Alextreme and Gandalfar [Jure] have arrived a few hours ago after a really exciting *cough* trip, with Jure almost traveling half a day by plain [or rather: sitting around at the airport]. They've brought they're laptops and Alex his workstation/server and some miles of UTP cable. Too bad the …

I'm at this moment sitting in a room with some bored people, some people who're doing a presentation and a teacher, who's giving this new course for the first time. It's called Advanced Topics in Software Design, and it's quite fun, except for the moments I get the impression everyone …

Being a project leader surely is exhausting with people like Roosje...

The email I just sent out to the participants: Hi folks, as Morphest 2005 is drawing near, you would certainly want some additional information about what, how, where, when and why. WHAT Having fun, doing some Morphix stuff, getting to know each other better, drooling on gadgets, drinking beer, drinking …

Recently the well-known small-cellphone-companies-eating Vodafone has been advertising with "the best of tv on your mobile" -- of course over UMTS, which is still expensive as hell. That's fine with me -- I simply don't use it -- but what amuses me is that they appearently define "the best of tv on your …

And why does the windows update window suddenly disappear when I click the 'Install' button; why is the 'Configure automatic updates' option in that same window some sort of hyperlink instead of a normal button, why... Why keeps everybody saying that windows provides a consistent, userfriendly user interface? [/me looks …

I booted my laptop into windows today for checking some things in the work-administration-tool thingee of my work [which beautifully only works right in IE], and saw the little yellow shield with the exclamation mark sitting next to the clock. It turned out to be downloading new updates in the …

I'm running on audeine [aural caffeine, aka good music -- yeah, I just made up that word] and sugar at this moment. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I figure it could be an autumn-dip. I haven't seen the sun in a good few days, safe for one moment …

While I was redesigning the Dutch Mapleleaves Basketball club site [at this moment still the old, very ugly Fr***p*** generated version with a java menu], I noticed a very strange bug: in IE6, text would vanish [or not appear at all], and [re]appear when hovering over a …

They all have several flaws, as can even be heard in the national news from time to time. Compare them here [IE6] [advisories of 2005], here [Netscape 8.x] [advisories of 2005] and here for Mozilla Firefox [advisories of 2005]. Look closely. No one is flawless, but Microsoft has a …

I really love the series [got the DVD box here sitting next to me], so when I discovered there was a quiz of it, I took it [thanks Vermyndax!]. I don't know how accurate this is, but here's the result of the test: You scored as The Operative. You are …

So, over at #morphix at the irc.freenode.net IRC server, we decided it was time for a gathering of hardcore Morphers. As The Netherlands is the homebase of both alextreme [the founder], as me [little old Morphix veteran], and we live in the vicinity of a large airport [Amsterdam …

I'm tweaking some stuff at this weblog, so please do a Ctrl+R, F5 or whatever it is your browser uses to refresh pages and other files [like the stylesheet this site uses]. Things will look better [at least, they will look like I intend them to]. Too bad the …

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"Do you have a sledgehammer or a brick handy?" "That's right, not even McGyver could fix it." "So -- what are you wearing?" "Duuuuuude! Bummer!" "Looks like you're gonna need some new dilithium crystals, Cap'n." "Press 1 for Support. Press 2 if you're with 60 Minutes. Press 3 if you're with …

OK, I already was online here at work, but I just got a ping again from my server at home. Next time this happens to me, Demon internet is going to get an angry letter [don't care it's BBNed's fault]. To be fair, this was the first problems I had …

Life lesson #6829: a weekend without a working internet connection sucks. Bigtime. The provider of the ADSL network [not our internet service provider] -- BBNed -- has major problems [or so it seems] with their central networking stuff, so we experienced a network malfunction starting Friday morning 2:30AM and lasting till …

Hrm, so today Autumn has officially begun. It was measurable in the way I woke up. Or rather, in the way I didn't. I slept 22 minutes through my alarm clock with radio, then had to rush to get to the train in time. Thank Light I was. On my …

OK, everybody knows cool extensions for Mozilla Firefox, but last week I've been browsing to see whether I could make my Thunderbird email client even more nice to work with. And it came out good. So, lets see what I found: Attachment Extractor: save attachments from multiple messages at once …

I just read at Alex' weblog that Brendan's father died. bmsleight, my thoughts go out to you and your family.