Continually evolving

Patched!

Wednesday the 21st of January at 00:14

Woho! My first network point has been patched and is connected to the switch.

The Lucent patch panel threw me for a while, until I stuck it on a meter and discovered that it was not supposed to be wired to cat5 standard. (Instead it's wired by pair, and not any order of pair that I'd have been able to guess.)

So, now I have to network points working in the guest bedroom, next up - the rest of the house, 24 points...
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Flat update

Thursday the 20th of November at 16:18

So I guess it's time for another update on the flat. My estimate on the bathroom from two posts earlier seems to have been way off. Just this week we finally got the new bathroom in a state where we could have a shower there. We've been using an old crappy shower cabinet on the 4th floor in the meanwhile and we couldn't be happier about the new shower. So far the response to our bathroom has been very good. We've got large, terracotta-like tiles on the floor, polished sandstone-like tiles in the toilet and shower enclosures and white tiles with a band of the sandstone-like tiles on the rest of the walls. Thanks to a pump and a new, larger water pipe from the neighbors we have decent enough water pressure for running a rainfall shower which is now pure luxury after the crappy shower enclosure.... [more]
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Scooter stolen and recovered

Wednesday the 27th of August at 12:22

A couple of months ago our scooter was stolen. The thieves nabbed it right outside our door. They managed to lift it out of the chain somehow. With no alarm, tracking or insurance we figured that it had been a rather expensive 1 1/2 month of motorized fun.

But yesterday we got some indications that it might have been recovered! I called in today and was informed that it was waiting for me at a police station. Hopefully I'll be able to drive it home, but for all I know it could be in bits.

Fingers crossed...
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Flat

Tuesday the 29th of July at 14:18

It's been a loooong time since I posted now, mainly because I've been too busy to have the energy to spend here. Unfortunately that probably means I could have had lots to write about too...

I'm going to take some proper pictures of the flat Real Soon Now, so that you can all admire how well it's coming along. We've partly moved down to the 3rd floor now, just finishing oiling the floor in the last room and also setting up the kitchen. I believe the builders will be tearing down the bathroom next week which means proper bathroom is in sight!

Stay tuned!
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Captchas part 2

Friday the 25th of April at 16:58

For some strange reason I had a bug in my captcha system that prevented comments from being spotted. (Thanks for spotting it Mike!) Looking at it I should never have been able to post comments with it, though I could swear blind that I tested it. Works now though. :)
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The mind boggles

Tuesday the 22nd of April at 16:33

Sometimes it's hard to understand how we developed as intelligent beings. Not because the Theory of Evolution or any such thing is hard to understand, but because you have morons making films such as this rubbish and the followers that comment on the youtube video.

Clearly some people are just not able to comprehend big, vague or complicated things. And unfortunately people feel they should have an opinion on things they don't understand.

If only opinions required exams...
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Tags: movies activism life

Site update

Tuesday the 22nd of April at 14:42

I've made an update of the "Browsers" page to only show combined graphs of Windows and Linux. I've also made two breakdown pages for these.
Looking at it now I realise that it might be a good idea to do the same for the browsers. What do you think?
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Scooter

Monday the 3rd of March at 19:24

We've been thinking about getting a motorized form of transport, and on Saturday we ended up doing a bit of impulse shopping. We've bought a used 2005 Vespa Piaggio, black, slightly dinged. We also bought a helmet each (mine making my already large sized head look monstrous!)

I'm already contemplating how to go about cleaning up a bit, getting ahead of myself already... The biggest problem is actually going to be that I won't have anywhere to do any work on it, maybe I can haul it up on the block & tackle outside the building and work in it inside.

Sorted out the registration today and hopefully we'll have the insurance sorted tomorrow. Wednesday we're picking it up as they're giving it a full service.

Really looking forward to riding it and it'll be great for getting about if this... [more]
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Captchas

Wednesday the 27th of February at 16:46

So finally I had to add captchas too.

Some idiot spammers idiot bot decided that one specific old story was the place to dump about 100 spam comments and I was getting fed up with removing them.

The captchas should be fairly simple question/answer things and hopefully they should be able to weed the bot from the human. If you have trouble with any of them, simply reload the page to get a new one. If you'd like to suggest a new question, please post a question without an answer.
The requirements for a good question is:
- No longer than 80 characters.
- Obvious answer (hence no need to post it).
- Single word, easy to spell answer.
- In english.

If you get a question which you think is stupid or that is simply not working, send me an email. :)

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Amsteraid

Sunday the 10th of February at 17:48

For something completely different Lande and I went along to demonstration agains Scientology today. The event was loosely organised by a collective called Anonymous, which has been figuring in the news lately after the whole Tom Cruise video debacle.

The event was quite fun, there was security: