2006-12-31 14:47:00
Since my friends will probably not appreciate me being on the computer around midnight tonight, I thought I'd talk to all you guys now :)
I hope everyone has a great evening/night and that the new year will bring loads of happiness and success to you all.
Which reminds me... A new year also means a new section to the Archives! I gotta get cracking on that code tomorrow! :) I don't think my code's currently set up to work with posts outside 2006...
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2006-12-31 00:00:00
Our regular address for over six years. |
=== CRISIS AVERTED. The restaurant is staying open. Read the update at the bottom. === |
As I said, I was shocked and I'm actually quite said about the loss of this restaurant. Asian Tower has been our regular chinese and japanese restaurant for the whole of our relationship.
While digging around their website I found out that Asian Tower was opened only twenty days before the start of our relationship (like it was made for us!). Their doors opened on the 8th of May 2000, while me and Marlijne met on the 28th of May of that year. Odd that I never knew this :)
In our early years, we'd occasionally visit the restaurant with Marli's family (back then neither of us had our driver's license yet). But when we'd moved in together we'd go there very regularly. Sometimes even once every month!
* When we'd feel the need for a posh dinner we'd go and have Japanese with them.
* When we had friends over we'd go get take-out at Asian Tower.
* When we'd want to take friends out to dinner, we'd go to Asian Tower.
* Had a huge group of family after a birthday party? We'd go to Asian Tower.
* Even for our wedding party with the parents we went over there, to have the uber-expensive Chef's Special Japanese menu.
So why go back there all those times?
Well, the food's quite good and not your standard dutch-chinese fare. The menu at A.T. is more varied than most typical dutch restaurants and they take a more haut cuisine approach to the chinese kitchen. This often results in some very interesting dishes.
Also, the people were always great! The manager, though not even remotely fluent in dutch, was a great guy and would always come to your table for a chat. Mr. Wong at the desk was a very sweet man with whom we'd always spend at least twenty minutes just catching up on things. And a few of the ladies in waiting were also just the sweetest ^_^
Even cooler: in their early years, Asian Tower used to organise themed evenings like Valentine's Day or for the Moon Festival. They'd set up special menus and arrange for entertainment in between courses. They were a great bunch!
Things changed though in late 2004 / early 2005, when new management was instated. Gone was the friendly, older Chinese guy and in came a dutch business man. Mr Wong had long-gone to another restaurant. Most of the sweet waitresses had been replaced with grumpier girls. Our favorite Japanese chef Poon had gone to start his own restaurant (which strangely falls under the same management) and a few of the other chefs had been replaced as well.
Things were going down hill from there when it came to the people in waiting. But we still kept on coming, 'cause it had become tradition and since the food was still good. In the meantime though we did find a beter Japanese restaurant in Utrecht: Konnichi Wa, on the Mariaplaats. So A.T. was no longer visited for the "posh" evenings.
Anyway: it really is a shame that they're closing down and I have no clue whatsoever why it's happening! The restaurant's always fully booked and seems to be doing quite well. I'm thinking of dropping by the restaurant around lunch time, to see if that manager guy's around to ask him some questions.
Asking the girl behind the counter what'd happen to her now, she said "Don't know. Looooong vacation?". I'm going to miss that girl ;_;
EDIT:
I just spoke to the current manager of Asian Tower by telephone. On the one hand he was unpleasantly surprised that I had heard about the rumour... Not at all pleased. But on the other hand he was willing to offer me a little explanation: Asian Tower _will_ continue their business, it's just that he has sold his share in the company to the other share holders.
In essence this means that not much will change immediately, although over time we'll probably see changes in both personnel and the menu.
I'm just glad they're staying :)
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2006-12-28 21:10:00
Catch me if you can ~nyo! :3 |
An acquaintance of mine (and fellow blogger), Erik, just posted an article about one of the Wii UI elements that I hadn't heard about before: the help cat. |
Here's Erik's blog post, and here's the original article that discusses the help cat from a UI design perspective. Shiny!
EDIT: And if Help Cat isn't interesting enough for you, you could always take a look at some real life Wii kitties. :3
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2006-12-28 08:19:00
Hey folks, I need some sporting advice and I'm hoping that folks like The Saint and Tom can help me out. You see, I've rode my bike to work three times now and each and every time afterwards I've gotten seriously fscking cold. I'm not shivering and I don't have goose bumps, so I doubt that it's hypothermia. It's more of a wave of coldness washing across my body.
