I corrected a few things in the "Italy" department of my Travelogue, and exhibited a part of my visit to Italy of 2010.

My Library and my Conservatory have been updated.

You can now see the photos of my last visit to Italy in my Travelogue.

Two more books of David Farland have been added to the Library.

After a long time, I have extended my Arena; now, one can also find Company of Heroes and Spellforce, there.

The Library was slihtly extended. Moreover, I updated the "about me" section.

You can now view my pictures from Southern France and Monaco in my Travelogue.

The Library and the Conservatory have been extended.

My Travelogue has received a new entry. This time, I added pics from my first journey to the USA that lead me to Miami.

The Library has been updated.

My Travelogue has received a new entry. This time, I added pics of my first journey to the USA which lead me to Miami.

Not much has happened; only the Conservatory has been extended, and Schandmaul and Visions of Atlantis can now be found, there.

Apart from minor book and music updates, you can now find the pics from my last Italy visit, too.
However, I was not able to put the English translation online earlier, for I simply did not have the time for it.

I updated the Rhapsody links.

After a small extension of the "About me" section, you can now find pics of me that were not taken during my travels.

I updated my Library, i.e. the latest releases can now be found.

I did a major update, and my Travelogue draws near its completion. My Berlin pics are now online, and I wrote a new Washington intro.

The gallery was extended, some typoes were corrected, and I updated my London intro.

The gallery was extended, some typoes were corrected... and I added something to the "About me" section, i.e. quotes by and about me.

Some minor updates were done, as well as a small extension of the gallery.

I removed some mistakes, and, after a long time, I have added a major update to my Travelogue: my London pics are online.

To get some atmosphere to the site, I added sound to the first two areas.

Those who think that I do not update my Tower, anymore, are wrong. A few broken links have been removed from the Worldsī Chamber, and, furthermore, some things have been added to the Library, the Gallery and the Conservatory.
Those who havenīt been here for a longer time and who may wonder about what has happened to the Draconian section: the dragoness herself destroyed this part of my Tower, and for this, she was banned from my territory for good. Some more details can be looked up in the bard songs which have been written after Where are you ?.

I re-designed the entrance area, and I separated the German from the English section.
Moreover, I re-structured my gallery and, of course, I added some more pics to it.

To have less loading time, I rearranged the gallery, and I took the opportunity to extend it by a few picturess. Furthermore, with Conquest, the Bard has another one of my poems to read.

After a longer period of time, there is a major thing I added to my Travelogue, i.e. pics from Mallorca which I visited in 1999.
With Crossroads, I also gave my bard a new poem to read out.

I re-designed my gallery, and extended it by some pics.

Not much has happened. Only the book overview in the library has been changed.

And again, thereīs something for my Travelogue. This time, I added pics from Scotland. Phew...

Well... I added another chapter to my Travelogue. The first part of my Italy section is done; you can now view some pics from my 1997 Italy vacation.
I edited and subdivided the "About myself" section, too.

Some typoes have been corrected, a few books and CDs have been added, and the entrance area has been re-designed a little bit.

In the meantime, I have extended my Library a little bit, and, above all, I have taken care of by Travelogue. Now, finally, the Canada section is done, as is a part of my USA visits.

Phew ! Most of my library has been re-built, and only a few authors are missing now. I will complete this section when I have more time, but for now, I will focus my attention on the Travelogue.

The game section has been reconstructed. And with the Travelogue, a new, probably final, section has been added.

Angelfire is a nice thing, but the fact that every frame automatically gets a really huge ad banner - even if you entered "Pop ups only" in the preferences menu - absolutely gets on my nerve. What nerves me even more is the fact that if I upload files with the internal FTP, a java script is automaticaly added tot he file, and this script sets cookies. So if you find Angelfire cookies - I didnīt set them. What also annoys me is the fact that the web space for those who use the free service has been narrowed down to 20 MB. Currently, my tower needs over 16 MB, so thereīs not much room, anymore.
Therefore, I moved to another server, plus: I have my own domain... now I have 100 MB, my pages arenīt spammed by advertisements... wonderful !

