Well, we’re going to have a little LAN party in a few weeks and we will do a little Duke Nukem 3D revival (DNF is never going to be released anyway). Good old times! But wait, we used to have those gorgeous 3-button mice back in the days, they were called Logitech Mouseman, and had an awesome design (and most importantly 3 big mouse buttons and NO wheel). Logitech even did a “gamers edition” of the Mouseman design called the “Wingman Gaming Mouse”. Well, the only drawback was that optical mouse sensor systems were not invented back then (as was the mouse wheel, fortunately). They used these little balls to detect motion, which were constantly attracting dust, getting dirty and unresponsive all the time. So we thought, why not take these dusty old mice and upgrade them with an optical system. Today me and a friend did a first prototype. It won’t win a beauty contest yet, but it works perfectly fine! Here are a few pictures:

Yesterday I received my Canon 50D DSLR. It took me quite a bit of time to decide on this purchase, but after playing around for only a couple of minutes, I think it’s already worth it. I added a little blog at westlicht.tumblr.com just to publish some of the photos I’ll shoot with my new DSLR. Hope you enjoy.