First of all [text borrowed from Debian.org]: protest against software patents in Europe. Most software will become illegal to use in Europe if this dangerous directive is adopted without proper amending. The Commission and the Council of Ministers are covertly pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by …

Installing [or updating, actually] winxp on a Dell with a cracked screen. Ow, and a b0rked space bar. Why do people always have to abuse pc's? It has such a nice resolution [1400x1050], but it's all fscked up [pictures will follow]. Ow, did I mention the spacebar is fricking b0rked …

Jeffrey Veen says exactly what I'm trying to say to my colleagues for some time now: if you design a website right, you don't need to worry about whether or not "it works in Mozilla" or in Opera, or IE or Lynx. It just does. Great article.

So I went out Saturday with my girlfriend to buy some new clothes. It took a little while, but I got some new summer-suitable clothing [weird taste those fashion people nowadays have...]. Nothing quite interesting [well, some weird pants :)], but I bumped into new sunglasses too. Nice :) GF had to …

Yeah, I'm still around. Went to the dentist [everything fine, just a checkup], bought a usb bluetooth dongle on the way back home, so now I'm able to connect my pda via bluetooth with my computer [in this case my linux laptop]. I install the BlueZ packages and even got …

A moral dilemma I found while reading but she's a girl. It such a head-on thing, I laughed my head off =)

Well, not quite boring, but not very exiting either. I got my Clie and foldable keyboard on Monday [while I was at work, so I had to wait half a day to come home and play with it... :)]. They both work great. The Clie TH55 has such a nice screen …

Nice date, maybe it'll be a nice day too. I'll find out when I'm awake again.

Yeah I know it's already Sunday the 4th. So what? In the dead tree newspaper I read regularly [Dutch site], there was a quote from a lawyer, stating "If integrating means you do blindly what Bush says, lets pray to Allah, Buddha and Jesus we won't integrate" [original Dutch version …

I've been thinkering with the new design of my aquariusoft.org website today, and I just fired up my laptop, booted it to win2k, started Firefox, browsed to the new version; everything fine. Opera 7; not everything fine, but fixed quite fast. IE 6; everything borked... I so hate it …

Well, I won't, but this guy makes some good points about why Microsoft is so much better then those odd free tools and decides to convert everything he does to Microsoft products.

Some proposed improvements to Debian to regain the leadership again on the Debian developers mailinglist. Maybe it's been a good decision to stay at home today :) News from the gadget front: first vendor I tried was sold out and I should have to wait until the 23rd of April before …

LOL, in case anybody's interested: I didn't buy the rather expensive [but oh so nice Zaurus], but went for the Sony Clie TH55 instead [more pics here]. Add up a nice keyboard and built-in wifi and bluetooth and I have a new mobile office :) Like I needed a new one …

The Sloganator me be dead, but the posters live on. Some of the posters made on the make-your-own-slogan-poster-tool from the Bush-n-Cheney bunch. On a different note: my interest in those Sharp Zaurus pda's was reawakened today when I came along someone who has on of the earlier models. I would …

I forgot to mention I finished reading Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow last Thursday. I started reading it last Monday IIRC, so that was quite fast considering my exam schedule ;) Anyways, it's a nice SciFi book [I read the free ebook version], about a human experience [aka human-gadget interface …

I was reading some blogs at Linuxchix [yeah, I think geeky girls are interesting ;)], and I came along this posting from one Shari about somehow not getting to get some studying done while you need it the most. She describes exact the same feeling I had last week. Even when …

Life ain't that bad you know. There are plenty of small and less small things in my life that are good. Like playing Soul Calibur 2 and Street Fighter with my friends after a disastrous exam week. Coming home from that and hug my girlfriend who's already waiting for me …

Maybe I should go get some sleep =)

Nice day today. I woke up in a sunny world, even needing my sunglasses [to shield my painly eyes from the bright, but welcome sun]. Work went well [even migrated a project from MSSQL to MySQL :)], then fired up Quake III Arena to kick some colleagues' asses. It went quite …

Life of a Palestinian boy is a posting about why Palestinians blow themselfs up. It states the same as I'm stating myself, but he got it online sooner ;) It's about Israel suppressing the Palestinians, killing them by dozens with missiles, trashing whole cities with their bulldozers and then act angry …