: discovering people using the stuff I’ve created. [↩]

Hey guys!

I apologize myself for the long time without any sign of life. But right now, times are very hard..1 :x

That said, my exams weren’t that good – in fact, they are almost a shame: it’s almost assured that I’ll fail at math and electronics.. Same thing will happen to me regarding digital technology..

Also, I can confirm that there are bugs in my theme – but most of them are fixed2)

So give me some time to get things done: first of all my studies, either by the removal from the register of students and training as a “normal”3) software developer or by a changeover to a study course called “Medienproduktion”4

I promise to fix the remaining bugs and I’m going to do this quite soon, but I must awaken to what I really want to do in my life first.. – I can tell you that it’s more than just pain to see your life, the road you’ve walked so far, the road in front of you and then being at a loss..

1. And I’m wondering if I will ever stick it out. [↩]
2. At least they didn’t occur again after some changes.. ; [↩]
3. Software developers are normal people? Huh? ; [↩]
4. I couldn’t find a close match for this word in English, because something like “media production” doesn’t sound that good.. Anyway, it’s a study course with a bigger software part and less electronical stuff. [↩]

.. TroubleZone.Net, bodily me, Martin Baranski, is very proud to announce the final release of “Firefox V2”1, a theme for WordPress 2.0!

After a long2) time of development, I finally finished all the code, fixed all the bugs3 and put that bunch of files into one ZIP-file4.
You can download this file by visiting its page, named “Firefox V2”.

So, that’s it — or did I miss something? Hum.. Oh, yes: ENJOY!

Best regards,
Martin..

1. Oh my goodness! This sounds like a trailer for a new Hollywood-movie! [↩]
2. And I do mean loooooooooong! ; [↩]
3. At least the ones I’ve found so far. [↩]
4. A GZIP-file is available, too. [↩]