Archives for 2010

• Siebrand Weitenberg: De Verwondering

  November 26, 2010

  This thursday me and some colleagues went to Pulchri Studio, an art gallery in The Hague, where painter and teacher Siebrand Weitenberg is currently showing some of his works in an exposition called “De Verwondering” (The Wondering).

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• Sogyo

  November 22, 2010

  When I arrived at Sogyo for my first interview, I was a little early, so I was offered a cup of coffee and asked to wait a few moments.

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• Plaintxtblog

  November 15, 2010

  I found this really clean theme that I decided to try out on this blog. Its called plaintxtblog.

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• Boinc milestone: 100.000 points

  November 14, 2010

  A new Boinc milestone for me today: 100.000 points. That’s more points than 88.264% of all Boinc contributors.

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• Tech support

  October 15, 2010

  I guess we’ve all had our share of ignorant customer support

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• Diaspora on Arch

  September 16, 2010

  Diaspora (also Diaspora*) is an open-source personal web server software intended to provide a distributed social networking service, a decentralized alternative to Facebook.

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• Bad, bad Powerpoint

  August 26, 2010

  A couple of days ago, someone in my vicinity needed to create a Powerpoint presentation with lots and lots of JPEG files. She was doing this on a netbook which is usually pretty fast, but after adding a couple of pictures, she noticed it slowing down to a crawl.

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• KDevelop 4: first steps

  August 25, 2010

  My desktop environment of choice is KDE, and recently I thought of developing a plasmoid, so I decided to check out KDevelop 4

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• Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

  August 24, 2010

  A while ago, I read PopCo, also by Scarlett Thomas, and I found it a fantastic read. It had a compelling and believable story and it gave me lots to think about, which is basically all I need from a book. I was therefore looking forward to reading The End of Mr. Y. I’m afraid I didn’t quite like it as much.

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• Martin Bril, De kleine keizer

  August 24, 2010

  The book is easily readable (except for a couple of untranslated citations in French) and Bril tells a couple of illustrative anecdotes, but I fail to see the point of this book.

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• Site unreliabilty

  June 03, 2010

  This site will be completely unreliable for the next (and past) few days, due to my house being more or less rebuild.

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• Lucid breaks Firefox Flash plugin (+solution)

  May 05, 2010

  After upgrading their Ubuntu 9.10 machine to 10.4 (Lucid Lynx), someone in my neighbourhood noticed that Flash had stopped working in Firefox.

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• X Forwarding and sudo

  May 05, 2010

  I administrate a remote linux machine of someone I know who now and then needs me to help him out. But whenever I become another user on that machine, using su or sudo, X forwarding stops working.

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• The consumer’s responsibility

  May 02, 2010

  As I understand it, lots of Greeks seem to be under the impression that they are not to blame for their country’s current problems.

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• A day at Emmen Zoo

  April 04, 2010

  Two weeks ago I visited the Zoo in Emmen (links to Dutch site), where one week earlier an Indian elephant was born.

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• Crea concert: Shostakovitch, Debussy, Nielsen

  March 19, 2010

  The Amsterdam CREA orchestra will be performing Shostakovitch's seventh at the Dominicuskerk in Amsterdam, March 17th and 19th.

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• New theme

  March 14, 2010

  I changed themes today, mainly because the default WordPress theme I used only has a single side bar and the text column is too small.

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• Amsterdam from space!

  March 06, 2010

  An astronaut on board the ISS took a picture of my town.

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• Boinc: 30.000 credits!

  March 06, 2010

  One of the things that I use this server for, except serving the blog you’re reading right now, is performing calculations for various projects that need computer resources but don’t have the money to spend.

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• Netbeans ignores class (+solution)

  March 03, 2010

  The weirdest thing happened while I was programming with my favorite IDE, Netbeans 6.8, today.

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