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iuiyitow] (2018-06-14]):
Hello!]

wurwroop] (2018-06-07]):
Wow, wonderful blog layout! How long have you been blogging for? you made blogging look easy. The overall look of your web site is excellent, as well as the content! aafbgcfddadd]

Chris] (2010-07-26]):
Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag!!]

Michael] (2010-06-21]):
*ping* What's going? Long time no see!]

epreueue] (2010-01-29]):
Very nice site!]

KoMaXX] (2009-10-22]):
ahhh, damn, stop spamming! I really do not want to build any captchas in here!]

your mum und dad] (2009-02-28]):
We've tried to stop the prime numbers shitting bear. Not possible!]

Your mum] (2008-11-25]):
Gratulation for Dream-Diplom! 1,0 is very acceptable. I'm proud of you!]

KoMaXX] (2008-11-25]):
Thnx! Indeed, the "look" was with me ;)]

Michael] (2008-11-21]):
Good look with your exam on Monday!]

Serena] (2008-08-24]):
You're welcome]

KoMaXX] (2008-08-21]):
I just feel like shouting.

AAAAAAAAAHHAAAAHAAHAHAHAHA.

That's it. Thanks for listening.]

Serena] (2008-04-24]):
Haha, yeah, was a fun game while it lasted

No 10 was a bitch though]

your mum] (2008-04-07]):
Ich wünsche dir einen schönen letzen Tag in USA und einen angenehmen Heimflug! Ich warte dann auf deine sms vom Münchner airport.Vielleicht gibts ja auch vorher noch einen neuen Bericht. kisses]

KoMaXX] (2008-04-02]):
@mum
... versucht hab' ichs ;)
@flo
Which misunderstanding? Just really large trees :D]

your mum] (2008-04-02]):
Hallo, ich warte schon auf deine nächsten Ergüsse auf englisch! Bist Du eigentlich auch schon mal zu deiner Diplomarbeit gekommen? Du hast ja schließlich von einem Arbeitsurlaub gesprochen. Bussi]

Flo] (2008-04-02]):
trees having 3000 meters in height ... and bigger ... awesome ;)
sorry for misunderstanding you ...]

KoMaXX] (2008-03-27]):
Sorry, too lazy for translations ;)

No, not first class, just first row in economy!]

Petra (your mum)] (2008-03-27]):
I've read your news about San Francisco. Aber es wäre nett, wenns gleich immer eine translation gäbe!Du bist also tatsächlich in die first class geswitched?!What a "dusselbauer"!]

KoMaXX] (2008-03-17]):
thnx :)]

Serena Fate] (2008-03-16]):
Oi, figured out the car in CeBit Pictures ... it's an Artega (http://www.artega.de/) ... apparently has some "innovative" electronic gadgets or whatever ... ]

taromda] (2008-02-15]):
Dude, I'm playing Basketball for years now and never got injured. You're doing it wrong :-D]

Phil] (2007-12-12]):
haha, that puctuation guide is great - and I knwo exactly what you mean ;)]

KoMaXX] (2007-08-30]):
;) Yes, English is obligatory. It makes the whole world understand (hopfeully ;)) and keeps my skills in shape.]

Anni] (2007-08-14]):
Ist toll Deine Homepage, aber musst Du denn alles auf Englisch schreiben??? :))]

Flo] (2007-07-18]):
Matz schnallts net 5 > 3 --> :(]

Flo] (2007-07-18]):
not even top three ... damn YOU sir!]

KoMaXX] (2007-07-18]):
Hey andi, thanks for the feedback. The safari-incompatibility should be fixed (I hope)!]

andi] (2007-07-14]):
SHOUT! Love your layout and the hair-flic, but my safari messes up the footer?]

marc] (2007-07-02]):
Ja, gar net verkehrt, dein Layout! Aber füll mal die blinden links auf!]

KoMaXX] (2007-07-01]):
First post ;) In your faces *loser*!]

