YouTube - Human Tetris II

This game looks Super Great :D I wanna try :D

I slept more than usual

& I feel worse..
Shite!


Also.. twitter
one can twitter trough blogger.. (email the messages in, most cell phones can send emails) It just feels stupid to post such short blog posts.. (Ill have to try it tough.. did it once & it worked, but Proximus changed their service a bit.. they now send unwanted Junk too :/ Its possible it wont work anymore!)

Yourself!Fitness works miracles.. Amazing software!!

Timeline of notable computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting..

I cant help somehow loving the idea of old Computer virii.. I feel old typing this, but.. I lived with them buggers from early childhood (again, COMPUTER virusses) and.. :) they were so good compared to most of whats around now..

yeah :)

intitle:"index.of" (mp3) Artist

Creative with Google :)
Its amazing, but it works.. Even for weird stuff. Its amazingly simple!

So whats the consequence? They cant go leaning on google for what people put online.. So if they want to take this down, they ll probably have to write each and every site owner in separate!

Depending on how much this picks up within the comunity, this might just stir up an exciting & extremely funny Security trend!



*Read this in about an hour*
So you had your fun? messing around in what other people thought hidden.. (security trough obscurity is Never a good idea!) and now the other part of the bargain kicks in.. You re opening All your webspace to find that stuff you just put online but didn't plan on anyone downloading except that one friend you gave the url to.. Because; how d those Other people find out about that url?? hehe - think again :)
resourceful guy, who put 1 & 1 together :)

WKTTRADIO.COM

Gotta Love Rockstar :) If it didnt involve an international phonecall (Ive got other people to call before calling WKTT), Id be too busy to write this because Id be screaming my lungs out in Pure Anger :)

Genious Idea, Im looking forward to how this turns out in GTA IV!!!!!

Some Random Phone Pictures

Trying to run over a duck using a pedalo boat in Puyenbroek


Tour de France @ Gent.. 8 o clock in the morning


I should REALLY take the time to clean up my desk & paper shite.. REALLY !!!!! REALLLYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really!

YouTube - 'Hysterische' Morel klaagt discriminatie VB'ers aan

HYSTERIA - in belgian politics..
Apart from any political background, its just too unbelievably funny to see a person go overboard like That! I think on can even get the comedy without actually understanding dutch!

The Spanish Quest

I ve said it for years & I'll soon have the time to do so.. I'm going to improve my spanish.. I want it to be at least as good as my French is right now.. thats quite well tough not fluent due to lack of use. But reading & thinking are no problem..

Now, this is something Ive said all along, but to be honest.. I actually d like to learn Italian!

Spanish for the obvious reason.. it sounds cool, its a big language in the world, ..

But Italian.. look for an italian song.. listen to it.. & the tell me you havent fallen in love with the way Italian sounds! So I'll probably do my best at mastering Spanish & once that succeeds to a decent level.. I'll learn Italian. Probably :)

I also want to do A LOT of Linux Certifications.. Because there is no reason not to! :) And they re not all that expensive either! All I saw so far (except the RedHat ones - but those are Extremely low on my list..) are below €300.. so thats affordable :)

Twitter

Blogging for Twits?

Alexandre Dumas - Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Two newest books..

* Le Comte de Monte-Cristo tome 1 un livre de Alexandre Dumas
* Le Comte de Monte-Cristo tome 2 un livre de Alexandre Dumas

Yes.. I'll be reading french the next month or so.. I need to blow that dust off my french & This is THE way :)

But first I'm going to finish "De Keuze" by "Jess Walter" .. probably not that good, but cheap goes a long way :)

& after that I'll probably buy & work my way trough "Spanish for dummies" .. I want to enlarge the base spanish I know right now..

I'll also probably buy some books online too, soon. I want some IT books but the choice in stores is really sad.. Not up to the level I'm looking for..

Ich muss gar nix - Grossstadtgeflüster

This is an AMAZING song!!! This needs airtime on stubru! NOW

Sooo catchy! & the lyrics sound cool too, tough I'll have to do some closer investigating to really get everything.. My German isnt all that :s

Check out their MySpace (yeah, tough I am against MySpace on principle, I did find them through there.. And I will soon have to admit that MySpace is A LOT better than all those old ASL clones..)

Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 3000 Laser

I dont drool on hardware.. but I have to admit, I like this keyboard & mouse



Its the ones I use @ work & .. im actually considering buying them for home use! The keyboard takes a bit getting used to because.. its the same size of a normal keyboard but has less space for the usual buttons due to the extra ones. This means they had to compress the other buttons to fit everything in. So, typing blind, you ll soon type an S instead of a D and a Z instead of an E.. but humans do adjust quickly :D

I'll probably wait to see how the batteries hold out though.. Batteries might be the real dealbreaker here! :s

Update (5m later or so, lol) - Fuck, I just discovered the downside of having a standard and a non standard keyboard.. I just pressed CTRL-Z instead of CTRL-A

.. I feel like starting "Operation Permanent Linux Bliss" !!

First day at work

Yeah.. finally
It was fun :)
more comming up!

Ooh.. And I have The Comfiest Chair :) yaay!



Now for the story.. Me & the pliers..

Whats so special about these weird looking pliers?

Well, they re specially made to open CBR's..

Captive Bead Rings

From BME Store..

These heavy duty ring openers are made by Industrial Strength and are manufactured from 410 stainless steel and are fully autoclavable. They come in two different sizes. The small openers are suitable for rings up to 4ga and have 4 notches to help prevent scratches when opening the rings.

And since you cant open one of those CBRs without a pair of pliers, I finally got me one. & this is where the story starts actually.. It is Not At ALL easy to open a ring like that! Even with the pliers! But for a whole new reason.. You have to watch out not to bend the ring out of shape!! Then, getting it closed again! Considering you have to aply the exact amount of strength to open it, but not too much as not to bend it.. Because the ball needs the tension to stay put.

An Ordeal!
but it was fun :)


& now time to check TaxOnWeb & get to bed!!


TaxOnWeb update.. that was quite easy & painless.. paper has a lil more oversight.. but this was .. easy :) They actually had most of it filled in already!
Neg side tough.. its IE only *puke* & they Do Not Warn You about that! So after trying to log in using FF & failing, I figured it was probably IE only *puke*
Anywho, its in - yaay

So much stuffs to tell

So little time :s

Anywho.. tomorrow s the first day of the rest of my life :)
My first day at work (hoi Mark :p) It ll be a challenge, thats for sure!
Exciting :) Im wondering what my first day ll look like!

now sleep..


Upcoming if I EVER find the time..
* TaxOnWeb
* My adventure with this

* Movies
* Miami Ink
* Reading (Hobb, Death Note, ..)
* Music
* My Dready plans (ergo the expensive hair treatment..)
* ..

But I might as well never get to telling those stories :) although the picture one is really worth while :D

Cultuurcentrum Luchtbal - Hof Ter Lo

I didnt go to Graspop this year :( but I did get to see some Great music yesterday!

Earth Crisis - Terror - Sworn Enemy - Walls Of Jericho - No Turning Back - Morda


We didnt see Morda (again)
NTB & Sworn Enemy were OK
Walls of Jericho & Terror were Insane!!!
Earth Crisis was utterly dissapointing (and only partly because their "Vegan Straight Edge" message really doesnt mean much to me..)

Im thinking about Dour, just to see Jericho & Terror again!! But I think I d rather see them in a smaller concert instead of a festival..

