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A list of recent thoughts, things I saw or things I spotted on the Net, things that excite me (Uuh, baby!) or upset me, stuff I hate or love or in any other way find worth the trouble of blogging right here for your entertainment or interest and my archive. ;)

	Wednesday, December 31 Fbucks - Price/Performance indication #Posted by Dreams on 13:01 Just completed the THG video card review and the last page is interesting... the Fbucks are a cool price/performance indication, revealing how much bang for your buck you get. Clearly indicated are "older" video cards in grey. But this makes it easy to see that while these old cards are somewhat hard to get and don't deliver peak performance, the new ones are almost without exception overpriced! The best modern card, if don't already have one or are looking to upgrade, is the GF FX 5200! Why? Because it's so damn cheap and still delivers good performance, even though you won't be able to play the lastest games at their highest resolution and most detailed setting... but if you seldomly play games, this is the one to get! Cool B)
	BlogSpot having a hickup, diary inaccessible #Posted by Dreams on 12:34 You probably won't read this until it's fixed, but BlogSpot is having a hickup with my .shtml files. It seems they've disabled Server-Side Includes (SSI) and that causes my diary and site news to be lost. I use Blogger to create a text file with my posts on my site and then use SSI to read this text file into my HTML page. Been doing that ever since I started bloggin and now Blogger help tells me SSI has never been supported. Well it has! Wonder what they'll do or say...
	Tom's Hardware Guide Graphics Cards #Posted by Dreams on 12:22 Tom's Hardware Guide has an extensive review of 46 video cards. Old ones but brand new ones as well. It is a comprehensive review of all current nVidia and ATI cards, but also shows you what newcomer XTI and good ol' S3 are up to...
	Monday, December 29 EScrambler - Webmaster Anti-Spam Utility #Posted by Dreams on 13:22 Tired of leaving your Email address on your site and getting SPAM almost instantaneously? Use this handy freeware JavaSript utility: EScrambler. It's a bit daunting at first, maybe, but just read the page and you'll get it. Once you know that, use the script in your pages and be done with it. Highly recommended! (y)
	Friday, December 26 Christmas Dinner #Posted by Dreams on 22:49 After years of not doing anything special for Xmas, this year my parents invited all of us over again for a Christmas dinner. My dad my a special dish from the oven called "Chicken a la Provençale". Hmmm, yummie!
	Thursday, December 25 How to Make Your Own Network Cables - Network Cable Color Code Standards #Posted by Dreams on 12:48 Ever wanted to make your own network cables? My friend Martin showed me how to do it a while ago, but my amateur hands messed one this one wire. So I have to redo it. But how oh how was that color coding again? Blue inside, green around, red under and black... or was it cyan, magenta and yellow. No that was something different. :) Just read the easy to follow Network Cable Color Code Standards. Recommended!
	Merry Xmas! #Posted by Dreams on 11:13 Just a smal blog wishing you all a very happy Xmas. I'm not doing anything. Petra and I are spending the entire day in the sauna! :) Nice, easy, peaceful, relaxing, chilling, boiling and sweating... not necessarily in that order. :D
	Wednesday, December 24 Make your own bootable CD-ROM #Posted by Dreams on 17:48 Ever wondered how to get a bootable CD-ROM? You need these if your system crashes, you need to flash the BIOS, scan for viruses and other nasty situations that always seem to happen when you least need them. This guy Bart has written an extensive report on creating bootable CD-ROMs for all occasions! Highly recommended but not for the beginning computer user! It's not hard to follow but you need to understand some things about computers. I'm going to try this and will post ready-to-use ISO images that everyone can use (if I succeed!).
	When you're old and gray #Posted by Dreams on 13:46 My girlfriend just bought a new PC, her first one and as a Comp Sci major, that is a crying sin if I ever heard one! It was a 3GHz Intel P4 with 512MB RAM and a 160GB harddisk. Plus the necessary extras of course, but these are the main points. Think about that for a while and then read the column of Good Morning Silicon Valley where readers report on their first computers. And I mean computers! Not these cheesy PCs or cutesy subnotepads and PDAs we all love and have today. :p LOL! Sinclairs, TRS-80s, Apple IIc, Osborne laptops (at 26 pounds, 13 kg, it had to be some form of mild torture, no doubt)... really funny and great light reading for a coffee break... Also check out oldcomputers.net and the University of Amsterdam's Computer Museum.