This morning I've had the common sense of bringing a dry change of clothes when it comes to t-shirt + sweater, but stupidly I didn't bring a new pair of pants (it rained this morning). Anyway, the shirt + sweater sure help. I've also had enough wits about me to keep moving around a bit and to drink (both cold and warm drink) and to take some food (breakfast, in the case of the mornings).
So I think I'm doing things right. Can any of the sporting folks confirm this for me? I spoke to my colleague Fuug already and he seems to think I'm doing fine :)
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2006-12-26 22:19:00
Well, I'll rise to a new challenge tomorrow morning: I'll be riding my bike to the office! On the one hand I'm looking forward to it and on the other I'm dreading the ride. It's been quite a while since I last rode such distances and I'm wondering whether it won't be the end of me =_=
It's approximately fourteen kilometers, door to door, according to the Dutch Cyclists' Union's route planner. And to add insult to injury it seems that the ferry across the Lek river isn't operational between Christmas and New Year's, so I'll have to fight my way across the steep Lek bridge *shudder*
But I'm sure I can do it! I'll bring along water and my air pump (in case I run a flat or something) and a good dose of positivism. Ganbatte!. As a small bonus I'll get to ride through Nieuwegein, passing our old house :)
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2006-12-24 09:39:00
Marli's christmas apparel |
I can't believe it! This is the very first time in the five years that I've been running my personal website that I'm going to wish my visitors a merry Christmas. How the heck did I never do that before?! |
And I had the most blinding flash of insight when it came to getting her a present! That's usually very rare, as I'm quite dense ;_;
Pictured above is the shirt that Marli bought especially for this holiday season. She'll be wearing it with a black suit that looks very smart on her. Now I realised that she didn't have any jewelry to match the shirt, so I went out to my favorite jewelers: Esmann Juweliers. Unfortunately they don't have a website, but that isn't very odd given that they deal in antiques and handmade jewelry. They most definitely are not the run-of-the-mill jewelers like Lucardi or another high street shop.
Anywho, over at Esmann's I found these wonderful flower earrings, with petals and a center of deep red garnet. Very nice!
And now we're off to a busy weekend :)
* Tonight we'll go to my father's for the traditional Christmas dinner! So, thankfully, what I'd reported earlier hasn't come true entirely!
* Tomorrow we'll be at Marli's mother's place for the traditional Christmas day with them.
* Tuesday we'll be back at my dad's to meet up with his girlfriend's family, for more company and merriment.
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2006-12-22 22:41:00
Thanks to a link on the MacFreak fora I stumbled onto a great blog post explaining why ZFS is actually a big deal. The article approaches ZFS from the normal user's angle and actually did a good job explaining to me why I should care about ZFS.
Real nice stuff and I'm greatly looking forward to Mac OS X.5 which includes ZFS.
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2006-12-22 22:27:00
Our living room is so cozy! |
That certainly was an evening well spent! |
The other pair (the backups) looked quite good though, so I got those fitted. It's that pair that I'm wearing in the photo on the left. You (and I!) will have to wait another month before the other pair comes in ;_;
Afterwards, knowing full well that I wasn't going to cook at home, we went to the chinese restaurant on Nieuwegein's market square. We've only been there once before and for some reason I keep forgetting how good they really are!
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2006-12-22 09:00:00
As I promised a few days ago I'd also give you guys the quick description of how to add a new LUN to a Tru64 box. Instead of what I told you earlier, I thought I'd put it in a separate blog post instead. No need to edit the original one, since it's right below this one.
Adding a new LUN to a Tru64 box with TruCluster
1. Assign new LUn in the SAN fabric.
No something I usually do.
2. Let the system search for new hardware.
hwmgr scan scsi
3. Label the "disk".
disklabel -rw $DISK
4. Add the disk to a file domain (volume group).
mkfdmn $DISK $DOMAIN
5. Create a file set (logical volume).
mkfset $DOMAIN $FILESET
6. Create a file system.
Not required on Tru64. Done by the mkfset command.
7. Test mount.
Mount.
8. Add to fstab.
vi /etc/fstab
Also, if you want to make the new file system fail over with your clustered application, add the appropriate cfsmgr command to the stop/start script in /var/cluster/caa/bin.
