Maart 2003

Finished Dune Messiah, and will ofcourse continue with Children of Dune. Switched to summertime last night. I just don't see the point of this. It's only confusing. Oh, and I want one of these.

Happy birthday to my dad!

Thanks to the nice folks at Casema I've just had to reset all my television settings. They've changed all the frequenties and added a few (like Animal Planet, BBC World and The Box). Which is nice, but it sucks big time that all stations have changed. Oh, and the radio to. Nice. Just what I was looking forward to.

Despite the war it was still time for the Oscars last night. But did the results match the IMDb Poll? I think not. More info at Plastic.com.

Today is finally the moment of truth. I'm trying to make a CSS version of my current lay-out. But I'm lost. I want it to work in both IE and Mozilla. But it doesn't. Maybe a little break will help. Sigh. And to make things even worse, my Hellacopters cd of High Visibility keeps skipping beats. Very annoying. I did get a fresh new haircut earlier today and I've read the new Aardschok whilst sitting in the spring sunshine. I love winter, but spring has some nice qualities also.

I really like the new Placebo album, Sleeping With Ghosts. Especially the Boney M cover, Daddy Cool. Who would have thought.

Spend the day shopping in Amsterdam with my mom. Bought Katatonia's Last Fair Deal Gone Done and Masquerade by Golden Dawn at Boudisque. Also, a black shoulderbag at the Albert Cuyp market, a Motörhead t-shirt at the Waterlooplein and a beautiful pair of silver earrings at Chimera. All in all, a great day.

Meanwhile, this is to weird for words.

My school has been renamed. Very weird. Almost like it never existed. It was the School for Communicationsystems (SvC) and it's now called the Academy for Digital Communication (ADC). I just got back from Utrecht, because my brother got his diploma. Hurah! Weird to be back. I feel old.

Found a tutorial on Rounded Corners with CSS. Quite tempting. Although moz-border-radius is by far the cooler way to achieve this.

More presents! I got Vivir Para Contarla (translated to Dutch as Leven om het te vertellen) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez from the people at work. It also included the bookweek book, Gala by Ronald Giphart. Don't you just love birthdays?

Is the mystery pneumonia the next great Pandemic? I really don't know how to make a bridge to my next topic, but I wanted to mention that I'm very impressed with Aqua Data Studio, which is for 'Database Professionals'. Check it out, if you like that sort of thing.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 is very cool. Installed it this afternoon. Think I'm addicted all over again. Finished Dune earlier today. Watched Solaris, which I really liked. Started on Dune Messiah, part two of the series. All in all a very quiet Sunday. By the way, it's nice to see my comments system is seeing some action. Thanks everybody. Oh, and Dr. Strangeblix is cool.

Happy birthday to me!

This Loesje is quite good. Anyhow, it's almost my birthday! Only 11 more hours to go. This Familie Knots DVD is pure genius. Maybe a cool thing to offer me as a gift. ;-)

I wonder what's happened to Statik Majik. Sabbatical perhaps? Oh, Our World-Historical Gamble is quite an interesting article.

We had a small presentation a few weeks ago about pension plans. I didn't get round to reading the material untill just now. My retirement date has been set to March 1st 2044. Scary. I'm turning 24 this friday. I don't want to be thinking about stuff like this. Sigh. Just got back from the hospital. Had two birthmarks removed from my face. Though it didn't hurt as much as I'd expected, it still was pretty far from a picknick. But atleast it's behind me now. I'd been on a waiting list since December last year.

Found some more info on Fields of Rock, but it's all a bit to commercial for me. Think I'm sticking with Wâldrock.

I spend a while playing the original Duke Nukem today. Wonderful nostalgia. Not much else going on. In case you're wondering, I did not watch the Idols finale last night. The horror. I caught a preview of the movie Adaptation on tv earlier today. Definitely one for my ever-expanding list of things to check out. I sent out an order for Large. Among my list is Still at arms length by The Provenance. Look forward to receiving that. I also finished Bernard Cornwell's Stonehenge. The libray isn't open untill tuesday, so I have to find something in-house to read. I was thinking of reading Dune again. But maybe I'll find something else. I don't know.

Enchanted ceiling has some beautiful photo's, while Top Secret Kid is a cool way to end the week with. ;-)

There's an interesting article on Zend.com about The Object Oriented Evolution of PHP, in honour of the soon to be released version 5 of PHP.

I just found something called MACCAWS, which stands for Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards. It aims to "provide Web authors with the resources necessary to promote Web standards as a commercially desirable choice for clients".

Macromedia has been redesigned. The website, sorry, Rich Internet Application is a bit to much Flash for my liking. But atleast everything works as it should in Phoenix.

Today is the 50th anniversary of Stalin's death. I'm working my way through the book Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion Applications. About the Fusebox methodology, which is starting to grow on me. You can read more on Fusebox.org. Or if you want, you can make a snowflake.

Special date today » 03/03/03. Cool date to be born. Half the number of the beast. Anyhow, I've got my bi-annual dentist check-up this afternoon. Hope everything will be fine. I watched About Schmidt yesterday afternoon. Jack Nicholson at his best.

Ready.gov reminds me of Bert the Turtle. Scary. Luckily the illustrations can also be a quite funny, with the right captions.