Doing something good today
So by now probably everyone has heard about the very sadening things hapening in Haiti.
Writing my previous blog post, which is one of those typical lighthearted developer blog posts moaning jokingly on high level about this and that in the comfort of his relaxing chair, i suddenly had to think about Haiti again.
That made me think its time for doing something.
You know, when things happen like those in Haiti now i usually always get sad for two reasons:
First and foremost because seeing the suffering people go through is very depressing,
second, because i´m a poor guy and don´t have a lot of power or money to help as much as i would like to.
So i typically don´t and try to ignore it after feeling guilty.
When i see a homeless person on the street i give him an euro or two in between, but besides that and looking after my baby nephew and teaching him new things the amount of really social things i do is kinda quite limited.
On the money side i sorta have to argue it out with myself because my indy stuff doesn´t bring much money yet so i´m still doing one client project after the other to pay the bills and only get to work on my own projects in my spare time, so not much money left to donate propper sums really.
Well, i thought i could maybe do something now though:
I now raised the price of stuntmanbob on the app store and will donate all the money i get from sales of it till end of february to help organizations doing their job in Haiti.
Right now stuntmanbob isn´t selling many copies and probably the price raise will not affect that very positively either, but yeah, i´ve got another update already submitted waiting for approval so that maybe it gets better when that comes out.
At least i feel like i´m doing my part, even if its a small one, so not all bad i hope =)
I´d be glad if you buy stuntmanbob on the app store and help that way, too, or, you know, just look up one of the many donation organizations and donate some money there =)
You can get stuntmanbob on the App Store here
January 23rd, 2010 at 6:33 am
Hello Tommo :p
Long time …. glad u still alive and kicking. And glad u got into the iphone appstore !
Nice blog … Seems very fresh hehe.
Hope to talk soon.
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Hey Nils =)
yeah, its been ages, haha, nice, first Phreax comes by to say hi and now you, man, if i had known all i needed to do was create a new blog to talk with you fellas again i´d have made one a few years ago =)
Anyway, yeah, i´m glad to see you´re around, too, last time we talked you were travelling to visit your brother, no? =)
Yeah, i´m still alive and kicking, though many things have happened meanwhile, for example just mid of last year i became an uncle and moved to another town as the family wanted to live closer together.
And yeah, i´ve actually already made iPhone stuff for the app store since 2008, just also worked on lots of flash and unity client stuff meanwhile and well, without a blog no one really knows what i´m up to, so i finally decided to make one again =)
What have you been upto? Maybe we can also take our more private chat onto msn or mail, dunno =)
And yeah, glad to talk with you again, too =)
January 26th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
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