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Geocaching

I might just have to buy a gps device... http://www.geocaching.com

Published on Apr 15, 2009, 10:48 pm

Two for one on an ide external drive? No.

I have an external usb hard drive enclosure for an IDE hard drive. For those who are wondering, it works if you plug an IDE dvd drive into the enclosure's connector. For those who are wondering, plugging a standard IDE ribbon into the enclosure's IDE connector and connecting both

Published on Nov 2, 2008, 7:52 pm

Installing Intepid Ibex

As mentioned previously I was cleaning up my hard drives. When I got slightly sidetracked by deezer. The reason I was cleaning up my hard drives was to prepare to install Intrepid Ibex - the new Ubuntu release. I figured with a fresh OS install I might as well

Published on Nov 1, 2008, 4:16 am

The way of the future: deezer.com (they even have South African m

My hard drives look like my desk. I know where everything is (or at least that its 'out there') but it requires a spring clean once in a while. I was cleaning up my music collection and was amazed at the extent of redundancies. My music folder has always

Published on Oct 30, 2008, 8:16 am

Housing and the SSH

Today I payed my exorbitantly high rent to my housing racket, the SSH (or rather their special subsidiary racket for international students Short Stay Solutions), and was promptly overcharged by 60 euros. I'm sure if I hadn't checked my receipt, no one would have said a word about it.

Published on Oct 2, 2008, 5:07 am

Ignorance is bliss or: Always read the label

I don't really cook. If cooking a dish takes more than five minutes of my concentration, then I don't like to cook it. I've got better things to do... like not cooking. The result of this aversion to cooking is that I eat a lot of frozen food cooked

Published on Sep 29, 2008, 1:57 pm

The story of getting an Acer Aspire One

I had had my eye on an Acer Aspire One for quite some time. I had marvelled at the size of the display model in the Utrecht Mediamarkt, and I also didn't think that the price of between 300 and 350 euros was at all unreasonable. On probably five

Published on Sep 19, 2008, 2:26 am

Zen and the Art of Bicycle Maintenance

A bicycle is indispensable in the Netherlands. You go everywhere with it, carry everything on it in every imaginable kind of weather.I bought a quite decent mountain bike for virtually nothing off the guy who had moved out when I moved in last year. The bike was obviously old,

Published on Sep 15, 2008, 9:26 am

Daily Feynman Long Divisions

About a year ago I discovered Feynman Long Division Puzzles while reading 'Dont you have time to think'. I started the wikipedia article on it which has blossomed quite nicely. Incidently Feynman was not the author of the original puzzle, W. F. Cheney, Jr published it in 1936 in

Published on Sep 13, 2008, 10:26 am

Lines in free speech again

I love Zapiro, but has he crossed the line this time?

Published on Sep 8, 2008, 5:09 pm

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