Carouso, our Maine Coon..

"The Maine Coon is one of the largest breeds of domestic cat, known for its intelligence and playfulness as well as its distinctive physical appearance."

And we just bought a lil one. He ll stay with his parents for another 8 weeks, but then he s coming to live with us - Cute, no? :)



"Maine Coons are very large and energetic cats, sometimes weighing up to around 11-12 kilograms (25 pounds); the average weight is 6 to 9 kilograms (13-20 pounds) for adult males and less (7-11 pounds) for females."



"Male Maine Coons may grow to a length in excess of 1 meter (40 inches); the longest cat on record is a Maine Coon 121cm (49 inches) in length."




So yeah, He'll grow up to be one large cat.. Given time .. "Maine Coons develop slowly, and don't achieve their full size until they are three to five years old."

cute! :)

(Say hi at his current home if ya want)

we need the past,

the memories of long, to root us into our every day lives. Sometimes one of these memories becomes obsolete, passé. Dependent on what memory & the way it became, this can fill us with an incredible sadness.. droefnis.. until we settle in the memory and give that litle root up to the modern times. Its not that we need it, its that we .. take solace in the fact that its there!

Litle things :)

I just bought a Cheapass

Poker set!


200 chips (4 colors, unlike the picture), 2 decks, 5 dice (WHY??) & 1 dealer thingy
No more that €12.99 (Update: I got myself a second set.. for those games where you just need the extra chips ;))

I immediately bought one for Kaishi too :) & Im considering a second one, just to have 400 chips (for those heavy games :D)
We pokered (texas hold 'em) tonight & it was Swell! Funky night, we really hit That Jive!

YouTube - Battlestar Galactica: A New Crew In Town

supa :)

What I listen to..

[A] m p a c h e

And the newest version has again the improvements that I so craved.. Amazing software, everyone should use this!

Why? Have a lot of music? Want to easily manage & hear them? Convert them to MP3 & install the software. Then browse to your ampache server with your preferred client & enjoy all the luxuries you ever wanted in a jukebox :)

Its Amazing!


I have some major news since this morning.. but I just dont have the time right now for an extensive blog post.. maybe later tonight..

Last.fm

Hit that Jive, Jack

damn, I just discovered this. I steered away from it before, but after being in a curious mood today & discovering Ampache has a plugin to it, I'm trying it & .. damn :)
My fresh last.fm page.. Probably wont be all that interesting the first few weeks.. Im curious if it ll enhance my Ampache experience!!

I just typed "Louis Armstrong" in the artist box & now I'm hearing a lot of nice jazz, some of which I didnt know & do like.. Funk!


Privacy is changing.. people WANT to share certain things with the world.. altough some of them are still shy in regard to real life aquaintances about it.

Changes

the times they are a changin'

SO whats going on?
Well.. for starters, I quit my job at the hut. I need some time to sort things out & wont need the hut anymore after the next change

I 'm getting hired by my internship company :) Hell Yeah :D

And we re moving! We re moving to a much nicer apartment in Gent! Huge living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet, bathroom and a yard :) yaay!


The ascension.. on to the next part, done with what has passed - closure
& all that jazz


Oh & I'm probably going to graspop next weekend & I'm seriously considering Blue Note Festival!
& for the record.. I LOATHE the idea of le tour de france passing trough gent. ARRIVING in gent! BARELY A STREET FROM WHERE I LIVE!!!!!! Loathesome Frackers! I LIVE inside the "no public transportation" area.
Its kinda weird that I 'll be living the "Gentse Feesten" on a whole different scale this year. Last year, I was working constantly @ the hut & when I wasnt I was drinking & partying with the other hut peeps. I'll still try to do some of that partying tough ;) Mohito here we come :D


.. changes :) for the good!

Hacking Exposed Linux Second Editon

Finished

interesting read!!

Sopranos

so thats it.. its sunk in, its over!

I can hardly believe it.. I ve been watching this for SOO long.. I remember renting the DVDs, years ago, and watching them episode after episode, sitting at my brothers computer because mine didnt have a dvd player.. All I can do now is watch them trough again.. and again.. and again :) lol
Cant wait to get myself the whole box dvd set!

Anywho, the story is over.. but they made it a difficult ending? Everyone hoped to be able to turn off the tv, content without doubts or questions. No loose ends. But that wasnt what they had in store for us.

We had a parting party yesterday. Do things right..
We ate zitti (as described in the first Sopranos cookbook - proud owner :D) and when the moment was there we poured fine whiksy, cigars were lit (I really dont care for that experience. Waste of money like all other smoking!) and we sat back, ready for the experience.

Great episode! Lotza stuff happening, .. excitement, comedy, surprises..
The ending on the other hand.. Main reaction was WTF! You can go anywhere you want with that ending.. And ist incredibly FRUSTRATING. But ist probably the only way to have at least some of us pleased :/ Problem is.. there s still So Much stuff going around.. what with the trial? What with Sil? What with the whole organisation? ...? Questions unanswered! Journey!
On the other hand, they killed of such a bunch of important people.. Season 7 d be quite aquard (how do you spell this?) without all those.

anywho, I'll stick with the idea they live happily ever after.. T dying isnt really what I d have liked so..





There s only old episodes to watch now..

"Battlestar Galactica

Great Series; but whow..
9.1 on IMDB

I mean.. Whow! More than 9!
Whow!

omfg!
Sopranos.. User Rating: 9.5/10 !

& Deadwood..
User Rating: 9.4/10


Amazing
I cant get a top of series tough
& a 9 in series isnt a 9 for movies. Top movie is 9.1 - The Godfather

I'll have to look for a top X of series tomorrow.. Im curious :)

2010

Thats the year Kaishi told me about some days ago.

He s got A Plan. You know, one of those decisions you take at a time in your life. a goal! What that goal is, is for him to put in a comment if he wants it on here.. Go read the comments for more info :)

So here it is.. On print, On the internet.. For everyone keep him to it. Asfor Kaishi.. I propose you pick a date a every year, you check back to this page & remember what you promised on that warm day in may 2007..




.. Everybody needs a goal ..

I just added

a whole wad of Extremely interesting text to our Internship server about our beautiful server project (its the servers that are beautiful, not the project, the servers! Smeg, pay some attention here :p)

Info & Manuals Galore
They wont know what hit em ;)
lol

& now its time to sleep. Next to my lil one :)
Small remark.. I can advise anyone to watch Battlestar Galactica. Great Series!!

Finally got the Genbook & other related stuff up again. smeggin provider
Smeg

About the fuck time

Linux getIP script (external IP from behind a NAT, that is)

I already knew that in linux it all comes down to resourcefulness.. Once again its been proven. You can do anything you want with the proper combination of basic commands!

I was tired of depending on dyndns, especially since I have an own URL. Problem was, how to get my external IP adress. The first commands I thought about were traceroute / ifconfig / ping / .. but, I soon realized this wouldnt work. A lot of data but just not what I needed :) So I googled it & it came up with a 'lynx -dump "http://checkip.dyndns.org"' style command. This sounded a bit bloated to me, but I gave it a try. didnt turn up too much. Another person used "html2text" & .. I didnt even try that one. Those just arent the standard commands.. Well, they are, but they do A LOT MORE!

So whats the solution? "wget"! :) So far so good.. "wget url".. but thats still relying on dyndns. And I Didnt want that. Now, I use a standard D-Link router. This router has a device info page which contains the external address. This is accurate.

