Last Friday evening we could be found in the Ahoy in Rotterdam. There, a musical fusion of classical music and legendary pop songs took place. It was really interesting to be able to enjoy artists like Macy Gray, Donna Summer, Kid Creole and The Coconuts, Di-Rect, John Miles and Roby …

So, just over a week ago, I received my Canon EOS 400D with nice EFS 17-85mm lense [and a nice flash of course]. I've been shooting random stuff with it since then, and really like the camera. I also really like the sound the mirror makes when you take a …

I was finally allowed by the accountancy department [hi sweetie!] to buy some hard drive space, which I did, resulting in a major increase of 500GiB in the storage pool :) Finally room to sort out my cruft, backup our machines, and make space for autobuilding aquamorph .iso's again!

Today the new pharmacy of my girlfriend opens. It's all a bit thight on schedule, as they didn't have enough time to test handing out orders with their computer system and the robot enough, and not all of their orders where in on time. So, let's hope everything smoothes out …

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I saw Herman van Veen live yesterday. He's just awesome on stage, having beautiful songs, very funny intermezzo's and performing really good music. Very glad to have him seen live once in my life.

It's obvious I developed a crush on the Nokia N810, and I will definitely get one the moment it shows up in e-shops here in the Netherlands in a few weeks [I heard somewhere it'll appear in a week or two]; I'm already saving up and may just put a …

I wonder when someone [finally?] slaps a Don't Panic logo on Wikipedia.

There, got that out of my System.

Nokia announced the N810 tablet [successor to the N800]. I so totally want it :) It has all the good stuff from the previous version [800x480 screen, wifi, etc], but also has a nice slide-out keyboard, 2GiB of internal storage, a Mozilla browser, Gizmo and Skype voip clients and lots of …

As simple as adding a new setting in your about:config :- Open Firefox, type "about:config" (no quotes) in the address window, and click enter Right click on the window and choose 'New', then 'String' from the pop-up menu that appears In the first pop-up box, enter: "network.protocol-handler.app …

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. "Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and …

I'm a bit pissed. When I thought I was done with all my courses, I started adding things up and now I'm missing out on some ECTS points [the credit points you get by successfully passing a course], because the conversion between the old and the new ways of assigning …

Somewhere along our stroll through the seasons we lost a summer.

I'm sad to hear fantasy writer Robert Jordan passed away yesterday at the age of 58, from complications from primary amyloidosis with cardiomyopathy (cardiac amyloidosis). He was the author of the The Wheel of Time series, which I greatly enjoyed reading. My condolences to his family and friends. Let's hope …

I've had a Last.fm account for quite a while now, and I've discovered quite some artists through that wonderful service. Recently, I installed mpdscribble, an audio scrobbler plugin for mpd. You can see what music I'm listening too at my account page at Last.fm.

When reading On Lackadaisical Development over at Tam's Palm, I stumbled a bit on the phrase "There is a distinct lack of commitment and dedication in comparison to closed source and commercial applications." in the first paragraph. This is only true if the author is short on time, and thinks …

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So Palm killed their Foleo before it was even launched. Too bad, as I thought it was a nice little laptop. [Also, check Engadgets plea to Palm and Palm's response, which likely caused the Foleo to be scrapped] I'm not entirely sure how stupid the Foleo was; they marketed it …

Doonesbury had a nice comic on the United States' national debt of $9 trillion [sic!]: