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 …

Today I found an alternative iconset for the Gaim instant messenger application I use. I quite liked the overall look of the icons, so I copied it over the original ones [after having made a backup of the directory of course]. In Debian this is the /usr/share/pixmaps/gaim …

Gotta love anime :) [image is clickable]

For anybody having seen this word: Pwned explained [Player versus Player comic]. Also, check their Support the PWNED bracelet [for more cool than those pink/yellow/whatever colored awareness bracelets people are wanting you to wear].

While studying for some upcoming re-examinations, I installed Kanotix' linux kernel 2.6.13 on my laptop, and removed Lilo in favour of Grub. The kernel was already running fine at my desktop, but laptops are, well, tricky. At first my Centrino based wifi card wouldn't work [ipw2200 chipset]. Turned …

No, not my own wise words, but I think they are worth reading. First, a piece about top posting [be it in e-mail, newsgroup postings or wherever]: A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A …

A small follow-up on my previous post about my mediacenter project to get an overview for myself and anybody interested. OK, so now I [almost] have a quiet Shuttle mediacenter with 3GHz Pentium4, 1GiB PC3200 DDR RAM memory, a Maxtor 250GiB harddisk drive with 16MiB cache, a NEC 3540A DVD …

...Debian! Still happy with you :)

... to quote Yoda. Anyways, last Saturday I've been buying pieces for the multimedia center aka webserver aka vcr aka mailserver aka streaming media toy aka whatever that I'm going to build. It's going to feature a Pentium 4 3GHz [was cheaper than a 2.8 and even 2.6GHz one …