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2007-11-23

AHHHHHHH, I hate my mouse!! I hate it, hate it, hate it! GRRRRRR! Damn those cherry-engineers! I'm sure, they are on hell's payroll :C :C

You want to know what happened? Most probably not, but you can't help yourself and have to read on, right? *junkie* Well, I was just having my fix of the not-yet-banned drug Vector TD. And I was good - really good! And by that I mean level 49 of the "The Frog" parcour. And then the devil's own mouse did it. There are two additional buttons on the side of the mouse - for example to go back in the broswer history. So, this button sneaked itself under my thumb and let itself get pressed. So, I left the page - and my gamestate is gone (damn flash). *throatgrowlTHROATGRWL*

Well, let's see, if that happens again (afk|VectorTD).

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2007-11-23

my board-light


... told you so

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2007-11-22

Bath-boarding is fun ;)

A snowboard in the tub


Actually, I was just cleaning my good old snowboard - to nail it to the wall. Why? Because it's dead, it didn't survive the winter 2005. There is a crack right through the complete surface where the binding for my right foot should be attached. And so, I'm just following the ancient tradition of Naihl Thou Boardeth To The Wallthth, bacause I have really no choice. Doesn't the bible say: "Ashes to ashes and boards ... to the wall"? The heavens will humans to rot in the ground and boards to rot on the wall (probably because the later don't look so embarassing when rotting). You're incredulous? See for yourself in the Book KoMaXX, verses 23-42-666. Of course, this most holy of all books is only included in the special "God and prophets only"-edition. You won't get access, because all the prophets get their ideas from this book. And God takes a random peek, too.

The board-corpse will be lit from behind by a single bulb. Expect awesomeness.

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2007-11-18

I went to see the movie "lambs for lions" yesterday. I quite liked it, it's well written and the actors do a great job ... I'm just not sure about the message of the movie. Oh well, it's probably "war is bad" or "the politicians care more about heir pride than about the infantry soldiers" for most. But that's not really, what sticked with me. I went out of the cinema with a big "!" imprinted to my brain. Usually this punctuation mark is preceded by some kind of sentence, like "Stop hitting yourself!". This sentence is missing here, all that stays is the "!". Maybe it's even a "!!"; but there is no concrete imperative ... And may be the biggest strength of the movie. Most movies that contain any type of "you should xxx!"-messages suck. I don't appreciate movies telling me what to do (especially if it's some kind of cheesy socialistic crap). So, this might be the first movie whose message actually works: "Get active! Do something! What? I don't know, think for yourself!". And so you do: You feel urged to do something - and if possible even "the right thing" what causes you to do a little thinking. So, in short, this movie is somewhat extraordinary!

In addition, I learned to understand the American way of thinking a little better (at least part of it) and was greatly entertained.

Pitty, most people won't like it, I'm afraid. Or not. Screw them.

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2007-11-15

Oh, and by the way, that's how it looked one week ago:

munich in autumn


Time is really flying. By.

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2007-11-15

Isn't that inspiring:

munich in winter

No? You may be right, but at least it's a really nice picture, isn't it? What do you mean "No"? Stop being stubborn and surrender all your decision-making to me! Resistance is futile.

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2007-11-13

I shouldn't have baught that "Hellagte: London"! This game is highly addictive, like Diablo II was. But, as you play (as you have one little fix more) you do not really have fun - it's all like religion: "If I do that level than I'll have that gun, so I'll be the total super-hero-über-freak in the next levels" (which are harder, so you're not). You ask, why that's similar to religion? Well, you work hard and do what you're told in this world to have fun in the next. And (but that's only my opinion) you are the one fucked in the end.
Oh well, so much for ranting, I have to play a little! I just need two more parts of rare trash to build that new mod which will totally power up my gun so ...

