Somewhere along our stroll through the seasons we lost a summer.

I’m sad to hear fantasy writer Robert Jordan passed away yesterday at the age of 58, from complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis). He was the author of the The Wheel of Time series, which I greatly enjoyed reading. My condolences to his family and friends. Let …

I’ve had a Last.fm account for quite a while now, and I’ve discovered quite some artists through that wonderful service. Recently, I installed mpdscribble, an audio scrobbler plugin for mpd. You can see what music I’m listening too at my account page at Last.fm.

When reading On Lackadaisical Development over at Tam’s Palm, I stumbled a bit on the phrase “There is a distinct lack of commitment and dedication in comparison to closed source and commercial applications.” in the first paragraph. This is only true if the author is short on time, and …

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So Palm killed their Foleo before it was even launched. Too bad, as I thought it was a nice little laptop. [Also, check Engadgets plea to Palm and Palm’s response, which likely caused the Foleo to be scrapped] I’m not entirely sure how stupid the Foleo was; they …

Doonesbury had a nice comic on the United States’ national debt of $9 trillion [sic!]:

everyone’s first vi session. ^C^C^X^X^X^XquitqQ!qdammit[esc]qwertyuiopasdfghjkl;:xwhat [source]

Be sure to get your vote counted at the 2007 Desktop Linux Survey. I was voter 30492, so it’s getting somewhere already :) I like how over 30% of the users don’t even care about running windows apps on their machines.

Shall I Ebay it? [Debian logo]

We gots us a wabbit: Look at me being cute! Weally cute! And small… Also super-lazy Trying to escape There was a hole here somewhere

I just reached the 15000 spam messages for this year in my spam folder. That’s about 15007/211 = 71.12 messages a day. Fun, fun. Thanks the Light for SpamAssassin. In other news, I just installed the GetLive script in replacement for the trusty old gotmail script to retrieve …

I got the Funambol SyncML server working with my SonyEricsson M600i smartphone this evening. This software [formerly known as sync4j] enables you to synchronise all kinds of [mobile] devices and PIM software with SyncML. Like my M600i and Evolution [however, I didn’t get the SyncEvolution synchroniser working with Evolution …

Check the System Administrator Appreciation Day site, and go to the nearest server room/basement/closet-with-pale-guy-at-a-noisy-computer and show them you appreciate it they don’t ruin your day by disconnecting everyone from the network except them and their buddies to play their favourite game without lag. Well, at least they …

:) [More about HTML5 and the why]

I’m using Icedove 2.0 for a while now [the Debian GNU/Linux version of Mozilla Thunderbird], and as I’m using the excellent Tango icons for everything on my system, I also had a Tango theme for my mail program. However, it was a tad buggy, so I …

After reading Bloempje’s posting about her restlessness, I was inspired to write about my own. I’m currently working on some assignments in Minix 3, and trying to get my bachelor thesis in shape. Also, I’m advancing with talks about an internship for my Masters research project. The …

Couldn’t have said it better ;)

From today on Boing Boing: Happy fair use day! Go quote something! Fair use is the smallest part of the public’s side of copyright. Sure, we have the right to quote, time-shift, format-shift, transform and so on. But the big piece is all the stuff that copyright shouldn’t …

I have a craving. A television channel here in the Netherlands aired the first season of the new Dr. Who episodes a good two years back, but I’ve not seen any new ones after that. As my girlfriend prefers not having to concentrate on English after a day hard …