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 …

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 …