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 …

Sooo... what's up with guys having a pink iPod [Nano, maybe only its rubber cover] or a pink cellphone? Having a pink shirt seems to become normal already [the vogue of yesteryear], but hellish pink gadgets? I mean, where is your manlyhood?

There, just hit the Send button of my mailer. Time for some sleep, after which I'll have to face some household tasks and studying for a Math re-examination which is scheduled Tuesday evening. Life is wonderful!

Deadlines are fun. I love the sound they make when they fly past me. However, I'm currently wrapping up a Parallel Programming project I would have loved to finish in time. I'm not done with the Java RMI part though, so I'm polishing the measurement results and documents about the …

So today is my 25th birthday. Some stats of this version: I've been online for over ten years now, and running this weblog a year or three. I've had a website for over 8 years, and still have that pre-Microsoft-Hotmail address [yes, Hotmail wasn't from Microsoft back in the days …

Your results: You are Superman Superman 85% Green Lantern 85% Robin 72% Spider-Man 70% Supergirl 64% The Flash 55% Wonder Woman 54% Catwoman 50% Batman 45% Iron Man 40% Hulk 25% You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others. Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz …

Who said you needed Dos, Windows or an ancient floppy disk drive? Just check my howto here. Of course, it may fry your processor or dog, and I need to try it myself yet [bios update to finally support the 4GiB of ram instead of the lousy 3GiB I'm using …

When sharing a machine with users you gave an account, you'd better take some precautions for your precious files in general dirs [like /storage or whatever]. To do so, do: Recursively setting files to 644 and dirs to 755: chmod -R 644 * find . -type d -exec chmod 755 '{}' ';' ... for example …

OK, what the hell ;) Which File Extension are You? Funny thing is, last time I was .ogg. Does this mean I'm no longer as weird as I'd like to be?