Who would vote for a new top-level domain .w00t [if they're trying to introduce .xxx and .mobile and already having introduced .tv and .bizz, I have some more ideas for useless top-level domains :)].

Show: Alegria. Location: Amsterdam. Tickets: VIP places. Wallet: empty. My state: happy. :)

My girl just landed her first real job! As pharmaceutist, no less. Congrats sweetie! Now I can safely enjoy my student-dom a bit longer ;)

Our teammate is going to put a hardcopy of the documentation [all 22 pages of it] in the teachers "pigeon hole" [teacher's own words] in about 5 hours from now. Now I hope it doesn't contain too much sleep-induced weirdness ;) Signing off...ZzzzzZzz

So, what do you do after working for a week on a project for the university, writing the documentation in the weekend, testing the implementation with rules, drinking some wine on a birthday party and merging some more changes into the doc which needs to be handed in as hardcopy …

Yesterday me and my girl went on a shopping spree. The damage is considerable [hm, somewhat more than €0.5K for a total of five pairs of shoes and a lot of nice summer clothing for us both :P], but it was big fun! Our dinner was free, as we …

I can't stand Windows, but I really love those Doors.

I wonder why Thunderbird -- which isn't even really native GTK2 -- looks better integrated than Evolution, which is. I see three differently looking scrollbars in one window...

So I'm carying a PalmOS pda and a cellphone with contacts. On my workstations I have Thunderbird with its address book, JPilot for synchronising my pda with, Gaim for IM'ing friends and the SIP based Ekiga for Voice over IP [I won't talk about Skype, as they seem to not …

Who? Doctor Who! On our television. In a time where everything else on that medium sucks [e.g., football -- what's the matter with that anyhow? -- all interesting series ended, etc] we get that fine series broadcasted right into our living room. Hey, and it's right behind two hours of South …

Is there some international thing going on or something? edited at 2006-06-09 09:32 More about orange for those not familiar with the Dutch national colours :)

I wonder what this evil day will bring :) /me continues studying for an exam this evening, starting 24 minutes after 6:66PM

Every once in a while I crawl back out of my little cave and post here. The current occassion is a slew of exams I'm chewing through. As it's already almost halfway this not-so-new-and-shiny-anymore 2006, I'm having my end-term exams; all five of them. And having great joy studying and …

Exam time! Four of them in under two weeks. In the meanwhile a homework assignment, some classes with at the end of the month June a fifth exam. Keeps you out of the pub ;) And, of course, it's time to play around a bit with things you intended to do …

Today is Towel Day, for Douglas Adams. So, break out your towels and ponder a bit about Life, The Universe, and Everything in general. [Hint, the answer may very well be 42].

[source: Real Life Comics]

After reinstalling my laptop from scratch with a Debian netinstall cd [the old harddrive died on me :(], I installed the Gizmo VOIP client. I think it's better than Skype; it uses the ALSA sound system, native GTK2 [so it actually looks good], and is based on the open standard SIP …

This is one of the more funny spam emails I received in the last few years:

Geek's day out Sunglasses? check Cellphone? check PDA? check Wireless foldable keyboard? check Wallet? check ... University? check Sunny place with a view? check Beer? check Friends to talk with? check Ladies in summer clothes? check Computer lab course in about -6 minutes? oops, check