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July 21, 2008
Nobody noticed, and nobody talks about it. But there is infact a new version of the ICQ2Go! Beta out. The changes merely include the message messageabout account safety, which is now black, larger and better to read. The report user feature has been improved and the sounds work better now.
However it’s a bit strange noone noticed. 
And it’s also strange, that ICQ planned to remove the older versions of ICQ2Go!, which up until now hasn’t happened. It’s better this way with keeping the old stuff up, cause they still work. However, the Java version does not well tie with the new JAVA version (the one from sun, cause the IBM one only works on IBM machines) and spits out an error (which doesn’t seem to prevent it from working though).
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July 10, 2008
There are some times, where people make mistakes, mistakes that are great for some of us, and not so great for some others. One part of such mistakes includes mistakes in management. There is nothing bad if that mistake does not disturb anyone or invades someones privacy, or, you know, does bad things to people.
There are ISPs that make mistakes. Mistakes like not restricting your bandwidth. I thought this was great, at least for me, because I could use my internet connection for various things. For example this website, with this blog you’re currently looking at, is hosted at my home. But you know, they fixed that bandwidth issue. Now, I don’t get the rest of my towns speed anymore. It was like downloading files at LAN speed. Or, running a server here was fine, too. So if any of my sites appears slow now… it’s probably my bandwidth limit that’s now properly applied. Google crawls are now giving my site the rest… 
Well, aslong as it’s working I’m fine… 
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June 12, 2008
The new flash based ICQ2Go! BETA 2 has arrived and is finally here. It features a new redesigned interface, and it’s looking really great. It has tabbed messages, status management (even if text only), properly distinguishes between the AIM and the ICQ profiles and even has an inline user search and the new ICQ sounds from infected mushroom embedded right within, but still I’m missing a few things. It does not seem to show anyone as online. And as it seems if I am logged in, I show as offline, too, despite the fact it does not visibly feature the invisible mode at all… well maybe that’s just me. 
It does not support either receiving nor sending of HTML formatted messages (even if the flash based display engine displays italic and bold formatted text as such when someone enters the HTML tags for it) as the new clients such as AIM6 and ICQ6 use them for colorizing and formatting the text. At least bold and italics could be supported, colors would be nice.
Also it has no graphical emoticons which is a bit sad. Smaller versions of the ICQ6 emoticon gallery would fit great in that interface, really.
The status updater which can be found in that text bar right next to the status selector which features Online and Away status only, (which could at least get an Invisible mode to it, right?) does not seem to send the status to the remote clients, as it’s likely if the user signed on to ICQ2Go! shows up offline, but it could also update the serverside status item, so it’d show up in the contact lists, buddy lists and in the title bar of ICQ/AIM message windows.
But overall it’s a great new improved experience, compared to the ICQ2Go! version before.
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May 21, 2008
Maybe I’m here, maybe I’m not. It should be easy to figure out, as this wouldn’t make sense otherwise, because I wouldn’t be not there. But I am writing this message so this ought to be the case. I mean I shouldn’t be not not there. However it might be I want to confuse you, which means, I am saying, I am here, you think I write this, for you to think I would be there, then you discover to figure out and know, actually I am here, which is not right, because I am still there, but you shouldn’t know that.
Just a subtle way of saying: ‘Don’t take everything too seriously.’ 
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April 23, 2008
In my opinion, anonymity is a really great thing. It really is. You can read stuffs on the net for free and without the need of providing your identity. That’s great. Really. There is nothing better than being anonymous, I guess. It’s somewhat like an ability to hide from your surroundings. Some power you can use to achieve something without the consent of others. However embarrassing or obnoxious it might be you’re doing, noone knows, and thus noone ever cares. It’s cool, really. And I am in no way against anonymity, really, because even I like to be anonymous sometimes. But you know, sometimes…
However great anonymity might be, I hate it for being possibly abused by people, not using it in good will.
For example, we have anonymity options for our phones. We can hide our dial number and still call people. Even people we don’t know at all, for doing a so called prank call. You know, I hate prank calls. It’s so damn annoying, I can’t even stand it. As you probably know, there’s a phone number, here on this website for people to call, written in my profile. It is there for enabling people to cantact me. It is not there for people to call me in order to record annoying noises, especially not when they are supressing their own dial number. However sad it is, for those foreign people with providers that do not support sending their phone number, I had to turn it into a message box redirect. Leave an intelligent, and especially an understandable, message and I might get back at you in a few days.
However sad it is, and however much I like anonymity in networks, which includes cellular networks and such, in event of the actions people have taken, I cannot allow your anonymity anymore. I had to shut down another possibility of contacting and reaching me.
If you want to do a prank call, submit your number, so I can do the legal stuff, without having to ask the network providers in the legal process for the required information, because that’s hell expensive and risky.
If you want to contact me, and I may not know you, please find another way to reach me, thanks.
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April 14, 2008
Had a bit too much time, do you think it’s good?
