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OMG WTF!?11!
Posted Jan 24, 2008
So my personal space says I have not posted anything since Aug 30th, 2002. I know that can't be right, because I have journal entries dated in February 2006. And I just realised that 2006 is two years ago, and I tell you, it *really* doesn't feel that long.
I blame everything on 2007, the year of hell. And I will *not* read backlog.
Mmmmmmhmmm, that felt good 
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Should have been you
Posted Feb 28, 2006
There's this song that's been played a lot on the radio lately, a slow ballad sung by the aged swedish punk rocker Joakim Thåström - the chorus goes, "Damn, damn, damn, it should've been you". So it got me thinking, not way back, but 10 years or so. About the you that should've been, obviously. And about how, and why, and why not, and all that. And so I've had this slow, thoughtful, melancholy feeling for the last week or so. It's not unpleasant, and it goes well with the slow, unceasing snowfall outside. I have bought the CD, so I have the perfect soundtrack for sipping 
and looking out the window on snowy winter nights - and thinking. I guess I've missed just sitting around, alone, thinking.
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Channelsurfing
Posted Feb 21, 2006
I did fix myself up with a WLAN at home - once the thought got hold I rapidly got to the point where I couldn't live without it. So yesterday I bought a little Netgear wireless router and proceeded with the adventure of getting the wireless connection working on my laptop running Gentoo Linux. 
I spent most of yesterday evening recompiling the kernel to enable support for the WLAN card, loaded (what I thought was) the right module, proceeded to start the card and configure it - and the my regular NIC stopped working. The WLAN driver ate it. *Major* weirdness. So after reinstalling the NIC module, I gave up for the day.
Today I came home, reconfigured the kernel once more, looked up the WLAN card properly and selected the (actually) right module this time, loaded it, started the card, and spent the last 4 hours trying to get it to connect to the access point. Because the card defaulted to channel 3 (like most cards in Europe and NA), but the router, in it's default configuration, chose to be channel 11. The fact that I didn't check the channels until after four hours of trying everything else I'll just write off to work-related stress
The point, however, is this: It's working now - and I can finally h2g2 from the sofa 
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Latest reply: Feb 21, 2006
Wee-eell
Posted Feb 14, 2006
So...
It's been several months since I last felt any urge to sit in front of my computer at home and just play around with it. I spend way too much time with computers at work. Not that I mind, they're all very nice computers (except that nasty W2K Terminal Server that keeps messing with my lunch hour). But I'm getting my fill. The result of which is that I don't slurf around as much as I used to. Maybe I should get a WLAN rig at home, so I could h2g2 from the sofa. That might help.
Anyways.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it appears. And I'm very happy to see that the Intelligent SF thread is still alive and kicking
Now to check out the (supposedly) new smileys.
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Blank as my mind
Posted Sep 9, 2005
I'm apartment-shopping again. Can't seem to stay put for very long.
I don't dislike my current place as such, it's very functional and I like the area a lot, it's not way too small or too big or too expensive, I just don't like it very much either. I have been thinking for months about resetting the tiles in the kitchen, repainting the windows, putting in new floors or whatever just to make it look nicer, but it turns out I'm not really one of those people who does things like that. It just refuses to happen.
So I've made a tight schedule for sunday afternoon: looking at 6 apartments in 4 hours. It just might work
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