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Watch and learn. Or not.

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:25:47 +0100

How not to assemble a basketball basket. The accompanying text is in Dutch, but I dont think this needs any explanation.

There are two things that can go wrong when assembling this. They managed to do both.

Die-hard botfuian

Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:48:23 +0100

Inspired by my dear ozzie friend Syngin, I have also started a new IRC bot. His PHP effort could be considered vile. Mine is plain old evil. He'll be doing this in PHP (which means his bot won't live for more than 30 seconds), I'll be doing this in..

Java.

Yes. And not only that. I'll be writing the Java in Eclipse. An IDE.

Get ready, world.

Eek..

Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:57:31 +0100

First, look at this:

Then notice, taking into consideration that this link is 10mbit half duplex, that it manages to do 1.4MB/sec sustained over the course of an hour. How the hell is that possible?

The reason for this sudden increase in traffic (thank goodness for free bandwidth..) is that I mirrored a movie by the recently murdered filmmaker/columnist Theo van Gogh: Submission. His film critiques the Islam, and some extremist figured he should die because of that.

If this continues, I'll have to go ask for 100mbit instead of 10 or my fellow students won't have any bandwidth left... Also interesting is how I never published the location of this mirror anywhere. I have no idea how people found it. I'm not going to link it here, at least not until I get more bandwidth. Search if you want it.

Bought a new CD

Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:49:22 +0100

I bought a new CD today: Humanworkshop #1. That alone isn't special, of course. I buy al lot of CDs. This was the first time however that I got to tell the artist I bought it directly after doing so.

US Elections

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:50:19 +0100

Aurelien Jarno posted this in his blog:

But maybe the question is why US elections is so important for European people. Maybe Europe is not enough united to be an alternative to the US power...

Now, his comments form is closed so I'm just going to comment through a trackback. It is true that the EU isn't as united as the US are. But the US being the United States of America and the EU just being a European Union has something to do with this. The countries in Europe are each older than the US in its entirety. Europeans discovered America. All this happened while the european countries were just that: separate countries, just laying there together in a region we call Europe. We don't want to change that like the US did long ago. Dutch people are primarily Dutch. Being a European comes second.

As for the US elections, I don't really understand why we care as much about them as we do our own elections. It probably has something to do with the US being a large country. And large countries can have a big influence on other, smaller countries. So I guess we just want to know who we're dealing with. And of course hope it's not that cowboy.

Crap.

Wed, 03 Nov 2004 14:46:52 +0100

Well shit.

Let's just hope for a miracle and point at Ohio. Does the average American not care about this or something?

That thing in the US

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:19:49 +0100

Today is the day of the madness in the US. They finally get to try again. Let's all hope they get it right.

I don't care much for the US, but still I do hope Bush gets thrown out. Preferably literally. You see, I do care for the rest of the world. And Bush seems to have that reversed.

Anyway. Polls have shown (multiple times, actually) that most people want Kerry up there. I don't think that's entirely true. What people want is not bush. That basically means anyone but him will suffice.

I hope something good comes out of this day. The benefits are obvious if Bush loses of course. I hope however if he wins in a similar manner to how he did four years ago, the Americans finally realise their voting system is stupid and they replace it with the proper way of voting as we Europeans have done it for so long.

Tim: you're not alone.

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:38:56 +0100

Obviously, my australian friend Tim isn't the only one who finds the naming for the "World Series" somewhat odd. Another Tim has noted this in his blog. He also found an explanation of sorts on Wikipedia.

My guess would have been that to Americans, the US and Canada are "the world". They probably think that "jurop-thing" is on another planet.

Note to americans: Don't take this too offensively. You know we like to mock you, right? Hell, I know you like to mock yourselves ;)

Planet Botfu

Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:23:39 +0100

And out of thin air, Planet Botfu was born. Which basically just means I figured out how to use arch (which is truly a pain compared to cvs), managed to get Planet out of it, and then set it up. I'm sure arch is really nice and all, but if setting up the software you just got takes less time than getting it, something is wrong.

Anyway. Now that I have two feeds, it's only a matter of time before we (that is, Tim and me) harrass the other #botfu folks into starting a blog and making that available through RSS.

Be warned, you.

Stupid Al.

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:18:05 +0100

He's pestering me again. Again, I tell you.

