Broken Wii ready to be taken away

Our Wii has just been taken away by UPS.

It all started with sporadic random freezes during games like De Blob and Zelda. Then it started happening more regularly. We could sometimes play Zelda for more than an hour, but the Wii would often freeze after 5 or 10 minutes. The freezes were often accompanied by single polygons going crazy all over the screen and always by pretty bad noise from the speakers. In the end, there were also crashes right after a reboot when doing nothing at all in the Wii’s menu.

As the Wii was unusable, we decided to get it repaired under warranty. Fortunately, it’s rather easy to get the Wii back to Nintendo:

1. Make a copy of your proof of purchase.
2. Go to Nintendo’s RMA site where you create a new repair request and describe your problem.
3. Print the shipment documents and wrap up your Wii.
4. Go to UPS’s pickup site and tell them when you want them to get the Wii from you.

I hope our Wii will be back soon.

Update: UPS fetched the Wii on the September 29th. Today (October 2nd), I got an e-mail that is has been delivered to Nintendo.

Endlich Freizeit!

Geschmacklos? Lustig? Ob das dem Steinmeier passt?

The Rust Bucket

Das ist tatsächlich mal eine Rostlaube.

Update: Wie mir auf Twitter von @timbooooo gesteckt wurde, hat das eine eigene Website und es wurde schon bei Spiegel Online darüber berichtet.

Today, I got the confirmation from the university that the time for my diploma thesis has officially begun. So I won’t do much besides working on it for the next six months.

I’m working on the thesis in cooperation with SnapDragon Games. Therefore there is the small disadvantage that I can’t really say what my thesis is about. On the other hand, the advantage is that my topic is very exciting and pretty much on the “bleeding edge”. And maybe you’ll one day see my work in a published game – who knows.

I guess I’ll run some posts on related stuff – like Latex, reference management or C++, but the actual topic has to stay top secret for now.

Wish me luck.

3=5!!

(Found in Bremen.)