And why does the windows update window suddenly disappear when I click the 'Install' button; why is the 'Configure automatic updates' option in that same window some sort of hyperlink instead of a normal button, why... Why keeps everybody saying that windows provides a consistent, userfriendly user interface? [/me looks …

I booted my laptop into windows today for checking some things in the work-administration-tool thingee of my work [which beautifully only works right in IE], and saw the little yellow shield with the exclamation mark sitting next to the clock. It turned out to be downloading new updates in the …

I'm running on audeine [aural caffeine, aka good music -- yeah, I just made up that word] and sugar at this moment. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I figure it could be an autumn-dip. I haven't seen the sun in a good few days, safe for one moment …

While I was redesigning the Dutch Mapleleaves Basketball club site [at this moment still the old, very ugly Fr***p*** generated version with a java menu], I noticed a very strange bug: in IE6, text would vanish [or not appear at all], and [re]appear when hovering over a …

They all have several flaws, as can even be heard in the national news from time to time. Compare them here [IE6] [advisories of 2005], here [Netscape 8.x] [advisories of 2005] and here for Mozilla Firefox [advisories of 2005]. Look closely. No one is flawless, but Microsoft has a …

I really love the series [got the DVD box here sitting next to me], so when I discovered there was a quiz of it, I took it [thanks Vermyndax!]. I don't know how accurate this is, but here's the result of the test: You scored as The Operative. You are …

So, over at #morphix at the irc.freenode.net IRC server, we decided it was time for a gathering of hardcore Morphers. As The Netherlands is the homebase of both alextreme [the founder], as me [little old Morphix veteran], and we live in the vicinity of a large airport [Amsterdam …

I'm tweaking some stuff at this weblog, so please do a Ctrl+R, F5 or whatever it is your browser uses to refresh pages and other files [like the stylesheet this site uses]. Things will look better [at least, they will look like I intend them to]. Too bad the …

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"Do you have a sledgehammer or a brick handy?" "That's right, not even McGyver could fix it." "So -- what are you wearing?" "Duuuuuude! Bummer!" "Looks like you're gonna need some new dilithium crystals, Cap'n." "Press 1 for Support. Press 2 if you're with 60 Minutes. Press 3 if you're with …

OK, I already was online here at work, but I just got a ping again from my server at home. Next time this happens to me, Demon internet is going to get an angry letter [don't care it's BBNed's fault]. To be fair, this was the first problems I had …

Life lesson #6829: a weekend without a working internet connection sucks. Bigtime. The provider of the ADSL network [not our internet service provider] -- BBNed -- has major problems [or so it seems] with their central networking stuff, so we experienced a network malfunction starting Friday morning 2:30AM and lasting till …

Hrm, so today Autumn has officially begun. It was measurable in the way I woke up. Or rather, in the way I didn't. I slept 22 minutes through my alarm clock with radio, then had to rush to get to the train in time. Thank Light I was. On my …

OK, everybody knows cool extensions for Mozilla Firefox, but last week I've been browsing to see whether I could make my Thunderbird email client even more nice to work with. And it came out good. So, lets see what I found: Attachment Extractor: save attachments from multiple messages at once …

I just read at Alex' weblog that Brendan's father died. bmsleight, my thoughts go out to you and your family.

OK, just heard I have the Databases course in my pocket too. Finally a cool grade [a 7 out of 10, while speeding through the answers like noone else in the room that day]. Only about three [maths] courses to go, to finish my Bachelor Project Paper, and I can …

Skype killer?. Skype is freaking ugly with it's QT user interface on my GTK2-only Linux desktop. Check this screenshot.

Gah, I'm getting stressed. I already worked two days straight at about twelve hours a day, had to get up even earlier today to get to my classes, got a text message that somebody from my group-of-three didn't come [sleeping issues too :)], then stumbled into an assignment that was being …

OK, I'm still sitting behind a workstation at work, fixing some bugs in a web application we started building yesterday and has to be "finished" on Thursday. *sigh* So far for working on my Bachelor project tomorrow. Or the rest of this week, for that matter...