New music incoming

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:15:15 +0100

Ordered two new CDs from CDBaby. Namely: Daughter Darling (which, some time ago, I said I'd buy) and Darling Violetta. Now, if you're an avid Angel watcher like I am, you'll know at least Darling Violetta. They made the theme song and had a few songs played on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Also this is the first time I ordered CDs at 3 AM.

Oh well, why not? Fifth sentence...

Sun, 02 May 2004 10:40:10 +0100

"That is, systems can create a specific multicast group for a particular application (a videoconference, for example) and then release that group once the application ends."

--IP Switching and Routing essentials

I swear this was the nearest book.

Anyhow, the instructions, pulled from our favourite Ozzie Tim's journal:

Grab the nearest book.
Open the book to page 23.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Playfair, enabling your Fair Use of music.

Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:38:08 +0100

So, there's this little app called Playfair, that strips iTunes Music Store AACs of their encryption, enabling you to play the files on computers that can't run iTunes, and on AAC-enabled devices that aren't iPods. Apple, of course, doesn't like this.

Apple then proceeded to have it pulled off Sourceforge, because the US has this DMCA thingy to protect businesses from the evil consumers they make products for. I'm not surprised that Sourceforge had to pull it - they are on US soil, after all. I am surprised, however, that Sarovar, an Indian sourceforge-alike that became the new home of the project, pulled it. The Cease and Desist letter Ppple had sent to them consisted basically of bullshit.

It's gone now, you say. Nope. The day it disappeared from Sarovar, I ran into it. I saw this coming, so I mirrored it. There is no law in the Netherlands that prevents you from excercising your right to fair use of copyrighted works, so it should be available for some time to come.

You can find it here. Remember, making music available for download without paying to do so is illegal, so keep it to yourself. Also, if you're on US territory you can't legally use it.

Speed increase

Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:21:29 +0100

This very page is now served by a much faster machine on a much faster line. It should be very much noticable. Especially the fact that zope doesn't need to be swapped in with every first access should speed up matters greatly.

(Oh, it's this machine now)

Mandatory update

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:44:39 +0100

Some weird australian guy named Tim told me to update. I'm just doing what I'm told.

Cough.

So smooth..

Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:20:55 +0100

Bought me some new skis a few days ago (Atomic C9.2, picture here). I can't wait for my vacation to try them out, so instead I'll be moving my arse and those skis to SnowPlanet (which is practically next door) in a bit and give them a whirl. I still can't wait...

Syngin...

Tue, 11 Nov 2003 22:50:51 +0100

Don't come on IRC when I'm not there to notice it, damnit!

(Oh, and I don't have an in memoriam page for you or something, carol remembered wrongly.)

Other Ozzie (Yes Safari_Al, you): Get your ass back in there as well.

You're kidding, right?

Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:42:58 +0100

It would seem that two days ago, some guy, tri-letterized as ESR, thought it'd be a good idea to create an emblem for the entire hacker community. While I agree that having such a thing might be a good idea, he could have at least asked that same community if they agreed with him about the emblem.

Let me show it to you:

Clickable to get to the page he made about it. In my opinion, it sucks. If you need to write a webpage about an emblem to explain what it means, you should consider stepping out of the emblem-making-business. In fact, I think this pretty much says enough: "About half the hackers this idea was alpha-tested on instantaneously said "Wow! Cool!" without needing any further explanation." Great. So half of the knowledgeable people you spoke to about it knew what it was. A (very) rough estimate on my side tells me that anywhere between zero and five percent of the folks browsing the internet will understand it. What use is an emblem if 95% of the people who will ever see it have no clue what it means, and what it stands for?

Now, this guy also maintains the Hacker-HOWTO, jargon, and some other things. Then I found this on his "Who is ESR?" page: "I'm a long-time hacker"; and then this: Today I'm one of the half-dozen or so most influential people in that movement; in fact, a lot of people would put me among the top three, with Linus Torvalds and Richard M. Stallman."

This struck me as weird. I distictly recall reading something about self-proclaimed hackers in his howto and how real hackers don't call themselves as such, so I went looking for it. It wasn't there. Makes me wonder..

Free licenced music from Creative Commons

Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:52:04 +0100

Creative Commons have a new CD out, called Copy me/Remix me. It features a variety of music from an even wider variety of artists, and it's available for download.