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2006-12-22 07:06:00
Not the prettiest babe in town, but what a ride! |
In contradiction to my original plans I did in fact visit Sun Microsystem's Christmas extravaganza this year. I'd never been to their Christmas parties before and colleagues had always told me about how great it was, so I just had to go. My luck would have it that this year's event was a bit of a doozy :( I was told by friends that the event had been much larger in previous years, with many more stalls showing off all kinds of neat things. |
What else is there?
* This evening I'll be picking up my new glasses at the opto.
* We're still on the hunt for a few more Christmas' presents.
* This Saturday I'll start cleaning the house in preparation of our traditional New Year's dinner.
For over five years now it's been tradition to have a few of our very best friends over for dinner on New Year's eve. We'll gather four to eight people, me and Peter'll cook a slamming dinner and we'll have fun and games into the night. I'm already looking forward to it!
Though this year I've promised Peter to leave the Dancing Stage: Mario Mix in its box :D I don't think he enjoyed that all that much last year.
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2006-12-20 23:20:00
*sigh* I got a little bit carried away with the whole Meebo thing today.
I was introduced to Meebo by a colleague as an easy way of having MSN (and other IM) access at the office, which works a treat. But in the meantime I also got enamored with the Meebo-me messenger widget that could be embedded into my website. "Wouldn't it be cool," I thought to myself, "if some passing stranger would be able to chat me up through my front page?"...
Well... Let's put aside that the widget looks ass when combined with my site's design. Seriously? Who the heck is going to "chat me up"? :D So after mucking about with my site's CSS for an hour or two, trying to make things look "nice", I decide to just fuck it and dump the whole idea. It was a rather dumb idea to begin with anyway.
Got caught up in the Web 2.0 hype, shall we say? So now it's back to who I am: somber, functional, no silly frills. :)
RSS feed = handy, functional.
Tagging = handy, semi-functional.
Meebo chatty widget = silly.
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2006-12-20 22:07:00
Never mind me folks. Pay no attention to the screwy layout of the front page. I'm mucking about with the CSS of my site, trying to get that Meebo widget positioned the way I want it :)
It'll all be over soon. I promise...
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2006-12-20 20:20:00
The past two weeks I've been learning new stuff at a very rapid pace, because my client uses only a few Solaris boxen and has no Linux whatsoever. So now I need to give myself a crash course in both AIX and Tru64 to do stuff that I used to do in a snap.
For example, there's adding a new SAN device to a box, so it can use it for a new file system. Luckily most of the steps that you need to take are the same on each platform. It's just that you need to use different commands and terms and that you can skip certain steps. The lists below show the instructions for creating a simple volume (no mirroring, striping, RAID tricks, whatever) on all three platforms.
Adding a new LUN to a Solaris box with SDS
1. Assign new LUN in the SAN fabric.
Not something I usually do.
2. Let the system search for new hardware.
devfsadm -C disks
3. Label the "disk".
format -> confirm label request
When using Solaris Volume Manager
4. Add the disk to the volume manager.
metainit -f $META 1 1 $DISK
5. Create a logical volume.
metainit $META -p $SOFTPART $SIZE
6. Create a filesystem
newfs /dev/md/rdsk/$META
7. Test mount.
mount $MOUNT
8 Add to fstab.
vi /etc/vfstab
When using Veritas Volume Manager
4. Let Veritas find the new disk.
vxdctl enable
5. Initialize the disk for VXVM usage and add it to a disk group.
vxdiskadm -> initialize
6. Create a new volume in the diskgroup.
Use the vxassist command.
7. Create a file system.
newfs /dev/vx/rdsk/$VOLUME
8. Test mount
mount $MOUNT
9. Add to vfstab
vi /etc/vfstab
Adding a new LUN to an AIX box with LVM
1. Assign new LUN in the SAN fabric.
Not something I usually do.
2. Let the system search for new hardware.
cfgmgr
3. Label the "disk".
Not required on AIX.
4. Add the disk to a volume group.
mkvg -y $VOLGRP -s 64 -S $DISK
5. Create a logical volume.
mklv -y $VOLNAME -t jfs2 -c1 $VOLGRP $SIZE
6. Create a filesystem
crfs -v jfs2 -d '$VOLNAME' -m '$MOUNT' -p 'rw' -a agblksize='4096' -a logname='INLINE'
7. Test mount
mount $MOUNT
8 Add to fstab.
vi /etc/filesystems
Adding a new LUN to a Tru64 box running TruCluster
I'll edit this post to add these instructions tomorrow, or on Friday. I still need to try them out on a live box ;)
Anywho. It's all pretty damn interesting and it's a blast having to almost instantly know stuff that's completely new to me. An absolute challenge! It's also given me a bunch of eye openers!
