Hm, my hate of ISP's has got a slight boost today. I remotely work at my thesis in the vim editor on my home server through ssh, using subversion for version control etc. Currently, I'm at work. My ISP had planned to transfer our account to their new system …

Today I had to hand in my student public transportations card. Its handiness will be missed. [Did they have to cut out my head like that?]

Going to be an interesting movie I guess.

Kinda makes you wonder how the computers in 2104 look like, if you can see them as 'computers' at all.

I thought I'd update my Debian sid laptop and try to get wifi working again so I can browse/work on the couch with something bigger than my Nokia N810. I hadn't really touched it since halfway June, and didn't update since June 21. Result: apt-get dist-upgrade [..snip..] 423 upgraded …

A VW van from the 50's of last century, advertising to get Television. That's right, not a television, or a dozen like a modern day US home has, but the concept in general. Times when the whole neighbourhood poured into your living room when a popular program was on. Wonder …

Yesterday I ordered a Nerf Maverick from eBay along with some extra arrows. These toy guns shooting soft plastic arrows are quite cool and great for performing an office war [YouTube]. I wanted to keep my arsenal civilised, as otherwise I might have gone overboard and got myself a Nerf …

*Gulp* Ten years ago I was sixteen years old, an uncertain, geeky teenager. Right this moment we where on a school trip in Paris, that nice, big city in France you might have heard of. Earlier on a few girls of my class had tried to set up things, but …

Today I traded the head pillow I had on try-out for a regular, new one, after which we made the bed with shiny new linen and my new, very comfy pillow. Sleep is good :) After giving the community some time and updating my tablet a bit, the N810 with Diablo …

Yesterday evening I flashed Diablo (Maemo 4.1) on my Nokia N810 tablet. This is a great update BTW. I restored the backup of my contacts and some other minor things and set up the Modest email client (which suprisingly now marks my mails as 'read' on the imap server …

Yesterday we went out to buy some stuff (shopping Sundays are rather convenient). We came back with a new pillow for me, which should make sleeping even more fun, but not the two games we wanted. Of course, those are amongst the most popular at the moment, but you would …

Some people find it a stupid concept [a bit like how I find Valentine's day overrated - why only be sweet to your lover then?], but I think it's a good day to show your dad you appreciate his existence and actions :) Maybe I'm just blessed with my old man, but …

We came back from the Greek island of Zakynthos last week, and as expected I made a lot of pictures. Here is a small selection; an album will be up later. Mouse over for texts, click for larger versions.

Driving to work over an alternative road with nice views of flowery fields, small towns and lined with lots of trees filtering the warm sun overhead, I almost felt like I was going on vacation. I can't say that I dislike that sensation ;)

Today is a beautiful day. It's warm and sunny, the woman are pretty in their summer clothes and statistics class only tool 23 minutes. Hell, even the grad student giving the practical was pretty. After that, I spent about an hour trying to get on the campusnet with my N810 …

So I ordered some new hardware parts for building a decent workstation a while ago. Today I received the first batch: two 750GB sata hdd's, making a nice grand total of 1.5TB :) However, I also received an email stating that the processor I ordered - a Intel core2duo E8400 3GHz …

Awesome.

Through pidgin's developers mailing list, I found this insightful comment by Eric Lippert on software users: It's not that users are morons or that they "forget" to think. Its that users are trained to not think. Users very quickly learn from experience that: dialog boxes are modal. But users do …

This morning I was sitting in my car driving towards work. I had some nice music on the stereo and the sun was starting to warm the land. These are conditions in which I naturally start to hum along with the music, even singing along. This Wednesday was even better …