4 to go

Dont ask me how it went, I dont know!

Im so tired of it all..

Last exams starting tomorrow.. 5 to go..
*sigh*

Dominic Chianese speaks about last Sopranos episode

Interesting!

I have to say.. Its quite hard at times to keep the civility towards my peers when they fail to do me that very courtesy.

Some people seem to feel compelled to judge others unhindered by any facts or even right to do so.

How annoying!

Exams Suck!

Id rather be working.. Its a lot more fun & rewarding!

Soon, soon!

Ps. Check Cheops for some great BBC Radio Dramas n all! Funny Shit :) Do check out Terry Pratchet, though there are better stories than "Only You Can Save Mankind" Radio Drama stuffs rule :)

Joga with Maya

I just finished 15m of Yoga with Maya..
I really value this program! This really helps me to keep healthy & ache free!

I really hope they make a Wii version using the Balance board!! & maybe even the controllers in some innovative way! (innovative, not clumsy)

Xming X Server for Windows

Whow, this is THE answer to a lot of my frustrations! (and probably the source too once I start trying to make it work!! A quick look reveals it to be near impossible to get X running on my setup without manual xorg configuring :s *sigh* headaches!)

Studying is going well.. Slow but i'm quite immersed in it all, so thats good!

Duck Hunt For iPhone

Viva Duckhunt :D

Another Widget

Everyone has widgets.. We should get a widget! No clue where & with what, but.. Widget is the way to go! .. Widget sites.. "We-d-get whatever ya want" lol

Stretches to Prevent Hip and Pain and Injury

This one s for you, mini..

Modblog @ Humo

Im not going to translate, suffice to say, they re shocked :)

I really dont like reading Humo & .. well .. this didnt help :D then again, Knack wouldnt even be that positive!

hehe

Edit: Oh god.. I just discovered they didnt link to modblog itself, but to the scarification gallery.. lots of blood = cheap shock value :( They re even sadder that I thought at first!

Aerosmith

Listening to Nine Lives..
Its a pitty I had to miss them at Graspop :( Would have liked to see them

The rice machine is acting up :s

14

Thats not enough to qualify for genocide, is it.. probably only Mass Murder

Wiki - Mass murder

Mass murder (massacre) is the act of murdering a large number of people, typically at the same time, or over a relatively short period of time. Mass murder may be committed by individuals or organizations.

Wiki - Genocide

any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

.. Mass murder is out (snails arent people) tough genocide does.. I have intent to destroy, in part, a racial group.. All snails living around and entering My Yard!!


Also.. I went to the Delhaize @ de Sterre in Gent..
This is what I shal from now on call.. a Social Supermarket. I Have NEVER waited so long at the register.. Outrageous!! Its obviously all about the Social Experience! By God.. And all that waiting just to get 2 bottles of anti snail Jupiler (total of 1 liter - Yeah!) a 4-pack of Kriek Mystique and some nectarines :)

genocide

the plan is underway.. Beer + Containers + Slugs.. Genocide!
Lets just hope they all nicely die. And I mean .. AAALLLLLL

I dont need those lil buggers sliming up my terrace & even less eating my expensive plants!! (not That expensive, .. whatever) I forgot the name again.. nice plant tough. Maybe Tomorrow :p .. nice tree!

edit: Salix integra or Hakuro-nishiki. Wiki says "its a species of willow native to Japan and Korea." Its leaves are pink sometimes

