Faragon's blog

Do you know where your towel is? (Which Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy character are you?) Ford Prefect (Ix) Kyah, almost the funnest guy in the known universe besides your pal Zaphod. You know how to have a good time, even if all the sods around you dont. Why dont you ditch Arthur already and [...]

CEST 2008 May 13 01:36:19 -!- Faragon [~faragon@83.68.0.49] has quit [Ping timeout] May 14 10:10:34 coffee spamd[722]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 3622 A total downtime of approximately 1 day, 8 hours and 34 minutes. (If you take into account that I “normally” receive spam every second, and 15 seconds, but who’s counting? [...]

So someone linked me to a speed typing test (also available in Dutch for those who don’t want to have to think about English spelling) Your score: 363 CPM (that is 73 WPM) Congratulations! You typed all 56 words correctly! (CPM is characters per minute and WPM is words per minute) I must admit, this [...]

72% Geek :-) How’s about you lot?

And by that, I mean, howto dress like a professional, even when you’re a geek, as opposed to looking like a geek who’s made a profession out of geeking :-) Anyway, here’s a useful link

As seen on nu.nl, “Toerist sterft tijdens vrijpartij aan overdosis sexpillen” (Tourist dies during intercourse because of an overdose of sex pills) and “Breda wijzigt straatnaam ‘Viagrahof’” (Breda changes name viagracourt) “. Now I understand that these can coincidently be placed on the same day (funny how that happens with news), but I don’t expect [...]

This morning my colleague had downloaded a new episode of one of my favorite tv shows, and he asked me if I wanted a copy, so I handed him my iPod (my back hurts, so I left my MacBook Pro at home) and he transferred the data. Next, he asked me if I wanted some [...]

I wonder if it’s possible to have an IM overdose. Right now, I’ve had it with all the fast media. If someone needs me, I’ll be available over phone, during office hours. And via email. Let’s see how long I last, I can clearly remember my last week without Internet access, it was in Switzerland, [...]

According to an irc-bot:
infoitems for faragon: .. [insert loads of semi true (at one time or another) Dutch stuff here] .. serial blogger

I am *NOT* a serial blogger :-)
If you look at http://fifo.sh, you might think differently, but the rest of that *long* list of people just doesn’t blog (often enough), I can’t help that, ok? Thank you :-)

Now, for all the interesting stuff that has happened in my life sinse my last blog…
 
 
 
(Note that I actually went through the trouble of making sure there are three empty lines there, instead of the normal one that WP uses when you have multiple blank lines in a row :-) )

I think I killed it… slightly… maybe… a bit… last pid: 85198; load averages: 454.58, 343.88, 171.1 up 29+22:09:38 22:52:32 3799 processes:938 running, 2231 sleeping, 630 zombie CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle Mem: 508M Active, 33M Inact, 182M Wired, 25M Cache, 86M Buf, 1324K Free Swap: 1024M Total, [...]