Tuesday, May 15, 2007

WTF!? What am I supposed to do when I have to unlock, but the inputs are disabled?

posted on 5/15/2007 10:15:14 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [1]
 Tuesday, January 30, 2007
"It's my own fault, I know. - Stupid Villavent."
posted on 1/30/2007 3:20:38 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Thursday, November 23, 2006
- Nooo!
 
That was what startled me from my TV viewing. It was coming from my wife in the bathroom where our oneyearold had just run in. I thought no more of it. It's not like that's really unusual.
 
- Shit! Ohhh! My Goood!
 
Ok. This was beginning to sound like a bit more than nothing. What's the matter, I asked.
 
- Shit! Your cellphone! He dropped it...
 
Oh..
 
- Into the bathwater!
 
OH! Crap! I ran in there. She had already picked it up and was drying it off with a towel. And my son was just standing there watching the action like he was getting the answer to his question: "I wonder what happens if...". I was ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater, literally.
 
Luckily, the phone made it. It was completely soaked in soapwater and baby oil, but after drying it properly in front of the air conditioner it's been working just fine.
posted on 11/23/2006 2:42:42 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Friday, September 29, 2006

I addended the local .Net Users Group the other day. It was a good session. Mostly for the social aspect as always, but the sessions were also quite interesting.

But there was this one thing that got most of my attention: How many .Net experts does it take to get a projector working? There were two sessions; one mostly about fiddling with scrollbars on a too-low resolution projector, and one which turned out to be a live podcast with no picture at all.

I guess that projector didn't like be used for non-Microsoft stuff, because that last session was about Mono. Luckily he was a good speaker so it turned out interesting anyway.

(Does this say more about people, laptops or projectors? Seems to me this is always a problem. Why can't these things just work?)

posted on 9/29/2006 7:50:00 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [1]
 Friday, September 08, 2006
"being at work all day with no one at home to keep the fire going, we were coming home to a freezing house. Every day I had to go fetch wood in the garage and get the fire lit. Even though I kept shoving in more wood I just couldn't get the house warm, until bedtime. And then in the morning it was cold again"
posted on 9/8/2006 10:54:45 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Sunday, April 23, 2006
"it's really good for my sanity to have some moments of solitude and be working on my own little projects. But now the problem is I'm getting isolated from what's going on in the rest of the house. I'm all alone on a different floor, sometimes with headphones on, and the door closed to keep the heat in"
posted on 4/23/2006 11:59:56 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [3]
 Saturday, April 15, 2006
"In the shower today, to my amazement, there was a bottle that I could actually read."
posted on 4/15/2006 7:31:48 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Monday, August 08, 2005
"I've actually managed to grow up a little, and in the process my interests have widened. I'm still somewhat of a geek, but that's not my whole world anymore."
posted on 8/8/2005 6:16:00 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Monday, July 04, 2005
"Me and some close family were nervously waiting in the clinic's visiting room when two nurses with a stroller appeared proclaiming "Here's your baby boy!". We all rushed up to see the newborn. It was the most incredible feeling to see him and hold him for the first time."
posted on 7/4/2005 1:52:00 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Saturday, June 04, 2005
"I must admit, I'm not very interested in the different brands of shampoo on the market. To me, it doesn't really matter much if I end up washing my hair with Dove, Naturelle or Fructis. I leave the shopping for haircare products to my wife. That also means that I don't really know much about how the different bottles look, I just want to find one that states Shampoo on the front of it. This is where the problem arises. I can't read it!"
posted on 6/4/2005 5:40:00 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Friday, May 27, 2005
"I had to have something bigger, more roomy. With the baby coming soon I'll need the space to get the stroller in the back. So I went and bough a station wagon."
posted on 5/27/2005 4:42:00 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
 Tuesday, May 24, 2005

I was on this Parent Preparation Course yesterday. This nurse was showing how the baby would go upside-down and jam his head down the birth canal. Then on his way out he would have his face down, twist his shoulders, get his head out, turn the head to the side and wait for the next contraction before popping all the way out.

I hope junior was paying attention, because we won't get to practice on this before the big day...

posted on 5/24/2005 10:14:00 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]
"The time it took me to browse the websites just ended up in that I just didn't take the time to read the news, and so I didn't waste time on it. Now it's so tempting to open my aggregator every now and then and piss away some minutes of my time, and losing my focus."
posted on 5/24/2005 10:13:00 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]

It's springtime, and I'm starting to wake up from my winter daze.

But I'm not the only one waking up. So are the ants. And now they are marching into my house looking to steal my stuff. So far I haven't found anything missing, but by what they said on the Discovery channel the little creeps are amazingly strong. Who knows what they'll manage to bring home to their queen.

I'm feeling quite safe about the heavier stuff like my stone coffe table, but the kitchen chairs and microwave might be more at risk. And lets just hope they can't manage to open doors. I don't want them going for my computer.

I'll have to get some poison laid out today.

posted on 5/24/2005 10:12:00 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [16]
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
posted on 5/24/2005 10:10:00 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Comments [0]