I've been making a point of our country cutting student support over and over again for some time now, but I just read Alextreme's Studypoints and Logic Factories and that reminded me of it. He words my feelings about it in a nice way: Now however we've been reduced to …

Google, Yahoo and MSN search want to stop their search bots from indexing weblog spam. This is nice and all, but won't prevent spammers from poluting our weblogs with their stupid messages at all. It's not that they care about checking for html tags being allowed or blacklists do they …

I think I'm procrastinating too much [sic]. Being lazy is good [as most programmers know], but I've got no real challenges at the moment, or don't have time for them because of the finals and projects I have to do. I can think of some nice entertaining challenges [like learning …

Your name is: Mad William Kidd Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr! What pirate are you?

OK, I'm slacking I guess, but instead of studying I've added some search functionality to this weblog [see top of the bar on the right], and cleaned up a lot of code. Maybe I should opensource this little site; at least the code is readable now :) For a small ChangeLog …

Gah, why can't they just leave our weblogs alone? Why do those money hungry morons exist? As you may guess I've been getting some comment spam lately. On my self-build weblog. Which sucks. Bigtime, in my eyes. I've been thinking about some changes to the commenting form for some time …

In other non-technical news, our new apartment is getting closer to a liveable state every day. The paint surely freshes things up big time, as will the whiting of the various ceilings and stuff next Saturday. Then, if the wallpaper replaces the current dull colours, and the vinyl we ordered …

Well, everybody has some goals for the new year I guess. Mine are basically the same every year--much like anybody else--and are listed here for future reference [no particular order]: Plan. Plan better, more, and do it all according that planning Get from behind that huge CRT or crawl from …

A very good new year to you all! Even for those that have another calendar then I have, all the best for you. It will be a very interesting year for us, because of our new house, lots of projects to do [I should make time for a Morphix / aquamorph …

Christmas was nice [except for the terrible event in Asia, may they be blessed with lots of tourists spending their money to rebuild the places]. We had presents on Christmas eve, more delicious food on Christmas day and went on a journey to the North of the Netherlands on Boxing …

Merry Christmas to you all! Even when you don't celebrate it, a good weekend to you! I'm currently listening to the Christmas album of the 8bitpeople; quite an extraordinairy work of synthesizer music from old 8 bits [game]computers. You can download their music from the website, so check it …

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 …