Internet N.A.D.D. Uh oh, after reading this article on 43 Folders, I think I may be suffering from N.A.D.D. Not good, not good.
digital_camera On digital cameras Well, here’s some sound advice, worthy of at least a mention in Lifehacker, maybe even a whole series featuring me elaborating on my advice: If you ever own a digital camera, make the fuck sure the internal date is correctly set. Otherwise, once
hype Microsoft's live.com Sometime last week, Microsoft presented live.com. It’s basically their try to latch onto what they perceive as the whole Web 2.0 movement. Until a few days ago, there was no Firefox support, so I couldn’t properly test it. Yesterday I
Internet What's in a name? When I checked my website stats yesterday, I stumbled upon this gem of network nomenclature: I had to resize the image, otherwise it wouldn’t have fit on this very page. Click to see it full-sized and unblurred.
creativity The printer predicament If I had had to visualize my mood during most of the day today, it would have looked like that: Why would my mood have looked like a makeshift ashtray? Because I was trying to get a printer shared over our small network, expecting
network What's in a day? Here’s a little quiz for you: If you are supposed to work on a presentation due on Friday, is it a good idea to go out on a Wednesday morning and buy a USB 2.0 card, a network card, exchange your old
database_service Google Base Google apparently launched a quick test of a new service called Google Base (which at the time of writing is down). From what I gathered, it’s supposed to be some kind of database service. If you’re as confused as I was when
google Google Reader Knowing that Google usually is really interested in what I have to say about their products, I’ve decided to chime in on the bashing of Google’s newest product, Google Reader. It sucks. It really does. What the hell were they thinking? How
Internet Google Talk Ooooweee, a Google IM client. Who needs yet another one? The blurb doesn’t offer anything new or exciting, except for GMail contacts integration. And as always, Windows only. I’ll still check it out though. Update: Just read that it’s in fact
tech-stuff Linknotes for Wordpress I was made aware of a new WordPress plugin called Linknotes, over at fernando_graphicos’ site today. It’s an interesting concept of links as footnotes, and although I’m not sure how important/useful footnotes are in a hypertext document, I thought I’
tech-stuff Software patents - No! I just remembered that yesterday the European parliament had to decide on the fate of a directive regarding the patentability of software, and by checking the appropriate website, I read that once again the directive has been axed. I’m really happy about that,
Internet Google Earth launched Google Earth, basically a mapping program with lots of cool features, has been launched. It’s free, and you can download it here. But beware, it’s Windows only. So that’s where the fun ends for me. And all other Linux and Mac
Internet GMail and Mail Today when checking my mails on my GMail account, I noticed that the font was different, various things (like the star next to the “starred” folder) were out of place, and most importantly, I wasn’t able to open any mails. I quickly noticed
Internet New Archives Implemented After fiddling around for ages (due to my complete and utter lack of knowledge of how stuff works), I’ve managed to implement the Super-Archive by Jonas Robbe. It’s a beautiful and convenient way of looking through my archives, and much better than
Impressions Upgrade fest Since it’s Saturday, traditionally the day for idleness and general hilarity, I decided to upgrade my WordPress installation to 1.5.1. I don’t think it’s really necessary, but as you all know, I like to stay on top of things.
tech-stuff Inconsistencies Since I bought my Medion Jukebox, I haven’t had any problems with it really. Sure, navigation doesn’t work as smooth as it does on an iPod, but there are various factors which make my mp3 player even more handy than an iPod.
Internet Google Web Accelerator and Backpack Surfing the Google labs, I noticed a new app called “Google Web Accelerator. It’s supposed to speed up the loading of websites, even providing a little counter, showing you how much time you’ve already saved. Well, I’d love to check it
tech-stuff Kubuntu time Well, I finally took the plunge and installed Kubuntu Linux. Right now it’s looking great, and I guess it’ll stay that way. The path to Kubuntu wasn’t that easy though. First the CD I burned with the ISO was botched, then
tech-stuff Pay for two, get one I shouldn’t be updating my site right now, since I’ve got a shitload of words to put together for my paper due tomorrow, but this article in The Register just kills me. Apparently, the Netherlands are planning to tax portable mp3 players,
tech-stuff Ripping CDs with Konqueror Quote of the day: In order to rip to MP3s, you need software that was born into proprietory slavery. Read the whole – excellent – article on how to rip CDs directly via KDE’s own file manager Konqueror. And I know, this is not going
Internet Overwhelmed by RSS Christoph from engadgeted.net has written a post about being overwhelmed by his feed reader. I can absolutely relate to what he writes because I often feel exactly the same. Whenever I do my aggregator runs, I don’t manage to read more than
Internet Poker and hormones Last night, the built in spam protection in WordPress fended off about 200 attempts to spam my comments. They all safely landed in my moderation queue, the only downside was that I had to delete them all manually. But hats off to that spam
tech-stuff Two cool things Two cool things happened today: First, during a literature seminar, the person who did a presentation did this using a SimpleMepis Live CD and OpenOffice.org…how cool is that? When I asked him why he had chosen to do it this way, he
Internet GMail new features GMail announced new features today, one of which is photo-upload via Picasa, Google’s very own photo editing software. Sounds good, too bad it’s a windows app only. Second new feature, and that one comes quite handy, is full support for any browser…