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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I received an e-mail yesterday about my application for a Bachelor diploma, containing the “Congratulations, it was found OK by the committee. You’re a Bachelor of Science as of 12 december 2007” message. /me does a little happy dance

Cascading Style Sheets can be a pain :)

And suddenly, it was 2008. A leap year, nicely round numbers (at least for a geek like me, I guess), a year in which I’ll finally finish my higher education. Also finally, I’m under contract again, getting some dough to pay bills, food and gadgets from. Feels quite …

But I think it’ll have to wait a few more hours: Everyone a pre-emptive Healthy, Joyful, Fortunate, Decent and most of all Just Plain Fun 2008!