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Cute, but spam

When I first played World of Warcraft, spam was almost never an issue. Very sometimes we’d see some yelling in Ironforge. The spam got gradually worse, varying from level 1 warriors yelling about wow-gold-loot-websites to in-game mail and whispers ( hey yeah? http://anothergoldwebsite.com! *sigh*). But this is something else. The only way to report [...]

All those wasted trees

I’ve been living in Castricum for a while now, and things are going well. My interior is improving bit by bit, I’m finally getting the feeling I’m coming home when I get here. All’s awesome on that account.

When I was still painting the walls here, before I’d actually moved in, I noticed [...]

A diagnosis

Well I’m posivitely flabberghasted. Here’s why.

I’m one of very few people, I imagine (perhaps I’m wrong), who’ve never considered being overweight as anything other than their own fault. I blamed lots of factors in my life, but nothing which I had no control over. I thought it must be the eating pattern I [...]

Yawn

Well this is quite annoying. My alarm clock doesn’t function anymore. That is, it works fine, it would still scare the shit out of all the customers like it did that day in the store when I bought it. But nothing wakes me up anymore. I’m supposed to wake up at 5:00am, but there [...]

Sister doesn't like doin' it for herself

I’ve been professionally translating for a while now and I’ve had my business since June 2009. Ever since, I’ve been longing for a job with regular pay and benefits like a pension and the ability to fall back on welfare if I have to. It’s not that I hate running my own business… well [...]

Charlatans

This morning I got quite pissed off by an article I read in Sp!ts. After a report in the dutch TV programme Zembla about how medium Char Margolis (apparently only known in the Netherlands) uses cold reading to ‘speak to the dead’, it would seem that she’s back for more. This time she talks [...]

Rats

Yesterday it (finally) came to my attention that apparently in Castricum there’s a plague of brown rats. Afraid of ending up writing an FML, I visited a meeting that was held last night, during which people were informed about the status of the problem and measures already taken. This meeting also allowed people to [...]

Still white and nerdy

Sometimes, in between slowly forgetting the finer Linux commands, working a lot and no longer tinkering that much with stuff anymore, I find myself wondering: am I still a geek? You see, I take pride in that part of me that likes to figure out how stuff works. Also it’s a lot of fun [...]

Mobile phones, a history

Following a gajillion discussions on IRC over a long time, I started thinking about my history with mobile phones. This led to me googling for about 2 hours straight, because I couldn’t find my first phone ever. Until I did! It was the KPN Pocketline Wave 200, but almost none were sold in the [...]

Moved

I finally moved to Castricum, but this is not quite how I expected my first week to go…

On Saturday my dad, my brother and me moved all the stuff to my new house. The roads were slippery and it was very cold, so that was an extra hazard. All went well though, and [...]