Procrastinating is fun
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And made even more comfortable by The Dark Gate Comic Slurper :)
Blocking your mind by having to do certain tasks
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OK, the title may sound weird, but picture the following: you have a certain task which involves doing things you don't really like [say, booting windows, messing around with a Visual Basic script]; it is for your work, it has to be done etc etc. But because you don't quite …
Michael Crichton on Human Nature
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What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told -- and become upset if they are exposed to any different …
Programming fun
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Finally learning to write decent C with Posix threads, processes, pipes, inter-process communication etc. And some Java with threads too. Quite interesting I have to say, but that may be the influence of the large glass of whisky I consumed this evening; I really love late night hacking/irc'ing/music …
A Rebel Geek and His Ideas for an Open Company
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After capitalizing the title right [I hope], I wanted to share a little anecdote with you. A guy of the same year of my Computer Science study has a traineeship where he's profiling a large information system. He could choose between writing his application in Java or .NET with C …
Still alive, job on hold in favour of study, still stressing
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So here I am, sitting in the cafetaria of my university [next to a dude with a 17" Powerbook], eating my way through a free 45 minutes. I decided some weeks ago to stop working 2 days per week [they asked me if it was possible for me to even …
"Can you fix my computer?"
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Public transport in Amsterdam: their computer systems
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Gotta love public transport running windows...
The contact-less system for checking in/out of the trams and subways. Out of order, as you can read. In French...
The electronical ticket machine, for charging your chip based public transport pass:
Same machine, close up [gotta love their internationalization]:
Same machine, some …
Workstation upgrade: casing recommendations?
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As I'm upgrading my pc from a 750MHz AMD Duron with 448MiB of RAM to 2x AMD Athlon MP2000+ with 4GiB of memory, I kinda need a new computer casing. After getting a nice little cardreader in a stand, which is colored black/silver, and having a black/silver laptop …
First public release of the Qik site framework
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As some may have noticed, the aquariusoft.org site has been overhauled in the last weeks. It's now based on the Qik site framework I wrote from scratch. Today, I released a first snapshot to the public. There's a small HOWTO included, but the project page itself already contains a …