Yesterday I ordered a Nerf Maverick from eBay along with some extra arrows. These toy guns shooting soft plastic arrows are quite cool and great for performing an office war [YouTube]. I wanted to keep my arsenal civilised, as otherwise I might have gone overboard and got myself a Nerf …

*Gulp* Ten years ago I was sixteen years old, an uncertain, geeky teenager. Right this moment we where on a school trip in Paris, that nice, big city in France you might have heard of. Earlier on a few girls of my class had tried to set up things, but …

Today I traded the head pillow I had on try-out for a regular, new one, after which we made the bed with shiny new linen and my new, very comfy pillow. Sleep is good :) After giving the community some time and updating my tablet a bit, the N810 with Diablo …

Yesterday evening I flashed Diablo (Maemo 4.1) on my Nokia N810 tablet. This is a great update BTW. I restored the backup of my contacts and some other minor things and set up the Modest email client (which suprisingly now marks my mails as 'read' on the imap server …

Yesterday we went out to buy some stuff (shopping Sundays are rather convenient). We came back with a new pillow for me, which should make sleeping even more fun, but not the two games we wanted. Of course, those are amongst the most popular at the moment, but you would …

Some people find it a stupid concept [a bit like how I find Valentine's day overrated - why only be sweet to your lover then?], but I think it's a good day to show your dad you appreciate his existence and actions :) Maybe I'm just blessed with my old man, but …

We came back from the Greek island of Zakynthos last week, and as expected I made a lot of pictures. Here is a small selection; an album will be up later. Mouse over for texts, click for larger versions.

Driving to work over an alternative road with nice views of flowery fields, small towns and lined with lots of trees filtering the warm sun overhead, I almost felt like I was going on vacation. I can't say that I dislike that sensation ;)

Today is a beautiful day. It's warm and sunny, the woman are pretty in their summer clothes and statistics class only tool 23 minutes. Hell, even the grad student giving the practical was pretty. After that, I spent about an hour trying to get on the campusnet with my N810 …

So I ordered some new hardware parts for building a decent workstation a while ago. Today I received the first batch: two 750GB sata hdd's, making a nice grand total of 1.5TB :) However, I also received an email stating that the processor I ordered - a Intel core2duo E8400 3GHz …

Awesome.

Through pidgin's developers mailing list, I found this insightful comment by Eric Lippert on software users: It's not that users are morons or that they "forget" to think. Its that users are trained to not think. Users very quickly learn from experience that: dialog boxes are modal. But users do …

This morning I was sitting in my car driving towards work. I had some nice music on the stereo and the sun was starting to warm the land. These are conditions in which I naturally start to hum along with the music, even singing along. This Wednesday was even better …

Let's just say I converted some of my savings into a much needed hardware upgrade of my workstation. *rubs hands in glee*

Sooo, my hackerkey is: v4p-3.62/-4.15sw6CHJPRUYhw5ln5pr6OPSck4ma8u7FLSw0m5l7Di2e6t4MTWXb8AGHMOSen6a26s7IMr9g3CGOTZ or plain text: v4p-3.62/-4.15sw6CHJPRUYhw5ln5pr6OPSck4ma8u7FLSw0m5l7Di2e6t4MTWXb8AGHMOSen6a26s7IMr9g3CGOTZ hackerkey.com This weird string tells you more about me than you'd think if you take a little time to learn what it all means.

My girlfriend and I have been blessed with all our grandparents alive when we got to know each other. Because of this, we each got to know two extra couples of great people. Thankfully they are relatively young and only suffer the occassional illnesses and annoyances everyone eventually encounters when …

Yesterday our provider [Speedlinq, or Telfort Internet or GreenISP or whatever they want to call themselves nowadays] switched to another VoIP platform for ADSL connections. They sent a letter with a cd-rom for changing the settings in VoIP-enabled ADSL modems, but we have a VoIP phone, with SIP routed through …

An old man dieing Two doves on a bare spring branch Finding peace at last

April Fool's day went by quite un-eventful. I even missed the normally tradional pink Ponies layout on Slashdot. Some other sites (like Engadget) had some pink accents, but still. Of course, my whole day was spent writing on a paper and presentation for a course Literature Study (hence the weird …

Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.