So we 've got the data, but A LOT of data. Too much :)
& we 've got grep for that. So lets craft ourselves a grep command!

The external IP is on a line on its own. 3 lines above it, there 's the word "Address" so we'll do a "grep Address FILE -A 5" (-A 5 to get the 5 trailing lines)

Now we have 4 of those occurrences. We only need the IP addresses, so we ll pipe that output to "grep -E [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]\+ "

This gives us 2 addresses, an internal one for the router himself (yeah, its a bitch) and the valuable external one! Now lets separate these :) We dont know anything about the later, but we obviously know the first.. So another quick grep here.. "grep -v 192.168.0." so we dont see any internal addresses.

All this put together gives us the following

wget -q --user username --password password http://192.168.0.1/st_device.html
grep Address st_device.html -A 5 | grep -oE [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ | grep -v 192.168.0.
rm -f st_device.html*

This outputs the external IP to the command line, ready to upload with ftp or do whatever the fuck with it :)

I'll probably "grep ... > file" and "ncftpput -u User -p Password -r2 -t600 -DD -m Server URL SourceFile" & maybe even throw in a "diff" to determine if the ip address is different than the former. We might keep it in a file or download it from the place we re uploading it to.
And No worries about uploading a wrong one since we re uploading over the same router we re asking the info to. If he cant provide it, he cant upload either. :)

Now throw this in a cron & no more need for dyndns :) Provided the space we re uploading it to stays up, ofcource..

You might also want to throw in some checks, for example, if the file isnt downloaded or empty, dont bother running the rest. Dont squander the processing time (if only by principle) & most of all, dont risk uploading an empty file over your ip adress in the file :) (if for example the router reboots during wget but is up & running again by the time the ftp kicks in)

Something to consider here tough, is security. We re doing rm -f, downloading pages, executing crap, .. putting this in a cron, uploading over cleartext, whatnot. This, however, is beyond the scope of my blog post :) Go read a book or whatever!


Interesting process to observe while solving problems like this.. its quite simple actually
1. Ask yourself.. what information do you you Want?
2. Locate that information. independent of where it is or how to get to it. Thats for later
3. Determine how the information is served (this is a crucial step, it sounds dumb, but it is!)
4. now locate a linux commandline client for that protocol. There are more than you can imagine. pdf2txt, wget, ftp, .......
5. script it together. once you ve got the data, its simple to reformat it. Only a matter of time :)

This DOES obviously sound cheap.. but did YOU immediatly think about the smegging wget to the DLink? I know I didnt. Because I immediately thought that information was not easy to come by. I thought of telnet client stuff or whatever.. but.. forgot that its simply there in the web interface!
Follow the steps & carefully consider before writing off a source in the second step. :)


Edit.. for those too lazy to write the necesary code.. all you have to do here is edit the variables!

# Variables
## Location & filename for temporary files
map="/tmp/"
file="IpFile"

## Remote Webserver settings
server=foo.bar
serverU=foo
serverP=bar
serverMAP=/public_html/foo/bar/

## Webpage with IP info page
IPpage=http://acme/ip.html
IPu=foo
IPp=bar

## IP base to ignore - to filter out local IPs
IPbase=10.0.0.


## Do not edit beyond this point ;)

if [[ $map == "" || $map == "/" || $file == "" ]]
then
echo "Thank god I didnt trust you to fill these in wisely."
echo " (dont get over confident tough, this is an EXTREMELY basic test!!)"
echo "At least One of the following errors was found!"
echo
echo "* the map and file variable can NOT be empty!"
echo "* the map can NOT be / (the root)."
echo "Since we re doing rm -f, these settings might cost you your OS!"
echo " ;)"
echo
echo $map$file
exit 1
fi


# make sure there s no files that could screw the process ;)
rm $map$file* -f

# Get IP
wget -q --user $IPu --password $IPp $IPpage -O $map$file.router

# check for file existance
if [[ -e $map$file.router ]]
then
grep Address $map$file.router -A 5 | grep -oE [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]\+ | grep -v $IPbase > $map$file

# Get curent file
ncftpget -cV -u $serverU -p $serverP $server $serverMAP$file > $map$file.O

if [[ ! -z $( diff -q $map$file $map$file.O ) ]]
then
# Upload file
ncftpput -V -u $serverU -p $serverP -r2 -t600 -DD -m $server $serverMAP $map$file
fi

fi

# remove residual files
rm $map$file* -f

asfor WHY I took the time to do this? because I needed this script myself :)

I just realised.. ncftp is a great ftp program but not really standard. You can replace this by vanilla ftp tough you ll have to figure out those commands on yer own..
The rest is pure vanilla linux soft (grep & wget)

Amazing

This piece of shit windows screwed up my media player by installing the mediaplayer update. Now I get some nonsense error. Crap Software! aaaaaaaargh

Im installing linux tomorrow! Actually probably not tomorrow, but one of these days, alice.. one of these days! Pow! Right in the kisser!! Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!

edit: uninstalling worked. At least they seem to be able to REMOVE their crap decently. although I'll never know what amounts of crap this left behind. At least I can use mediaplayer agan!

The 27th really was

a lousy day

Even sopranos skipped a beat

CLYNELISH 14 Year Old

Amazing whiksy!
Sweet & chocolatey! (amazing!)
Its Amazing :)


MY Other BDay gift from mini :) She s just sweet

Donnie Brasco

Im finally getting to watching it.. 7.6 on imdb.. I'm Curious
26min.. So far so good :)

I was supposed to work al week.. most of it got canceled (5 out of 6 days) I'm not entirely happy about that. Tough I do like the fact that this buys me more time to work for school..

The whole mob thing.. Amazing :)
Im looking forward to GTA IV. Rusian Mob.. Yeah :) A pitty, the amount of upgrades this ll ask of my PC. Another pitty.. Ill have to wait for it to come out on PC & those sony bastards.. it ll take a while to happen :( Im still wondering if we ll ever get to play the ".. stories" games (VC stories, SA stories, ..) altough I dont really care about those. PSP quality.. Still loving the whole Vice City game :)

Lefty .. what an amazingly Rich character.. damn. only Pachino :)
& Sonny Black.. Michael Madsen is Amazing! Incredible
& Donnie himself ofcourse. Depp is a powerfull actor.
Great cast, but you dont get a 7 in imdb easily :)

59min Wiseguy Tennis.. Supa


I might go out & get me the Godfather box tomorrow :)

25

Anyone who hasnt said the words by now can crawl into a hole & decompose for all I care (with maybe One exception) Those who cant handle this shouldnt be reading this. There s lots of other sites on the web. Try one of these.. (one, two, three!) There s no roster this time. Noone could be bothered to wait for the day. The Hut REALLY screwed things up for me this year. Its a pitty. 25 is a number to remember. And I will.. 26 will be better!

My busy work schedule did have its costs. I really want to pass this annoying school year, I really want to FINALLY be rid of school! But by god, if Id have known the cost.. I d probably have gone into it differently. Or maybe plainly just not at all. I mean, I dont really value the rubbish they thought me. & I still believe that I d have made it without all those useless years. I got to deploy myself in ways i d probably wouldnt have had the time for otherwise. And those are rich experiences. But its not what school taught me. Its what utterly ignoring school enabled me to achieve. Asfor my internship.. I can honestly say that the ONLY appliance of my X year education was the fact that they told me about wireshark. And I would have figured that out by my own too! I realize (again the s-z problem - amazing) now even more that the rubbish they value so high is Actually worth Nothing more than I supposedly ignorantly suspected.