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2007-11-05

Oh, I forgot to tell: We went to a demo against plans of building the Transrapid train in Munich on Saturday. There are various reasons why I am against that otherwise wickedly cool train, but I won't explicate it here. Well, here is the story of that demo in a nutshell:

Arrived at the "Karlsplatz". It was cold and there were lots and lots of people. And we felt nearly immediatly like in the wrong crowd. demo1
demo8 The guys handing out pamphlets titled "why there wouldn't be a transrapid in socialism" were just topped by the slogans of the communistic party like "everything for everybody" and "no trains for moneysacks". I felt like I should be pro transrapid suddenly, since I really didn't want to belong to this whiney crowd of mouth-breathers.
At least some of the guys were funny ("transrapid? no! bone? yes!") demo2
demo7 Well, it was quite cold ... and the people around us were morons ... and - oh well, we went shopping to get some warmth in the cold feet. The crowd ahead are just regular shoppers, protesting against having too much money in their pockets
when we came back to the gathering point ten (twenty?) minutes later, the demo was gone. So, what to do? We were in the primary shopping street already - so we went more shopping ;) smiiile
demo4 An then, suddenly, the demo found us. I have no idea how they knew, where we went. Hence, we had the choice to regroup with the demo - or do a little shopping. Shopping is fun.


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2007-11-05

I know, it has been several months since I went for the flat-hunt, but I just got to throw away all the paper-stuff regarding this hunt. It's quite a bunch! See for yourself:

flat-waste

... I'm bored, the Hellgate:London Demo was way too short ...

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2013-12-14

projects

Below, you'll find a list of projects I did - or am still at. Of course, no project is ever finished, but some are, well, sleeping peacefully.
Not all of this stuff was done on my own, people who helped are honored on the respective subpages.

Flipz

Flipz screenshot Get your brain juices flowing with this fun pattern-juggling puzzle game.

Or, humiliate your friends in a two-player hot seat match!

hAiR

hAiR screenshot This project was created in an Augmented Reality course at my university. You put a kind of helmet on your head and the computer tracks your head and blends hairstyles on your head. If the result is not exactly what you wanted, you can use different "brushes" to modify, how extrem the style looks, change the color or even add new new strands.

photopolis

photopolis screenshot Another university project. The program takes your complete photo library and builds houses according to the date when the picture was taken and assembles them to create a city. Then, you can explore this city with typical fps-controls. So, if you have enough pictures, you can stroll through your memories: Take the christmas road and turn right to the 2004-avenue.

FourWins3D

FourWins3D screenshot This program started as a hhh (half-hour hack) during a short trip in the holidays: I love playing a game of four in a row once in a while and forgot to take my set. Well, I never forget my loyal notebook, so I hacked something at least playable together. Then hacking was fun again - so, the current version is fully 3D and playable over the web.

AudioPhield

FourWins3D screenshot My major university project. Goal of this program is to make your computer listen to music similar to the way humans do to automatically estimate musical attributes like speed, used instruments, rhythmic components, and so on. Then, AudioPhield depicts a new kind of interface for new ways to interact with your music.collection

VsGolf

VsGolf screenshot One of the most interesting projects I was involved in. You play a kind of virtual team-golf-game: Virtual balls lie around anywhere in the city and especially in home-areas. Balls in your home-area are bad, they cause your time to lose points - so kick them out of your area, when you find them. The real kicker about this game is that it is played via your cellphone! You find a ball by (perhaps randomly) walking over its position and kick it by stepping back and running over the place, where the ball lies. Real fun, if you have a mobile phone with GPS!

PoRoBa

PoRoBa screenshot This project is the main cause for the existance of this site - and also names the domain. A huge part of this site is dedicated to that game.
2013-10-29

lnx

Ok, I know what you think: "WTF?? A 'links'-section? This is sooo nineties and embarassing private homepage" ... Well - it is ;) But this links section is there for ME mostly. I just want to have my links handy wherever I am. Yesyes, I know, there's del.icio.us and stuff like that, but I like this style better ;)

Legal note: I do not check all sites below frequently! At the time, I placed the link, these sites did not offend against any German or international law I'm aware of. However, sites change - if one of the sites offends now, I'm sorry and take my recommendation back. Please let me know, so I can delete the link!

