As you might recall I bought a pair of Lacie Porsche 500GB disks some time ago. Well, a few weeks ago the power supply of one of them began making funny noises and it was getting harder to start up the Porsche. The disk worked fine with the power supply that came with the other [...]
Also tagged problemsandsolutionsThere is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged apple, google, microsoft, nokia, Software in General, ubuntu, windowsWhile doing my shopping today I encountered a whole pile of six packs of “Royal Dutch“. On closer inspection of this beer that I never heard of, I learned that it is actually brewed in license of Posthorn, a brewery based in my home town (if there is such a thing), of Breda. WTF! [...]
Also tagged finland
Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
funny picture and excellent article on modern food and why it sucks. The most sensible thing I’ve heard in a long time on the topic of health and diet (puts down beer and chews on tosti).
(tags: food diet ecology)
OK, I’m back again. I spent the last three weeks driving around in France and Italy with a rental car. The first week was nice and relaxing. I stayed at my parents’ new summer home in Saint Quentin la Poterie, about 50 km from Avignon in the Gard departement in the south of France. Nice [...]
Also tagged travelingOne of the things that take some getting used to when moving to Finland is the beer. Quality and price are, well, different. I don’t really care about the price but quality is something different. You have to lower you expectations and standards in this country when drinking beer.
A big problem here is the notion [...]
BeercanCrusher. This is a demo application for Aspectj I created for my own pleasure. It is absolutley completely useless. The demo requires AspectJ 0.6 and won’t work on later versions. Porting is also not easy to do because some features [...]
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