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Don't you love it when all your hardware goes on strike almost at the same time? On Wednesday, my workstations secondary harddisk went on strike, eating (among other things that I had mostly backed up) a report I was working on for quite some days. All lost, sucks. I suspect bad sectors might be the cause. I will get a new harddisk after aKademy, for now I am living with only one. Read More

I need time ... I have a long list of things to do before leaving for akademy and with the fucking phone constantly ringing I barely managed to do 15% of it and I must also say that the feeling that I had lost control over the things doesn't help so I go to pubs and drink a lot ... I know it's not the solution but it help me to forget :) and I don't know why but this morning I managed to make a really bad coffee (more like coffee flavored water) so I'm probaly get really pissed off soon ... Read More

This message says it all. This is a really easy opportunity to start contributing to your favorite open source project.

Maybe you still think of it as an Java IDE, but with this weeks release of [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/|Eclipse CDT 3.0], Eclipse has become a much more interesting C/C++ IDE as well. Eclipse has a powerful plugin architecture that allows all kinds of powerful tools, from content assistence, [http://subclipse.tigris.org/|SVN integration] to refactoring assistants. See what's [http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/checkout/cdt-home/news/cdt30-whats-new/CDT-3.0-News.htm?cvsroot=Tools_Project|hot] for yourself. Read More

Last week I read the blog of Jes where she addressed the usage of the word intuition on UIs. I found this interresting and wanted to add something to her content here. Read More

Again a long time since last blog... This week, monday until thursday, there was SVG Open in Enchede, the Netherlands. I got an invitation to be part of the svg implementators panel by the organising team. I took a long time deciding to go, but had I known it would be this much fun, I would have visited more days, not just the final day! Read More

It is quite some time already since I think about getting myself some powerful PDA or a very light laptop. My boss at work wants a lightweight laptop for our research group too. The 4.7kg Dell Inspiron that we bought 4 years ago starts to show its age. Read More

I have blogged about QDS, my Qt desktop integration library, almost exactly a year ago. Unfortunately I didn't have much time back then due to serving at the Red Cross (instead of serving in the military; Zivildienst for the German speakers). Read More

We use all sorts of signs and symbols to communicate. And quite often, communicate we don't. I was brushing quickly through a few useless magazines I inadvertently collected while at LWE-SF last week. One of these was Novell's. Which is actually interesting as it wasn't all Novell publicity but also quite nice Linux publicity. Yet, what caught my eye most thoroughly was a section cover for the part extolling their certification program. It was the photo of the chest of a work-blue-shirt-clad guy who had the word "Trainee" embroidered above his breast pocket. Read More

I was born, long ago.... as the song says. 0x1C, still teenager in Hex :P So we are planing to drink a lot of .... alcohol tonight. Good, I can still do that :p Read More