Just heard this on the news, and after some searching, came upon this link:
roxettenews.com
The lead singer from Roxette, Marie Fredriksson, has been diagnosed with a small brain tumour. That really sucks, I’ve always like Roxette.
Suckage
Posted by alex
on September 16, 2002
Fruity Goodness
Posted by alex
on September 16, 2002
At last!
Galeon has a new version out, finally compatible with Mozilla 1.1. Now my MT bookmarklets work with Galeon. Woopdedo!
Galeon: News
My Karma is what?
Posted by alex
on September 15, 2002
I just wanted to post a comment to Slashdot, and lo and behold, there’s a checkbox ‘Don’t apply +1 bonus’. It seems that I somehow amassed enough Karme to get the +1 bonus.
In other news, I went through some of my older CDs yesterday and I wondered what the respective bands were doing, and if there would ever be a second CD.
A check of three bands revealed that all three have a new album coming out this year.
- SR-71: Tomorrow, coming in October
- 3 Doors Down:Away from the sun, coming in November
- Nine Days: So Happily Unsatisfied(what a cool title), coming in October
I’m really looking forward to that, since I always thought, those bands would never make more than one album.
Something in the air, maybe?
Posted by alex
on September 12, 2002
What’s up with today? Suddenly all kinds of people seem to remember that I am on their IM list and say Hi, how are you?
Just one of those days…
Nifty!
Posted by alex
on September 12, 2002
Checking my logfiles, I came across a weird user agent, “obidos-bot”. I know that obidos is something Amazon uses, but I was curious. A google search later, I found the answer:
onfocus.com : Weblog BookWatch, a website that checks recently updated blogs for links to books and generating a list of the most mentioned books.
Now that’s a neat idea.
Disection of a pop song
Posted by alex
on September 10, 2002
I just found this link thanks to a post on Kuro5hin:
http://www.bobandtom.com/gen3/title_song_windoid.html
This is by far the funniest song I have heard for quite some time
Getting older
Posted by alex
on September 08, 2002
This morning, I found my first grey hair. Actually, it was not just one. More like eleven. That got me thinking…
I am now almost 27, which means I will be 30 in less than 4 years. And I am still waiting for the day that I start to feel like an adult. Yes, I have a job and my own place, but I don’t feel “mature”, I just like being silly too much. And as Bridget Fonda said in Singles:
I think time is running out to do something bizarre.Somewhere around 25, “bizarre” becomes “immature.”
That does not mean that I am irresponsible, but when I was a kid, it always seemed that at some nebulous point in the future, *poof*, you’re an adult.
But, so far, no poofing. But I am not really complaining, I like being not totally mature.
And to celebrate my first grey hair, the plan of the evening is the Season 2 DVDs of “Sex and the City”, a slice of young Gouda, and a glass of 2000 Rioja.
Cheers.
Current State
Posted by alex
on September 07, 2002
At the moment, this site is still running with the default templates and the Trendy Style Sheet, but at least it’s functional, that’s what counts.
So in the near future I’m gonna
- come up with a design of my own
- check out if there are any neat hacks I could integrate
- learn to write better
Finally
Posted by alex
on September 07, 2002
After showing nothing but a boring placeholder page for, well, ever, I finally decided what to do with this domain. Especially after the hoopla I’ve been through when the domain was almost deleted because my registrar went broke and didn’t pay the bills. The new company, that took over all the old assets, told me, that the swiss NIC is very difficult to deal with, and the best way would be to let the domain expire and re-register it.
Not really believing that, I fired up a mail to their helpdesk, telling them that I want that domain back, that I would pay all due bills and that I want to be listed as the person who gets the bills. That was around 9pm. At 9am the next morning, I got a mail saying, “No problem, pay us the 35 Sfr, and all is cool”. It was more verbose and businesslike, but that’s what it boils down to.
They even have a webform, where you can pay by credit card, which I did because it’s the fastet way. And the next thing I did was change the bill recipient to be me. So now this domain will be mine at least till June 2003.
But, to make a long story short, I decided to install MovableType as my blogging engine, because it looked really neat, is written in Perl and was a breeze to set up.
And if it’s good enough for Wil Wheaton, it’s good enough for me 