I've listened to the CD, it is indeed quite varied. Fifteen songs, thirteen unlike any of the others (the last two are remixes of the first song.) I have no favourite. I just like them all. In fact, I wish they would press a CD so I can buy that instead of downloading MP3s. Though I guess that's only really possible if the authors of the music provide lossless versions.

For now though, I'd be happy if they had printable cover art. I guess so far I'm stuck with creating a cover myself. Licenced with a Creative Commons licence, of course.

Checking logs for google queries is fun!

Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:48:12 +0100

Every once in a while, I check my logs for google searches. It's really interesting to know what people google for when they get to your page. It's also really funny. Of course there's the obvious stuff, like googling for my name, e-mail address, or the guide I wrote to get win2k3 working on less than 128MB of RAM, but there are also quite a few less obvious searches. My favourites so far, in no particular order:

"nl fuck" (No. 1 hit)
"fuck lawyers" (No. 1 hit)
"difference between powerpc and x86" (Happens more often, but it's funny when someone from intel.com does it)
"wessel swimwear" (what the fuck..?)
"drool job"

I really laugh my ass off at some of the stuff people google for when they get to me. Please, keep 'em coming!

TrackBacking baby, yeah!

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:05:32 +0100

I should now be fully trackback-enabled. If you're reading this and have a weblogging tool functional that supports sending trackbacks, please give it a whirl. I need to know whether it works with other software than my own, and I need to know if the auto-discovery of urls works (it should!). You can get the trackback url by clicking the permalink, above.

If you find it doesn't show up immediately (which it should), please contact me so I can figure out what's wrong.

Google's standard answer to this question

Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:07:36 +0100

I got a reply from google:

Hi Marco,

Thank you for your note. The unusual activity you are observing is part of an experiment aimed at improving Google's search quality. Please be assured that this behavior is only temporary.

If it is adversely affecting your server, please let us know, and we will stop the activity.

Regards, The Google Team

Not much use indeed. Naturally I've asked for a more specific answer.

Google crawls IRC?

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:38:39 +0100

So a few times now we've noticed this happening:

 Oct 30 18:25:10 --> eddie36 (~Eddie@216-239-45-4.google.com) has joined #botfu
 Oct 30 18:26:59 -(pippin)- eddie36 why are you here?
 Oct 30 18:27:11 <-- eddie36 (~Eddie@216-239-45-4.google.com) has left #botfu (eddie36)

As you can see, it joins, doesn't respond to anything, and leaves a minute later. I've e-mailed the nice folks at Google. Not because I don't like what's happening, but because everyone who's seen this (not to forget their dogs) seems to be wondering what the hell it's doing it for. I know I do.

Naturally, other people have posted this as well. Here's one.

I'll be sure to post the answer.

Nine Teens

Sat, 04 Oct 2003 11:09:35 +0100

So, a couple of weeks since my last post along the road that is life, I decided to post some news again. What's the occasion, you ask? I turned 19 today. I feel so much older than I did yesterday.

Toilet humor done right

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:16:14 +0100

I know this is sorta old, but I hadn't read it yet...

I nearly killed myself by reading this story about someone going to the restroom. It's so funny I litterally had tears in my eyes. If you turn up dead after reading this, don't say I didn't warn you (well, I guess you won't, but just to be sure...)

Black van stopped at my door

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:32:30 +0100

Terrorists! I thought. Nope, it was a UPS van without the familiar gold-brown markings. Bringing me not one, but two packages! One with my ueberposter (damn, it r0ks), and one with the other goodies. Typing on one of those rollup keyboards is sorta weird.

My mug is positively huge. Mega-mug is no overstatement. The diameter on the inside at the top is 10.5cm! It's in the dishwasher now, can't wait to fill it up with tea or something.

The book looks awesome. I like reading the comments at the bottom where they still used the 4-panel layout. Gives you some insight into why a certain strip is what it is.

I'm also wondering what I'm going to do with the poster. I'm pretty sure I'm going to get it framed - I just don't know how. Nor where to get a frame. Never had anything framed before. And then comes the question of how I'm going to stick it up to a wall. I wonder if anything exists to hold framed stuff up without needing to drill a hole.

So yeah, I'm thrilled.

MegaTokyo Goodness

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:54:17 +0100

My order for the some Megatokyo gear from ThinkGeek is out there. Hell, it's been shipped already. I ordered an MT graphic novel (basically just the strips plus some extras on paper), an MT mug (A mega-mug for your mega-beverage), and the Broken Miho Poster (beautiful poster. If you don't agree, I'll make you agree.) Oh, and a RollUp Keyboard for a friend. I hope customs will give me some love.

