Today Arthur C. Clarke passed away. He's the well-known author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and lots of other great sci-fi material. May he rest between the stars he pointed us to.

Last Saturday we went for a hot-stone massage. This is a massage technique which besides normal massage oil uses heated stones to soak your muscles with warmth and let you relax even more. It surely helped relax my poor back and shoulders :) Quite a nice way to relax, if you …

Yesterday was quite a busy day; first a meeting about a literature study, then an assessment training and finally a nice Belgian Beer event was planned. As Belgian beer is the only really drinkable beer [quite enjoyable :)], I was kind of looking forward spending some of my evening chatting up …

For those among you who gave up on my photolog because of the lack of updates, check the latest update. I've not had the time to make and post quality pictures, so I preferred not posting instead. I could have said so though ;) I'm certainly planning on posting more to …

Today I got a curious email on my university's address. I have an old and a bit defunct website on my webspace there, which contains among other things a small photo album and a links page. Today I got an email from an Indonesian-sounding person [attached was a picture of …

One day you *too* will go to your grocery store to buy some new coffee [as your supply is empty], and will come home with bread, Filet Américain and other stuff, and no coffee. Guess I really need it ;)

Now it's lead gray above Amsterdam, and rain is starting to fall down in large amounts. Hmm, make that hail. Wind is picking up even more too. I guess it's time to go home...

Today I went to my university for a talk about a practical I'm working on [some program that has multiple computers in a cluster calculate on a certain problem], and which I've been pulling my hairs out over, as it wouldn't stop deadlocking and doing other wondrously erratic things. The …

On my way back from work earlier this week, I was driving on the 80km regional road from the city I work in [completely in the north] to the bigger city connected to a real highway. It's a really boring road, almost arrow straight, constructed alongside a canal. Max speed …

My girlfriend mentioned a little while ago that she likes vermyndax' weblog better, because he posts personal stuff between the more technical parts. Darn you Verm for stealing my GF's attention like that ;) She has a point though. I'm not posting that much personal stuff here on purpose, as I …

Apparently I survived FOSDEM 2008, and I've put some pictures online to be my witness. I'm in none of them, but my fellow geeks are :) I should have made some more pictures of the hotel we where staying in, as it was a lot better than the hotel of previous …

I'm currently ending my first day at FOSDEM 2008 in the Lightning talks room, listening to a presentation on Bongo Project. It's been fun; after the excellent Beer Event last night [got sliiightly drunk on the great Belgian beers] we got a nice day with a variety of talks [I …

Today I woke up with both my servers being down; always a good way to start your day. higgs [my new vserver], turned out to not have booted after a reboot of the real server its located on - a simple 'boot' in the Xen console sufficed. The crew is investigating …

I made Slashdot with this creepy local root exploit. Hi all! edited at 2008-02-10 23:08 And it's patched: git diff.

If you missed me for a few days [right...], I've been on my new working place, the office of a department of the Dutch navy that designs, integrates and implements the various devices on board of a ship. Internet use is limited, so communication with the outside world has slowed …

I was very pleasantly surprised this morning by my girlfriend with a breakfast-on-bed service :) She got me the Zen TV DVD - Video Retrospective with a bunch of video clips of great music and even a video mash-up! I'm currently browsing it on my laptop [libdvdcss sure comes handy]. Really nice …

I just updated my photolog with new pics, and uploaded them to my flickr account too.

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Now and then I run into a crashed irssi. It crashes when the lag becomes way high [stupid adsl modem], or when doing an /upgrade or /quit. I narrowed it down to a Perl script I have that adds !command-style commands to irssi's list of commands for controlling a bot …

I'm setting up a new server [called higgs, from the Higgs boson], which is a Xen instance on soleus.nu. I tried to do some iptables stuff today, and ran into trouble with it not wanting to insmod the kernel modules. Turned out I had the [old] modutils installed on …