	Asimov's "I, Robot" #Posted by Dreams on 13:27 Woohoo! One of my alltime favorite books is being turned into a movie: I, Robot is already in post-production and scheduled to appear in July 2004 (US) and August 2004 (NL). Cool! Will Smith is the detective... wonder what that'll be like. Better grab the book again now that I have the time... (runs off, goes through boxes and bags in storage and returns panting, slightly confused, without the book...)
	BBspot - Reviews: Digital Music Stores #Posted by Dreams on 13:22 Slashdot told me that BBspot reviewed many Digital Music Stores: the new Napster 2.0, Apple's iTunes, EMusic and even WalMart's late entry into the competition. So if you don't live in the Netherlands (and can't use Kazaa legally ;), check out your options with these legal versions. You can download songs for $0.99 per song. Not bad, I think... And you can always rip the protection out later... :devil:
	Tuesday, December 23 DPreview - review of the Nikon D2H #Posted by Dreams on 22:57 DPreview finally posted a full in-depth review of the Nikon D2H. The camera has their own, home-made LBCAST 4Mpx CCD sensor and can shoot upto 8 frames per second in continuous mode. For that, there's a huge buffer which provides enough space for 40 JPEG or 25 RAW images. :shock: The D2H is also the first digital SLR (DSLR) to have a WiFi (802.11b aka WLAN) interface which allows you to transmit images back to a basestation server via FTP. Coool! B)
	More - short film of stop-motion animator Mark Osborne #Posted by Dreams on 22:28 More: "The Academy-Award® nominated animated short-film tells the story of a lonely inventor, whose colorless existence is brightened only by dreams of the carefree bliss of his youth. By day, he is trapped in a dehumanizing job in a joyless world. But by night, he tinkers away on a visionary invention, desperate to translate his inspiration into something meaningful." You gotta see this! In this time of multi-billion dollar computer animated movies, this is a stop-motion genious short film!
	Distributed Computing with a new twist #Posted by Dreams on 22:18 Remember SETI@home? The search for alien life by jamming NASA data bits through your PC when it's not doing anything useful, as well as numerous other initiatives along the same lines? Well, the University of Berkeley has developed BOINC, an open infrastructure for doing this, no matter who you are. "BOINC acts like a software platform that can run a number of screen-saver style applications on top of the PC's own operating system. The system will also solve some of the problems that have dogged distributed projects."
	Dance Valley 2003 wins award by public #Posted by Dreams on 22:03 Just learned that Dance Valley 2003 won the award for "Best Event for 2003" by the public that voted. I personally voted for Extrema Outdoor, but Dance Valley was also great. I was simply overwhelmed by the number of outstanding DJs and couldn't decide where to go and when. So I was a bit stressed and disappointed in the end. :( Poor me. LOL :D
	Monday, December 22 What a lovely day #Posted by Dreams on 19:18 Yesterday, I had a great day! I woke up late, 1pm-ish and got dressed. Had coffee, sat behind my PC and just surfed a bit. Petra had gone earlier to meet a good friend Petula, so we would both have the day to ourselves... or so we thought. Petra and Petula went to Scallywags, the lunchroom, and had brunch. While they were there, they ran into Richard (the owner) and he said there was a wine tasting in his new bistro "l'Orange" that day from 3pm-5pm. They were welcome to come and he asked them if I would like to come too. So Petra called me and I agreed to meet them there sometime after 4pm. I got there just before 5pm, but it was still crowded and very nice. I tasted some wines (which reminds me, I must go pick up my wines tomorrow!) and chatted with new people and old friends. Of course, all the wine and no food (besides tasty pita bread with pesto) is not a good idea, and I still had to have breakfast! Luckily, Richard had an offer for his guests: go have dinner in Scallywags, the restaurant, and he and his son would cook for us. All three of us thought that was a great idea, so we did. However, I was also informed via Partyflock that there'd be a new theme night in the Asta called Hogere Sferen from 7pm-12am. A mix of latin lounge, groovy tunes and house music. Sounds vague, I know, but I knew what they meant and I wanted to go check it out. But that was for after dinner... Of course, Scallywags is a place where you can't just come in, sit down, eat and leave. It's an outing and it takes time. :) Richard graciously gave us two half bottles of wine, left over from the tasting in "l'Orange" so by 10pm, we were comfortably buzzed and feeling swell! LOL :D At 10pm, we decided to go check out Hogere Sferen but depending on entrance fee, we'd go in or not. At the door, entrance was €15 and with only 2 hours left, we felt that was too much. But the girls asked if we could get in cheaper, seeing as it was later. And whatdaya know: we got in for €5 each! Including a welcome cocktail! Woohoo! Music was great, crowd was a bit slim but good enough. We were already in a great mood anyway, so the night could only get better. We missed Erick E, but to my luck (she's gorgeous) DJ Promiss was still playing and boy did she...!!! She had brought along a live drummer girlfriend who drummed to her beats. Pounding rythms, oh my god, unbelievable!!! The mix of the drums and her beats was just perfect! We danced the whole time... At midnight we left and all went home. End to a perfect Sunday!
