Smoking that is. “Luckies, adieu.†And I’ll also probably have to cut down on drinking too. “My good friends Hein and Ken, fare thee well.†But the ganja… aw… the ganja… “How will I fare without thou?†Or, how to become a (hopefully) better guy just by reading a lucky English post on an otherwise …
Author Archives: basp
Whenever
Thanks Shakira, due to your excellent singing, backup choir and steady pace I was able to fabricate a reasonable remix using an acapella version of Whenever Wherever in just a few hours. I have seen a few (supposedly) acapella tracks but yours was definitely the easiest one to work with. For the uninitiated, here’s a …
Getting
Normally when I get slaughtered during a night of Magic I just grab either my trusty White Angel Command deck to spread some justice in the lands or if that fails then I just resort to my Black Shadow Force to end things quickly. As it seems though neither one is really up to competing …
The
Found in the introduction of the Inform 7 documentation: Programming is best regarded as the process of creating works of literature, which are meant to be read… so we ought to address them to people, not to machines. Donald Knuth, “Literate Programming”, 1981. Amen to that brother.
Reflecting
I’m in a little bit of a reflective mood today and I was just thinking how this blog and I have come a long way since I started in December 2004. I was blogging a little while before that date but had the habit of starting from scratch every once in a while when I …
WordPress
Yet another quick upgrade session and we are now happily running WordPress 2.1.1. Same steps as before but this time I ran into a small problem because apparently my user account is lacking the proper privileges to alter tables. And although I have been granted the right to change my privileges I seem to lack …
eMule
A long time ago there was this magical software called Nabster. Unfortunately though, it went out of the picture a few years ago thanks to its own success. I was pretty much a broken person at the time because I had become pretty much addicted to downloading music. Fortunately though, file sharing is not over …
The
First let me clearly explain what I mean by “formal functional design”. A formal functional design by my standards is a (often pretty hefty) document that is usually conjured up with a combined effort of customer and (IT) management. After a few exploratory meetings some notes are taken and some worker is assigned the task …
The
This is probably what the guys and girl at my floor at the office will hear some time during 9 and 5. The play list here is for the guys and girls over at my brother’s where another copy will also be circulated. The Office 3 – Part II Melissa Ethridge – Like the Way …
When
When I told my collegue this song described my feelings so accurately he commented that it would probably describe the feelings of all males so it seems somewhat important to repeat it. It is in Dutch and I will try to translate it but unfortunately a lot of the poetics is gone in a reasonable …