About

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Ok, I've convinced myself I need to have a weblog^Wrantbox too. So what you are looking at is a site being the place to put my frustrations on :) Poluting the web since 2003-12-20!

NB: if things seem a little fscked up, it's just me playing around. I try to do most weird hacks first on a try-out site, but sometimes I'm hacking right along at this live site. Keeps life interesting :)

"dammIT" ?

"Damn it" is an often heard phrase when working with computers. Well, at least, I use it a lot when I myself or the software I use do stupid things ;) IT speaks for itself; my hobby, study and work is all about computers and related stuff: mostly OS'es, various software and web development. So, "dammIT" kinda wraps up my life :) [Well, not quite, I seem to have a real life too, including my lovely girlfriend, and I'll write about all aspects in my life. Luckily, I do stupid things in the real world too.]

Call it a lame name, I don't care.

Why this weblog?

Yeah, why? Well basically to have some place to write down my frustrations. But also for thinking out loud [which I hope will happen more often than me being frustrated], and sharing some niceties I found on the web with anybody who cares reading this weblog. So, since the 20th of December of the year 2003 you can read about me. Oh rejoice :)

Whoami

/me is a student Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Currently I'm working with the Royal Dutch Navy and where I did my Master research project too. My homepage at the VU contains some information about me, but is getting really dated (last update early 2004...). aquariusoft.org is home to my projects. You can also find links to other sites, like my gallery there.

You seem to be a Dutchie. Why do you pretend to write English?

Mainly because of the exercise I get through it. I like reading other weblogs, preferably in a language I understand, which boils down to Dutch and English. As most content I consume nowadays is in English, I choose to write in that language too. And now I get a reader or three extra ;)

This weblog

Browser stuff

People who develop for the web know how hard it can be to Do It Right™. Browsers [like IE] don't play nice with CSS, you just can't get that colour right or the database speaks another tongue SQL than you do. I've been through all of it and more, but I managed to make this piece standards compliant and viewable by Any Browser™ you like, even lynx and screenreaders. I'm quite proud :)

Rights stuff

Contact

E-mail about contents, design or something else about this weblog can be send to dammit at aquariusoft.org.

Plugs