it was 11:30 past well afer i sat in front sal, probably cause today was unusual in the way it included an haircut and big5 chinese windowsXP.
but then extra geekity to make it all better

woohoo weekend. i feel a scrubs marathon coming on!

orkut is back. and orkut is so much menacing than friendster.

today was probably the worse comute ever. rain, foging, garrrrrrr.

orkut is back. and as expected, kapitalism is taking over.

I *should* write a tray icon for balsa. However, I'm lazy.

you know, dying is an heap of trouble. mostly for the ones that remain.

oh. hum. i don't think i did anything remarkably evil today.

MpG = Marines per Gallon

omg! we killed orkut. we're bastards! well, not really, Orkut decided to take orkut offline. btw, if you know someone from finland be sure to ask him if he's on orkut!

eventually the grief subsides but the seeds of pain stay and creep up on you when you least expect. fortunatly vasco doesn't know it and only feels the unsetling and awkward void. however i'm sad he's left with no memories. I wouldn't trade a single memory for all the pain.

today was full of novelty and wonder. And I don't mean just food.
not only did I get in the orkut clique but also deviantart got geourled which resulted in a rather largish near me page.
surfing the web is starting to be fun again like years ago.

weekend woohoo

ghost recon basicly stoped working on the game box which isn't a big surprise considering i have a ton of mods installed. it only took a total reinstall of GR + expansions + mods and a video driver upgrade to make it go again!

it must be damn cold. the car heating system failed to totally defog the windows in the duration of the trip home.
i guess living in a top floor facing north near a large river made me impervious to unextraordinary cold.

homework is definitly eating into my play time.

Guess the quote:

uh monday and all. gah.
i may also need a new SpamAssassin as the one I have is leting a bunch of crap through.

TeVe is reruning Northern Exposure. Oh the memories.

choose diffing arcane drivers. choose irrelevant statistics. choose building rpms noone will use. choose wardriving in your own home.

choose a fscking big pizza and mineral water.

news on the ZyDas front - this post on the sf.net forum links to a working driver. so, 802.11b goodness will happen tomorrow when get around to actually seting it up. woohoo.
also, the one-instance-balsa stuff got into balsa-2 today so stay tuned.

on non geek mode, had a remarkably good lunch today which ended with cheesecake. gaaah :)

today involved stress. that's all I remember.

even more building, more furniture (well still the same furniture) and this time gpgme and friends and the bigass balsa.

people pointed me at magnatune. I think i'll be giving them some money in the future.

more building, furniture and balsa and libesmtp. while furniture is unsharable you can find the new rpms at ftp.chbm.net.

back to work and then, assembling new furniture. maaannn

i pretty much ignored the fact pawel released balsa 2.1.0! walk carefully.

My mother died last thursday. The last few days were spent trying to keep busy piecing back together broken lifes.
I'd like to thank my dear friends who helped me through all this. I'd like to apologise to my dear friends who are just now learning about this.

while this was happening I was mindlessly banging at the zydas 802.11 sticks. the only interesting piece of info i gathered was the thingy is a TwinMOS Netkey USB WLAN Adapter in disguise. I also found out the vendor suplied driver for windows suplied on their site doesn't actually work with my hardware as it's for an atmel usb stick. the joys of cheap-o.

picked up a couple of Zaapa wireless compact usb adapter which is marketing for 802.11b dongle. As it turns out they are actually

didn't actually do anything to benefit mankind.

back to the silly commute, blah blah blah.

oh lazy lazy lazy. however, balsa's bonoboization seems to be OK.

top reasons why cd sales seem to be down:
* people probably managed to replace all their vinil by now
* the editors are puting their money on crap. utter indistinguishable crap. trying to target the 14yo market doesn't work.
* people tend to buy albums a lot more if the album is actually good. the formula now seems to be 2 singles which are played on radio till everybody can't stand them anymore and the rest of the album is pretty much vanilla filler.
* some pseudo cds people would actually otherwise buy don't play on all players.
* a cd costs 15EUR. a dvd with twice the content in 5.1 Dolby Digital costs 22EUR.

catching up on nat's diary I casually discovered ettore died. I met ettore probably once, we weren't friends and i'm pretty sure he couldn't pick me out on a lineup but I felt a sinking feeling none the less. on the rare ocasions we interacted i quickly came to respect ettore.

on unrelated gnome news I coded a bit more of balsa's bonobozation

on even more unrelated news, sniped on irc:

Turned out to be a rather productive day. Not only did I finish NWN:NotU but also I finally got mastering of one of the dvds just right. go me!
And to top all that balsa's pt.po finally got updated.

Hey, it's an holiday! Apart from family and friends it was mostly dedicated to NWN:HotU. It seems nothing else will get done till I end it ...