dammIT

A rantbox by Michiel Scholten

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New spiffy sunglasses :)

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 …

I'm still alive

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 …


Update about my boring life

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 …


The news of April 3rd

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 …

Why does IE suck so much...?

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 …


Sunny Thursday

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 …

Damn pda's continued

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 …

Sloganator and those damn pda's

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 …

Eastern Standard Tribe

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 …

That thing called study

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 …

The joy of small things

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 …


Victory

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

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 …


Well that was entertaining...

After the study dodging^Wevading [yeah, that's the word I should have chosen, but I was not in a mood to get my English completely correct ;)] of last Monday, there was the exam on Tuesday. Some disaster there. Ah well, at least I wasn't the only one, but it still …

aquamorph update 01

Well over 400 [some 420 I thought] packages updated/installed, counting up to 200+MB, my poor old laptop sweating to get all installed. Took quite some time [a lot longer then download time] and some fiddling around with packages, but it's done. Then configged some things; will tweak the …