A rantbox
Posted by Michiel Scholten in posts
I did some digging in the logs of this weblog and dumped some page view listings per day. With some gnuplot magic, that's easily turned into a simple graph. So here is the development of the number of page views over the years of dammIT:
The weird line from 2006-04-28 …
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Fear not, this is still the dammIT you know, except that it looks a bit... new. I felt bored a bit and next thing I knew I had restyled it all ;) Kudos go to Bas for providing really useful feedback on colours, layouts and such and even designing the new …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
