Thanks to Poland the proposal to allow software patents has been postponed [Dutch link]. Our Dutch minister Brinkhorst and State Secretary Karien van Gennip where trying to sneak in a so-called A-item proposal on the Agriculture and Fishery conference to push the motion through the system. However, it seems they …

Did you know... ...dammIT--this weblog--has turned one year old today? Lots of things have changed in that year, a lot has stayed the same. Same shit, different day. ...Xfce 4.2 [RC2 and companions] is cool? I've just installed it on my trusty old AMD Duron 750MHz workstation and it's …

In case anybody didn't see it already: The New York Times advertisement for Mozilla Firefox 1.0. Go go OSS communities!

Soooo, had quite a nice day today. I had to get up real early [at least in terms of Sunday and my weekly rhythm, or lack of], but it turned out quite interesting. I went on my very first business trip to Rotterdam with a friend of mine to talk …

Just got a chain mail from 2 [!] of my coworkers. They are from the Graphics department, less computer savvy than I may be, but is it so freaking difficult to tell a normal story from a hoax? There are lots of pages that debunk them. Even antivirus software writers have …

I've never thought I would one day think about a hunk of plastic as "cute". But today at work we had some distraction from our normal business by means of an AIBO. A real one, from Sony. It was fun interacting with the little robot, which is quite sophisticated; it …

Reading Mac Hall today I came along this piece, which could be starring myself. I surely hope I won't do it this week, because I've some serious midterms next week [and have some other things to do too...]. Now I'm off finishing that planning I've been wanting to make all …

Well, there it is: dammIT's new look. Not only has the layout been overhauled, there's been some technical changes too. Just take a look at the blogmarks page for example [sorted by month etc], or the distracted by piece of the right bar. And of course there are the usual …

That was fun! I needed that :) If you haven't seen The Incredibles yet, go for it. I love how they are like an ordinary family. They quarrel about anything you would do too ;) Pixar made another great movie with their great love for detail, winking to the current superhero-hype and …

Hm, maybe it helps posting from the live weblog; my previous two postings wouldn't have shown up if I hadn't figured I should regenerate the feed files on the live version [sounding technical? It is :P ]. Ah well.

I'm going to The Incredibles tonight. I figure it will be fun, because it's another Pixar movie [almost garantee for success] and I've heard lots of good stories about it. I'll see :) dammIT update is coming along nicely. Need to implement some minor blogmarks related thingees yet, and then I'll …

And again am I sitting here, hacking at some web projects, not studying for upcoming exams. dammIT will undergo a fairly mayor facelift in the near future [when it's done and IE plays nice :P ]. DJ Luna doing hardstyle on my headphones, for a change. If I want I can …

Just a short blurp to let you know I've finally come around to implement Apache rewrite rules for the aquariusoft.org site. That means no more ugly urls with stupid parameters, but nice ones like http://aquariusoft.org/page/linux/aquamorph/ for the aquamorph site. Please update your bookmarks accordingly …

Pong. Speaking about which, does anybody know a Pong game for GNU/Linux? I haven't looked for it, to be frank, but it just came up in my mind. I don't know why either. Anyhoo, life hasn't been interesting. Just the usual classes, working, adding blogmarks to the navigation of …

I'm a perfectionist, that's one thing that's sure. I love to create things, and I go to great lengths to do it right. That's one reason many of my projects aren't finished yet. I just haven't declared them good enough to call them that way. But on the other hand …

OK, going along with the hype, I want to make sure nobody misses this release :) Get Firefox now!. It's final, it's cool and it's not yet translated neatly into Dutch. But it's coming along [dutchies, you don't really want words like "webstek" in a program do you? Come on...]. Also …

Alex describes exactly how I felt yesterday [and still feel now]. I couldn't have said it better. Problem with "America voted for another 4 years, then they deserve him for another 4 years" is that we have to suffer it for another 4 years too... As to speak with the …

Just for those who use my weblog as portal [yeah, riiight]: some nice banner for seeing who's predicted to win this worldwide gamble.

Theo van Gogh is dead [dutch link]. He was quite controversial with his bold positions, but I liked the way he put things in a different daylight. He was stabbed to dead today by a [for now] unknown person. Another interesting person dies... edited at 2004-11-02 15:15 GeenStijl: Na …

Let me put first that I don't really care who is going to win the elections tomorrow in the US of A, as long as it isn't Bush. I was watching this neat map now and then, just for the fun of it [although the amount of red is a …