I can't wait for it to come in.

Save the 3FM-chick!

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 20:22:59 +0100

Dutch folk:

Help save the 3FM-chick, and save our best public radio station!

Have a look at the new 3FM site, and be sure to clean up after vomiting. The new logo is hideous. Compare it to the chick in the logo above. Isn't that much nicer?

Yay! Mail!

Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:22:02 +0100

My Kin Za Za CD arrived at my doorstep this morning. Listening to it now. It's every bit as good as I thought it would be. And better. The packaging is pretty cool. It folds out to become a long cardboard strip, with small descriptions for the songs and nifty artwork. You'll have to buy it and see for yourself.

I also bought Saybia's album, which seems to be titled When You Sleep. There is no indication that this is true, besides it being printed in tiny letters on the CD. But that's good enough for me.

Buying this CD took me about two hours. Only 5-or-so minutes of these two hours were spent in the store. The rest was spent travelling from my house to the store and back again. Twice. So next time I buy a CD, I will need to think of getting the discs inserted in the case. Should save me much time.

Babies selling CDs...

Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:18:39 +0100

Check out CDBaby.com for one crapload of independent music. There's some really good stuff in there that I doubt you've ever heard of before. And they provide 2-minute MP3 (128kbps) and realaudio previews for most albums.

Take a listen, for example, at Daughter Darling (thanks Tim). Great voice, cool music. Very wantable. From Singapore comes Throb. Described as "the best chill music", I really dig this. Then there's Kin Za Za. Now that I love. No hesitation, order sent out straight away. I hope to get it in soon.

The company itself seems great too. Unlike most websites like these, they run on OpenBSD, don't use IE-only html (in fact, they recommend Mozilla or Opera), and don't store your credit-card info. Yes, this means you have to type it in every time you order. It also means no one can get at sensitive information. Have a look at the about section for more info.

Yeah, I'm a mobber. Mob #2.

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:43:33 +0100

Just got back from mob #2 in Amsterdam. We were instructed to put out a `fire`, using water from the pond in the Vondelpark. This mob, I feel, was somewhat more chaotic than the previous mob. There was much running, and much throwing of water. Not sure if anyone got wet.

Another problem with this mob was the location itself. Lots of people had trouble finding the `fire`. It might be clear on the map (yes, we had a map with the instructions), but in real life one side of the park resembles the other side like a drugged junkie does a beggar. Some simply waited for others to begin getting water and running to the `fire`.

All in all, the mob went well. Except lots of people left their bags behind at the `fire` site. This needs to stop, people. Take your stuff with you or dump it in a litterbin. Don't give flashmobs a bad reputation by leaving lots of litter behind in an otherwise pretty clean park. Don't ruin it for the rest of us.

Naturally I took some time to take pictures. I stuck 'em up here.

Understatement of the year

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 04:16:07 +0100

My new Sennheiser headphones are quite an improvement over my Vivanco phones. Much more comfortable, circumaural (enclose the ear instead of sitting on top of it), awesome sound. I love them.

I got these, btw.

Why CDs these days suck.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 03:03:55 +0100

I found a link on the HydrogenAudio Forums to an article about the LOUDER IS BETTER principle that (nearly?) all the record labels use these days. Naturally, louder is not better. It makes CDs sound flat, and generally sucky. You'll have a hard time finding a CD that is properly mastered.

If you can really hear what is in fact the total destruction of an artist's music (most people don't pay attention to it at all, they just don't know how it's supposed to sound), you should write to the artist(s). Complain about it. Perhaps they'll realise it too, and complain to the label. If you write to the label, be sure to WRITE IN ALL CAPS, the article explains why.

Anyway, the article is here: Rip Rowan: Over the Limit

Flashing mobs

Sat, 09 Aug 2003 00:19:33 +0100

Participated in my first FlashMob today. Also happened to be the first Dutch FlashMob (forum, mostly Dutch). It was, as expected, mad fun. The assignment was as follows:

18.59: Get your instructions at the specified place (which was dependent on birth date)
19.17: Go to the mob location. Do not arrive here before 19.16. Everyone coming out of the supermarket is a `celebrity`. You have been waiting for hours for him/her to appear. Photograph (with flash!) the `celebrities`.
19.21: Leave the mob location. Don't linger around.