For example I've always thought it natural that, in order to make a file system switch between nodes in your cluster, you'd have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make it happen. Well, not so with TruCluster! Here, you add the LUN, go through the hoops described above and that's it! The OS automagically takes care of the rest. That took my brain a few minutes to process ^_^
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2006-12-17 14:02:00
If you're ever looking for a fun weekend I can heartily recommend you _don't_ catch gastro-enteritis, which is more commonly known as stomach flu. Yes indeed, it's been a fun-filled weekend! All of which the both of us had to miss ;_;
Three birthdays and a visit from a schoolbuddy, all cancelled.
Marli came down with the flu on wednesday evening and mine started on thursday evening. I still went to work on Friday, but left at noon. And a good thing that was too! =_= The only three good things coming out of all of this are:
1. Marlijne and me got to spend a lot of time together.
2. I'm getting the time off for my wrists that I needed so hard.
3. We've been getting reacquainted with our colourful collection of buckets -_-;
Also, my body has learnt this funny little trick: fainting.
In the past I thought it was tied in with the "allergy" I described on the 18th of October (2005) and which had reoccurred at later times as well. But apparently I faint easily whenever I wake up and move to another room in a hurry. I'm _very_ happy that Marli always keeps her wits about her and that she talks me through those moments so I don't really faint.
EDIT:
While the illness has mostly gone now we'll both be staying home tomorrow. Partially to fully recuperate and partially to clean up the house (which it'll need after four days of sick people).
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2006-12-14 11:37:00
This morning I went to my local Prometric testing center for my LPI 101 exam (part one of two, for the LPIC-1). On forehand I knew I wasn't perfectly prepared, since I'd skipped trial exams and hadn't studied that hard, so I was a little anxious. Only a little though, since I usually test quite well.
Anywho: out of a maximum of 890 points I got 660, with 500 points being the minimum passing grade. Read item 2.15 this page to learn more about the weird scoring method used by the LPI. It boils down to this: out of 70 questions I got 61 correct, with a minimum of 42 to pass. If we'd use the scoring method Sun uses, I'd have gotten an 87%. Not too bad, I'd say!
I did run into two things that I was completely unprepared for. I'd like to mention them here, so you won't run into the same problem.
1. All the time, while preparing, I was told that I'd have to choose a specialization for my exam: either RPM or DPKG. Since I know more about RPM I had decided to solely focus on that subject. But lo and behold! Apparently LPI has _very_ recently changed their requisites for the LPIC-1 exams and now they cover _both_ package managers! D:
2. In total I've answered 98 questions, instead of the 70 that was advertised. LPI mentions on their website (item 2.13) that these are test-questions, considered for inclusion in future exams. These questions are not marked as such and they do not count towards your scoring. It would've been nice if there had been some kind of screen or message warning me about this _at_the_test_site_.
Anywho... I made and now I'm on to the next step: LPIC-102.
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2006-12-13 20:51:00
Ever since I overloaded my wrists a week or three back I've had the most horrible pain in my left wrist D: Typing, steering, cooking and *ahem* certain intimacies all hurt me to no end and it doesn't look like the RSI will relent any time soon. The fact that I work on a laptop all day, without an external display doesn't help either: I have to look down all day, since I don't have a laptop stand.
I do think that the damage should go away if I could just take off a few days, with me not putting any strain on my wrists. Problem is that I recently started a new assignment and that I have already bothered the customer with enough days off as it is.
Darn... I think I'll have a chat with my field manager about this tomorrow. Maybe there's a way to work around this "challenge".
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2006-12-13 19:28:00
Erik's bestest friend in whole Animal Crossing: Bob the cat. |
Wow, time has flown. |
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2006-12-13 06:50:00
*sigh* |
For as long as I remember my family has always celebrated Christmas Eve together. |
My sister and her boyfriend will be in Finland for the holidays (I'm jealous!) and none of my father's girlfriend's kids can make it on the 24th either. And so, yesterday evening my dad asked if it would be alright if we came 'round on the 26th instead. Then, he said, we'd have a much bigger group.
