Alpha Core

As some of you might already know, I’m constantly on the move between Germany and Belgium. In order to make communications as easy and cheap as possible, I wanted people in Belgium to be able to reach me in Germany at national rates by calling a fixed-line number in Belgium. The call should get transparently redirected over the internet to Germany as follows:

I also wanted to call people in Belgium from Germany at very low costs. For them, my call seems to originate from within Belgium. Since some people already showed interest in how I set this up, I decided to write an article about this. Read more

Armadillo Run is a physics game, in which you construct a path, using the materials offered and possibly not exceeding your limited budget, to help a rolled up armadillo getting to a blue sphere. But you’d better watch the movie to see what I’m talking about. The demo version is online as a free download, and even though it’s a lot more limited than the things the movie shows, it is real fun.

It’s been a while since there was a silly internet game worth mentioning. That’s over now! May I have the pleasure to introduce to you Sling, a game in which you control a little green ball of slime dangling, flying and bouncing around in 50 levels. The story is utter and complete nonsense and that’s great!

There’s also an easier Junior version of the game and soon there will be a sequel called Sling Fire. Enjoy!

As we’re preparing for our summer vacation to Sweden, we’re going over our checklist of things we want to take along. One of the items pretty high up the list is the GPS device we recently ordered at Futurumshop (a Magellan eXplorist 210) for our geocaching adventures. We’re a bit afraid that it might not be delivered in time, while it seems that Magellan is having serious delivering problems right now since they didn’t have any models at the local Globetrotter store neither anymore. Oh well, we keep faith and aren’t running around screaming and frantically waving our hands in the air… yet. Read more