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old stuff from 2004.12.15

Some Christmas toys I wouldn’t mind to get… Mind Hacks : An O’Reilly book about “Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what’s going on inside your brain.” Full description (with some sample chapters on PDF format) The weblog (RSS), extra hacks that weren’t published and some related material. Logic gates built with LEGO bits. [...]

old stuff from 2004.09.15

Gathering up: Following the Firefox and Thunderbird new releases, I’ve come across portable versions of these two tools. Both Portable Firefox and Portable Thunderbird are removable-drive friendly applications, both stored on a compressed package and fully enable (most extensions and plugins supported). Each of these take less than 10Mb on the removable drive (an USB [...]

Opening the Ximeta NetDisk

WARNING: This will void your NetDisk warranty. You have been warned. Roughly four months after I bought my 160 Gb NetDisk in the black market (eheh) and after having it serve as my central storage repository for most of the CDR and DVDR backups I keep scattered by (and more, much more), it eventually had [...]

Amsterdam

27.06.2004 – 04.07.2004 Latitude: 52.35 W Longitude: 4.916 N I stayed here and here. the first is way too far from the city center. the second is closer, but ask for a large room in advance. I wandered around here for most daytime activities and here for the most remarkable evening (nice barmaids), using these [...]

Foo

There’s actually a RFC describing the etimology of the word “foo”… http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html (must have been a reeeally slow day)