And naturally we agreed, 'cause that's what you do. I mean, he was feeling bad enough as it is about forgetting to arrange for a nice stay-over somewhere (the original plan was for us and them to go to some far-away part of the Netherlands).
So that's how a great family tradition finally came to its end.
... *sigh* ... It really does make me sad, 'cause I have so many good memories of those evenings...
But! Screw all this sulking! Marli and I have decided that next year we won't let this happen! We will continue the tradition instead, dragging as much family as we can into our home on the 24th! There'll be dinner, drinks, snacks and presents! Hooray!
EDIT: I really don't mean to be blaming my dad for this, if that's how it sounds. It's just a matter of circumstances.
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2006-12-12 22:38:00
Version 1.0 of my LPIC-101 study notes is available. I bashed it together using the two books mentioned below. A word of caution though: this summary was made with my previous knowledge of Solaris and Linux in mind. This means that I'm skipping over a shitload of stuff that might still be interesting to others. Please only use my summary as something extra when studying for your own exam.
I'm up for my exam next Thursday, at ten in the morning. =_=;
Oh yeah... The books:
Ross Brunson - "Exam cram 2: LPIC 1", 0-7897-3127-4
Roderick W. Smith - "LPIC 1 study guide", 978-0-7821-4425-3
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2006-12-12 06:28:00
*yawn* *stretch*
Last night Snow had their annual Christmas dinner, with all of my colleagues and their respective partners. All in all we had around a hundred-twenty people in the restaurant. And not just some restaurant, but Het Koetshuis in Bennekom! Like many of the other restaurants bearing a "koetshuis" name (or the many variations of it) it's a fancy-schmancy kinda place, but the food's pretty darn great!
Because Snow has grown quite rapidly over the past year, Operations had decided against a formal seating arrangement around tables in favor of a "walking dinner" where people are expected to mingle. Not really our kind of thing, so after an hour or so we found a nice table and some nice folks to spend the rest of the evening with. As was expected from this walking dinner, all food was brought around on tiny plates and you could get a larger portion of meat from a buffet. As I said: the quality of the food was very good. At one or two occasions I did get the feeling that they had been trying a bit too hard to make something luxurious, but hey...
And naturally, like each year, Snow had gotten both the coworkers and their partners some presents. Every Snowy will get a personalised North Face coat, with both the Snow logo and his/her name on it (the logo I like, but the name seems kinda ghey). And "the wives" got a set of uber-strong magnets, not unlike these, although the set we got includes either two or four balls, instead of a fifty-odd set of tiny magnets.
I'm not sure which North Face coat it is, 'cause I didn't get a very good look at it yesterday evening. I did get to try it on, to find my proper size. It kind of resembles the asphalt grey Free Thinker, but I almost hope that it isn't. That coat's worth around $500. o_O
Anyway: a great evening! I was very happy to finally meet my carpooling colleague's wife (who scores quite high on the geeky-scale) and my friend Deborah's boyfriend.
EDIT:
Operations decided to put us out of our misery and posted the presents' details on our Wiki. The coat is the Mountain Guide (which still rings in at $400. youch!) and the magnets are Neotexx Spheres.
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2006-12-11 06:19:00
One of our silly, dutch traditions. |
I mentioned on the 26th of November (in the comments field) that we'd be celebrating Sinterklaas with a bunch of friends. Well, we did and it was a load of fun :) |
For example, I had drawn my friend Peter's brother-in-law who's a construction engineer. Hence, I built a block puzzle of a house where one of the blocks (namely the master bedroom) contained his present.
Marlijne had drawn Peter's sister, who's a lab technician and a hamster fanatic. So she made a stuffed hamster, with the present hidden away under some straw in the box.
And finally, Marlijne (being the huuuuge Inu Yasha fan that she is) got a nude, yet sexless Inu Yasha doll, holding up a sign saying "Where are my manbits?! T_T".
Other surprises included Sinterklaas on his horse, a 7kg steel candle stick (with the present hidden inside), a pack of coffee (which I got) and a rabbit pen.
All in all: a day filled with fun, wonder, food and shitloads of candy :) I'm very happy that we were invited again and I really want to thank Peter and Wendy for their hospitality again. Thanks guys! See you in a few weeks for our New Year's dinner :)
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2006-12-10 08:43:00
I'm one of those people who has dreams _every_ night. I'm sure that everybody dreams, every night, but I'm one of those who actually recalls dreaming. I'm told that's a little more rare :) At times I just have to wonder though where the hell the material for these dreams comes from! Because sometimes the weirdness just gets too much!