	Sunday, December 21 Humpback whale beached in Katwijk #Posted by Dreams on 13:23 Read on the vlok.net that yesterday an 8 ton humpback whale beached (story in Dutch) on our shores in Katwijk. It had no tail anymore and Naturalis thought the whale probably was caught in nets and fishermen cut it loose. :( Sad sad story. Poor whale.
	Saturday, December 20 Tiësto, Montana and Misha Helmsloot in Asta #Posted by Dreams on 18:57 Last night, Petra and I went to see Tiësto again in Asta in Den Haag. We tried getting more people, but no one could make it. Helas, but it is also fun to go just the two of us every now and then. :) Asta was packed!!! The place was sold out well in advance, as expected, and at 11 pm, the line was pretty established. Once inside, the foyer wasn't so bad, but the main area was already full. We knew it would be really crowded. Sadly, it was so packed that dancing was hardly possible. More frustrating was that many people seemed to be there to socialize instead of dance and small groups of friends would constantly block your view, your path and bump into you. Anyway, I tried to lighten up a bit and make the most of it. No sense of ruining my own night, now was there! ;) Misha is on my to-watch list, Montana rocked only shortly and Tiësto was awesome! It was a hot, crowded but great night and at 4am we called it a night. Petra was exhausted and could niether sit nor stand, so we left. There's always another night! No sense in wrecking your own body over a DJ! Now we rest and regroup for Trance Energy on January 31st 2004 in Utrecht!
	Friday, December 19 Little gap... #Posted by Dreams on 21:06 Spend a few days away from home. Had to go to my sister's to fix their home networking. They'd installed wiring and outlets all around their house when they bought it and now that ADSL was working fine, they wanted to finally get it working everywhere too. So I bought an 8 port switch, moved some boxes to the wiring cabinet and had Internet all around the house in approx. 40 minutes! Easy as pie! Too bad I forgot about the USB printer and Rob's laptop, that needed fixing. So I came back today and finished that off too. They now both have laptops ready to be plugged in somewhere in their house... Elise will love it because they don't need to be away from her when they want to check Email. In between this, I went to my parents' house to help them hang up all the pictures and paintings. Over summer, the ground floor has been freshly painted again (after 20 years or so). Everything came down and now I helped them put them back up.
	Wednesday, December 17 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King #Posted by Dreams on 13:31 Saw the Lord of the Rings final episode last night in a marathon version. Pathe in Rotterdam (Schouwburgplein) had (as did a few others cinemas in Holland) a showing in series of all three Lord of the Rings (LotR) movies. As Petra hadn't seen any of them yet (don't ask me how, I'm baffled too), we cleared that problem in one sitting. I got the tickets from my friends Juli and Harrald for my birthday. Sad part, they gave away their own tickets for let me (us) see it. Major major thanks to them for that! Best present I've had in years, counting the thing I got myself! It was absolutely brilliant! Long sit but worth it! Go see the last part!
	Tuesday, December 16 Awful Plastic Surgery #Posted by Dreams on 10:17 And now for something completely different! LOL Awful Plastic Surgery is a site with exactly that. Examples of celebraties who've done things to themselves they shouldn't have or who simply went overboard when the doctor told them of all the possibilities! :) Very nice and very perceptive. Perhaps now I can learn how to distiguish real ones from fake ones... Ah who cares!
	Wireless Local Loop (WLL) to come in the Netherlands #Posted by Dreams on 10:05 WebWereld reports (in Dutch) that two Wireless Local Loop (WLL) licenses have been sold for WiFi frequencies to Versatel (760000 euro for 2.6 GHz band) and Enertel (4000000 euro for 3.5 GHz band). KPN was precluded from participating to promote competition.
