January 2006 Archives

I'm slowly discovering that the weddings that happen in movies are very unrealistic. The real ones involve lots of very unromantic paperwork and bureaucratic bullshit. The right people need to be hired and paid for, a location needs to be chosen and paid for, a whole stack of paperwork needs to be brought, copied, filled in and stamped on. If you are both foreign nationals you will need to get all that paperwork translated in your local languages, stamped on, send off and approved and stamped on again. All these people that do the signing, translating and stamping need to be paid as well off course. So I'm from the Netherlands, Chizuru from Japan and we are getting married in the United Kingdom, is there a way we could make this into more paperwork? Yes, I could be modern and choose to adopt her last name. As I have discovered today this poses no problem for the woman, in most countries the woman will receive the man's last name by default, if the man wishes to receive the woman's last name he will have to start complicated legal proceedings. Equal rights for men NOW!

I'm doing this for Suw who did it for Tom because he was doing it for Heather who did it for Derek when he was doing it for Storey who in turn not only blamed Zeldman but also blammed Garret, Zeldman blamed Mark Simonson but Mathew blamed no one so here I go. Four jobs I've had: - ring binder assembler - map reader - graphic designer - it geek Foor movies I can watch over and over: - Electric Dreams - The Breakfast Club - The Matrix - Labyrinth Four places I've lived: - Nieuwegein - Slough - London - Richmond Four TV shows I love (I have not owned a TV for many years but don't worry BBC, I still pay my TV License): - Lost - Knight Rider - A-Team - BattleStar Galactica Four places I've vacationed: - Japan - Jamaica - Austria - Sweden Four of my favorite dishes: - Japanese curry pan - red thai curry - wiener schnitzel - Indonesian rice table Four sites I visit daily: - boingboing - flickr - engadget - The register Four humans I am tagging: - mozrat - imajes - Carl Beeth - Filip Borloo

I gave someone I worked with some thinking putty and as a thank you I got this great T-Shirt, guess she knew how much I love Bush.

Chizuru made this by hand from some images she found on the net.

It's fully 3D with tail and all, even has something inside that makes my desk smell all nice ^_^

My mate Chris send me this video link. It's a song written by Wes Borg and the Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. Don't worry, I never heard of them either but the lyrics of this song are dead on for anyone working in the computer support industry. Come on, click here for the sysadmin song, you know you want to ^_=

I have the weird habbit of making faces when people take a photo of me, this is one of those moment and being Christmas and all I thought it was extra funny, realy Uncle Scrooge look going there.

Ok, so hell froze over and the new MacBook Pro (Powerbook) and iMac's come with Intel cpu's. All their software has been updated and has all the latest funky features.... I look at the new Apple portable.... I look at my trusty Thinkpad with Debian+KDE.... I'm damn happy where I'm at!