blog.zgraggen.name  All-day insanity or I have a blog too!

Last week I spent two days in bed to recover from a flu. Once more I realized that it is not fun at all. Yes, I know this sounds logical. But have you never thought, when one of your co-workers was sick, how nice it must be to lay around at home watching some DVD and drink a lot of tea. It sounds quite relaxing… However in these two days I noticed once more what a miss-belief I/we have in mind.
The reality is very different. First of all I was very tired. Every time I had to make me some new tea it was a big struggle till I finally went to the kitchen. And even going to the bathroom was painful (which occurs really often because of the tea). After one day I could not sleep any more because my back hurted. But watching DVD is no alternative I am just too tired to bring up the needed attention.
Therefore I hate being sick…

These two words were written on the UPS envelop which I received last Friday. Hmm, it must be kind of important, because I have never seen this note on an envelop before. No wonder I got a little exited and nervous. What else could it be than a letter from a University I applied for? Then I discovered that the sender is the Carnegie Mellon University.

The letter says that I have been accepted for the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Yes that is definitely an extremely urgent message!

Yiiihaaa, USA I am coming…

My new passion is a little flash game called canyon-defense.
The basic concept of the game is to protect your city by defeating the enemy in the canyon which is the only way to your town.

You have a start amount of money which you can spend on different weapon systems. For every destroyed enemy you receive more money. With each level the difficulty raises a little. Therefore you need better weapon system to defeat the enemy. To get better weapons you have to fulfill little tasks. This could be for example building five pieces of a specific weapon. To finish a the game you need a good strategy.

You can play this game on three different maps in three different degrees of difficulty. Until now I have played through the map in the middle. I needed more then 3 times till I finished the hard level. But finally I made it and that is all what counts

What’s is your opinion? Do you like this kind of game?

As I mentioned in an older post. I burdened myself with the task of creating a gallery for the Tourenlager08. I took that as opportunity to do some ruby scripting. I know… I just could have taken a gallery software out of the box… but that would not have been fun
It is over a half year since I last used ruby. So my knowledge was a bit rusty. After a short time I was on track again…

Here is the link: http://www.zgraggen.name/tourenlager08

btw: I hopped that more people would send me their pics… but till today I have only the pictures from the three people (including me)