Month: November 2007

More new hardware

This time, I’m forced to replace my old and trusty Ricoh DVD-burner. You never even knew they made DVD-writers? Neither did I, until I saw mine. 😉 Going for the cheapest writer out there, I found myself in the position to buy a Nec drive, for no more than 20 euros. It is made by Sony and NEC in their

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Lourien going abroad

Temporary migration seems to be hot nowadays! After Guy leaving for China for 6 months, another friend of mine is going abroad: Lourien is about to embarque on a journey to and in Australia. She’s going backpacking for 6 months with her best friend and neighbor Saskia. They’ll be touring the country visiting all big cities and generally doing what

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Simple text search in PHP

To search my music-collection via my browser, I’m currently browsing and searching my webbased interface with the browser itself. I head my Firefox to http://fileserver/music/, and I get the FancyIndexed list of music on the M-partition. As this list is growing to be quite large nowadays, I can still search for albums by ctrl-f’ing to my desired destination; yet this

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Only 2 months to go

The first of November is a milestone date for me. It’s only 2 short months away from the deadline for my master thesis, and I’m kind of shaky acknowledging this. So far, I’m still going as planned, with my thesis progressing as scheduled. My portal quality framework is taking shape real quick and the validation stage is near. I’ll be

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