Archive for March, 2003



Ho ho ho, now I have OS X

Looks sweet. Works on my G3 233MHz, albeit it won’t be breaking any speed records. But at least it’s up and running. Netnewswire Lite is the news aggregator for OSX, although it doesn’t appear to want to import OPML data.

The mail client looks really good. I’ll be using it for a while instead of my [...]

Ho ho ho, now I have a Mac.

Bought a 233MHz G3 plus monitor from the school today. Cost: 500 SEK.

…so. Now I have a Mac. Any idea what I should do with it? It runs OS 8.5 at the moment. I force fed it with 256MB of additional memory, so now there’s a total of 320MB.

MindControl is a nice application launcher. Sure [...]

This one checked out

I just realized something.

I’m barely “surfing the net” anymore. I’ve stopped using it. And the reason is this: it’s not fun anymore.

Sure, I’m still heavily addicted to IRC and ICQ. But the surf is over. The waves are gone.

I check out a few news sites. I read a few forums (all of them about roleplaying). [...]

Just foreign people

“But will we win, Daddy?”
“Of course, child. It will all be over while you’re still in bed.”
“Why?”
“Because otherwise Mr Bush’s voters will get terribly impatient and may decide not to vote for him.”
“But will people be killed, Daddy?”
“Nobody you know, darling. Just foreign people.”
— John le Carré

Walls

What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?
All walls are great, If the roof doesn’t fall.

Oh, and today is my 23rd birthday.

Uncle Sam wants you!

I’ve joined the Marines. Sort of. I’m playing America’s Army, a free game by (have you guessed it?) America’s military. Quite good, actually. The basic gameplay is like Counter-Strike, only with more mature players that don’t cheat. And with more tactics (should you choose to use them).

Tonight I had the luck to end up on [...]

Darn expensive hobbies

I’m seriously thinking about picking up wargaming again. I use miniatures to represent combat in D&D anyway, so there’s quite a bit of overlap.

Too bad that Warhammer (or Warhamster, as I call it) is so expensive. Games Workshop has lots of nifty miniatures in both their 40,000 range and Fantasy Battles range. 40k is probably [...]

Hail the mushroom cloud

Breki Qliphoth wrote good stuff about Arabs, USA and the black gold.
Robin Cook says screw you to the British government and resigns from his post: “The reality is that Britain is being asked to embark on a war without the agreement of any of the international bodies of which we are a leading partner — [...]

Aaaaawww!

Dean Allen has puppies! Oh, I miss the dogs…

S/N ratio

Every now and then you actually stumble upon something well-written on Slashdot, though it is a rare event indeed. The comment in its entirety, since I thought it was so well-written.

Unfortunately, sir, the Bush regime does not recognize the proper definition of the term terrorist. If you will examine the list of known “terrorist” [...]