You might perhaps have noticed that during the past weeks the overall number of entries here at xirdalium has substantially increased. Including this one, there now are 1058 posts all in all. This is due to my finally having imported … Continue reading →
[Finally the ISP came around and switched the whole thing on. Now that I’m back the starving’s over, content at xirdalium will be updated regularly again, and of course zeph’s pop culture quiz will be maintained again. I’ll try … Continue reading →
Finally I brought myself to get a proper domain and to resurrect my blog ‘xirdalium.’ Not that it was dead and gone, but definitely in an undead state. The reasons for that were manifold. The first category of reasons are … Continue reading →
Well, quite some time has passed since I ↵took the comments function offline—due to numerous requests I brought the function back online again, and included some more wizardry from ↑abe. Let’s see how it works. All the comments you posted … Continue reading →
Frankly, I do not really know the reasons. But since four months the visits on my weblog here are steadily increasing. The average number of unique visitors for this month today is 2300 (bots and access with special http-status [me] … Continue reading →
Once again I was forced to take the comments function offline. My countermeasures against spamming were still working and indeed prevented ‘sensible’ spam—spam that actually does advertise something or builds up a web of hyperlinks. Sometimes the filter overdid it … Continue reading →
The reason for the literature spree of the recent days is my planning of the two courses ↵on computergames and online-communities I will teach during the upcoming term. In the wake of that I updated, ‘enhanced’, and reformatted my ↵online … Continue reading →
↑Blogging is futile?—far from it! Spamming-attempts now seem to be futile. Tnx a thousand times, abe! You pwn big time, my man!
Continue reading →The last weekend was dedicated to dealing with rubbish. The flood in Munich—have a look at the ↑photos by 2R—had powerfully hit our basement, too. But till Friday the hip-high waters had been pumped off. So, on Saturday morning I … Continue reading →
Due to heavy comment spam I remove the comments function until I’ve fixed the matter. Nothing of the comments so far is lost—everything will be back online soon. UPDATE: Thanks to g33k of the w33k and general blogwizard ↑KerLeone, digital … Continue reading →