	STMicroelectronics develops easy way to end radiation-related chip errors #Posted by Dreams on 00:11 Not a really big deal, but cool due to its simplicity. STMicroelectronics developed a way to easily shield memory circuits from radiation-related errors: "To defeat soft errors without adding to the size of the chip, the STMicroelectronics researchers stacked a capacitor on top of a memory circuit. By taking advantage of the three-dimensional design, they were able to lower the chances that a logic bit--a one or a zero--would be altered by radiation."
	Monday, December 15 Exploitation of women in the media... #Posted by Dreams on 16:48 Sometimes you just have to be glad they use gorgeous women to promote certain goods... Jeez! :9
	Sunday, December 14 Would Ansel Adams have gone digital? #Posted by Dreams on 18:20 If you don't take any photos, if you don't know Ansel Adams and if you don't care about digital cameras, don't read the article on Fortune.com about would Ansel Adams have gone digital? Otherwise you must read it!
	CyberAtlas: Internet Statistics and Market Research for Web Marketers #Posted by Dreams on 17:55 I used to use nua.ie for all my stats on Internet usage, people, applications and all. Now it seems, they have been bought by CyberAtlas. Whichever, the site still provides you with great statistics on Internet usage, world-wide, by country, by age, men/women and so on. They also have demographics, traffic patterns and details about which Internet applications are popupar by households or corporate users. Sign up for they're newsletter and you'll get great info in your inbox every week. At least once a month there is an item there that you absolutely needed to know!!! Highly recommended!
	Corporate IM (instant messaging) #Posted by Dreams on 17:42 Coworking.com sent me a great article about Instant Messaging (IM). Of course, students and nerds have been doing this since ICQ appeared back in 1995 and normal people ;) began doing it when AOL came along for the ride (and bought ICQ eventually). However, corporation can also greatly benefit from IM, as you can read in Corporate IM, an article by PC Magazine.
	PDFCreator #Posted by Dreams on 17:25 Either you'll never need this or you'll wonder how you got along without it all this time! :) Sector 7g's PDFCreator installs a printer driver in Windows that will let you create PDF files without needing to buy Adobe's very expensive Acrobat solutions. Highly Recommended!
	Googlism #Posted by Dreams on 17:00 What do other people say about me! Curious? Try Googlism for Chris. You can also fill in products, places and dates. LOL Sooo funny. Guaranteed to kill many hours!
	PICTURETHISDETROIT's galleries #Posted by Dreams on 16:22 picturethisdetroit is a smug of a guy or group of clubbers in Detroit. They have tons of photos from parties at clubs over there. Many US DJs of course, whom I don't know, but all the big (mostly Dutch) names are there too: Sander Kleinenberg, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Seb Fontaine, Paul van Dyke, Timo Maas. Seems Detroit is a place where many clubbers, ravers and trancers are located! Whatdaya know! (y) Cool!
	QBubble #Posted by Dreams on 15:17 Jelte, an old friend of mine from Groningen, who works for Symbian in London, has made a cool game for Symbian OS phones: QBubble. It looks cool and totally addictive! :) Unfortunately, I can't test it myself, but anyway: Thumbs up!
	Friday, December 12 Job openings at the European Patent Office (EPO) #Posted by Dreams on 17:20 Not taking any more chances, I filled out an electronic application form and with help of modern technology (my G3 fax modem), I faxed two application forms to the recruitment office of the European Patent Office. All went well...
	When it rains, it pours... #Posted by Dreams on 16:07 From 2 to zero job offers in under 30 minutes... Just called Ajilon to tell them I will accept their offer. They told me that suddenly they/EPO have extra candidates for the job and want to take all of them into consideration. So the offer I got is off and the Intranet people from EPO will get back to me... I guess. sigh Well at least the situation is clear and everyone has made a decision.
	Asics update #Posted by Dreams on 15:35 Damn... Asics turned me down. :( Boohoo. Although they didn't doubt my skills and thought I was even perhaps overqualified, they didn't feel I fit into the organization. I'm not sure what the organization is like, but perhaps they are pretty calm and quiet and my tornado-style Internet buzz hit a void. Too bad, I really would have liked to work there. Cool stuff and sooo much to do... Oh well... Back to square one. Still have EPO...
