U.S. authorities refused to allow a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 747 to fly over the United States yesterday, as you can read on this CNN page [or find more about it at Google's News]. The aircraft was on it's way to Mexico. Now what's up with that? There where …

OK, this must be one of these weeks that things get a life of their own. First, my April Fool's posting was taken more seriously then intended, the more because of my follow-up and the core of truth in the message. I then continued with a little braindump about my …

I started writing this as comment on Vermyndax, but I figured it would be better to post here. Vermyndax: I'd personally like to hear about your trials/tribulations that let you to attempt giving up electronics... Meh, it's more that I find myself overusing electronics. When I wake up, I …

Well, there I am again. And no, quitting all things electronical seems not to be an option for me. A life without gadgets just ain't complete for me I guess. So the obligatory rhythm of university work, normal work, project work [quite a fruitful business lunch last Friday the 1st …

I'm quitting. I'm leaving my computer related job, I stop studying Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit as I'm through with it, I stop working on my darned web projects. Most likely I'll say goodbye to the Morphix' community. I'll power down my pc's and go doing something else. Seriously …

Sitting here with my laptop on my lap on the couch, digesting the food I enjoyed myself with this Easter I cannot help but feeling myself a bit uneasy. [Heh, "Easy like Sunday morning" on the radio right now]. I'm studying for three exams I have to do tomorrow and …

OK, time for a new quiz: The True Geek Test. Result? The Simple Geek You answered 74% of the questions as a geek truly would. You don't seem to sway in either direction, however you still seem to have some latent geek attributes within you. Maybe you're interested in computers …

Ahh, it's that time of the year again. Spring. Birds whistling, sun shining, beer flowing, rain pouring now and then, nature acting odd, and people even weirder. It's the time of "the big spring cleaning", and people start off cleaning up [I really, badly need to clean up my server's …

You are 'French'. In the nineteenth century, it was the international language of diplomacy. It is a 'beautiful' language, meaning that it is really just a low-fidelity copy of Latin. You know the importance of communicating 'diplomatically', which for you means both being polite and friendly when necessary and using …

Life is just being life, with it's endless stream of classes, days of work and projects to work on. Family to visit, parties to celebrate [housewarming party was great!] and nights to sleep^W hack on my websites and other things. So, I've not been posting that much, but life …

[ Take the quiz at dicepool.com ] Ah, the d10! While you aren't actually a true regular polyhedron, you are the only die that makes logical sense--metrically speaking. Chances are, others see you as over-analytical or a goody-goody. While that may be true, you also have a gift for patience and …

Thanks to Jure I'm currently listening to SomeFM's Secret Agent soundtrack while programming for a project. I really like their taste and the James Bond quotes they throw in for good measure. Talking about style: I got a real appetite for these little chocolate planets. Aren't they - well - tasty …

OK, you can tell I was quite exhausted when I rushed to get the previous posting online, writing frantically on my Sony Clié palmtop while dinner was being served. "Polse" ain't an English word, and as you may have guessed I was just referring to wrist guards. They saved my …

Short ping from cool Tignes where the weather is great and the snow is though. Thank Light for polse guards :) My roomies fixed the wifi here, so I can put my pda to use :P

Yay, in a few hours I'll leave The Netherlands by night bus and switch from something we call snow here [at about 0 degrees Celcius] for something that really is snow [at about -18 to -26 degrees Celcius] in Tignes, France. That's in Val d'Isere, and seems to be a …

Anybody knows webmail applications, but there exist a whole lot of webbased applications that you can run on your own server/desktop-with-webserver. Of course a whole bunch of CMS's, Forums, weblogs etc, but I want to highlight some more exotic ones. First, I use Sitebar since July last year …

Is it just me, or is this day one of the most commercial ones of the year? Love is for every day. I'm not sweeter to my gf than other days. You shouldn't be either ;) Or is this not suitable for a geek weblog? edited at 2005-02-14 19:06 [gah …

I'm really tired now [over 25 hours awake] and the site should be up, be it that the disk drive of the server has reached it's storage limits. You read it right: the darn disk is _full_, and that gives problems with a J2EE server. *sigh* Ok, I'm off, sleeping …

Well, a night trying to get some weird J2EE project running is an odd experience. At first, it seemed to go well, and now the users can't log in anymore. Dammit. And why is it so freaking cold here? Hrm, maybe because the heating is off at night...

While I'm working a bit more [define "bit"] at The Project, I'm listening to "Digitally Important: European Trance, Dance & Techno" to stay awake. Music serves me very well, maybe even better than caffeine, as the uptempo rhythm gets me in a kind of flow that caffeine can't inflict. Me tiiired …