Today we have an hour less, because at 2AM the clock moved to 3AM. It is the permanent jet-lag again. I hate it with a passion. We are all forced to get up one hour earlier, and it is totally unnecessary. The idea is that we have an hour longer Read more…
I’ve setup a logging system on my place to capture various log files from various sources. One of the sources of particular interest is of course my firewall, it is by far the most log-heavy machine in here and getting a clear picture on who is trying to hack what Read more…
It was a nice weekend! Saturday a biking trip, Sunday to Friesland 🙂
Due to ‘Black Friday’ they are ‘late’ with delivery of orders… right… OK… I ordered Friday the 23rd of November, I told them to deliver Monday the 26th…. guess when I’m getting my coffee? You guessed it, today. A week later than planned. I’m having severe caffeine withdraw symptoms. The Read more…
Sometimes issues between family members or friends can escalate rather quickly, especially when there are poor communication media involved. This is why I hate using chat, email or any other type of written communication. It is impersonal, small things are quickly taken out of context and can have quite big Read more…
During a skating run I fell backwards and broke my wrist on the ice. I got a nasty fracture with my wrist and this will need cirgury to get it straightened out. The ice skating facilities had evening perfectly arranged, they took me to the traumatologist by ambulance, there they straightened Read more…
Here at my place we are now celebrating the final hours of 2013. We didn’t win the lottery this year, nor did we have much luck with other things so 2014 is the time to set sails into a new direction. As far as software development goes, I’ll be using Read more…
To all my friends and readers, I wish you all a very good & nice 365 days 🙂
The Mayans are just like the Chilean government. They promise a lot but they don’t deliver anything…
It is nice to have a torrent client to download data from the web, but the issue is often that you do not want your workstation on 24/7 whenever you want to download something. I have a  little server here that is doing the heavy lifting, so why not use Read more…