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 …

The meaning of the world "desperate" [thanks to Ross Burton]

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 …

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 …

Why the hell does it have to take an additional 83MB to upgrade to latest sid :/ Of course there's a lot of new features in the included Gnome programs, but still... 83MB :/

Yay, finally on tracks with aquamorph again. Last update was somewhere September last year... So now 351 packages are waiting to be updated =) Lots have changed in the meantime, so I hope it'll still boot nicely when I've found some time to actually make it an iso. Ah well, we'll …

Lars Wirzenius from Planet Debian makes a good point about valid HTML. He notices that even spammers mostly use validating HTML. So why can't a lot of people on the web? It certainly isn't that difficult, and it says something about the care for your readers/customers when someone or …

I did the Geektest, which tests what level of geekiness you posess. From totally non-geek, to geek, to nerd. So geek is actually a better thing then nerd :) I got a score of 42%: You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with …

Heh, in a mood to revalidate my xhtml1.1 source against the W3 validator, I came across the Google url I posted recently [about calculating weird stuff]. It contains several ampersands, which I should have converted to the html encoded version, &. Damn XML :)

The Art of "Effective" B---------logging is a fictional conversation between the protagonist and a skeptic, attempting to explain what a blog is, and why it's useful. Various points are made, but the skeptic doesn't seem to understand until the protagonist enthuses, "It is like meditation that comes thru karma." "Ah …

OK, was browsing some hardware sites when an advertisement came along that detected my OS and offered me to test my system [hohum...]. I *had* to try it out, because I already guessed what the outcome would be: See for yourself ;) WHAT??? They ask $40 for this piece of junk …

Some nice weather ahead =) I'll spent most of my time inside anyway ;)