I have pale skin
I am damn thin
Some might think…
I’m strange…
My long edge teeth
My bloodred lips
and of course this weird…
lust for blood
longing for the beautiful…
[REFRAIN]
I’m just a vampire,
livin’ in a coffin, I die,
just to sleep until I am reborn,
when the night comes,
to byte you and…
suck all blood, out of your flesh
Oh the evil, that’s all I am…
So sad, but still, the rest of me…
Dead with the living, no matter where we go
Still go on to live through…
this emotional disease
like nothing, would make it ever end
And I go on…
until dawn I live
in great disguise
never knowing what I should do
to waste a little bit of time
with you
hypnoticising your mind
I do, create a pulse in…
your veines
[REFRAIN]
I’m just a vampire,
livin’ in a coffin, I die,
just to sleep until I am reborn,
when the night comes,
to byte you and…
suck all blood, out of your flesh
Oh the evil, that’s all I am…
So sad, but still, the rest of me…
Dead with the living, no matter where we go
Still go on to live through…
this emotional disease
like nothing, would make it ever end
And I move on…
I byte your neck
lustfully…
giving you… this last…
eternal kiss
drinking it… until it ends
my desires
and then.. you die
please forgive me, because…
[REFRAIN]
I’m just a vampire,
livin’ in a coffin, I die,
just to sleep until I am reborn,
when the night comes,
to byte you and…
suck all blood, out of your flesh
Oh the evil, that’s all I am…
So sad, but still, the rest of me…
Dead with the living, no matter where we go
Still go on to live through…
this emotional disease
like nothing, would make it ever end
And sunrise comes…
to late for me
I have to go…
forever goodbye…
my little puppet…
These flames in ice…
they burn…
I am gone…
forever, goodbye…
Feel free to post a comment, thanks.
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April 8, 2008
What do you fear?
Have you asked yourself this question once?
What do you think happens when you experience fear?
And last: Are you really scared?
What I fear, I cannot tell, but it must be something ordinary. I don’t fear the most weird and dangerous things. It doesn’t matter whatever it is. I just won’t care about it. If someone wants to kill me, even, then I think I’d shortly think, and then, I would accept it, let me kill and die. 
No not really. But I wouldn’t care about being dead, though. When you’re dead, nothing is left, I can’t care about it if I don’t exist, right?
Anyways, back to the fear thing. I can’t tell what I fear, because it’d be the most obnoxious kind of weakness I could possibly expose. I just can tell, that there’s nothing more to fear for me anymore. However sad it is, it’s a problem.
Oh, yeah, I asked myself this question a dozen of times. I always came to the same conclusion. No matter what it did, I can’t remember any detail, but still not forget. It’s hard to live in fear.
What happens, that’s fairly simple. You’re trembling. Because you’re cooling down and sweat, no matter how cold that it is. You still sweat and freeze. It’s really hard to live in fear. You always want to be dead, but you don’t want to die. Just go on living no matter what. In pain, forever trembling, deep inside.
I don’t know if I’m really scared, maybe I’m just talking myself into it. And it’s all in the mind, wherever you go, to keep haunting you. But to cease the things you fear is yet, so terribly hard.
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April 5, 2008
I don’t know why, but my harddisks always get damaged so easily. It only takes them about a year and then they’re almost trash. I always have to make this bunch of file recovery stuffs, I almost hate it. Somehow my storage devices did this to me again. Awesome harddisk crashes they are. Always those sounds. It’s almost funny.
At first they start to cry with this desastring high sound. And after a while it goes ‘click….crrrr….clack’ and when it’s got to read data it’s getting even worse. ‘Click, crrr… click, click, click, click’ that’s what it sounds like. It’s really weird, but for some time, you might even get used to that sound. However, you shouldn’t. It’s a bad omen for computers in general, and an even worse for servers. And the bad things, and here I am talking about data loss, tend to happen, when you the least expect it.
And I tell you, I really like to loose my data. 
Ok, goodbye, my harddrives, it’s been nice with you. Take all the data with you to the ground of no return. *sniff*
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March 20, 2008
It’s finally spring again.
Not that special, though. The sun isn’t shining and it’s still cold outside.
That’s sad, I wonder for what there’s a window in this room I’m sitting right now, if the sun just won’t shine through it, to brighten my day.
Hope that’ll get better by tomorrow…
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March 17, 2008
Didn’t you remember this cool feature in an old ICQ version, which enabled you to add floating contacts? And you missed it in the newer versions?
“Icon on Top (On)” - You can use this option with specific users on your Contact List, so that their names always appear on your screen even when the ICQ program is minimized.
Well, you can achieve a similar result, by using desktop shortcuts.
Therefore simply rightclick on your desktop. A context menu will open, letting you choose from various options. Here, choose New -> Shortcut.
A window will open letting you type in the location for the shortcut to lead to. Type in:
icq:send_message?uin=[your contact's ICQ#]
For the [your contacts ICQ#] you can type in a ICQ number, an AOL screenname, or even a phone number with the full country code.
When you’re done, click Next. You will now be asked for a name for your new shortcut. Here, type in your contacts name on your contact list, or if you want, even something completely different. You should use your contacts nickname, but it really doesn’t matter, it’s your choice, you know.
When you’re done, click Finish.
Now, you’ve got a working shortcut on your desktop, which will, if you double click it, open the message window for the choosen contact. But, you know, this default web shortcut icon is not that good. So now, rightclick on your new shortcut and select Properties. A window will open, letting you choose different things. Here, click on Change Icon, and another window will open. Maybe a confirmation window will pop up, telling you an icon could not be found. Ignore it in this case and simply click OK.
Now we have this window, where we can choose from various default Windows icons, but that’s not really what we want. There is an input bar, where we will type in:
C:\Program Files\ICQ6\services\icqApp\ver1\theme\IMAGES\Common\IcqIcons\WindowsIcons\win-icon-message.png
Then we click on OK.
Note: This will only work with ICQ6. If you haven’t installed ICQ into C:\Program Files\ICQ6\ or if you are using a localized version of Windows XP, this directory might be different. You will have to replace that part of the file path with the path you have choosen while installing ICQ.
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