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 talks [I …

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 slowed …

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 nice …

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 bot …

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 on …

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 good, I …

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!

... the whole world is edible.

More pics to come

Relaxation is favored, especially if you have been working too hard lately. A group of annoying people will soon be gone, so you can then prepare to take it easy in a more peaceful environment. Relaxation is always favoured ;) Indeed, I worked hard, and feel like deserving a little break …

Four years already... So many things have changed in the intermittent time; so many things stayed the same

I created a Wordpress weblog to host my photolog: Same shit, different pic - A photolog by Michiel Scholten is born. I'll be trying to post a new picture every day. At least, I'll be taking pictures every day. Thanks Bas for taking my precious time away ;) Of course it has …