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Monday, September 29th, 2008This is very cool music - this has been on repeat for quite a while this weekend ! By the way, the intro starts out a bit naff, but just wait 10 seconds and the beat gets gooooooing !
You can buy his music either in iTunes or on his site.
Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin - security hole ?
Saturday, September 20th, 2008I just found out about a new plugin for Wordpress that allows you to upgrade your wordpress installation semi-automatically.
The plugin is a regular wordpress plugin that you need to install into the plugins directory in your Wordpress installation, and can then be used either completely automatically or semi-automatic (by clicking on “next” for each step) [...]
Kiss DP-558 power supply error message
Thursday, September 18th, 2008A year or 3 ago I bought an advanced hard disk recorder from Kiss-Technologies (a danish firm, since then bought by Linksys who in turn have been bought by Cisco). It can do things most recorders nowadays still won’t do, and do it quietly.
Electronic Program Guide (EPG) when connected to the internet. For this, normally [...]
Running update September 2008
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008The problem with running is that you stress your muscles more than when you are just walking around.
That means that you discover problems with your body that you thought you didn’t have. In fact, I thought everything was hunky dory until then. Compare it to a car that is always driven at 40 an hour. [...]
Kuifje in Brussels
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008I saw a famous person walking in Brussels…
Excellent day at Plopsaland
Sunday, September 7th, 2008We were very lucky yesterday and had an excellent day at plopsaland. The one day in the week it didn’t rain.
Today was a typical seaside day - RAINY !
Found.
Monday, August 25th, 2008There’s a crack in Everything.
That’s how the light gets in.
This nice saying found @ Tomorrow Polly comes who got it from Leonard Cohen. I like it. A lot.
How to make a foxhole radio (no batteries required!)
Friday, August 22nd, 2008This is soo cool - this is a way to make a radio, similar to what the GI’s in WWII did. It requires no batteries, and you just need some wire, a razorblade, some pencil lead and a few safety pins.
What amazes me the most is this : IT DOES NOT NEED BATTERIES ! It’s [...]
The Dustbowl
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008I stumbled on a mention of something called a dustbowl via a picture on shorpy (see the comments for more pictures) - I didn’t really understand what they were talking about, and some research led me to these articles :
dustbowl and the great depression (Wikipedia)
NY Times Review of a book that also mentions the dustbowl
It [...]
Reminder : exponential growth is not good
Monday, August 18th, 2008First a reminder to self for later : to calculate the doubling time of a steady growth percentage increase, divide 70 by the percentage to get the doubling time; the doubling time is the time which it takes to double in size using that steady growth percentage.
I got this from this very interesting (and depressing) [...]