As expected today was utter shite. I actually started the day by walking into dog excrement. (yeah, shite for those that dont understand)

Oh & I also found out why I can barely find anyone to play games with me anymore.. I tought they just didnt enjoy it as much as I do.. As it appears, I was wrong! How naive.

I should go to sleep but I wont like the day I wake up to, so Im putting it off. One heap of excrement, I tells ya!


I wanted to buy the latest gloomcookie (Thats 5) yesterday, but the guy didnt know the exact price, so I couldnt. Utterly depressing So I got 3 episodes (apparently thats all of them) of Nightmares & Fairy Tales. They re all by Serena Valentino & the good people at Slave Labor Graphics (SLG)
Plus some other commics. A dragon ball & 2 Dufaux et Marini commics L'Etoile du Désert (lol, I just discovered they got Rapaces translated in english. They re called Raptors. funny. & good too, they deserve it. They should to the scorpion too. That one s even BETER) and 3 dvds while we re making the list & checking it twice.. Sin City, Donnie Brasco (can you believe I havent seen this movie!!) & Aeon Flux (I REALLY need to get me them series DVDs from Amazon!!)


Battlestar Galactica looks promising & Im extremely happy to have GTA Vice City to play. Its SUCH a good game.. Amazing!


Im off to bed
Mini already pointed out I am staying up waay beyond what I originally planned. pf. I just dont feel like tomorrow!


ah & tonight will be the first night of No Muscle Relaxants! I hope Im not cripled in the morning!! I look forward to a pure night of sleep tough :)





.. things will get better! Only 3 more weeks, 5 more weeks & 4 months.. Ive been saying this for the last 2 years, only 4 more months :) No time to get burnt out, thats for sure!

Oh & the bitches at my provider didnt restore my database after the crash. I'm going to mail tomorrow & HOPE they can.. But I somehow dont think they will :s Its a lesson. You cant even trust the people you pay to do it, to backup & safeguard your valuable data. Thank Me I keep the valuable data here & backed up on an external location. .. pff And to think that I am seriously considering moving my blog to that environment. I might have lost my total blog data last week. Imagine that. Maybe I should make myself a book out of all this :) That d be rich :D

So, no real reflections as of now, maybe later. Tough reflections might be more of a 31 december kind of thing. Its a healthy thing to do once in a while :)

Mancala

On Boardgamegeek, Wikipedia, Tradgames or Mastersgames..

Its always nice to discover that there are many different ways to play a game

Anywho, I finally got a mancala set :) Mini bought me one for my BDay & its just Lovely! A hand made woodcut design. Lovely :) Cant wait to play! (& Win :D moeha - lil hint to my future victims: link - Havent read it tough..)

Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - earth - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Environment

the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions.

• Human CO₂ emissions are too tiny to matter

• We can't do anything about climate change

• The 'hockey stick' graph has been proven wrong

• Chaotic systems are not predictable

• We can't trust computer models of climate

• They predicted global cooling in the 1970s

• It's been far warmer in the past, what's the big deal?

• It's too cold where I live - warming will be great

• Global warming is down to the Sun, not humans

• It’s all down to cosmic rays

• CO₂ isn't the most important greenhouse gas

• The lower atmosphere is cooling, not warming

• Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming

• The oceans are cooling

• The cooling after 1940 shows CO₂ does not cause warming

• It was warmer during the Medieval period, with vineyards in England

• We are simply recovering from the Little Ice Age

• Warming will cause an ice age in Europe

• Ice cores show CO₂ increases lag behind temperature rises, disproving the link to global warming

• Ice cores show CO₂ rising as temperatures fell

• Mars and Pluto are warming too

• Many leading scientists question climate change

• It's all a conspiracy

• Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming

• Higher CO₂ levels will boost plant growth and food production

• Polar bear numbers are increasing

Great read!

May 16, 1988: Nicotine Declared As Addictive as Heroin, Cocaine

Addicts.. No better than a heroin junk
More info at Nicotine Addiction 101 - checkit, interesting!!


only socially accepted..

Hey mister tambourine man..

its late
but im chilling, so thats ok I guess


After discovering GNU Backgammon, DS backgammon in 42 all times classics feels silly. Good for nobrain games tough.. The AI on my cell is even worse. I cant play anything else than easy on it.. easy = almost nobrain.. Im really impressed by the GNU version tough!

I just played the chess in it for the first time.. I never started it, because I didnt feel like investing the time.. And I didnt feel like losing because I didnt really Play.
But I did now. On easy. And I screwed up, early in the game. & I mean I SCREWED UP! I lost my queen on the 6th move or so. But then the AI just Sucked. And I won. Unbelievable. The mess I was in.. Even an easy chess player should have beat me. I wasnt really concentrating on the game. But none the less.. I won. A slight dissapointment! I'll play for serious & on the more difficult scale tomorrow.


I AM sleepy & there IS a place I'm going to..
bed..

Hamusutā to Kurasou, which translates to, "Let's Spend Time With Hamsters."

Amazing!!

Check out the site, what a game
unbelievable :D

Mini is cute

talking in her sleep n all
I really look forward to spending more time with her :)

Reflexes, Series & Mint

My reflexes have really improved the last few months. Ive always had em but I ve just tuned into them even more.


I dont get why people watch lost.. I watch lost myself & .. gawd it sucks! True, Season 3 is the best yet, but still .. it SUCKS! The quality is just .. missing!
Want to see great tv? something new? something recent? Try Heroes! You dont want that? Ever considered Sopranos? Yeah, I know, its running to its last days.. Anything else? Care for a laugh? Something Exceedingly witty? Tune into Desperate Housewives!
But maddon' Just QUIT watching Lost!
Forget the fact that you re curious & realise that its just plain junk. Nothing EVER happens nor will! Lets all just be honest. It sucks


We have a mint plant in the kitchen. One of those scrawny things you buy in a supermarket. My lovely honey moved it into a real pot (instead of the crappy original) and its Overly happy, growing like weeds.
And because of this, I discovered.. there s nothing as good as fresh mint :) The smell, the sweet taste, .. At first I only craved for an iced Mojito, but by now I just cant stop eating it :) Nonetheless; I will get myself Rum, Ice, .. ASAP!

I'm Tired

I'm FINALLY tired!

I took me about three months of hell, but I'm there - I'm Tired. The whole double shifts, 7 days a week thing.. Im glad I proved myself & everyone that I can do it :) but now that its almost over, .. I am happy it is.

I dont feel like going back to school , back to the useless shite after spending my days doing stuff that actually matters to anyone. At least i can do something that matters at pizzahut - how sad is that? Anywho, its only for some months & then I'll be able to do interesting stuff. Stuff I actually LIKE doing

oh god I'll be glad to get out of school! Finally


I had a fun & interesting internship.
Installing some linux boxes & stuff.. yeah! Extremely Fun :)
& nothing as nice as seeing it all come together. The real user using the systems.. The stuff minituesly prepared.. Carefully tested & then brought into action. Abused compared to the careful testing it had before.. Its great to see it all comming together :)


& so is red dwarf :) Smeggin amazing series


I feel like having a glass of whisky.. I should get a softer one than I have right now. Pure Turf

My back is killing me!
I'll have to call the hut & the doctor tomorrow! I wont be able to keep it up for more than 20m :/ Annoying!


