‘Fun’ Archive

Masking bad RAM with Grub2 2012-04-20 1 Comment

I recently ran into the situation that during installation of some packages in Debian the display started showing graphic errors and the root file system reported to be read only (as it was configure to switch to read-only on errors through its mount options). memtest86+ first complete pass showed no errors at all but later [...]

New shoes? New shoes! 2012-04-10 2 Comments

I have never blogged about shoes before. So let’s see what it’s like. After all for being shoes these make me quite happy right now. Shoes! My old sneaker’s started to die so with a single pair of shoes only I had to do something. I liked the fresh look of the red ones so [...]

A logo for Backup Awareness Day? (24th each month) 2011-07-31 No Comments

I had the idea of visualizing “backup” as “back up” and e-mail this logo draft for Backup Awareness Day to Stephanie Booth a few days ago. I got an away autoreply back for now. I’m curious if she’ll adopt, modify and adopt or reject it. Before she decides you get a chance to see it [...]

Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) for “western” people 2009-04-22 No Comments

Asian symbol pieces can make entering Chinise Chess (Xiangqi) unnecessarily difficult for non-asian people. To ease things up a bit using “western” pieces can help, especially as most pieces have (close) equivalents in regular chess. In contrast to a hardware game, in software changing pieces can be an easy thing. The small script I made [...]

Code review 2008-12-09 No Comments

Original post by Thom Holwerda.

Microsoft paying poor actors to fake liking Vista? 2008-08-17 No Comments

I stumbled upon this ad today: When I clicked it I was sent to the Mojave Experiment website run by Microsoft. The site’s mission is simple: prove that Windows Vista is not as bad as we might have heard. I’m wondering three things now: Why do interviewed people look like poor actors to me? Who [...]

Well worth a few bucks: Johnny Bunko. 2008-06-28 1 Comment

Ignore me if this is old fish for you -everybody else check out The Adventures of Jason, Jimmy, err Johnny Bunko. Mix a work-life-survival-guide with Manga and this is what you might get. I had lot’s of fun with this today, so don’t let this ‘book’ pass you by

Infinity Bread 2008-05-10 No Comments

New mug 2007-12-29 No Comments

I guess from now on you will not expect anything from my blog posts anymore… Anyway… I got a great new mug! You can order your own at the tazshop.

Super Mario War 1.7 RC2 has been released 2006-10-12 1 Comment

Super Mario War 1.7 RC2 has just been released so I made an updated installer for this version. The source of the new installer can be found here.