Vancouver Test
The next IETF will be in Paris, the one after that will be in Vancouver. I just found this list. You know you’re from Vancouver (BC) when…. Your coworker has 8 body piercing and none are visible. You make over …
Year: 2005
Bonjour… Au revoir!!!
Apple renamed Rendevous to Bonjour. I do not understand marketing people. Rendevous has a much classy sound than Bonjour and covers what the protocol does. Bonjour just doesn’t work for me. What would have worked is "Ça Va". Has a …
SaintÉmilion Grand Cru
Saint Émilion Gran Cru 1996. Bought a couple of years ago kept carefully opened two days ago. Turned out to be over its top but still went pretty well with the French Fries yesterday
PowerbookG5
I was surfing a bit to see if there are any rumours on the release of G5 powerbooks. When I found the image of the prototype. This picture does not show the fans mounted on the left side of the …
WFH
Finally a site dedictated to “Willem Frederik Hermans” 10 years after his death. Next year a start will be made with the publication of his complete works. For those that do not read Dutch, I am sad to see that …
::MythBusters
Discovery channel has a show called MythBusters.Given the numerous pyrotechnic experiments involved I started referring to this show as "Jackass for Scientists" Here is an idea for a show: Jammy H. uses Steve O. Every time a dummy is used …
Math Student Project.
Hi Math student. Happy you googled this way on your quest for a topic to write your statistics paper on. Here is the problem, its a real life problem, one that hurts about 10 million owners of an iPod. Random …
Flying Cow Cartoon
I used to draw a lot. When I was at university I illustrated a student paper and made cartoons and illustrations for several publications. Those days are over. The drawing material is not within reach and for some reason what …
I’m not going to be a statistic…
In his "Burning Apple" story Triv wrote: I ran downstairs to get the fire extinguisher. You do have one right? Don’t be a statistic! I did not have one. Now I do. I also decided I will buy a smoke …
Name based virtual hosting and SSL
I have one server that goes by the hostname of "bert.secret-wg.org". It has other identities too; "www.trend-watcher.org" and "www.net-dns.org" are examples. The Apache documentation claims that name-based virtual hosting and SSL can not work Name-based virtual hosting cannot be used …