..
tired!

& now the circle is round :)

New Sopranos is just plain old AMAZING

Stuff keeps on coming, piling up..
Amazing!


My back s been killing me for some days now
muscle ache.. Its really bad. But its improving
Maybe it ll be alright by the time I need to work my next shift at the hut
Lets hope so
Or I'll have to go see a doctor about all this


& probably just because I slept too cold some nights ago :s (i think)

What do you mean, I'm funny?

"What do you mean, I'm funny?...You mean the way I talk? What?...Funny how? I mean, what's funny about it?...But I'm funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f--kin' amuse you? What do you mean, funny? Funny how? How'm I funny??...How the f--k am I funny? What the f--k is so funny about me? Tell me? Tell me what's funny!..."

- Goodfellas

Enough already with the Penguins

No More Penguins Stamp by =yanagi-san on deviantART


Seriously.. After the tapdancing .. Surfing?
Get a Grip, man!

Pizza Rimini in Gent

Usually I dont really seek visitors or whatever, but this time is different. The phone number of the delicious pizza restaurant "Rimini" in Ghent! Best pizza in Gent but The ONLY restaurant of which you cant for the love of GOD find the telephone number online! This has to change, once too many times did I waste time looking for it & then still having to go downstairs & cross the street to order one of their delicious pizzas!

The Rimini uses a cell phone for their orders & the number (or telefoonnummer in dutch) is 0484 618417. Thats Zero Four Eight Four, Six One, Eight Four, One Seven! Nul Vier Acht Vier, Zes Een, Acht Vier, Een Zeven. And thats in Belgium for those foreign peeps, thats +32, drop the zero!

Update - Just finished eating..
Cell (GSM) : 0473 792559
Regular : 09 2235023

They do seem to prefer people using the regular phone number!

Whisky

I dont know if I mentioned this, but I went flat out of whiskey some weeks ago. My last bottle - EMPTY!

So last weekend, I bought myself a new bottle! Another bottle of Lagavulin



Last one lasted about a year.. Try to find something that ll cost ya €40 & ll give you a years pleasure.. Whisky is cheap :D


I just realized what I d like for my next BDay.. Some bottles of NICE whiskey!
I just NEED a bottle of Blackadder :)
And maybe another nice one :) .. Edradour? (great whiskey!) Maybe another one? Who Knows :)

I really feel like passing by the Glengarry to get some!
yummy :)

I Finally finished my Dracula. Finally! Its been a while since I took that long to finish a book. and such a good one for that matter! amazing book. I hadnt expected it to be This good :)

Anywho,
This opens the path to .. my next book :) First first on the list is that lovely commic set ..

LE DIPTYQUE DRACULA de Pascal Croci et Françoise-Sylvie Pauly

and I'll probably start The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Wolfe) and after that, FINALLY, my newest Hobb book :) I cant wait.. And then there s that other book.. & in between them I'll have to read some more EA Poe! Those thick books are just standing there.. lol


oh & I might really cut them old dreadz some day soon.. There are some undeniable downsides to them.. When and If I do, it will be an act of pure impulse, thats for sure.. On the other hand.. I really DO like them :)

The Sopranos - Season 6: Episode 80 - Remember When

Whow, they re really covering a lot of ground.. HOT DAMN I cant wait for that full Sopranos DVD box!

I did them dishes so now its off to bed
Tomorrow ll be a heavy day :/ First internship then the hut.. pf..

Sopranos

The new season is YUMMY :D
I cant wait for an all season box to come out. Gimme the extended special bigass unfordable mofo edition, I need it, not a second of doubt!



Oh & btw, talking about buzz.. if Buzz isnt an smeggin buzzword, then I don't know what. Whats with buzz anyway? What happened to spam? All you need is spam.. Anywho, I dont really like buzzwords.


Sleep Now

Speakers & books

Hercules Speakers XPS 2.1 20

Finally, new speakers.. Merely €30! And by gawd, I needed those..
I just ran THX tests & .. DAAUYM :) hehe


Dragon Fall 1

A Dragon Ball parody. (ils on osé) Dragon ball & other popular series (TMNT, Star Wars, ..) French & quite funny!


Using Samba - 3rd edition

And my newest linux book.. (The pic is 1st ed, but I got 3rd ed..) a samba manual. The filesharing protocol. It ll solve the only curent problem at our internship. & it ll be an interesting read! a mere €40


& I went out to get myself a new Proximus chip card. With this one I can use the new mbank service. I still have to look into it some more, but .. Yaay :)

some stuff I noticed today

Clocky at Nanda - The clock of about 2 yrs ago that hides itself has gone commercial ) yaay!

Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows - A nice example of how studies sometimes dont see the obvious & come up with preposterous conclusions.. They should realise that sex appears to have been marginalised to the same level as crime, but no relation between the two exists.. Im sure they do too


Anywho, Im dead tired
but I did some good stuff!
It was nice to have a calm evening.. I needed it! Its been too long, too long a time I havent been relaxed, really relaxed

& now sleep :)
with my lil couch potato :)

Learning to write by reading

is like learning to fuck by watching porn

Lil hint to the 7S guys ;)

Persuaded yet? ;)

Virginia

..
tragic

Lil tought tough.. Games & Violence.. Jack ll probably jump on this like a coyote on his prey.. but then.. WHY is the USA the only place in the world where that kind of shit happens? I'm not talking about a country here, I'm talking about an area! Why? What is the Difference? National Rifle Association - Protecting Your Second Amendment Freedom

The Challenge

Incredibly Tough..
but an amazing heap of Fun

I cant wait till next year!


We started off (Friday 10pm - all times are extremely rough estimates) in 2 groups, one to the east & one to the west of the 3 km radius terrain. We then had to meet up somewhere to exchange decoder keys (6amà. After exchanging we looked for a code (7 am), had a small nap (8am) & went off to our checkpoint..

The rest is for later as I already fell asleep just now

Continuing..

Once arrived at our checkpoint (12 am), we dug out the 30cm tent rod (with our bare hands & some stones we found) and continued for out first outer ring checkpoint. This one was conveniently close, about 1 km (again, estimates) away. We cleared the checkpoint without any problems (at about 1pm) We then started off to our second checkpoint, 3,5km further. We had a closer one but deemed it too dangerous to bother.. We ran into some other people who told us stories about people getting caught there.. We cleared the second checkpoint, had another 45 minute nap (till 7pm) & dragged ourselves to our last checkpoint of the outer ring.

There we had a planning moment, where we decided upon the following 3 checkpoints. Tired as hell, we started off & after an excruciating trek got to the second checkpoint of the first ring. Pain and Suffering ensued as we started for the second one. Luckily we decided to follow the stream of a lil river thingy & not to try to climb those mountains again bc that would have been suicide. Things were getting dark by now (9pm) The river plan worked out wonderfully, we met up with some survivor buddies & reached the second checkpoint. (10pm) Once there we decided it would be a close one. We had about 2 hours left to get to home. One second ring checkpoint, 2 inner ring checkpoints (only about 2Om apart, we were told) and the spotting of "home" which was easily possible from as far as 1km by bare eye (we had binoculars) This was doable. If all went well..