	Winter skies #Posted by Dreams on 15:14 Last weekend, Petra and I had Sinterklaasavond in Assen. On the way back, we saw this sky... I was driving but could have taken 1000 pictures. Now, Petra did the honors for me. (k)
	Michael A. Thomas, Photographer - powered by smugmug #Posted by Dreams on 14:56 What can a real photographer do with smugmug? Check out Michael A. Thomas's smug! :O Wow! :respect:
	Free Solaris 9 for Intel x86 platform #Posted by Dreams on 14:25 Slashdot reported that Solaris 8 and 9 are downloadable for free again, for people running the Intel x86 platform. That's good news for geeks and nerds who want to gain experience in working with the platform used by almost all large and self-respecting ISPs out there. Many companies also have it running in their backbones out there...
	Warflying or finding active WiFi points in the air #Posted by Dreams on 14:19 Some guys went warflying over LA and Orange counties and discovered 2000+ WiFi sites from the air. 70% of them did not have WEP encryption activated. :( Duuh! When will people ever learn to activate the WEP encryption when they install their WiFi cards? :S sigh
	Life in the Fast Lane #Posted by Dreams on 13:02 ADSL is back up! Swoooosh!!! Yippee! Woohoo! Yeah! W00t! :D
	1 Gigapixel consumer photograph #Posted by Dreams on 12:03 You may know that NASA and others take hundreds of shots from the moon, craters, galaxies or Earth and stitch them together to form huge composites that have a gazillion pixels in them. Consumers, however, are mostly stuck at 5 or 6 Megapixels (Mpx). Petra reported a week ago of a guy how went to the Bryce Canyon and took a 1 Gigapixel shot by stitching together 196 image of 6Mpx each. It took almost a week to do it, with final blending and stitching of the image taking 3 days!!! :respect:
	Thursday, December 11 Meeting Asics #Posted by Dreams on 14:44 Meeting with Asics went well. Was only pre-selection for the job but I think I left an impression! To say the least. :D May be a bit overwhelming! I hope they got the idea that I know what I'm doing and excellent for the job. I may not be the best, but I'm surely the most motivated person! And I believe in what they want to do and know it's worth doing... So just do it... LOL ;)
	Wednesday, December 10 MrVanes and Femme, Utrecht and Asics #Posted by Dreams on 21:08 While I Utrecht, I paid a visit to my good friend Martin as well. Hadn't seen him apart from parties. Besides, he bought a new snowboard and honored me with watching over his old one. (y) It's a great little ol' Nitro board. Not the latest styles but I won't notice. It's well kept and maintained and free. Now I just need some shoes and bindings and I'm set. Sooo psyched!!! Woohoo! Friends of mine own a ski store in Zaandam, the Zaanse Skikelder, so I guess it's time to pay them a visit soon too! :) Before seeing Martin (who had to work at a client instead of at home), I visited the "carrière beurs" in the Jaarsbeurshallen. Employers meet candidates. Great idea (thanks dad!) but unfortunately it was highly targeted to new graduates instead of experienced people. :( So after I talked to the Dutch Railroads (NS), ICI, TNO and Thales and they all told me to check the sites and write open letters, I took the hint and went back to have lunch with Femke. She was also home, also unemployed, so we swapped stories and consoled in each other. ;) Then RetailSelect called me back and asked where my resume was again. ;) Shortly after I realized the number was in Utrecht and I arranged to meet with them. That resulted in a meeting with Asics tomorrow, 1pm in Hoofddorp! So I'm thrilled. It's a great job as Online Manager for Asics (sporting goods and shoes) and everything like the EPO Intranet job but in a much nicer segment. :) We'll see tomorrow what they think of me and I of them...
	Tuesday, December 9 EdV and Rue d'Amsterdam in Utrecht #Posted by Dreams on 22:59 Visited EdV again in utrecht. It had been many many years since we last met for real. He'd been to some of my parties but we never really talked. So now that have time enough again, I took the opportunity and paid him a visit. We went to the great little Marocan restaurant "Rue d'Amsterdam" where we had a lovely authentic dinner with real Tagine. Hmmm, yumm. Erik had the beef and I had the lamb (I think). Anyway, well worth a visit if you there and in the mood for no non sense food. Looks like a snack bar, but great food and friendly service!
	Me, Ajilon Nederland and an EPO Intranet Webmaster #Posted by Dreams on 11:15 Ajilon Nederland gave me an offer to work for the EPO on their Intranet Project. They're still finalizing the project but they'd like to get ahead with the work. Hundreds of servers need to get consolidated and content must be migrated to the the CMS & Portal solution. I'd be working on preparations and planning of all that. Not really exciting but it needs to be done. Pay is low, very low, but they claim hands are tied, budgets limited and the pay is normal in the field... I won't get into that. Bottomline is skill deserves pay and we can argue about skill but not about pay. I have until Friday to think about it. In the mean, I'm talking with my other 2 options...