The site is being partially re-designed. On the one hand, the file structure is being re-ordered, on the other hand, the outward appearance is being re-designed, as well. The heavy metal links have now completely disappeared from the links page, and they can now be found on a subpage on the respective band subsite. The music area will be completely re-designed and it will be turned into a subframe area. Thus, you donīt have to scroll down a band page from top to bottom, anymore. This re-arrangement has taken quite a long time, for - as can be seen on the music page - I recommend many musicians. While changing the design of the music department, I also changed the design of the smaller sections accordingly right away (links and quotes).

Rather accidentally, I saw that web sites can also be designed with MS-Word. And if I activate the respective option, I can also add frames, and this is what I learnt step by step. Afterwards, I added frames to my tower. The results can be seen - Sparrowhawkīs Tower has become considerably clearer.

In the meantime, Iīve had my own internet access. Back then, I used software to edit my pages. Please donīt laugh - I used Netscapeīs Composer. However, by being able to look at the source code and thanks to some knowledge I had acquired before, I was able to improve my HTML skills considerably. Today, I type everything myself, without using any web software. And for the typing, I use the regular Windows Editor.
I could realize my ideas at Angelfire. And I had much more room. I had 5 MB at the beginning, and later on, that room which humans call web space could be upgraded to 50 MB.
More and more contents have been added. Yet - whoever recalls the beginning of my tower at Angelfire still knows that many things were confusing. The German and the English section were separate, for I knew nothing about tables and how to edit them. And I had no clue about adding frames. Which is why each and every sub page of mine haf a menu at its end. And the guest book was only accessible from the homepage.
Most of it changed during my time in Canada. There, I learnt more HTML, and I experimented a lot. When I knew most of editing tables, I changed a part of how my web site was built. Instead of having 2 separate sections, I packed everything into one big bi-lingual section. This basic table design has not changed till date.

In the course of time, I learnt a bit HTML - Iīm still learning, but Iīve learnt most of what I need in the meantime - and I had more and more ideas about what to add to the contents of my tower. Metropolis, however, didnīt provide me with the opportunities to realize my ideas. I thus moved into a bigger tower. My new tower, then, stood at Angelfire.

I continued surfing through the internet, partly for private interests, partly because I was looking for material for my exams, and I saw that some club members had their own web sites. More and more, the wish to have my own web site grew inside of me. When began, I wanted to remain as close as possible to my nick name and its roots. And what is better suited for a mage than a mage tower ?
I built my first tower at Metropolis. Back then, this service didnīt allow much. One could have one picture, and that had to be a link; it was impossible to upload anything. Apart from that, one only had a single page at his disposal. HTML was not permitted, at all, and links could be set only by means of internal commands. And a guest book was offered. That was all. So, this tower was very small.
Back then, however, I had the wish to build a bi-lingual tower, which is why I registered for 2 separate pages, one in English and one in German, and I registered for 2 guest books - one for each page.

And thus, I moved through the internet. By the way, humans call this surfing. Email adresses were required everywhere, so I registered to have one, too. Back then, I was registered at Hotmail. I was looking for material about Robert Jordanīs Wheel of Time series, and I thus found a German Wheel of Time forum. And through this forum, I found the German Wheel of Time fanclub of which Iīm still a member - which, apart from Sesch and Azmodean, makes me one of those members who have been in the club for the longest time. Back then, I needed a nickname. As I said, I like fantasy fiction, and Iīve always had a liking for mages. The names of popular characters like Gandalf or Saruman, I thought, would be taken by many people, and I wanted something more exclusive. Names from Wheel of Time were not accepted in the club. Back then, I was reading Ursula K. LeGuinīs Earthsea tetralogy, in which there are mages, too. I had taken a liking to one of the main characters. His real name appeared too simple to me, so I adopted his nickname - and thus, my internet presence as SPARROWHAWK was created.

Those days I discovered what the people on Earth call cyberspace or internet. Back then, everything was so new and confusing to me. The only ting I could do was operating a search engine, which I needed to prepare myself for my Masterīs exams at university, which were close at hand. Since fantasy fiction was one of my topics during my oral exams (here, I would like to cordially thank Prof. Dr. Reinhold Schiffer, who accepted fantasy fiction as a topic), and since this department, at my former university, is scarcely represented, and almost exclusively reduced to J.R.R. Tolkien, who created modern fantasy writing - even though Tolkien is one of my favo(u)rite authors, this is a regrettable circumstance - I moved through the internet to look for new material.