Something annoying happened last week

at work..
I was experimenting with software.. We use .. pdfcreator (nice stuff) & I heard you can merge documents with it. I didnt know how, so I took 5 minutes to figure that out. For some reason I chose some personal documents to try it (The war of the ring manual & FAQ) I figured merging those two, (the later into the former & not just at the end) would be nice. Also, I wanted to print it, so I uploaded it. Ready to print B&W once I got the whole IT infrastructure up @ home.. Now, some time in this process.. I selected a wrong printer and clicked around some in the interface.. Sadly enough.. I seem to have printed instead of canceling..
The positive thing here :) is that I now have an Extremely pretty print of the rules & FAQ. Stapled n all.. The downside on the other hand.. is that I discovered this error when our boss asked me not to print personal, uber colorful stuff like that on the expensive printer. This puts me in a position I dont want to be.. I dont do stuff like that & if need be, Id at least ask first.. I hate that it makes me look bad, certainly because I was unaware that I printed it.. It d be different if I DID do it on purpuse.. & I was So bedazzled when he confronted me about it.. I REALLY didnt understand how that document I had experimented with (the evening before none the less) ended up printed n all on my desk.. I REALLY did not get it! Ofcourse this was not how it looked.. Its a pitty.. & I cant go cry about it either, because that d just be sad.. Sad in a "Just admit you tried to exploit the company" kinda way.. On the other hand.. I dont think my boss cared THAT much, so I'll survive. Still.. The whole thing bothers me! Yet, I now have a nice print :) Recto verso, great quality, .. Yeah :)


Yet I feel at ease.. Its been a long while since I really felt at ease. I feel relaxed & thats .. new! probably because of all the space we have now.. Much less stress. Probably also because I can now sit in an easy chair, relax, .. Provided VDAB pays me soon.. life is good. Finally. I waited quite some years to write this.. Ive written it before, but this time is different (as were all the other times, ...)

I even watched some startrek while unpacking
Another some boxes unpacked.. yaay.. Books are now on the shelves.. They fill a mere 1/3th of them, but .. once we both get our libraries over.. We'll need an extra bookcase then :) hehe


HubbalaWubbala


& we bought some amazing plants.. Since I immediately forgot the names, I cant post that right now, maybe later

& now, back to rnr & unpacking..

First post from our new casa..

Feels good :)
stuffs to tell tough..

Last Post

from Nederkouter, Next stop.. Onafhankelijkheidslaan :)

Its weird to spend our last night here.. It REALLY is.. It feels like we barely lived here.. On the other hand.. Its TIME to move; we need SPACE!!!!!

.. I'll be HAPPY when we finally get this over with, the whole moving shite ..


..
Sleep Now :s
*Sigh*

Dommel - Een genie

Dommel!!!!!!!!!!!! :D teehee

thundercats

if there s anything they should make The Next Movie thing off.. I d just LOVE to see that movie

Lucas Arts & MS.. A rant I guess :s

Whats wrong with lucasarts!!! These assholes started as an r&d departement for videogames, they have some of the greatest licences around & all they come up with is unimaginative dreck! Lego Indiana Jones? Lego StarWars? ??? 1 of those.. as a gimmick.. to hand out with .. lego crap.. (because whats with lego.. they used to be so great.. big ships & all, BIGGER ships & Even More HUGE stuff.. as opposed to now, they seem to have a Small Is Beautiful thing going) And MORE starwars stuff

They were the guys behind great games like "The Digg", "Maniac Mansion", "Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "The Secret of Monkey Island", "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge", "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis", "Day of the Tentacle", "Sam & Max", "Full Throtle", ..... Games I still enjoy playing today!

hehe.. memorable adventure games.. I liked "toonstruck" (hehehe - that one was extremely fun) & "under a killing mood" a lot too..

.. ah & QFG4. Possibly the Best quest I played.. I just LOVE the whole atmosphere.. gypsies, vampires, the whole ravenlofty - barovian, Slavic folklore/Eastern European folklore atmosphere.. Yeah!

Anywho, im dissapointed @ LucasArts!


/. has in article Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent
in short.. "Microsoft has a new Secure Content Downloader tool that sounds an awful lot like a Bittorrent clone. ... If this test goes well, Microsoft will probably start using MSCD for all their large downloads. How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?"

in short; the answer
* I dont mind torrents for stuff I like, but MS updates? They re not worth it. We pay enough to those vampires for our software.. Id like a normal download please! Or any company for that matter tough I can forgive Blizzard where I wont MS. It WILL keep me from downloading some blizzard content which is really their loss (advertising) & not mine!
* MS has the policy of shoving stuff like that trough unknowing people's throats.. No Alternatives.. I dont like that either..
So no thank you.. I dont feel like helping MS at this point.. Its bad enough I have to endure trough some of their software (like FFin Outlook 200X - aarghl)


..
Sleep now

it irks me that I cant get on DevArt!

