I like to do a non-sequitur on people now and then.

Now please don't follow me on my account there or I really have to spend time on it. Time I don't have. Time I rather spend doing something fun, or even posting on this weblog. So why did I sign up again?

It seems the NoScript author sneakily added some whitelist rules to people's Adblock Plus list so ads on his website are not blocked. This might even have been OK by most people if only he had been frank and up-front about it. But he went further: he also *patched the …

Embrace the Singularity, before it embraces you. She's cute anyway.

I nearly switched on my fog lights today, it was that foggy!

We just went to The Phantom of the Opera. One word: wow!

Oh by the way, happy Pi day :) (Another party at the 22nd of July?)

apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed cpp cpp-4.3 dbus fontconfig gconf2-common libatk1.0-0 libcairo2 libcups2 libdatrie0 libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdrm2 libgconf2-4 libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgmp3c2 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2 …

People around me and around the globe use Twitter to stay updated with the day-to-day (and sometimes minute-to-minute) things in the lives of others. Myself I barely have time and energy to post updates here and keep up with the news and my comics feed, so have skipped the Twitter …

This morning I had a not-so-uneventful road trip to work. Just after leaving the gas station and getting on the highway, I was amused by a BMW passing me by with its bonnet almost entirely unlocked. There surely is a reason for that second lock after all. Not long thereafter …

Sooo, since 2008-04-02 I've gotten about 11487 spam messages on my photolog (which really isn't used all that much; only 57 posts and 2 actual comments), while I have disabled 95 comments on this weblog which is used quite extensively (at least to my standards) with 790 posts and 366 …

Currently I'm counting down to Unix Epoch time 1234567890 with a cold glass of beer, irc and some screens of code. Life is good.

My head still hurts a bit from the lack of sleep last night, but it's worth it. The beer event was just plain awesome (those Belgian people sure know how to brew their beer) and the aftermath -- roaming through the streets of Brussels in search for some great kebab with …

Sorry if I sound whiny, but I have to get this out of my system (hey, this is my rantbox remember? :). Currently, I'm feeling like most of my energy has left me; I have to finish an assignment for my study (deadline any time now), spend my time at work …

I'm about to throw a little party at our place for which I invited a lot of family and friends. Some of those people unfortunately suffer from the flu or busy agendas and had to invite themselves another evening, but it seems we will still have quite a lot of …

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Yesterday evening the server hosting aquariusoft.org's services was scheduled for migration to another machine in another data center. As it is a virtual private server (better known as a virtual machine) on a Xen host, this would mean shutting it down, copying the image over the interconnect to the …

For the third time in a row I'll be attending FOSDEM in Brussels, first weekend of February. I'm looking forward to it because it's a very rich event with a lot of variety, exposing the diversity of the FOSS communities through lots of presentations given by tons of projects. Finally …

Twitter is well known by (weblogging?) online people. It's essentially microblogging, meaning that you update it more often than you would do with a weblog. Now I can see people rolling their eyes: "Oh noes, even more crap about what someone is eating currently or how the final product of …

I have been looking for a new domain which would work in parallel with aquariusoft.org. People tend to stumble a bit on that domain's name when getting my email address or url, so I wanted something more fool proof (cue Universe inventing a better fool). Anyway, today in my …