This is a great incentive for communities with poor water-supply to make merry-go-rounds. Kids run waterpumps by playing! Good stuff! I’m not to certain about a water-wheel, though. I imagine it hurts backs and is incredibly uncomfortable. But then again I haven’t tried a two-digit number kilos of water on my head either. Thanks to aWholeLotANothing for pointing me to them

I needed to post this somewhere, so I made a blog. Home blog. Hooray… better than my old html-page with weblog-like-contents. Anyways, reason I couldn’t use my old roller blog was that I needed a TrackBack. But hey, the blog I wanted to refer has no trackback-support either. Argh! 5 minutes wasted. Anyways, this Apple-blog told me version 10.3.4 of OS X is out. Good stuff. It’s just general blah-blah, but this is what I’m hoping for:
improved disc burning and recording functionality, DVD+R(W) coming? My drive is really a DVD+/-RW but is locked to DVD-R only. Way to go Apple.
additional FireWire audio and USB device compatibility, can I now finally hook up my Nomad Jukebox 3? I was happy when I read Apple supported it with iTunes, only to find out that they only supported version 1.0. Now I’m hoping. (update installing)

Merry Christmas,

I’m at work writing a Java-based XML-interface to OpenSRS for use at REGISTRAR.NO to register heaps of domain names. And, being a bit fed up with Fedora’s regular terminal defaulting to UTF-8 and not having bothered toying around with Fedora, I finally took a peak around and found this one. So, here goes, “first post”

Now, that seems to have worked. But, Mozilla Firebird under Fedora seems not to understand much of the CSS on my page, leaving the header standing over my image instead on top of. Oh well…

Right, if you’ve been following my blog you might have been a little discouraged getting the 500 HTTP-error for about a month. Well, short story shorter: I wrote a velocity macro that had an error that brought Roller down. Removing the macro hard from the db didn’t work, so it wasn’t until today I could be bothered starting it from scratch. Oh well… I might put back a bit of the old content. We’ll see…

Apart from that, this is December 6th, my name day and St. Niklas (Sinterklaas). Had an amazing breakfast with my dear neighbour and now I’ll shower, go practise and then go grocery-shopping. The weather is fantastic today.

Oh, and yesterday Dag-Erling submitted a request for me to become a FreeBSD doc-committer. (you have read my thesis on FreeBSD, right?) This was after we finally returned to integrating parts of my thesis with the FreeBSD documentation (draft available here) and quite much will need updating