Note: this is a second third starting of the series… I have posted it and un-posted, posted it and un-posted it again and now I’m posting it for the final time. A woman told me my blog would be more interesting if I posted more stuff about myself so here is some that has been …
Author Archives: basp
Shiba
If I’m ever going to have a dog in the near future then it’s going to be a Shiba Inu I guess. An Akita Inu would also be nice but unfortunatly I don’t really have the room and dog know-how for one of those puppies yet. Last year during summer I was lucky to spot …
Almost
Tomorrow is the day. After weeks of anticipation it is, once again, time for our annual company skiing trip. Yes, two years ago I broke my ankle in a nasty way and last year I skipped. This year I’m anxious to go and not the least because of a trip to the nearby Nueschwanstein Castle. …
Dual/Triple
Last Saturday I went to a colleague of my brother who is also heavily into producing music. His setup was pretty impressing with equipment, instruments, computers and cables everywhere but the eye catching centerpiece was his triple monitor setup with a total resolution of 3840×1024. That is a lot of desktop space and it is …
FizzBusted
Lately there has been a lot of buzz about FizzBuzz but Giles Bowkett in his post FizzBuzters hit the nail right on the head: “Keep in mind, FizzBuzz is basically an idiot detector. Anybody who bothers to code FizzBuzz is saying, ooh, an idiot detector. I’d better aim this at my own head and see …
Firefox,
Tried to install the dutch language dictionary on my dutch Firefox 2.0.0.2 installation but apparently either Firefox or the plugin had mixed feelings about it… It roughly translates to something like: “Dutch Dictionary 1.0.4 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this version of Firefox 2.0.0.2. (Dutch Dictionary 1.0.4 only works with …
More
MTG, Magic: The Gathering is a game I can’t get enough of. Unfortunately it is hard to find wizards these days. Somewhat unexpectly though a lot of the guys at the shop seem to know it pretty well and a lot of them used to play it a few years ago. A few of us …
Go
Spend the first half of the day killing bugs in an application that we are developing. Luckely for me, these bugs happen to be in one of the ugliest looking editor screens that I have ever seen. I have the right to say this because I created this horrid looking thing myself. Had to model …
can
After bluntly adding her MSN name to my contact list she instructed me to use an on-line translator for me to make a lot of the Russian on her blog understandable. I started reading it but had to quit after a while because now I understand too much.
The
So my blog finally has a new name. Even though “The Meticulous Geek” had gained some fame in its own way I was thinking about a new name for quite some time. Thinking back I miss the name already here are three poor and one good reason why The Chances Are Nil” might be a …