While I was redesigning the Dutch Mapleleaves Basketball club site [at this moment still the old, very ugly Fr***p*** generated version with a java menu], I noticed a very strange bug: in IE6, text would vanish [or not appear at all], and [re]appear when hovering over a …

They all have several flaws, as can even be heard in the national news from time to time. Compare them here [IE6] [advisories of 2005], here [Netscape 8.x] [advisories of 2005] and here for Mozilla Firefox [advisories of 2005]. Look closely. No one is flawless, but Microsoft has a …

I really love the series [got the DVD box here sitting next to me], so when I discovered there was a quiz of it, I took it [thanks Vermyndax!]. I don't know how accurate this is, but here's the result of the test: You scored as The Operative. You are …

So, over at #morphix at the irc.freenode.net IRC server, we decided it was time for a gathering of hardcore Morphers. As The Netherlands is the homebase of both alextreme [the founder], as me [little old Morphix veteran], and we live in the vicinity of a large airport [Amsterdam …

I'm tweaking some stuff at this weblog, so please do a Ctrl+R, F5 or whatever it is your browser uses to refresh pages and other files [like the stylesheet this site uses]. Things will look better [at least, they will look like I intend them to]. Too bad the …

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"Do you have a sledgehammer or a brick handy?" "That's right, not even McGyver could fix it." "So -- what are you wearing?" "Duuuuuude! Bummer!" "Looks like you're gonna need some new dilithium crystals, Cap'n." "Press 1 for Support. Press 2 if you're with 60 Minutes. Press 3 if you're with …

OK, I already was online here at work, but I just got a ping again from my server at home. Next time this happens to me, Demon internet is going to get an angry letter [don't care it's BBNed's fault]. To be fair, this was the first problems I had …

Life lesson #6829: a weekend without a working internet connection sucks. Bigtime. The provider of the ADSL network [not our internet service provider] -- BBNed -- has major problems [or so it seems] with their central networking stuff, so we experienced a network malfunction starting Friday morning 2:30AM and lasting till …

Hrm, so today Autumn has officially begun. It was measurable in the way I woke up. Or rather, in the way I didn't. I slept 22 minutes through my alarm clock with radio, then had to rush to get to the train in time. Thank Light I was. On my …

OK, everybody knows cool extensions for Mozilla Firefox, but last week I've been browsing to see whether I could make my Thunderbird email client even more nice to work with. And it came out good. So, lets see what I found: Attachment Extractor: save attachments from multiple messages at once …

I just read at Alex' weblog that Brendan's father died. bmsleight, my thoughts go out to you and your family.

OK, just heard I have the Databases course in my pocket too. Finally a cool grade [a 7 out of 10, while speeding through the answers like noone else in the room that day]. Only about three [maths] courses to go, to finish my Bachelor Project Paper, and I can …

Skype killer?. Skype is freaking ugly with it's QT user interface on my GTK2-only Linux desktop. Check this screenshot.

Gah, I'm getting stressed. I already worked two days straight at about twelve hours a day, had to get up even earlier today to get to my classes, got a text message that somebody from my group-of-three didn't come [sleeping issues too :)], then stumbled into an assignment that was being …

OK, I'm still sitting behind a workstation at work, fixing some bugs in a web application we started building yesterday and has to be "finished" on Thursday. *sigh* So far for working on my Bachelor project tomorrow. Or the rest of this week, for that matter...

So I'm sitting here in a computer lab [windows...] at the Vrije Universiteit, enrolling on a new course: Advanced Topics in Software Design. Sounds kinda interesting, but it will be lots of work. Thank Light we're doing it in a group of three :) Last night was the first time in …

OK, a shout-out to g1powermac and Vermyndax, who seem to be in the path of the Hurricane Katrina. And of course all others in New Orleans and the rest of her path, because this is going to be one hell of a -- well -- wet hell. An interesting overview can be …

Grab a whisky [Speyside or something], join #morphix at irc.freenode.net and start talking about religion, conspiracies and goverment control. Ah, and history, and Bohemian Rapsody... Definitaly more fun than Google Talk [try connecting with your favorite Jabber client with your gmail account, server 'talk.jabber.com' and port …