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 ;)

I'm so sleepy right now. It's weird: I was kind of awake and then sleep hit me in the middle of my math classes [maybe coincidence] and never left me since. But I have an assigment to finish [yeah, that little C++ course program. Why am I doing those classes …

When I have this blog I put a lot of my free time in, I should use it too. So, after almost a week of hard work [some classes and lots of - erm - blog and news reading =)], here I am again. As I said last night I spent half a …

I've been busy today rewriting the [x]html of the aquariusoft.org site, making it xhtml1.1 on the fly and creating a stylesheet from scratch. I should be working on the C++ course assignment however. Well, guess what's more fun ;) And then there's too much to read on the …

So I installed the aquariusoft.org bugtracker. It doesn't contain many projects yet, but that will change soon. It features some nice color tags tho' :) In other news: I finally finished the backend for the blogmarks [like it was *that* hard...], so now I can post them like rantbox entries …

Coffee considered a Good Thing(tm), especially espresso. But only 3-4 cups a day. Now that's what I drink max, so that's ok with me ;) But they say that I should avoid instant... Too bad. In other news: I got an air mail of the Domain Registry of America with …

I guess that I wasn't in a verbose mood the last few days. I sat the whole day with my laptop in my lap, just browsing and browsing and browsing. This weekend wasn't that much better. More tomorrow. I hope =) Like anybody cares anyway.

I've reworked the RSS feed code, so it does validate now. It was RSS 1.0 [kinda], and now it is valid RSS 2.0. Weeeh :) If only Feedreader was able to understand the tags, I would be able to read my own blog at work =) Thankfully, Straw works …

And as final "article" a nice comic =)

And when I'm at the subject of videogames; in the same interview he says the following: "You want to look at something that's screwing up kids' lives, drugs are a horrendously horrible, horrible problem. They're a very real problem that we haven't been able to deal with. You can go …