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 …

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

LaTeX Beamer: making slideshows slightly less painful ‘nuff said

I’ve had it. I’m done with being a student and following courses, doing practicals and projects. Maybe it’s because it’s all a mess in my head and I don’t get any rest, being it in the evening or in weekends. I just want my 9-5 …

Hm, what is with me starting weblog postings and taking a while to finish them? You might find some more posts after this one which I started this weekend/last week. Sooo, the construction company that was going to [finally] impregnate one of the outher walls of our house against …

Now for a geeky post. Since a while, apt installs recommended packages by default too alongside the dependencies, like aptitude does. However, you might pull in quite a lot of packages you don’t really need that way. Here’s how to stop it: apt-get install -o APT::Install-Recommends=false …

When it’s finally some good weather again [even nice and sunny] and you’re driving to your work over that obnoxious 80km/h road and a guy in front of the queue of cars drives in turns 50 and 80km/h, making for a nice 65km/h average and …

*grin*, how coherent was that? :) I guess that intartubes thingee is melting my brain or something. For those remotely interested in what I meant yesterday: I had been adding functionality to my weblog software [simplog] a year or so ago to be able to save drafts and such, but didn …

Heh, just noticed I posted the 666th rant in this weblog [well, the system did, after I fixed the automatic posting of webmarks]. Fixing some long-standing issues with my weblog software can make things a lot easier for me :) [FYI: I have to edit some minor things in the database …

The day this spring began, also was the beginning of a new chapter in my online life: a server in a real datacenter. No more 1MBit connection, which also was a tad flaky because of my ADSL connection’s signal being quite weak at 3600+m from the exchange, but …

Tuesday I migrated most of the web services hosted on aquariusoft.org to my new server, which is colocated and therefor has a far faster and reliable connection than my home-hosted box. Some things will not return, like the forum [was never really used], other things might still be somewhat …

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 …

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 …

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 ;)