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Looking beyond our electrical stars

... you can see things far more brilliant. This thought occurred to me while walking back home after parking our car in the garage, looking up to a windy but clear sky. I spended this afternoon with my girlfriend, continuing a nice weekend that started Friday after my last classes. Friday …

Ouch

Heheheheh, now my skin is screaming. Shouldn't have taken a shower _that_ hot =) Now where is my Gorillaz cd...

Rammstein mood

I'm in a Rammstein mood at the moment. Freaking weather [had to ride my bike through an almost freezing, but in any way very wet storm...], and that freaking University. To many courses to follow, however it should be doable. It's just that I'm feeling overwhelmed. So I felt like …

I feel like screaming

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggghhhhhhh Stupid University thingee, stupid weather, stupid life. That was all I wanted to say for now. Thank you.

Gadget spree

It's the time of the year again. I'm in love with several gadgets :) First, there is this TV card I'm going to buy anyway [because it's a kind of birthday present]. And now there's a little cellphone I've a crush on. Oh, and there's a nice project helping a little …

Sjeez

Well, this certainly is a busy week. Been studying all day at Monday, working at Tuesday, hardcore TCP and HTTP progging at Minix at Wednesday. Then got quite drunk at a party of the Biology department. This morning I woke up without a hangover, but not quite awake [a little …

Downs and ups

Whee! Finished coding the httpc and httpd yesterday. Some extensive testing of the daemon has been done already, but I should make it a little more solid. You can let it hang by sending just the request "blah" to it, without linefeeds ;) Anyway, when finally using your TCP implementation, all …

Coffee

Coffee: the liquid to rule them all. Besides beer. Oh, and Wodka and Red Bull [both pure, thank you]. But coffee is a nice way to kinda wake up. Without it, my world would be a bigger mess then it already is. Speaking 'bout messes: I sincerely hope not, but …

Damn projects :)

Well, after finishing computer graphics it's now hurrying to get Computer Networks ready for the end of January [end before the last normal test at next Tuesday]... If that's not enough, I've got an exam at Monday the 19th. Yeah, that's next Monday. Gotta study real quick now... On another …

aMaze - Take two :)

There it is. A nice binary windows distribution :). "Why? That's evil! Binary only!". Er, yeah, but I don't want to release my sourcecode until it's readable without getting a heart attack ;) Besides, I want to wait until the gradings are known so noone can "borrow" some code from me. And …

aMaze - The project

Well, anybody interested in screenies of aMaze, my project for Computer Graphics, should check out this screenies page. Now that's the nicest C program I made thus far :) Yeah, they're kinda large, and my upstream is only 320 kbit/s, so please have some patience ;)

Weeee!

Well, I did it :) Finished the computergraphics project yesterday at about 8:30PM. It's working like it should [kinda] and it looks great! Screenshots will be up when I've had time to make them [like, tomorrow], and a windows [compiled] version will be available for download when I've compiled it …

Stress

Well, after working yesterday and only tinkering somewhat with the project on Monday, I'm starting to get really pissed at myself ;). Today I'm working harder and it's finally going somewhere. Promise I'll post a screenie when it's finished [and it doesn't turn out too lame :)]. Gotta work...

Work to do

Well, duties are calling. I have to finish a project for Computer Graphics before next Friday [I've quite some nice ideas, but they have to crystalize into usable code yet...]. Tomorrow there's my regular job too, so that's another day I can't work at the project. Ah well, I should …

Reflections

And another year has passed. A year in which I turned the nice age of 21, in which we had to buy a new car because I trashed the previous one on a otherwise very beautiful holidays in Italy at the Garda Lake. Me and my lovely girl where together …

Tired

Ok, this is not another rant about those stupid trains [yeah, had to wait 25 minutes at the freezing station of Amsterdam Sloterdijk]. Not about the things I did at my work [besides sleeping ;)]. Yeah, lets talk about sleeping. Or, better, lets practice it! Cya!

Christmas is over. And stuff.

Well, that was one cozy, food-overloaded Christmas :). 2nd xmas day was with my girlfriend at her place. Again lots of nice things to eat and nice people to chat with [in real life that is :P]. Saturday was a day to do nothing. Well, to sleep late, watch a recorded …

1st xmas day

Well, had a nice day today with grandparents from both sides, my girlfriend, sister and my parents. Very cosy, loads of food. Good day :) Just round up some tweaks to the css [less whitespace, more room for rants :)] and finished the archive functionality. Simplified the navigation [again], because this is …

Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to say to all of you: Merry Christmas! If you ain't a Christian [kinda like me], just enjoy these hopefully happy days!

Stunned

Well, just saw Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. And I'm dumbstruck. Damn what a fine movie! Didn't follow the book at every point, but that's only for the good. It was a long sit [bladder acked from the cola ;)], but it was 3,5h pure excitement …