It was a family day today: first we went visiting my gf's brother and his girlfriend, the fresh parents of Anne. I made some pictures, but I won't tire you with to much footage of this sweet child [sweet as in: "she made no noice as she was sleeping all …

Now that's weird. Now I'm an uncle. Or better: my girlfriend has become an aunt. Yesterday at about 11PM Jeske - the girlfriend of my gf's brother Johan - gave birth to a beautiful [I guess ;)] and healthy daughter, Anne. Congratulations to you and your firstborn! Life won't be the same now …

So I went to the cinema with the GF and enjoyed "Revenge of the Sith". Yeah, I actuall enjoyed the movie. I've seen the new three Star Wars movies [again] in the last 2 weeks and they went from quite bad [movie 1; the acting was quite horrible sometimes] to …

I read g1powermac's posting about Clusterix, and was of course reminded about my own livecd, aquamorph. The project has stalled a bit over the last months, and I want to update it using mmaker [or maybe the nice ibuild, but I like mmaker a bit better because of it's simple …

As I said in my previous post, I have been working on project overload today. There's a new version online. Be sure to check the Rich client [see topnav], as that's where the work of today has gone into. Suggestions and bugs can be posted here, or in the bugtracker …

OK, while doing some work at work [*cough*] I've revamped the XUL Rich client version of overload. It's not in the live version yet, but it will be very soon. Check some screenshots of the evolution of the overload feedreader. I need to give the xhtml frontend some love again …

Microsoft Reveals Xbox 360 Specs. I had seen those already on Engadget, but couldn't believe the triple core PowerPC processors at 3.2GHz. That's more than in the top-of-the-line Apple Powermacs! And that for a measly 300 dollars. If this is hackable, please fix me a Debian install on one …

I've been playing with XUL yesterday, and have come up with a rich client for overload feedreader, which you can check in the new snapshot I've put online [log in and choose "Rich client" in the top navigation]. In this snapshot you can now subscribe for a new user also …

I've been busy lately; the obligatory working days, doing some examinations [late in the evening... what's the use of that?], visiting family and working on my overload project. I've been working off and on that application since the 17th of March, and it's getting a bit mature, at least for …

Just a random blurp: I kinda like those SUVs; they are spacy, powerful and sort of cool. However, there's no real use of them, safe for some people who like/have to be driving off-road and want a roomy car at that. However, here in The Netherlands, only a …

OK, I've put a first snapshot of my overload RSS feedreader online. To log in, use the combo demo/demo, with which you should be able to browse around a bit. Don't do anything fancy now, because it's not quite stabilized. Lots of things don't work yet [like find and …

The weekend was fun; lots of relaxing, but not that much sleep [too much fun until too late in the evenings :)]. They had a seriously nice swimming pool complex in the park, so we spent half a day there. The rest was consumed with doing other fun stuff, gaming [the …

How come I find myself sitting behind a SunRay ultrathin client on the University when it's such a nice day outside? Partly because I'm way busy this week and wanted to do the theoretical computer science assignments today and partly because of a misunderstanding from my part of the schedule …

So I spent my day at the RAI walking along the booths of The ICT Network Event, TINE, along with Wouter, a friend of mine. We got stuffed with loads of goodies and gimmicks [see the gallery for pics of all of it] and had too many chats with marketingpeople …

I went to TINE 2005 today. This is an event for ICT professionals, where you can ogle at huge server racks, backup systems, nice Apple hardware, boothbabes and lots of goodies. It was quite fun, chatted a bit with all those buzz-fuzz dudes and saw a few nice things. An …

I'm building a feedreader -- as you may have noticed -- and am considering using some graphical buttons instead of text links. I'm rather fond of text links, as they are light, clean etc etc, but a good icon can be way more explaining while taking less screen estate. Anyone having thoughts …

A project I've been doing on and off for the last few months is finally nearing completion as I just uploaded a neatly working version of it. Only some very minor things need fixing and I can finally look forward to doing my next big project -- my bachelor project -- besides …

You'd almost think I've got the wrong hobbies, because today I hate computers. Or at least I hate failing hardware. I guess everybody hates it, but today it's my turn. I've been spending the better part of the afternoon trying to backup data. Two DVD's succeeded. That's by far not …

U.S. authorities refused to allow a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines 747 to fly over the United States yesterday, as you can read on this CNN page [or find more about it at Google's News]. The aircraft was on it's way to Mexico. Now what's up with that? There where …

OK, this must be one of these weeks that things get a life of their own. First, my April Fool's posting was taken more seriously then intended, the more because of my follow-up and the core of truth in the message. I then continued with a little braindump about my …