I've not been posting much lately, but I've been quite busy. No real excuse, I know, but it's the best I have ;) I'm still preparing a largish post on our recent move to a newer, bigger, better home. I need to fix some images for it, and wrap it all …

*sigh* I just deleted several hundreds of spam accounts, and dozens of spam topics on the aquariusoft.org forum. Tightened the authentication a bit too. Let's hope it'll be ok this way :) Spam sucks; I get an average of 80 spam emails per day, which are filtered conveniently in my …

I had the strangest dream last night. I dreamt that the world became a bit better, and a bit more fun to live in; that gave me a fuzzy feeling of course, but when I tried communicating with people on my computer, all messages where "09 F9 11 02 9D …

I was lucky. Wiiiiiiiiiiii! :P

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Today, I read a posting on the Gaim weblog that's big news in the project's history. It basically means Gaim doesn't exist anymore. But don't grieve, they've renamed it to Pidgin. This all because of legal struggles with the nice company known as AOL. They also renamed their libgaim to …

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It was 6:10AM when my alarm clock gently started humming a tune from the radio. It was still dark [thanks, DST...], but I heard some birds already singing their morning songs. Groggily I stuffed some sandwiches in my mouth while getting some suitable day-clothes on, hoping they would match …

And I'm at the exactly 6000 spam messages again in my email spam folder, counting from the first of January this year. That'd be... well, about 70,59 messages per day. Thank the gods for Spamassassin... In further news, I'm studying for two exams I have this week; the one …

I've been using irssi for quite a while as my primary IRC client, running in a screen session on my server so I'm always online. However, when someone says my nick, I only notice when looking at the terminal it's running in, and it shouldn't have scrolled out of sight …

Open closet door Notice how all empty bottles come crashing down on you Sigh and try to stuff them back on the shelf Start to get more annoyed because they won't stay upright Direct some angry kicks inside the closet Find that this doesn't solve your problem Patiently [while fuming …

Uppity: 2. rebelliously self-assertive; not inclined to be tractable or deferential. Found on BoingBoing's post Sticker prototype for uppity bloggers (is there any other kind?). [Author's post]

If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you on a plane or train follow these instructions: Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case Remove your laptop Start up Make sure the guy who is annoying you, can see the screen Close your eyes and tilt your head …

I put most of the pictures I made during FOSDEM 2007 online for you all to enjoy. Quite some nice gadgets [OLPC $100 laptop, OpenMoko phone, Trolltech Greenphone, PS3 running Ubuntu or something similar. Too bad I didn't took pictures of the iRex iLiad epaper based ereader, which was a …

They did it again. I welcome my new niece Ilse to this freaky little planet!

Currently, there's a talk about Suspend to RAM and disk going on. It's quite interesting, but it's not yet helping me getting it to work on my Debian sid laptop :) In a few minutes, a talk on OpenSync is going to start, which is always interesting, considering the amount of …

I'm currently sitting in the bar, having finished my Curry Chicken sandwich [well, baguette], and my dose of sugared caffeine [also known as Coca Cola]. The event is turning out really interesting, with too many talks I want to attend. Until I find a way of cloning myself to attend …

I'm leaving in a few hours to the nice city of Brussels [just south of Amsterdam, but in the country Belgium ;)], to attend FOSDEM 2007 with some other geeks. Looks like it's going to be quite some fun, completely geeking out, sharing ideas and listening to talks on our favourite …

I really like Xfce 4.4's compositor [giving me nice shadows, transparent windows et al], and I wanted to clean up, so I requested Mephisto's really minimal xorg.conf [which he uses with X.org 7.2 and an nvidia 9746 driver]. I added some modules that wheren't automatically loaded …