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Sadly I have so much uni stuff going on that this blog is really getting dry. I'll try to be more steady with my posts though ;)
So since I have to write Java apps for some uni courses I had the problem of needing a Multivalue Map. Looking for one I found this nice article http://www.javalobby.org/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=17048. Since I din't quite like some implementation details I implemented my own so here another attemt for a Multivalue Map:
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

Somehow I could never get my head around shell scripts (I wrote some - but I'm not proud of it or anything).
What's the point in having different commands which all handle differently, different implemenations, to have to learn yet another "language"?

To me there is no point - aside from some ego tripping.
But it took till today for a interesting realization to hit me.

Just wanted to cleanup all duplicates that I kind of suspect are present on my drives. One app to do this is FSlint which looks quite slick - so check it out

I just deleted my Myspace account.

Okay it is very geeky humor - but I hope all you github hackers get the joke

I attemted to upload another high quality photo to flickr today and again got pretty annoyed by the download option flickr does offer (or rather - doesn't offer since the largest is at around 1000 pixels width). I've been using flickr now for some years and haven't had any issue in the time when I payed for a premium (called pro) account. But since I'm back to being an ordinary user it gets quite annoying.

For our graduation I did a shirt which is a reminiscence of RPGs - and I mean real RPGs not todays stuff. Since I spend ages playing Might and Magic V I used that as a starting point and spend some 100 hours trying to create a screen in the style of that ancient game. It would probably have taken less time if I had been more familiar with Inkscape and Gimp but be assured I am now. So without further ado - here is an image of the finished screen:

Well setting up a blog sounds great - but not so much if the software is a little old - so I upgraded my Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 which is far more slicker and has things like blogging out of the box. Onwards now :)

Well since twitter is not such a good medium for complex information I thought I give the old blog format another go.
So here it is - my attemt to reactivate my blog stuff. I'm using Drupal which seems at least halfway managable compared to other CMS systems. For now I'll try to get the block up and fine and we'll see where this is heading...