Well, it didnt. We had no flashlight (lost it in the morning) & a cell phone light isnt all that to read a compass with! So no real compass tracking. No problem, we had the map & I knew exactly where we were. We continued along a road and crossed a field, all heavily guarded by hunters. We were looking for a certain path & discovered it to be A LOT further than we initially thought. We didnt find the second path (that was CRUCIAL to our plan) and just went trough the bushes. We found our second path (altough we re not all that sure about it being the Right path) and started off, only to discover that the things we were expecting werent there. By now it was (11.30 pm) so we had no chance of making it. We phoned in to try & check in our last checkpoint, only to have our deepest fears confirmed, we were at the wrong place! (she did tell us there were others who had that same problem, so it might have been the maps :s)

We decided to call it a night & arranged a pickup. We didnt make it, but we did manage to keep all our lives. Only 2 other groups managed to!


We learnt a lot & .. next time will be BETTER :D

Hunt or Survive

I Will Survive

Yeah, its Surviving time :)
Quite prepared & shite, some more shopping, ..
We Will Survive!

More on Sunday :p

pff

I just realized 30m ago that my pc clock was off.. So I just ate, instead of an hour ago
Shite!
.. forgetting to eat, I do have that sometimes


Tonight s the last evening at hut till monday, thank god!
Double shifts are just becoming Waaay too tiresome!


I saw some more smegging red dwarf yesterday & holy cow, that show rules :)
Sopranos Sopranos Sopranos! I cant wait :)

And I tried secons life yesterday.. I can see why people go there.. Immense possibilities in avatar customization alone.. But right now Im tired of the training island & I NEED to get off there.. Maybe later today. I cant run it on my laptop though.. Linux version crashes & windows version doesnt like VMWare

irked

Snowboarding was Great! Super :) We had a swell time. Some great trips trough the wilderness.. Great :)

Ive got so much stuff to yank about at the moment.. I can barely contain myself regarding the Blogger Code of Conduct (O Riley).. I have Stories to Tell..


But most of all, I lack time. I dont have the time to blog it all! I work double days this & last week. Each day, after my internship I go to the Hut for a closing shift. And its fun.. for a while. But now, although utterly relaxed & revitalized trough the miracle of snowboarding, I am piss tired. All I do is work, work & sleep. I cant even spend the time on mini I need to. And this is starting to weigh on all of us!
And I have another tough weekend comming! All I can hope is that next week, my schedule wont be that heavy. It shouldnt since vacation will be over so hut will slow down.. thank whatever..

In lighter news.. I got complemented on my English yesterday.. By some American folk, I presume. I find it hard to react to such a remark.. anywho, yaay, my English is ok..


AND
In Even More Important News..
The new Sopranos are airing :D Ok, not on any channel I get, but hey.. it feels good to know that they re running again :) Although .. its the last 8 eps :(

My sleeping pattern is stabilizing
(& I seem to have an "S" - "Z" spelling problem in English)

A Fortunes Quote..

The sum of the Universe is zero.
(science)

Funny! And undeniably true.. :)
But you ll probably have to think about it before you realize its right.. I know I had to..

Linux?

Im finally convinced :) There is No Reason WhatSoEver not to use linux! I used to have some small remaining reservations about a 100% linux box for professional reasons (and games of course :s) but thanks to VMWare there really is NO reason At ALL not to go for linux :) The only problem would be Windows support or native windows software without decent counterpart, but those problems have been solved thanks to virtualisation. I now have a virtual Win XP on my system, enabling me to still use those programs, while running linux!

Its great ;)

My Newest Puzzle

(edit: I just noticed mine has a different finish.. slight difference, but mine is nicer than this one)

& I solved it in about an hour to 90 minutes..
It was Incredibly fun! As I expected, there is some kind of mechanism to it, all extremely ingenious :) I cant wait to have a go at another one - lol Thank God viona went to get me this one :) Otherwise Id have had to WAIT :/

oh & also.. Im Extremely Fuckin Tired!
aarghl

Fun Puzzle

Bought it yesterday



Solved it today

Fun :)

I got another one on friday from Mini.. Incredibly fun! altough it only took me about 15m to solve it.. But its just So Amazingly Elegant :) I'll put a picture online when I find one

I'm looking forward to getting me another one :) They dont cost that much, so..

World Without Oil

Web 2.0 in action..

Social games organised over the web.. I cant wait to join in :)

Bloggers != Journalists

There is an Extremely interesting article on bloggers vs journalists on www.theapplicationdeliverynetwork.com


An interesting read! There are to key points to be made from the article (blog post.. the irony) The whole article boils down to this conclusion.. "until bloggers are bound by some sort of restrictions or code of conduct and actually offer more value than simply regurgitation of press releases or unsubstantiated comparisons, vendors cannot (and should not) treat them as first class citizens of the media community" which contains two parts..

The later part rightfully says Content is important! Repeating press releases does indeed make you a gathering point for that information, but does not mean that you are writing news, have joined the press corps. Newspapers do more that just repeat the information they are being fed by the companies! Thus to be comparable to "a real news source", bloggers should realize they need to do more than just post. Quality over Quantity..

The former is another one altogether. Throughut the whole article, the writer proves that he just is NOT ready for "the new news sources". Blogging might be the next style in journalism. And the whole article proves that the writer isnt ready to give that new idea a chance! After All.. Freedom of Press is an ever important issue and defining a viable source by the existence of behavioral (restricting) rules just sounds Wrong!

I d love to go into this some deeper but I just dont have the time for that right now. A final note tough.. I am not saying that blogging is the answer to anything. I am only pointing out the fact that, like all new things, its facing a lot of prejudice and negativism.

in even MORE important news..

We re going snowboarding :)

a weekend shortski. 3 days, over easter! Yaay

Domain of choice (well, not really choice, rather just because its cheap & available) will be Saint Sorlin d'Arves! (Village : 1550 m Domaine Skiable 1500 - 2620) Some links..
Office du Tourisme
La Météo
Webcam

The Countdown Has Started.. I might even write a countdown thingie :) I should, really!
But it ll be some hard weeks till then.. Next week ll be ok. The 2 weeks after that.. I'll have a tough time. Constant working type o style stingymuwhat!

& now its off to bed! aye
Smeggin hell mates

Spending spree

Phew Im tired..
Worked hard this weekend & on top of it all, the time change cost me an hour o sleep :( Smeg!


But I did some spending on friday :) Guess I just needed some fun & wel.. I got caried away..


I initially went out to get me the "Jazz Legends" box. I had a coupon (50%..) from knack & .. its a 10 cd box with different artist on each cd. (Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker, Stéphane Grapelli, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis) Its great!

Mini wanted to come with me to go & get it so I waited for her. She had to go to the bathroom when we met downstairs, so I went to "De Poort", the next door commic store (its quite huge) to look around. I immediately discovered the new part of Gunnm, The Last Order (nr 9), so I picked it up. I wandered some further into the store (dangerous!!) and lo and behold.. I found another pearl.. A french Dracula commic. 2 parts in a box, Wonderfully drawn..It wasnt cheap, but I just NEEDED it!!

After that we went to the De Standaard to get the aforementioned box. I cant step into a book store without looking around and I was drawn to some EXTREMELY cheap art books! (€10) SO I bought this one!

www HR Giger com
Giger, H. R. (ED)
Hardcover, 23.8 x 29.7 cm (9.4 x 11.7 in.), 240 pages


We could have called it a day then.. but I guess I was destined to spend even more..
We bought a rice cooker. And I love it :)
cant make rice like that in a normal pot. Worth every cent!