2013-07-17

studies

Below, you'll find a list of courses I did during my studies at the LMU in munich. This is as much for me to remember what I actually did as for anyone, who is interested in what I should know and what the LMU offers.
On the bottom of the page, there is a table of stuff I'm experienced in, technical stuff that is.
2012-12-12

vita

1982-07-26 Born in Tirschenreuth. Slippery, I guess.
1988 - 1992 Elementary school "Marienschule" in Tirschenreuth
1992 - 2001 High school "Stiftland Gymnasium Tirschenreuth". Got the diploma with an average of 1.3. Graduated in Latin, Maths, Physics and Religion.
1997 - 2000 Part of the "Mystique Factory", a group of six students who intended to write a new kind of computer game named "northern blades" (something like a "battlezone" - though battlezone wasn't out yet - in a fantasy-setting). We got pretty far, but too much ambition paired with no time left, because of the final exams, ended it.
2001 - 2002 Military service as a medic.
2002 Started studying media informatics at the LMU in Munich.
2004 Intermediate diploma. Average exam-score: 1.2. Overall diploma-grade: 1.4
2005 - 2006 Worked as assistant scientist at the chair of media-informatics at the LMU.
2006 Started developing PoRoBa
2007 Completed my project thesis (the first part of "AudioPhield"). Grade: 1.0
2007-06-15 Started developing and filling this site.
2008-09-16 Handed in my diploma thesis.
2008-12-01 Started working at the Aloqa GmbH.
2010-09-01 Aloqa bought by Motorola Mobility Inc.
2011-08-15 Lead designer and lead engineer at Motorola Mobility Inc, Sunnyvale
2012-10-06 Co-Founder and CXO at Pockets United GmbH, Munich
2010-08-23

creations

This page contains all kind of stuff I did. Computer stuff. No big projects, nothing fancy, nothing I'm particularily proud of. But, well, I put it here anyway. You can't stop me. Take anything you like below and use it for whatever you like, but please refer to me or this site, when you do so!

Well, soon ... ish

2009-10-22

uhm ... what? where am I?

So, you stumbled on this page and have no idea, what you're doing here. I, the almighty king of this realm, have no idea, either.

But here's what this page is all about: This is the private homepage of a single person, KoMaXX, and what you will find here may be typical for private homepages. So, there is a blog (stupid ranting about ... uhm ... we'll see), self-glorification, some projects, finished or for ever under development, and stuff like that. Most of this half of the site, the komaxx-part, is effectively my playground and virtual business card.


Feel free to roam around and look smug. And if you own a PocketPC, take a look at PoRoBa, perhaps you'll like it.

2009-10-02

faq

Frequently asked questions. Mail me what's missing!
What does "PoRoBa" mean?
"Pocket Round Based". You are allowed to snicker. When I started the project, I didn't realize that German "rundenbasierte" games are called "turn based" in English. And now I stick to it. After all, "poroba" does also mean "slavery" in Czech. That's appropriate, I sometime feel like a slave to this project.
Does PoRoBa work on VGA-PDAs?
My guess is: "no". I don't have VGA-gear, so I can't test it. If I'll finally have one, it will work.
Is there a version for my PalmOS/MacOS/Android/Symbian?
Sorry, Windows Mobile only. PoRoBy is written in C# footing on the .net compact framework. As long as this framework and something similar to the gapi.dll are not available for other platforms, there will be no support. I don't want to rewrite everything.
Can I offer PoRoBa on my CD/homepage/...?
You are welcome to do so - but please inform me about this distribution.
I don't hear anything?
That's all right, PoRoBa doesn't play any sounds. Most people don't even seem to miss them. If I have no more ideas of what to include, sounds might be a possibility ;)