When playing a newly-bought audio cd (bought directly from the artist, Jennifer Grassman - movieclip of one of her beautiful songs), I was annoyed at the amount of noise my DVD-drive made. Turned out the solution was easy: eject -x N /dev/cdrom where N should be replaced with a speed …

A snippet from #xfce-debian on freenode: Zhenech | HE: you missed the irony, I meant it as "it is great - you can vote FD" :) aquatix | s/irony/sarcasm Zhenech | ok :) aquatix | lot of people use the word `irony' incorrectly ;) Zhenech | actually my sister (13) asked me some days ago whats the …

Well, not quite magically as I updated our router to the latest snapshot of DD-WRT, but apparently a lot has been fixed since version 24 SP1. If you have issues with your router running DD-WRT, try the latest snapshot too. More info in this forum thread. Now... on to some …

It's about to be the evening before that over-hyped Christmas thing. It might be way commercial nowadays, but it's still a fun time to slow down, enjoy your loved ones and contemplate the upcoming dinner and Life in general. (Like that girl you had a crush on years back, wondered …

Today I've been thinkering around with the code and layout of this weblog, and eliminated some elements that cause the content to jump around quite a bit. The text should look a lot better aligned this way, easier on the eye and such. Now to actually get text in here …

Today is the day that I started dumping my thoughts online by means of a weblog five years ago, which means the first lustrum party of this kind of web presence of mine. Yes, there are two older posts, but they are both from before the actual first implementation of …

I have a nice and trusty 15" Acer Travelmate from the 8000 series. It has a 1400x1050 tft, dvd-rom/cd-rewriter, currently 80GB hdd and 1.25GB of RAM. Its keyboard is really nice for typing at long stretches, being curved a bit and having great keys. The machine also sports …

This morning while driving to work I went from being snowed upon with sleeth to interestingly clouded skies (picture pink/purple/orange coloured feathered clouds in an almost sunny morning sky; a nice break from the gray). While nearing the city a work in, I noticed a dark gray mass …

I just spent an evening debugging the girlfriend's laptop as it somehow flat-out rejected to play video in Totem (ever since upgrading her xubuntu install from 8.04 to 8.10). Totem has a convenient browser plugin for Firefox, so this is kind of a problem if I don't want …

Apparently it started out as a London Meme, but as it got passed on by bmsleight to me, and it's fun anyway, I'll post my answer here. Top three non-work websites: Google Reader (rss/atom feed reader, contains most of my news and recreational sources) Wikipedia Slashdot Three favourite cocktails …

I just bought a nice new, quiet Zalman 15mm thin cooling for her, cleaned her from dust, even cleaned the partitions of her hdd before powering down, but suddenly luna, my trusty home server/media box doesn't want to boot anymore. Worse, she doesn't even POST anymore. No VGA signal …

So, as my current stereo is kinda dead, my mediabox (home server) still is located in my home office upstairs, headphones are bothersome and laptop speakers decidedly are not on-par with hifi stereo, I started thinking about how to get some decent sound back into our living room. So when …

So, err, tomorrow I'll be offline for servicing. The hospital will perform some minor maintenance on my earthly vessel and I am planning on releasing patch release v26.10.patch1 in the late afternoon. Keeping you posted!

So yesterday evening we went to see whether those old guys can still rock. Well, they can, and how :) In a completely filled Ahoy they started off with a nice intro on the main screen and a new track of the new album with Paul Rodgers. Quickly they rocked the …

Last weekend I went to a party in Belgium: seven guys, two cars, 260km trip and a huge anticipation for Infected Mushroom, Shpongle and more. We where not let down by them :) The sets where awesome, Infected Mushroom live was just mindblowing and the whole event gave me enough energy …

Birds in mid-flight suspended Sudden autumn ghust Turning, going home (I seriously need to hone my haiku skills)

Birds suspended in mid-flight Sudden autumn ghust Going home again

Sooo, I just enabled posting of comments on my brain blurps again. I hope I won't get swamped in spam again and keep this interaction open for interesting feedback...

I started this piece as a blogmark, but decided to make a decent post out of it. The BBC has an interesting piece on the case for books in an era which sees e-book readers coming into play: What is the most flexible, intelligent, interactive data retrieval system yet to …