Spent two hours yesterday together with 3 fellow students, evaluating the technical staff at the institute. The institute is in the process of pinpointing problems and building competences within its structures, an incredibly healthy initiative now going on the second year I believe. Mercuri Urval is undertaking the task, and you can read more about the competence building project at the Institute of Geography in Magisterbladet. We recommended centralising information for the students at one place, and preferably the website, which wouldn't suffer from a facelift while they were at. Otherwise we were pretty satisfied with them.  < # |  : 0 >

Mmmmm, nice to see that the tight suit still fits Carrie-Anne Moss like a glove. Too bad it doesn't screen until 2003.  < # |  : 6 >

This is probably old news to a whole lot of people, but I'll post it anyway, since Episode II is showing in theatres everywhere now. Here goes:
At the command-line prompt of a computer connected to the vast sea of information [www], type the following:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
-- press enter and enjoy the show.

For the ones without command-line access, visit this page.  < # |  : 2 >

This article at The Register really proves how naive, and clueless the music industry is regarding the consequences of digital media. One successful rip of a CD using electrical tape to dodge the copy protection bit of the CD, and it can be made instantly available to hundreds of thousands of users via p2p software. If, on top of that, mac users risk their computer going tits up because they wanted to play the CD on the machine, and for perfectly legal reasons, then it's no wonder they resort to sucking down a p2p client and scour the web for the music instead.

At datanoms diy festival earlier this year, Brennan Young had a better idea. Instead of not buying the copy protected CD's and waiting for The Successful Rip to show up somewhere near you, you ought to buy the CD's, and preferably several of them and in different shops. If the protected CD can't be played on a certain player, the record shop has to exchange the protected CD, wtih a regular version of the CD, and if they can't do that, you can demand to get your money back. This way you inflict the largest amount of extra expenses for the record company: a) The protected CD that you originally bought can't be sold again, and has to go back to the factory for recycling, b) you get a ripable copy, that you [if you are a bad person] share via p2p- software, instantly defeating the very purpose of the protected version of the CD, c) extra transport costs for the company, transporting both protected and regular CD's back and forth between shops, distribution companies, and factories.

In the distance, the sound of bullets penetrating feets could be heard.  < # |  : 1 >

I had my debut as a DJ this sunday at Camillas birthday party. My setup was a mix of MiniDiscs [dubbed minidics among Papi and myself after spotting a typo on a website somewhere], and CD's. It wasn't banging, but it was loud enough for the 5-0's to drop by and ask us to turn down the volume, or close the windows. We did both.  < # |  : 2 >

While googling for the ethymology of the word 'wazoo', I ended up at the pseudodictionary. Go check it out, it's quite bucephalus, and you can submit your own too.  < # |  : 1 >

The "On iTunes" to the left or right of you [depending on which layout you've chosen in the Steelomatic] is a spiffy lil' thing made by Adriaan Tijsseling, author of the illustrious OS X tips site, and now also maker of iTunes Trackinfo. Everytime I am online and listening to music, iTunes Trackinfo will display what track I am hearing, and update it every three minutes. Luverly! Should have documented this when I implemented the feature after seeing it at Beatnikpad last week - you know, to give proper respect where it is due, but hey, I am a lazy twat. Unfortunately, it doesn't generate valid XHTML markup, and I don't have the insight to do the necessary backwards engineering to make it do so.  < # |  : 4 >

The brand new slice of wax from Malk De Koijn, the most original Danish rap band ever, is rotating on my turntable. The CD has been out for about a month, but being the vinyl junkie that I am, I've been waiting for the LP to hit the shops, and that happened today. Saturday they play live at a sold out Vega, and I can hardly wait. At their last show, which was also sold out, Geolo-G [one third of the group] sported a Superman cape and wielding nicotine patches on his nipples[!].  < # |  : 0 >

Bread dipped in a cop of coffe really isn't that tasty.  < # |  : 1 >

I finally did it, I switched to OS X two weeks ago, and I am delighted. It is utter eye candy, and although the Finder gets on my tits most of the time, the new ways of controlling the beast [via the terminal] and the preemptive multitasking makes up for its shortcomings. The fact that applications can crash and leave the rest of the system untouched is 'fantamazing'. Luckily, Apple will be releasing a much better build of the Finder with the Jaguar release later this year [supporting spring loaded folders -- yay!]. To my pleasant surprise apple took the liberty of installing the Apache webserver with the system, so all I had to do to get php up and running locally, was to whip up the terminal, write 'sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf' comment out the needed modules and AddTypes, exit pico, write 'sudo apachectl graceful' and b-i-n-g-o, php was enabled.  < # |  : 4 >

Obviously, they need to check up on their spelling instead [hint: the page title].  < # |  : 1 >