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. Just like its electronic […]

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 disk, […]

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 to happen. […]

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 and these (one day passes) […]

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)