	Monday, December 8 Perfect Xmas gifts #Posted by Dreams on 12:50 Have a girlfriend and don't know what to give her? Want to make her use and love computers more? Think about giving her this. LOL It's a patent for using an inkjet printer to print "highly detailed, customized, multicolored designs that are scaled to precisely fit within the boundary of each individual nail". tsk tsk tsk
	BlueMountain.com #Posted by Dreams on 12:18 RIP BlueMountain.com, sadly, has also gone the way of pay for use (they were bought by Yahoo a while ago). :( They used to be the greatest Ecard sender out there, IMHO. Now, they want $13.95 per year for the use of their services. Boohoo! The site is still great, don't get me wrong, but I don't want to pay for the occasional card. Might as well send real cards by snailmail. Slower but cheaper. ;) So I'll search for a new one, I guess... Keep you posted.
	National LambdaRail #Posted by Dreams on 12:10 We used to surf at 28K. Then came 33K and soon 56K. But we wanted more. Cable gave us 1, 2 and even 8Mb/s (8000K). But that bandwidth was shared with the rest of the street/block/area. So nerds chose xDSL. This started out at 1Mb/s but keeps getting faster by the week, it seems. :) (y) So how fast is the network that connects all these big pipes of bandwidth that come into our home? Well, I remember back in 1998, 1999, Worldcom's backbone used to hum along at 625Mb/s over ATM lines. But somehow that seems to slow now. Luckily, the people of National LambdaRail agree with me and are working on a 400Gb/s network connecting the major universities across the US. The first 1000 miles or so completed. The rest will follow soon... :respect:
	Hot Hardware - The AOpen DRW4410 DVD R/RW Drive #Posted by Dreams on 11:55 Been looking for a DVD writer for a while now, but found them too expensive? Then read HotHardware's review of the AOpen DRW4410 DVD +R/+RW Drive. At just under $100 this is the perfect gift to give yourself during Xmas. It burns DVD+R/+RW only, but they seems to emerge as de facto anyway, and complets a whole DVD in just under 15 minutes... Too bad this review just missed the Sinterklaas festivities here in the Netherlands (Dec. 5th or 6th). :( Oh well... I can always claim my watch was broke and the date on my PC was off... :devil:
	The Brick Apple - New York City in LEGO® #Posted by Dreams on 11:21 What do you get when you have a slightly insane adult with enough time and money on his hands, crazy about LEGO© and in love with New York City? The Brick Apple - New York City in LEGO® Seeing is believing!!!
	ATM fraud: Banking on your money #Posted by Dreams on 11:17 What could you do with an ATM machine that looked like a real one? Perhaps even dispenses some cash is hooks to the banking networks? Interested? Read the MSNBC article on criminals who have built fake cash machines! They've already gathered approx $4 million in cash from 21000 unsuspecting people. OMG!
	Thursday, December 4 smugmug - Dreams's photo galleries #Posted by Dreams on 21:52 Lots's been going on, as you'll now. I managed to update my gallery too. Lots of pictures of last weekend, the removal, the packing, an awesome ZANDhap finale dinner in Scallywags and a demonstration at the city hall of Den Haag... Check out and browse Dreams's photo galleries
	Viva el modem #Posted by Dreams on 13:08 Been trying and trying to get Saskia's (my new roommate) dial-up line working again. Somehow, somewhere, when KPN disconnected her old line and moved mine over to hers, her laptop refused dialing in. :S It may have to do with the signalling, which used to be plain simple PSTN and is now voice over DSL and the like. However, Petra's laptop worked fine and my desktop's 56K modem also works fine (as I am typing this now on it). Go figure... Windows XP... who knows. ;)
	Tuesday, December 2 Libraries #Posted by Dreams on 12:05 Thank god for libraries and public Internet... :respect: Found a place to check my mail! :D LOL I'll edit my blog when I get back online to show you all how terrible it is to be offline and crippled like this. ;)
	EPO is history #Posted by Dreams on 11:02 Saw the wizard and well... now I'm also officially no longer with the EPO. Just handed in my ID badge. Snif... Made some lomos while I was out there...
	Unemployment... #Posted by Dreams on 10:10 Well... I'm now officially unemployed, registered and all. On December 8th we'll see how high the benefits are going to be. Off to see the wizard... ;)