http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com I'm a mere, tiny, insignificant cog in a whole clockwork of stupidity. I'm the tiny cog that wants to break free. Seriously. Wed, 14 May 2008 10:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, my parents and I were back at the AVL cancer hospital. I’m not going to say much about it, but there is this one thing. Does anyone else find it unnervingly funny that dozens of people are frantically smoking cigarettes in front of the cancer hospital’s entrances? http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/one-thing/ PowerBook:~ thomholwerda$ sudo lsof | grep ExplainingBBLeadership.pdf Password: Finder 94 thomholwerda txt REG 14,2 82162 2482912 /Users/thomholwerda/.Trash/ExplainingBBLeadership.pdf What I dont understand is why the goddamn “File in use” ... http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/05/10/my-ass/ I think my 6-7 year-old x86 finally kicked the bucket. A few years ago, I was able to extend his life thanks to the ide=nodma boot parameter, which somehow allowed the faulty IDE controller to still install Linux, albeit grudgingly. Windows never complained, it just ran and chugged along fine. Until ... http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/page-fault/ And it’s been like this all week. I hug global warming! http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/05/09/global-warming/ You’d think that, at one point, someone has gone through enough crap. That at some point, nature or god or luck or whatever says, hey, look, let’s give these people a break for a while. Let’s, like, not fcuk them for THREE DAYS. Well, turns out that’s not the case. Millions of ... http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/surgery-ii/ Would the following qualify as a religious experience? Right, so there we all were. Marco, Martin, Robbert, Gemma, Robin, Thei, Levi, and I. Onno and Annemarie had left a few minutes earlier. We just had a barbecue on a roof terrace in the middle of Amsterdam - the weather is 20+, ... http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/05/04/potato/ Princess Maxima, Prince Heir Willem-Alexander, Queen Beatrix How unnervingly moving is this. It was Koninginnedag today in The Netherlands. An Afghan refugee, who fled to our country in 2001, walked 50km from Heerenveen to Franeker last night. Franeker is one of the cities the Royal Family visited today. It was his goal ... http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/04/30/queen/ 256 Bit should be enough for everyone. Literally. http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/04/30/256-bit/ I’ve fallen in love. With the Eee PC 900. That made me think. An Eee 900 configured with a Fiona background. That’s eternal happiness RIGHT THERE. http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/04/28/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee/ Seriously, keyboard people? Want free advice? Make keys that read ‘ok’, ‘cool’, and ‘OMFG UR SUCH AN IDIOT!!!!’. Would make IRC so much easier. http://cogscanthink.blogsome.com/2008/04/26/keyboard-people/