2006-01-30 14:20:00
Aw fuck! It appears that GamesTM is going under :( I've had a running subscription on that magazine for over two years now and have loved every issue. GamesTM is a gaming magazine aimed at the adult demographic, meaning in-depth articles, interviews and reviews. And a huge monthly section dedicated to retro gaming. I've always loved how the magazine is definitely not targeted at the typical fifteen year olds, and how it is less... less... Well, how it is not like Edge magazine.
Unfortunately this month's issue never landed on my door mat and naturally I wanted to contact the mag about this. Strange enough their site seems to be down and all the info I've found on Google points towards bankruptcy for their publishing house. OH NOES!
More info to be found: Here, here and here. This one seems to have some positive news though, from the editor of GamesTM himself.
Guess I'll pick up my copy from the news stands for now.
kilala.nl tags: games, reading,
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2006-01-27 06:36:00
We all know I love just about anything Apple Computers makes. There's no secret in that. However, I myself was very much amazed at the ease of setup when it comes to an Airport Wifi network. Yesterday I received the Airport Express base station and the Airport Extreme Card that I'd ordered trough the Apple Store. Looking forward to an evening filled with tweaking and fiddling, I was pleasantly surprised that all it took was fifteen minutes! And that includes installing the AE Card into my Powermac. It really is just as easy as plugging it in :)
I also had expected to have loads of problems to get Windows XP to work with Wifi, after hearing horror stories. And like I had feared Marli's laptop refused to talk to our newly built Wifi network "Kilala" ( original name, ain't it? :P ). However, that was easily fixed by completely reconfiguring the base station using the Windows software. Now the laptop had no qualms in connecting to the network and my Apple computers still attached flawlessly.
I'm one happy camper! Now all we need to do is to wait for Casema to deliver the cable modem, so we can get hooked up to the Internet again. The parcel gets delivered on Valentine's Day :D Awesome!
kilala.nl tags: apple, windows, other tech,
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2006-01-18 21:47:00
It seems that our wonderful minister of the justice department has come up with a brilliant idea! He'd like unruly youths to sign a contract which would make them susceptible to legal action, should they continue their non-illegal yet menacing ways. Ya, that'll happen! "Sure! I'll sign a contract that'll make me get sued for something I'm doing right now without getting sued!". I guess I'm missing something or that the news report didn't provide full coverage, because this plan sounds half-assed.
On the other hand the whole deal might not be that far fetched after all since I heard about two other idiotic law proposals recently. One of which involved a group in the EU parliament that wanted to set out legal guidelines for the size of packaging for filter coffee. Seriously... Coffee packaging! o_O
kilala.nl tags: annoying, politics, netherlands,
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2006-01-17 19:01:00
Cailin has a few choice words for the FMR. |
As some of you will know, Marli's been in college since the fall of 2004. This school year she's switched over to another education that suits her better. Far better. Instead trying to get her head around programming languages and company politics, she's now trying to get into people's brains and help them. She's studying to become a social worker :) |
From my perspective the FMR is lacking in a lot of aspects. For example the way they handle paper work and such really sucks. Not only does it seem like there are no proper procedures for most things that involve the students. It's also a fact that they want the students to find out how to go about all of these things by themselves! Mind you, I'm in favour of nurturing an inquisitive and researching spirit, but when it involves stuff of vital importance like the enrolment for exams or getting their ECTs I'm fervent that one should _not_ fuck about. What's worse is that apparently there are at least four or five offices across the building that perform certain services for their students, but nobody is 100% sure what each office does or even where each office is _located_! Scarily, this includes teaching staff as well... o_O
For those who've seen the Asterix the Gaul movie "The twelve trials of Asterix" (or whatever it's called in English, I only know it as "De twaalf werken van Asterix"): the FMR reminds of The House That Drives You Insane.
I guess maybe we were spoiled a bit by how well the FEM cared for their students... *sigh* Why, back in my day!
kilala.nl tags: school, annoying,
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2006-01-15 18:45:00
Jessica and Cailin were extatic about the new site! Yee-haw indeed! |
In the immortal words of Jessica Simpson: "Can I get a yee-haw?!" |
The code? Yes, I've decided to give back the old mighty FRAMESET to the nineteen-nineties! Instead, I've finally caught up with 2004 and have decided to learn a little CSS and a little PHP. No longer will my site be untraversible by search engines! No longer will we carry the burden of crappy scroll-bars in Opera! No longer will I have to tweak each and every fscking page of HTML code if I want to make a change to the look-and-feel of the site! Hale-fscking-luyah! \o/
For now the whole CSS+PHP deal is still quite limited though, but who knows, maybe sometime in the near future I will also risk my sanity and try to tackle MySQL. That way all of the content on this site could move into a database :)
For now, these are the changes that are most noticable:
* No more frames! Hence, only one scroll bar. And _no_more_inconsistencies_between_browsers_!
* Finaly, a proper navigation bar! Now each page displays a hierarchical view of where you are on the site.
* An update header graphic, which IMHO looks much better than the last one.
* The retro gaming section has moved into the Archives.
* Overall the code has become a bit more organised, although I'm the only one to notice this :p
* The site has been checked in the following browsers: Safari, Firefox, Opera and MS IE.
kilala.nl tags: website,
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