Last week I spent some money in "gamer-izing" my computer case. It’s a nice Silver Lian-Li aluminium thingy, a bit less nice-looking because of 2 white/beige Plextor DVD & DVD-RW front bezels… So I spent some cash via Ebay on 2 nice aluminum bezels , a nice thermometer/fan monitor display , a few Akasa blue-led fans and a sidepanel with plexi so you can see inside the case (woops, some cleanup needed ;)).

Friday we had some time to kill at Mediamarkt , and I ended up walking out with 2 Samsung SyncMaster 920N 19" TFT monitors… Now I really got the über-PC 😉 (Unfortunately I already have a dead pixel on one of my monitors, so I’ll have to go back to MediaMarkt some day soon).

A funky dialog box from $program, courtesy of The Daily WTF:

 A bit harsh perhaps, no?

Via IRC, a project started by the Openminds people to demonstrate and test Ruby-on-rails (+ Google Maps) at Barcamp. It’s a Euro bill tracker, where people (like myself) enter serial numbers for their Euro bills, hopefully that same bill will come into other people’s hands who will also use the site and boom, a Euro bill flightplan is born. Some rough edges still have to be cut, but it’s already Web 2.0’ish as it is 😉 Let’s start tracking!

Update: Woopsie, forgot to mention the URL, it’s 7bills.eu ofcourse 😉 

As Diana is going back to college (at least when the KULeuven permits her ), she stops working at T-Systems. This means we have to give back the super cool Alfa Romeo leasing car we’re currently driving around in. 🙁

As we kind of need a car or at least got so accustomed to having one, we set off on a course to find the right car for us. Which isn’t that easy, considering the length of my legs which disqualify a lot of the cheaper and smaller cars available on the market… after a few weeks of search we found a nice Alfa Romeo (yes, we fell in love with those) 156 1.8i Twinspark. Hopefully it passes the Touring car-test (only then we’ll buy it) which is scheduled for friday. I’ll post some pics when we got it ! 😉 

Something that I neglected to post (while I didn’t really post anything else either) … 🙂

I got my temporary drivers license since 20-Jul-2006 … so in about a month I can try and do my exam to get the permanent one… finally!

I’ve had it for 2 months now and do indeed wonder why I didn’t get it a few years back 😉

Today is talk like a pirate day !

Great show, saw it a few days ago.

Hell’s kitchen is UK’s Gordon Ramsay‘s restaurant, where a bunch of aspiring US cooks can try to impress the great chef. The way he is telling them (and even his customers) off is just great 😉 I only saw the first episode so far but am hungry for more! (pun intended ;))

Hell’s Kitchen is broadcasted here in Belgium on VijfTV on thursday, 20.15 (dubbed "Keukenrellen"). 

Yes, yet another picturepost, but I thought it was funny 😉

Yes yes… geek humor++ 😉 

We bought a Philips Perfectdraft yesterday. Took a while to cool the beer to 4°C but after about 16 hours it managed and we could give it a go. We now have our own beer tap thingy in the house! 🙂 The manual mentions "Put the desired medallion on the tap" … unfortunately none was included. There are some for sale, like Grolsch and Becks, but the beer keg in ours is Stella, and we’d want a Stella medallion thingy anyway, except it seems it’s nowhere to be found. If you look very hard, some people found a Jupiler one, but not even that can be found easily it seems.. Any tips?

PS, I hope my links are clearer this way. Thanks ripperke 😉