I just spent an evening debugging the girlfriend's laptop as it somehow flat-out rejected to play video in Totem (ever since upgrading her xubuntu install from 8.04 to 8.10). Totem has a convenient browser plugin for Firefox, so this is kind of a problem if I don't want …

Apparently it started out as a London Meme, but as it got passed on by bmsleight to me, and it's fun anyway, I'll post my answer here. Top three non-work websites: Google Reader (rss/atom feed reader, contains most of my news and recreational sources) Wikipedia Slashdot Three favourite cocktails …

I just bought a nice new, quiet Zalman 15mm thin cooling for her, cleaned her from dust, even cleaned the partitions of her hdd before powering down, but suddenly luna, my trusty home server/media box doesn't want to boot anymore. Worse, she doesn't even POST anymore. No VGA signal …

So, as my current stereo is kinda dead, my mediabox (home server) still is located in my home office upstairs, headphones are bothersome and laptop speakers decidedly are not on-par with hifi stereo, I started thinking about how to get some decent sound back into our living room. So when …

So, err, tomorrow I'll be offline for servicing. The hospital will perform some minor maintenance on my earthly vessel and I am planning on releasing patch release v26.10.patch1 in the late afternoon. Keeping you posted!

So yesterday evening we went to see whether those old guys can still rock. Well, they can, and how :) In a completely filled Ahoy they started off with a nice intro on the main screen and a new track of the new album with Paul Rodgers. Quickly they rocked the …

Last weekend I went to a party in Belgium: seven guys, two cars, 260km trip and a huge anticipation for Infected Mushroom, Shpongle and more. We where not let down by them :) The sets where awesome, Infected Mushroom live was just mindblowing and the whole event gave me enough energy …

Birds in mid-flight suspended Sudden autumn ghust Turning, going home (I seriously need to hone my haiku skills)

Birds suspended in mid-flight Sudden autumn ghust Going home again

Sooo, I just enabled posting of comments on my brain blurps again. I hope I won't get swamped in spam again and keep this interaction open for interesting feedback...

I started this piece as a blogmark, but decided to make a decent post out of it. The BBC has an interesting piece on the case for books in an era which sees e-book readers coming into play: What is the most flexible, intelligent, interactive data retrieval system yet to …

When I saw burner's post of device names, I thought I'd make it a meme :) Or at least, add my own list: river - workstation galadriel - laptop aquatix - nokia n810 internet tablet comm - cellphone luna - home server higgs - colocated server Those are the devices/machines I currently use daily. I have …

The Google Chrome browser is quite interesting. It's rather fast because of the use of Webkit, it looks rather slick and it shows that there's gone quite some thought into the default features. I miss mouse gestures, adblock and bookmark sync though. Not sure whether Google itself will ever come …

Today, Debian GNU/Linux celebrates its 15th anniversary. Happy next 15 years of collective hacking, Debian!

I couldn't have said it better.

What does it tell me when I see a bump in the road and I want to whip up my controller so I get a speed boost? Especially when I remember I'm in my own car, not on a speedy Mach Bike... Also, it's great fun trying to win from …

Today in our coverage on the War on Logic: my home town. An important cross road is being revamped - which is good - but work on it has been going on for a while. Because it's the main connection to the highway it's always busy, especially during rush hour in the …

I got a shady proposal from the webmaster of a gambling site, suggesting a deal to increase pagerank for us both. I wonder how many people will actually agree to do this... From: "Chris R. Bershad " > To: Me Subject: Freelance Link Developer Date: Thu …