It Annoys me even MORE that I dont have a clue as to Why!

I figured out what the problem is (down to 2 options - both far beyond my control), just not Why it exists..

Fuko

For those wondering what the consequences of irrealistically drawn manga women would be? This is, I guess, what happens.. A real life manga doll, with all the exact (and highly unrealistic) measures!

Czardas

Hey!

Eye OS

How novel.. indeed

The Web-OS everyone likes talking about so much V0.0...0.1 It works.. quite ok (not smoothely tough) I'm using the web version to type this.. and Ive still got lots of questions!

Sucky chess version (I won in .. 17 moves? And I even had to "slay" his king before it said "checkmate" :s) but then again, if we d have to rate OSes by the quality of their included chess version.. Windows doesnt even have chess! (probably something about their demographic) Goes to show..

I'll probably try the download tough.. Just to make sure I aint missing anything.. although I'm quite confident I'm not!

Roby Lakatos - Deux Guitares

Oh My!! I touroughly enjoyed this!!! I cant wait to see Roby Lakatos at Night of the Proms 2007 :D

& Soulsister!!!! Oh & Macy Gray too..

Everyone & their dog has to go to NotP this year or they re simply WRONG!

Y!F

My working heart rate nicely dropped over the last weeks.. Amazing really! about 25 bpm (158 -> 132) less than last week.. Quite amazing really!

My weight on the other hand.. I was quite off in my guess last time & .. lets just stay that I'm a bit heavier than I guessed :p
lol

& also.. :s & this really bothers me.. I'm 5"9' or something alike.. I think thats not what I put up there when I made the profile.. & I cant change it now without renewing my profile.. & I dont wanna do that since its finally up to par! I think I put 5"4 or something like that.. I distinctly remember being disappointed to be so average in height that the program almost guessed it right :/

Anywho, time for sleep coz tomorrow is an important day.. I have to Study! yaay :s

Leterme confond Brabançonne et Marseillaise...

Pour que je ne le perd pas de nouveau..

this is quite outrageous.. Our probably next prime minister doesnt know our national anthem.. Instead he sings the FRENCH anthem!!! Amazing!

Sports

I just went all soft inside. I had a flash of Snowboard memories, last year, the snow, the atmosphere, .. Daamn. The fever is back :) I wont be able to wait till the end of the season!! I'll just DIE if I have to wait THAT long!! :/
hmm.. The morning we arrived.. Getting ready for the first big day, the expectation, ..... hmmmmmmm... I need to go snowboarding SOON :D

Maya's got me hurting.. It took her 6 workouts in 7 days, lots of "make it harder for me, some weight loss exercises & a lot of cardio exercises, but right now.. Im hurtin!
And the first test is coming up.. tonight.. Im curious how I'll put up.. ... I hardly expect Any change!

Conan - Artie Lange

Oh yeah - I agree.. The sopranos ending.. The darkness of dying .. n all .. yeah!

super :)
Im having youtube days :)

foo fighters - learn to fly

Super Song!!
Testing the YouTube - Blogger synergy here

Youtube Roadrunner Channel

Super! & lots of "cookie monster vocals" - I just LOVE this description for Grunts :D

Devildriver - I Could Care Less


Opeth - The Grand Conjuration


Hatebreed - To The Treshold


Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots


Sepultura - Ratamahatta


Biohazard - Punishment


.. Gotta love the internet's Evolution! I wonder whats next.. More streaming whatever undoubtably.. & webapps.. maybe even a web OS? A revolution to Thin Clients in the homes? I certainly hope not.. Altough I already use a lot of web apps.. & the only reason I use Thunderbird for example is that I cant find a decent web version to install on my server

anywho..
Maya rules.. Yourself!Fitness really makes me feel fine

I'm studying for them exams, coming up soon

& I'm off to bed now :)

Will It Blend

THE best Blender commercial EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great :)

Do watch the iphone, the magnets, the glowsticks, the rake handle, the marbles, .............. :) Great!!!!

WII vs PS3

SUPER!!! :D :D

Too much spinach is bad for you

it is, really :(

YouTube - Live Action Mario

This is Still UTTER Genious!

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..