Goodbye Public Transportations card
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Today I had to hand in my student public transportations card. Its handiness will be missed.
[Did they have to cut out my head like that?]
Teaser Poster for Oliver Stone's W.
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1960's vision on the hypothetical 2004 home computer
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Kinda makes you wonder how the computers in 2104 look like, if you can see them as 'computers' at all.
Updating a laptop
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I thought I'd update my Debian sid laptop and try to get wifi working again so I can browse/work on the couch with something bigger than my Nokia N810. I hadn't really touched it since halfway June, and didn't update since June 21. Result:
apt-get dist-upgrade [..snip..] 423 upgraded …
Vim vs. Emacs
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The time you got Television, not a television
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A VW van from the 50's of last century, advertising to get Television. That's right, not a television, or a dozen like a modern day US home has, but the concept in general. Times when the whole neighbourhood poured into your living room when a popular program was on. Wonder …
Office war
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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 …
We interrupt this broadcast for a public service announcement
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*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 …
And life is good again
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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 …
How to downgrade while upgrading
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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 …