Not quite as complex as the NY-mobs, with multiple times to do different things. But for a first DutchMob, I think it turned out awesome. I can't wait for the next mob.

I've uploaded the pictures I took here, though most are blurry and generally bad because I was trying to make as many pictures as possible. Others have uploaded some pictures too. rckoenes, Cowboy_Bebop, Gizz, locuta, and probably others I don't know about.

update: Oops, wrong URL for the dutchmobbing forum. Corrected it.

Fuck Lawyers!

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 20:19:33 +0100

From Kuro5hin comes linked to me the "best fucking legal document in the world." I love it. Read it here. Seven pages of legal fucking goodness.

And people think Americans are fucking loonies.

So, back home.

Sat, 02 Aug 2003 13:25:45 +0100

After three weeks of h0t weather, I'm back home. The high temperature does have one huge plus, I've found out. I'm now sort-of used to it, so I can properly sleep here, where it's somewhat colder.

Three weeks of camping have reassured me how much I hate tents and anything related. The first week, at Camping Toscana Village, the damn campsite didn't even have toilet paper. You had to carry a roll of toilet paper everytime you wanted to have a good p00. Thank goodness I was within 25 steps of the toilets. The second and third weeks, at Camping Piani Di Clodia, were somewhat better in that respect. There was that little thing where there was no means of getting drunk after 11 pm, but who would want that anyway?

Anyway. Italians seem to love underwear. And especially sexy underwear. In every mall in every city, there is at least one Intimissimi store (sexy underwear). Most of the time, there's a Calzedonia (sexy swimwear) within 20 steps of it, accompanied again in close range by an Intimo3 (sexy underwear and swimwear) store. Really, it's overkill.

One thing those crazy Italians do well: they know how to make food.

Bonjourno. Or something.

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:22:16 +0100

So, posting from italy on a sucky Internet Corner machine, with a sucky keyboard and a sucky connection. It is hot. Help-I-just-fainted-because-of-the-heat hot. Not so much a problem, you say. Just jump in the pool and be cooled off. This is true, but the problem is't so much h0tness during the day: it causes insomnia.

Anyway, having a good time otherwise. Except the bar closes at 23:30. Assholes.

Gone Fishin'

Fri, 11 Jul 2003 05:30:00 +0100

Actually, gone to Italy. For three weeks or so. Chances of finding proper inet access in Italy are slim, so expect quietness.

Later!

PowerPC vs. x86

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 20:00:34 +0100

Nicholas Blachford has written an interesting article that discusses the difference between x86 (pentium and such) processors and powerpc processors. Sure, I've seen such articles before, but they were all biased. Even though this particular article was written by someone who works for a company that develops PowerPC based motherboards, and an accompanying Operating System, I couldn't find anything that looked biased.

If you run an x86 (pretty good chance there), and think it's perfect: read the article. If you have a ppc and want to know why it's better than the neighbour's x86: read the article. If your nickname is JJJ: read the damn article.

Thanks to Felix for the link.

XMLful goodness.

Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:56:37 +0100

Notice anything different? Well?

Ok, it's the little blue XML button at the top right. Click that, and you'll be presented with an RSS feed of my news stuffs. Whether or not it opens in your browser or your rss aggregator depends on too many things to mention, but if you get it in your browser you can just paste the url in your aggregator. Some smart aggregators can figure the url out by themselves by just pointing them at my main page. (Straw is an example of this.)

Naturally I'll have to elaborate on this a little. RSS feeds are a way of keeping track of updates on a website, without having to visit the site every so often. Instead, you point a feed aggregator to the RSS feed, and it will download and check the feed every x minutes. It'll then update its own list, keeping track of what you've read and what not. You click on a title, and it displays a summary (or, depending on the feed, the entire article). If you want to read more, you have it open your browser. It's a great timesaver.

Oh, and yes. That button is usually orange. But since my site is blue, I got out my trusty paintbrush (of type GIMP, naturally), and painted it blue. Then I went through some hoops to get it displayed properly in all browsers (My god, IE sucks), and there it is! Magic!

Skr33pt kiddies...

Mon, 07 Jul 2003 05:27:38 +0100

If you're reading this: Either stop annoying me on IRC, or come over here so I can shove a pineapple up your ass. With a bulldozer.