For example, recently I had a dream in which I uttered the following sentence, just before waking up: "If we assign each of these *waves object* a unique number, we'll be able to connect to them using telephone."
I was holding a packet of sliced cheese.
And tonight's dream wasn't any less weird. In it were hundreds of mice who were destroying a house I was visiting. Upon inspecting parts of the house in more detail I thought to myself: "No wonder that there are so many mice in here!".
The house was being held together by wood, straw and Liege-style waffles.
So yeah: dreams are a lot of fun :D I think the mice from tonight's dream got in there because I visited a pet store yesterday and spent a few seconds looking at the mice they sell.
With regards to the new assignment my employer got me: the people I work with are a nice and intelligent bunch. I'm sure we'll get along quite well! Share a few laughs, but also spend a lot of time working seriously (as opposed to my previous client where things were the other way around). The work so far is pretty interesting and I've found myself giving myself a crash course in AIX volume management.
I have to say though that it takes a lot getting used to a Windows workstation again. Since the client's regulations prohibit me hooking up my iBook to their network, I'm stuck using one of their clunker Windows laptops. I keep pressing OS X shortcuts that just don't work in Windows (though I might be able to change that!).
Also: Lotus Notes 5 sucks fscking donkey balls!... What a horrible piece of software.
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2006-12-05 22:28:00
Holymoly... If you _ever_ wanted to know what it'd be like to be interviewed by a young girl with the attention span of a ferret on crack, watch this Winterview interview with R. Stevens.
Yes, he's the same Diesel Sweeties guy I talked about a few days ago... But this time around the cute yet hyper-hyped-up-hyper girl interviewing him is the subject :D She's silly.
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2006-12-03 19:53:00
Super Evronians? Tyranid Warrior meets duck, is more like it. |
Ever since I was a small kid, I've always had a great love for Donald Duck. His short stories in his magazine and his longer stories in pockets, which at times came with some great artwork! |
The story's pretty run of the mill when it comes to the longer Donald Duck tellings: a few surprises here and there, but nothing shocking. I love the artwork though and I do believe that the artists took a good, hard look at Games Workshop's Tyranid army from the Warhammer 40000 game. The Super Evronians look like a mixture of duck-tyranid. Very neat!
A quick browse through Wikipedia and a few other websites (including this thread on a dutch forum) confirm that these comics are actually quite old and that they were published in the Netherlands around 1997. Apparently the publisher's trying to peddle them again, after flopping the first time. Me, I could stand to read a little more.
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2006-12-03 09:03:00
In other news, today the full staff of Anime 2007 will have its first face-to-face meeting in preparation of the festival. We have greatly expanded our head count (going from five to about a dozen) and will be completely reorganising the way we work. It'll provide an excellent challenge, but we are quite hopeful that the new team can make Anime 2007 a big success.
The gathering will take at least six hours and we'll be covering everything from our new organisation and everybody's takes, to specific events, the dealing room, etc.
And in yet other news: I'll start my new assignment for Snow tomorrow. They've found a new client for me, that'll have me over for at least three months. Another colleague of mine's already stationed there and I'll be starting on Monday with a third Snowy.
The client's running a mishmash of True64, Solaris and Linux, with the True64 boxen slowly migrating to Solaris. We'll be doing system's management, with a bit of hardware and a bit of applications. Basically: the stuff I'm good at :) We'll also bring structure and organisation to the team, with personal time management being one of my strong points.
I'm very excited about the new job. Let's make the best of it!
On Thursday I'll be taking leave from the client for a few hours: to do my LPIC-101 exam and to speak to a prospective client who's interested in running high availability clusters on Mac OS X servers. Sounds awesome!
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2006-12-03 08:45:00
My best friend in the whole, wide world. Don't he look cool? |
Last night we visited Menno and his folks back in Veenendaal, to say goodbye. See, Menno's leaving for Austria next Wednesday and he won't be coming back until some time in March next year. So it's only natural that I want to wish my best buddy ever a safe trip (and hook him up with an MP3 player, so he'll have _some_ music of his own. |
So: have a safe trip Menno and come back in one piece, you hear? We're going to miss you a lot, but there's a steady supply of cartoons waiting for you when you come back :)
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