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Now I WANT a Kindle2 But they dont have to bother to rebrand it.. I’ll be glad with the “Dont Panic” in friendly font on the cover..

Though to be honest .. its too closed to my taste. I d at least need extra wifi connectivity & an easy way to put all my ebooks up there for free.. (Because having them reformat my books really wont do.. and paying for them to do it even less) But they re on the way

The damned car isnt back yet. DAMNED Car!

We ll find another passtime

& I’m looking into this ebay sniping thing..

to get in that last edit before the post gets fed to the site.. And succeeding (apparently)

Its the talk of the town (lwn, /., Linux devices, TG Daily, ..?) & I too was excited when I read about it. A small linux server with decent processor, ram & hd; a Network card and an usb interface. For less then 100$. Hot damn! If I didnt have my soekris allready, this might have gone a long way too! That lil bugger only eats 5watt & has more processor power than my current file server!!!!!

Dont have any use for it now however. I might think of some though I’ve been racking my brain from the moment I read the post The options are obvious.. Webserver, Fileserver (with possibly extra USB storage), Download box, SSH/VPN portal, Controlling power/UPS for other machines, Print server, Streaming media server ………..

In security context or rather breaking in context its quite cool. Configure it to call home, plug it into the foreign network (requires physical acces, but that cant be a problem..) & blamo! access to the network It can sniff, it can download, it can ……….. So thats cool

But asfor my personal needs.. I havent thought of anything I need that I havent got already just yet.

& wtf? Google MIGHT have gone down after a DDOS MIGHT have been initiated against the service? Thats just publishing anything! :/ I did appreciate Elise Huard’s comments on the matter today. We take GMail for granted even though there are NO guarantees whatsoever.. :s

We re probably leaving for a short trip tomorrow! Though it Will depend on if we have the Shark (my renault megane) back by then. I’m tired of the waiting, I’m calling daily now and they promise I will have it back tomorrow. (they said that about last friday & today too)

Anywho, depending on when I get the shark back.. We ll be leaving for La Bresse

Hooray!

There s this action on ebay that sells what I desperately want. But the fucker wont ship overseas. Even though his lot of 14 books wont sell, the auction is only an hour & there isnt a single bid; he doesnt ship to Europe.

Fucking pigfucker! I do get his sentiment, but .. yeah, fuck him!

Whow

and later on (The first few minutes are missing here, but I guess there ll be high res & full movies up soon enough)

What an Incredible & Impressive performance!! Thats Entertainment

Or maybe we wont see it.. “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by AMPAS Oscars. ” And that is what is wrong with the whole industry. It attracts some of the most talented people to what is the epicenter of today movies.. but their attitude is SO ROTTEN .. They re completely out of touch with their clientèle and even modern society!
Although I love a lot of what they produce and am honestly Amazed at the 2 performances I tried to post just yet, but they re shooting themselves in the foot and if it takes the Big Movie Machine to crash & go to shambles for that needed change in mentality to finally happen .. it d be worth it!

I thouroughly enjoy a good game of backgammon & chess. Problem is that real life partners arent always as easy to find. Viva the interwebs! Problem with playing remote is that its not always convienient to do so..

Enter http://www.yourturnmyturn.com

A fun & free site where I can play games with other people So Y’all join & play against me! User DaGen

& as a bonus, there s a lot of other games I like on there! Games like Kahuna for example! funfun

We had a Sauna mood tonight. So we went a last minute trip to our fav’ art nouveau sauna, Aqua Azul in Gent!

As usual, we had a wonderfull experience.

We re relaxed now

Enjoying the comforts of my popcorn hour. Its an amazing piece of hardware. Long overdue really! I’m glad this type of hardware is becomming more common!

Now all I need is the projector back up again because that sodden TV is getting on my nerves! And not in the least for the annoying high sound TVs make. I miss that least of all! Goddamned! Our beamer is all but silent.. but at least its not that annoying!

Viva the Popcorn