Really, where's the fun in flooding an IRC channel or two? Sure it annoys people (mostly the folks cleaning up the mess), but there's no recognition other than "what a stupid prick". Please, get a fucking life and start contributing to a nice Free Software project.

Ageless, indeed.

Sun, 06 Jul 2003 02:33:33 +0100

While browsing through the Ageless Project site, I found this guy, who has the exact same birthday (October 4, 1984) as me! Unfortunately, he hasn't updated in a while. Still, I wonder if there are more people who share my birthday, and also have their own website with a journal of some sorts.

Looking through the Ageless Project for people of your own age is quite fun. I think it's pretty nifty to read what other people your age are writing. I found this girl called Emma's journal for example to be particularly amusing. Another girl named Faith has one of the most beautiful designs I've ever seen, even if it does say IE-only (which I haven't tested.) There's even a thirteen-year-old listed! (And a toddler, maintained by parents.)

There are really a lot of them listed, some more fun than others, some quite dead (from not updated to plain-and-simple 404s.). It's hours of fun. Oh, and they should all be free of pop-up/unders!

No more Pop-Unders!

Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:49:48 +0100

I found a site that takes A Stand Against Pop-unders (ASAP!). I instantly decided to support this initiative, and put a small button under the navigation links. If you have a site and hate pop-unders, do so too!

I'd stick up an Ageless button too, but I don't like to clutter the page too much. Maybe some other time.

Another voice lost.

Sat, 05 Jul 2003 03:03:19 +0100

One of my favourite radio DJs had her last show, uh, yesterday. Isabelle on Radio 3FM always meant nice music, and nice blabbering inbetween songs ;) It's sad to hear another female voice lost. There are so few of them on the radio here =\

I hope I get one of those T-shirts they were giving away! ;)

drool

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:33:26 +0100

So. Apple has some new hardware out. I want one. 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970 goodness. They call it G5 though. Anyway, these things should really scream. And run circles around those primitive x86 things. I think the QuickSilver G4 casing is a little more attractive, but these seem to grow on you. I like the new case a lot better now than I did when I first saw it.

Their new software is looking good too. I can't wait for Mac OS X 10.3. Expose sounds like a real timesaver (as opposed to moving windows out of the way and minimizing them, trying to find the window you're looking for). And even though windows did have fast user switching first, I think Apple did a much better job at it. From what I've seen during Steve's demo, it's also a lot faster than Windows XP's fast user switching.

A reason to come to .nl!

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:34:17 +0100

They have hand-made cookie dough icecream in Castricum near the train station. Quite delicious. I hear Ben & Jerry's has such a flavour too. I really need to try it.

Windows is so easily fooled.

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:25:39 +0100

Since windows 2003 `requires' 128MB of RAM at least, I installed it on a machine with 96MB. This takes some modifying of files on the CD, but after that it runs quite fine. I have seen a lot of people ask about how to do this, so I wrote it down here: Windows Server 2003 with less than 128MB RAM.

As of yet, I haven't found a free app that can alter files in ISO images, but I'm still searching for one.

Finding good music can be troublesome.

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 01:46:09 +0100

I have discovered Dana Glover.

After not catching her name on TV once, and twice on the radio, I finally found it out. "Thinking Over" in particular is awesome.

Ok, time for some action.

Mon, 02 Jun 2003 16:47:39 +0100

Well, after quite some time (really, it took a long while), I've decided to allow the general public to see this place. The previous attempt (which was quite far along) was unfortunately lost. I had pretty much everything for that in a MySQL database. Nice, but when you make a mistake backing up your databases, it means everything is gone.

So, I decided to go for Zope instead. Zope comes with the added benefit of having lots of stuff you'd want (user auth, search engines) already built in. It also has its own HTML-like scripting language, called DTML. Be sure to have a look at what Zope can do for you!

There is really only one thing I don't like about Zope: it takes up quite a bit of memory. Because of this, the first time it gets accessed in a while, swapping it into memory can take a while. I hope I'll be able to find a fix for this.

The navigation bar on your left probably seems a bit empty. This will change in the nearby future. Expect a screenshots section, a section for code I've written, perhaps contact info, etc.

Lessee now.

Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:42:20 +0100

Ok, so I need a slightly longer story than the other ones. Just to see if that STUPID piece of shit called Internet Explorer will display the menu at the correct width. The damn thing DOES NOT understand what a pixel is.