I decided my chatconversations are very interesting, so here you have another one. Melantrys says (0:53): 'trusten Frenzie // Credo quia absurdum est says (0:54): Night Frenzie // Credo quia absurdum est says (0:54): Nacht Frenzie // Credo quia absurdum est says (0:54): koelaeb mochroem Frenzie // Credo quia absurdum est says (0:54): ^ improvised Arabic Melantrys says (0:54): tesbah ala khair Frenzie // Credo quia absurdum est says (0:54): I knew there was a k in it Melantrys says (0:54): *laughs*
Sunday last week a friend of a friend of a friend was arrested together with 32 other Iranian women while conducting a peaceful demonstration in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran. They were expressing their solidarity with 5 other women who had been arrested during a previous peaceful demonstration conducted this past summer. 30 have been released since then, but it would still be nice if you signed the petition.
Two days ago I decided to install the recently released Windows Vista to my laptop. I was unimpressed until I discovered the new volume control. For the rest it includes various improvements like a speed on file copying. Also, know that annoying "preparing to delete" from every other Windows version? This one tells you exactly what it's doing while preparing ("x files left to prepare"). Very nice. But that's not all the fun, there are degradations like tiny preview-based alt+tab as well. As I understand I have to go into the registry to get back the "classic" alt+tab. For the rest, best installation I've ever seen, but 7GB free (10GB free preferred) is an awful lot of space and it seems I'm using 645MB or RAM right now for Opera and Windows Live Messenger only, which admittedly is only about 50-100MB more than XP did. All in all I just have some minor hardware incompatibilities left (like my webcam), which I assume will be fixed soon. Oh, one last thing. The mousecursor looks exactly like the one in Ubuntu.
I was reading entries on my old weblog from 2005 on the Wayback Machine, as I realised I hadn't posted something on my current one in ages. So hereby. UDKM is Daniel. (| !!UDKM |" U Don't Know Me ") says (2:02): Dude, words can't express how much I love PHP designer 2007 Frenzie says (2:03): lol (| !!UDKM |" U Don't Know Me ") says (2:03): And my panties get's wet of highlighted PHP code. Frenzie says (2:04): lol! (| !!UDKM |" U Don't Know Me ") says (2:04): dude, highlighted PHP code is TEH SEX! Frenzie says (2:05): I know man (| !!UDKM |" U Don't Know Me ") says (2:07): Highlited HTML is semi-sex. Frenzie says (2:07): lol Frenzie says (2:07): Highlighted CSS is a girl with a tight ass and nice titties. (| !!UDKM |" U Don't Know Me ") says (2:12): Oh yeah, it's an ugly font thought. Atleast in PHP designer 2007 Frenzie says (2:13): lololol (| !!UDKM |" U Don't Know Me ") says (2:13): So it's a nice ass with nice titties but a fucked face. Frenzie says (2:13): Yeah, pretty much.
As an anti-spam measure, the forced comment preview in combination with Akishmet anti-spam helped to single out virtually any spam comment I received. But the forced comment preview started to annoy me personally, so I decided to switch to Challenge in combination with Akishmet instead. I trust it is a lot easier than those stupid image validation mechanisms, but just as troublesome for spambots. And even if it's not, Akishmet will still stop them anyway. I will blend it in a little better with my layout later. If you register and login when registered, you won't have to fill out any challenge.
Today are our elections, I was wondering wether I'd write something about it, when my newsfeeds notified me about ppk's excellent post regarding our elections. These were the first elections directly of importance to our nation-wide government I could vote in and I found it very hard to make a pick. For example, almost all parties are against Turkey joining the EU, whereas I am in favour. And those in favour want to give more of our own governmental functions away to the EU, which I am definitely not in favour of. And so on and so forth. The Stemwijzer (vote pointer), a computer program designed to help you make a pick, also managed to pick this up and showed me as having at most 21% similarity in ideas with the parties most coinciding with my view. I was mainly in doubt between SP (Socialistic Party), D66 (Democrats 66) and EénNL (One NL). D66 I didn't really consider an option because they managed to mess up so badly over the past 4 years, leaving SP and EénNL. I voted EénNL, for SP is too conservative for my taste and I also dislike the most likely coalition partners for SP a lot more than those for EénNL, if any of them would end up in the government at all. Tomorrow I'll link to ppk again, for I have extremely little time in the following couple of days.
Last Friday. I'm on the ferry. Time is Running Out blaring from my earphones, long lines of cars are driving on the ferry. A green light flashes and it's finally getting dark. The flashing green light gives a nice feel in combination with the orange and white streetlights. Everything looks new. It was recently painted. That makes a remarkable difference between comfortable and uncomfortable, like on certain train stations in Amsterdam. As the ferry takes takes off, the lights disappear in the distance. The green light keeps flashing. The espresso created by the machine is decent. Nothing special. The speakers announce that you are not allowed to smoke. The strong wind creates waves. Waves, which make the ferry rock gently from the left to the right. A child, clearly inexperienced with this phenomenon is surprised by an unexpectedly strong one and falls over. I catch her. She smiles at me and runs back to her parents. Cute. I cannot spot the flashing green light anymore. The greater view of all the lights in the city and the harbour presents itself. Or perhaps the hugging couple in front of me – enjoying the view – blocked the specific light. It doesn't matter. After looking forward during a long trip in a train, looking back is a nice change of pace.
