We are currently sitting in a waiting area on Schiphol Airport with our plane leaving in about 2.5h. On to Corfu! Yay at a completely offline vacation on a great green island :) See you all in about eleven days!

The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? [ Source ]

OK, this is a real geek speaking, but the upcoming days present a nice numeric sequence other geeks will appreciate [except when you're not a fan of this platform ;)]: 2/8/6 today, 3/8/6, 4/8/6, 5/8/6 and 6/8/6 the following days, representing …

While installing Gaim for my sister at her pc at my parents' place, I noticed she is running WinXP. And with that I mean: pure WinXP. Not a sole servicepack in sight. There was some Watchdog thingee running [my dad's work I guess], and of course she's running Kerio firewall …

OK, so you're already using the nice ALSA sound system on your Linux install, but when you're playing music etc you can't hear the sound of those YouTube movies? Edit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and add/edit the FIREFOX_DSP setting to read "FIREFOX_DSP="aoss". Of course, you will need ALSA's OSS …

The fan of my server/mediabox/goddamnimportantfilesholder stopped spinning without my knowing and, it being the sole fan in the system as it's a small form factor machine with neat heatpipe and such, the whole machine turned into a lightbulb wannabe. Newsflash: that's not good for your parts [hdd!], stupid …

... in my newsfeed reader. I guess I should start using it again ;) Frankly, I want to start building that new Django-based version, so I can implement smart filters based on tags. The current way is just too messy. Anybody has some more smart ideas? The cause of me still …

As everybody and his dog can program in PHP nowadays, and -- worse ;) -- does without the proper programmer training in input validation and such things, here are some tips about hardened PHP, modsecurity, putting Apache in a chroot jail etc: Use security on multiple levels. Code your stuff so it's invulnerable …

Who would vote for a new top-level domain .w00t [if they're trying to introduce .xxx and .mobile and already having introduced .tv and .bizz, I have some more ideas for useless top-level domains :)].

Show: Alegria. Location: Amsterdam. Tickets: VIP places. Wallet: empty. My state: happy. :)

My girl just landed her first real job! As pharmaceutist, no less. Congrats sweetie! Now I can safely enjoy my student-dom a bit longer ;)

Our teammate is going to put a hardcopy of the documentation [all 22 pages of it] in the teachers "pigeon hole" [teacher's own words] in about 5 hours from now. Now I hope it doesn't contain too much sleep-induced weirdness ;) Signing off...ZzzzzZzz

So, what do you do after working for a week on a project for the university, writing the documentation in the weekend, testing the implementation with rules, drinking some wine on a birthday party and merging some more changes into the doc which needs to be handed in as hardcopy …

Yesterday me and my girl went on a shopping spree. The damage is considerable [hm, somewhat more than €0.5K for a total of five pairs of shoes and a lot of nice summer clothing for us both :P], but it was big fun! Our dinner was free, as we …

I can't stand Windows, but I really love those Doors.

I wonder why Thunderbird -- which isn't even really native GTK2 -- looks better integrated than Evolution, which is. I see three differently looking scrollbars in one window...

So I'm carying a PalmOS pda and a cellphone with contacts. On my workstations I have Thunderbird with its address book, JPilot for synchronising my pda with, Gaim for IM'ing friends and the SIP based Ekiga for Voice over IP [I won't talk about Skype, as they seem to not …

Who? Doctor Who! On our television. In a time where everything else on that medium sucks [e.g., football -- what's the matter with that anyhow? -- all interesting series ended, etc] we get that fine series broadcasted right into our living room. Hey, and it's right behind two hours of South …

Is there some international thing going on or something? edited at 2006-06-09 09:32 More about orange for those not familiar with the Dutch national colours :)