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 …
Nintendo doesn't want our money
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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 …