I'm spending the last hours of 2005 at the place of my GFs mother, where everyone is gathering to eat some of the home-made "oliebollen" [you know, those fried weat balls with raisins and such ;)]. 2005 was another year that rushed by. Lots of things I wanted to do only …

This is the subject of one of the spam messages I got today. Kinda links that software maker and incompetency rather nicely together, doesn't it? ;) As a sidenote, it's interesting the spammer used a normal mail program to send this crap, The Bat. [You see quite a wildly varying spectrum …

This week I have to do two examinations, and wrap up other things, but then I can sit back and relax a bit. Saturday the 24th an old friend comes visiting us, and will bring the movie Nosferatu with her. Old vampires galore :) After that, days of celebrating we have …

Source: this Slashdot posting from jsse in the topic about Music should be heard but not understood It is Q3 2030. You're arguing with your wife again. It seems she's missed her spending quota again this quarter. A proud patriot, you have no problem spending 85% and sometimes 90% of …

Now that even Alex has seen it, I really need to go watch that movie before it disappears from the about 12 screens it's currently shown on in The Netherlands [really a pity it wasn't advertised more: Firefly really rocks]. So... who wants to come with me? :)

... even when you've bought it already. Let me explain: when you shut down the operating system on your computer [say, your laptop], you expect it to power down the hardware. So when you close the lid of your laptop while it's shutting down, everything is fine. Except when you wake …

As both he and I ran out of our monthly rate, he's persuiting a Flickr Pro account so he can upload as much as he want. It's a really nice geeky and thoroughly tought out tool, so it would be a nice gift for him. So if you like Gandalfar …

The last hacking session just ended and we're wrapping things up, packing stuff. I finally made aquamorph start Xfce4 properly [stupid permission thing on /tmp/.ICE-unix ...], so now I can start building a minimod modifying the user interface, making things a lot nicer for the user. Hopefully I can use …

So this night I went to bed at 4AM, after having fiddled around trying to get Xfce4 to actually start up when booting aquamorph. It looks like the startup scripts don't call the startxfce4 script I was looking at, and I was looking at why the hell not ;) Alex is …

It has just started, but the first evening with the whole crew is awesome. We are eating pancakes Alex is baking [he's a lot slower cooking than we with us ten can eat :P], and discussing stuff, hacking kernels, trying to get livecd's to work at laptops [why do laptops …

My pics can be found at my own Flickr page, as my account hasn't been approved yet, it seems.

OK, we're having fun here in a room stuffed [no: *stuffed*] with equipment and our new Morphix Morphest 2005 shirts. Take a look at our Flickr Morphest 2005 page. I'm currently uploading some new ones, and it'll be uploaded the rest of Morphest. Enjoy :) Olivier just gave a presentation about …

Alextreme and Gandalfar [Jure] have arrived a few hours ago after a really exciting *cough* trip, with Jure almost traveling half a day by plain [or rather: sitting around at the airport]. They've brought they're laptops and Alex his workstation/server and some miles of UTP cable. Too bad the …

I'm at this moment sitting in a room with some bored people, some people who're doing a presentation and a teacher, who's giving this new course for the first time. It's called Advanced Topics in Software Design, and it's quite fun, except for the moments I get the impression everyone …

Being a project leader surely is exhausting with people like Roosje...

The email I just sent out to the participants: Hi folks, as Morphest 2005 is drawing near, you would certainly want some additional information about what, how, where, when and why. WHAT Having fun, doing some Morphix stuff, getting to know each other better, drooling on gadgets, drinking beer, drinking …

Recently the well-known small-cellphone-companies-eating Vodafone has been advertising with "the best of tv on your mobile" -- of course over UMTS, which is still expensive as hell. That's fine with me -- I simply don't use it -- but what amuses me is that they appearently define "the best of tv on your …

And why does the windows update window suddenly disappear when I click the 'Install' button; why is the 'Configure automatic updates' option in that same window some sort of hyperlink instead of a normal button, why... Why keeps everybody saying that windows provides a consistent, userfriendly user interface? [/me looks …

I booted my laptop into windows today for checking some things in the work-administration-tool thingee of my work [which beautifully only works right in IE], and saw the little yellow shield with the exclamation mark sitting next to the clock. It turned out to be downloading new updates in the …

I'm running on audeine [aural caffeine, aka good music -- yeah, I just made up that word] and sugar at this moment. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I figure it could be an autumn-dip. I haven't seen the sun in a good few days, safe for one moment …