links for 2008-07-03

• SAP System Tables
  (tags: SAP reference work)

Change

Big changes in my life:

• New job
• New car
• New laptop
• New mobile

more follows later, when I have the time …

links for 2008-06-21

• BBC NEWS | Business | The secret of Bill Gates’ success
  (tags: Microsoft business billgates history interview BBC article)

Violent And Crazy

in a fit of tongue in the cheek mixed with cross-covering , the Violent Femmes launched a cover version of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”.

Following Gnarls Barkley’s wildly popular cover of the Violent Femmes’ “Gone Daddy, Gone” this shows great bands play great songs, whether they are coves or originals.

a Fieldguide to Firefox 3

Now we have Firefox 3, there is an urgent need for a fieldguide.

And whoops … there it is …

foofu goes ff3

In support of the attempt to get a download record, I downloaded the newest version of Firefox after a few hours waiting to reach the servers.
I wonder what the impact of Mozilla’s downtime will be on the record attempt.

Right now I am one of the 17000+ downloads in Belgium alone and the counter is on 1,7 million, just a few hours after kick off.

weather and stuff

Today the day ended with some heavy rain and thunder after a day of pressing heat under a clouded sky. And I like it, the lightning, the thunder, the heavy thudding of the raindrops, I even like to walk around in it as long as it is warm enough and gives a refreshing feeling.

With all the warm weather the last weeks I felt really like going out a lot. I also felt less inclined to write blogposts and scavenge around on the internet for news and read-a-billy. Maybe also after more than a year of blogging the fun goes away?

Furthermore a number of things in my life changed for the better or the worse which makes me reconsider some of my decisions and reshuffles my priorities a bit.

I also noticed I have been neglecting my little brown furred friend a bit so nw I wil stop whining and go pay him some attention.

links for 2008-05-15

• Mac Tip: Create custom icons for external hard drives
  to give a shot
  (tags: mac osx icons custom)

links for 2008-05-14

• Einstein thought religions were ‘childish’ - Telegraph
  I’m with Einstein on this one
  (tags: religion einstein atheism philosophy)

links for 2008-05-13

• Powerset
  New searchthingy in town, gotta check it out, see if it’s worth the buzz.
  (tags: search web2.0 semanticweb searchengine)

hot weather music

Les Negresses Vertes - Zobi La Mouche:

Ray Baretto - Acid:

Beach Boys - Good Vibrations:

links for 2008-05-02

• pidgin patch resizable text field
  Pidgin fork over resizable text input field:
  http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/1822237&from=rss
  Patch at 11
  (tags: pidgin patch resizable text field)

links for 2008-04-28

• CultofUHF
  another sinkhole of time
  (tags: video podcast movies humor cult film)
• BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | ‘Free Tibet’ flags made in China
  ROFLcopter has landed in CN
  (tags: funny politics tibet china)

openwervendag2008 - Bell

Yesterday some construction sites in Belgium where open to a public visit. As I once spent a large part of my day there, I decided to visit the site of Bell, the old Alcatel Bell site in the south of Antwerp.

After the company’s relocation to the center of the city behind the central station, the site was handed over to the city of Antwerp which decided to bring it’s entire back-office to one central place.
The triangular building which in the past was filled in the middle with extra buildings, was now emptied again in the middle to allow an underground parking to be built in the middle.

All the floors were stripped (as the building was also riddled with asbestos this was severely needed) and thus in some parts the magnificent steel and brick ceilings are exposed:

The rest of the pictures can be found here.

Sheena is a punk ukelele