Smmegging..

Yeah, that ll be My Newest Favouritest Wordest .. eurhm.. yeah, something alike


Smegging hell, you smegging smeghead!

SMEG

Once again

this publicly available online web diary throws up questions as to its purpose.

What is and isnt applicable to it, what can & cant it be used for..


Former posts about its futute have again become a question with their answers, obsolete.

What, Why, How, ..
Questions to be answered!



Mini got up together with me today.. sweet :)

Nat King Cole

Hot Damn!

That guy's GREAT!

I still UTTERLY LOVE that picture of Josslen!! It Is Simply AMAZING!! I Love It :)


..


There was a boy.. who wanted to grow dreadlocks. "I'll be part of that special community, made up by those cool people with dreadlocks." he tought.. "I'll have instant friends! A group of people I dont know individually but still am a member of. The few," he continued, "the special people. Those inspired by the great rastafarian tradition. Following in the footsteps of many religious men.. The Hindu, Astec, Indian, Māori (Ringatu) traditions. Old traditions!"

So he started his journey. Got some friends to do his hair. The start of a long trip. Dreadlocks are not simple to get. You need to make a decision, and stick with it. Not just for a week.. or a month.. Because the first year is awful. It does not look good. It does Not look like real dreadlocks.. to the trained eye!

The boy stuck with it. Although a hard ride. Its a growth process.. There are a lot of sites out there that tell you you cant change the locks you get. That tell you, you just have to take them & love them. That tell you you just do..
Altough I am not that boy, I do have dreadlocks & I can say.. Its true. Its something that grows with you and takes a lot of time & effort to get there! So when they 've matured.. they re SO Personal.. - this is starting to sound like having kids..
I had never considered a moment in time when Id say I love my hairstyle. But right now.. I just DO! Its amazing, really. And I'll have to give 'em up soon. Because of work, career and rigid social expectations about something as silly as appearance.

The boy needed to cut his hair too, some time later. and there is where i'll pick it up again, that history of his.. Although by telling it, by making it up, by .. its also a lil of my history. No writer can steer clear of his own machinations!

The boy cut his hair. And he wasnt happy with it. He was proud of the locks. They meant something to him. And they also meant the membership to the club to which he was a member, if only in his mind. That club of which he proudly wore the colors. That club he never saw the benifits of.
He realised that cutting his hair would mean the end of this membership, with no way to ever reclaim the pride. Scorned by all those members, as he used to scorn the normal folk.. At least not without looking like a loser.


Is there a morale?
naah :)
or maybe the morale would be "Dont care about what other people think" or .. "Dont expect dumb stuff to happen because of superficial dreck" or .. "dreck is a cool word"



I wonder how the above will read.. Like shit probably. Bus as usual.. I wont reread it :) So whatever! hehe



And now I should get off to bed. A swig of soda, some brushin of the ole teeth.. (yeah yeah, fuck english spelling)

I've started running. 2 times this week already.. I should get it up to three & keep it up.. I hope it works! Because the movement is doin me A Lot Of GOOD! Im even happier because of it!


and now its off to bed for me :) Writing stuff while watching other stuff - fun but not really quality insurance :)

A Kiss

For my mini :)

The reason to hate U by ~Josslen on deviantART

The reason to hate U by ~Josslen on deviantART

Whow

This picture just made me go .. silent .. & watch!

Gentoo seems to have gotten a lot harder to install

Its amazing, really!

I can easily install a gentoo system
I can get it working all the way
EXCEPT the X

The X keeps on failing
And there is NO logic to it

I really dont get their new system, really DO NOT
Its incredible! Everything works untill I emerge world.
& that just BREAKS EVERYTHING!

I'm reinstalling. I'm going to get it working this time
& then calmly update all systems one by one
tough it bothers me not being able to decently update my own fuckin system
A system I've installed several times and worked with for Several YEARS!

Which is probably why I can keep it running. The X just hasnt been in my sphere of interest for several years! I only cared about system internals. And in some way, I still dont feel like putting much effort in the X! yet slightly more than before :/ So I'll figure this out one day or another :)



I went running with Sam & a mate of his today.. It was nice
It felt good to Finally get some juices running :) (yeah, no phun intended)

altough I might need some new running shoes. They re still ffin GREAT, but.. a bit small.. not a real surprise, I bought them 8 yrs ago :s



anywho, Im off to bed!
Gentoo is well underway & Startrek:TNG S2 e9 (or something alike)is running to its end. Nice series btw :)

Sticky Tires

Its amazing.. Im not quite easilly impressed, but THIS is EVIL

contrafibularities!

Blackadder: "Allow me to be the first to offer Dr. Johnson my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."

The truly hilarious thing, of course, is that all those un-words very nearly mean something.

Contrafibularities: Obviously from contra, against, + fibula, the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg. Means 'pulling one's leg'.

Anaspeptic: From ana. back or up, + peptic, pertaining to the stomach. Obviously refers to some form of upchuck.

Frasmotic: Possibly a portmanteau word, frazzled + spasmodic. So frazzled that one goes into a spasm.

Compunctuous: A variation of compunctious, slightly influenced by contemptuous. Having a bad conscience because one has harmed somebody one really despises.

Pericombobulation: From peri-, around, + discombobulation. Disturbance and confusion because someone has been running circles around one.

Easy peas. Stephen R. Donaldson's rococo stylisms, by comparison, are downright hermeneutogenic.

Great Article! Super! :D

Ramblings of a tired mind?

Utter Fear and Loathing
Respect, Trust and Thrust issues
Weird & Unforeseen consequences

Self control?
No need for that on my behalf

This is so utterly annoying & agonizing
All I need right now .. But apparently thats too much to ask!


Yet there is a simple solution
Although stooping to that level might be an irrevocable decision.
the problem is only barely one of opportunity!


I should realy get to bed earlier tonight!

Im quite content with how my work desktop looks

Viva Linux!

Drivers' Submission To GPS Units Prompts 'Ignore Your Nav Unit' Road Signs

What? How weird? Think again! I realized those are needed the second I read "think that any possible route is a good one, leading to plenty of stuck vehicles" and immediately realized I KNOW people who ve been there & done that!

lol

Too Early

There were an Incredible lot of Ugly people / Ugly women on the tram (Trolley?) this morning! Thank god I can at least wake up next to a decent specimen!

Pity tough my specimen kept me up too late yesterday night :p

Work Work! (in a WC2 peasant voice)

internship

I ve started
& its OK so far :)

Nothing I cant handle!

How to Explain Digital Rights Management

".. a way to explain the problem with digital rights management to his dad and friend of ours who don't see what's wrong with it. He compiled a list of examples of DRM-related problems to help people understand what the big deal is with DRM.."

Interesting examples!
and for those looking for a more detailed explanation.. Check Wikipedia


Ps. PHP is childishly simple! Its amazing, really! There is NO difficulty AT ALL!

Minnie Riperton - Inside My Love

Two people, just meeting
Barely touching each other
Two spirits greeting
Trying to carry it further
You are one and I am another
We should be one inside each other

You can see inside me
Will you come inside me?
Do you wanna ride inside my love?
You can see inside me
Will you come inside me?
Do you wanna ride inside my love?

Two strangers, not strangers
only lacking the knowing
So willing, feeling, infinite growing

While we're here the whole world is turning
We should be one
Fulfilling our yearning

You can see inside me
Will you come inside me?
Do you wanna ride inside my love?
You can see inside me
Will you come inside me?
Do you wanna ride inside my love?"

This is SUCH an INCREDIBLY DIRTY song :) Tnx to the Guys from the Hut for pointing this out!

RALPH STEADMAN ---> Fancy Goods

Shite, Supercool! (tnx Kaishi)


I also got me the "The Joke's Over" by Steadman a few days ago :)

PHP Login System

aaait, I just finished my projects login mechanism :) yaay

NEXT STEP.. I dunno about the next step actually. But thats no problem, i'm going to bed right now & sleep over it :)

Sleep tight bishes!

I DO NOT feel like going to school today

Seriously NOT

I feel like working some on the project I was FINALLY able to start.. SO I need to get there.. & back out again ASAP (Sounds a bit like the real title of Lord of the Rings "there and back again") so I can finish it :)
Its not anywhere near finishing yet, but.. ... :)

Red Kimono (gi)

Oh my :) I d like that red one :)
I dont think I d be welcome in any belgian dojo and Ive got my plain white one for that.. But Daaaung, the red one rules :)



I do want it :)
Talk about stylish to wear around the house at night :)
sipping a nice glass o scotch :D
heh


Tnx go out to Shelli! Her lil one has one of the black ones with yellow stripes. She looks great in it :) Shelli pointed me to the manufacturers, Century.

SAUNA

Warcraft 3

I finally picked WC3 up again :)
yaay

I was quite amazed to discover the changes in Frozen Throne
new heroes & shit
or maybe I'm even MORE amazed that I didn't play it earlier

And its quite a surprise that the new ai is so much better



anywho, its surprising :)
& fun



& im still sick & I need painkillers & booze & .... :)

I'm SO Tired :(

I'm still sick

GameSpy: Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Image

Why the fuck do the units in (the left side of) this screenshot remind me of the Zerg??
I get the story n all, but CnC is just pure GDI vs NOD to me :/ So Why the hell they re going all Starcrafty, I dont get it!

Tavli

I had a nice evening, finally got to playing a game again.. Backgammon (tavli)! & all 3 variations! Interesting :)

Mini is sick :( But I hope she ll be better soon :)

Now we re off to bed!!

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond,

I want a girl who knows whats best,
I want a girl with shoes that cut,
and eyes that burn like cigerettes.


I want a girl with the right alocations,
Who is fast, and thorough, and sharpe as a tack.
Shes playing with her jewlery,
Shes putting up her hair,
Shes touring the facility
and picking up slack.
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket.

I want a girl who gets up early, (gets up early!)
I want a girl who stays up late, (stays up late!)
I want a girl with uninterupted prosperity,
Who uses a machete, to cut through red tape.

WIth fingernails that shine like justice,
and a voice that is dark like tinted glass,
She is fast, and thorough, and sharpe as a tack.
Shes touring the facility
and picking up slack.
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long, long jacket.

(na na na na.....)

I want a girl with the smooth liquidation, (smooth liquidation!)
I want a girl with good dividends, (good dividends!)
At city bank we will meet accidently, (meet accidently!)
We start to talk when she borrows my pen.

She wants a car with a cup holder-arm rest,
She wants a car that will get her there.
Shes changing her name from Kitty to Karen,
Shes trading her MG for a white, Chrysler LaBaron
I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket.





I found her & i'm off to bed with her Right now :)
sleep!

I spent my evening on PHP

& it was interesting..

I finally got to resolving a problem with the start page on my personal webserver..
& I learned some stuff I'll need for my lil project

Im looking forward to progging my project but I'm slightly afraid of the html. Afraid might not be the right word.. I just LOATHE the idea of it :)

Yeah, I really look forward to finishing that project! And launching it :) yaay


I also prepared my new linux installation (instead of that loathesome windows)


& now off to bed :)
Coz I got a sleeping beauty waiting for me :)

Pat Benetar - Love is a battlefield

This is what Beavis and Butthead had to say about it around the 40th second..

Hey look.. She s running away from home.. and she s only 30!

yet remember kids..

Beavis and Butt-Head are not role models. They're not even human; they're cartoons. Some of the things they do would cause a person to get hurt, expelled, arrested, possibly deported. To put it another way, DON'T try this at home

Or

Beavis and Butt-head are not real. They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by this Texas guy who we hardly even know. Beavis and Butt-head are dumb, crude, thoughtless, ugly, sexist, self-destructive fools. But for some reason, the little weinerheads make us laugh.

And

Warning, warning extreme bad taste alert people, this comedy may offend some viewers so viewer discretion is advised ok

pfsh

I wanted to go to bed early :(
but then (instead of my well deserved vacation time) I got contacted (arsefucked) by some school person who is giving me a break (according to Vi) I dont believe Jack Shit, but cant pass it up, so here I am again.. working

I spent the night downloading as preparation for the aforementioned .. call it whatever you want & I even made a slight yet disastrous miscalculation (I expected 10g & it was only 3g :/)


So now i'm off to bed, hoping for some good carma tomorrow



Oh.. & i Just CANT wait for the last season o Sopranos!!! Hot Damn! :)

Apparently its been a year..

Askmen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women 2007


Jennifer Love Hewitt at 91.. Id put her a lot higher :)
Dita Von Teese at 85.. surprising.. yet acceptable, tough I d put Hewitt WAY above her :)
Hilary Duff (84), Candice Michelle (82), Mia Kirshner (81), Anne Hathaway (80), Mallika Sherawat (78) .. WHY are they even IN there???
Jennifer Lopez at 75.. Damn, she deserves A LOT more that that :/
Fergie at 60 - Yum
Gwen Stefani at 56 - She still has this weird butch hotness over her.. I cant explain it but she fits the position!
Keira Knightley at 52.. She s amazing! Hot!
& so is Maria Sharapova at 49!
Lucy Liu is just cute :)
& so is Christina Aguilera
Evangeline Lilly at 30 :) I agree :)
Charlize Theron .. Yeah :)
Eva Green? 23????? No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Natalie Portman, 22, YES!!!
Jessica Simpson did belong on 21, but I think she had freaky plastig surgery done :s
Rihanna 20? No!
Gisele Bundchen.. Not last year, not now! Not even in the list, let alone 14!
Heidi Klum on the other hand.. viva 13!
& Marisa Miller.. ok too (at 12)

As last year.. a lof of nice women & some women I just DONT UNDERSTAND WHY.. Less than last year tough.. I probably just went trough the list with different expectations :) Im glad some of the people that were in last year, are OUT now! By god, there were some mistakes in there.. DAMN

The Top 10..
10. Elisha cuthbert - YUMMY!
9. Angelina Jolie.. With a name like that, YUMMY :)
8. Maria menounos .. bof.. Why not
7. Shakira - Top 99 YES top 10 NO
6. Alessandra Ambrosio - Why not heidi :(
5. Jessica Biel - Did she too have some weird plastic surgery??
4. Adriana Lima - pff :(
3. Jessica Alba - Pff :/
2. Scarlett Johansson - Yes! Yes! Simply Yes :) (did you know she has a septum piercing? :))
1. Beyonce - WHAT? W H A T ? ? ? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I just dont GET this top 5! Amazing
but as I said.. At least some of those horible people that were in last year aren't in this year..

.. The top 99 is an interesting list to keep an eye on.. to say the least.

I have just printed

Another 80 something pages of pure Dreck for school..
I'll be extremely happy when this Shit is over