Today I decided to contribute some patches to the upcoming NHibernate 2.0 release. First order of business was to get latest and then run: nant clean build > output-debug-build.log which compiles NHibernate and the unit tests. Unfortunately something went horribly wrong as the build finished early...

As I mentioned here , my motherboard died a horrible death two days after its warranty expired. The motherboard was based on the 939 platform for AMD processors, which has been discontinued in favour of the newer AM2 platform. My choice was to either start hunting around eBay for a used (and hopefully...

Last week I decided its time to get a new phone. I’ve always had just a “phone”. You couldn’t do anything more with it than dial numbers and talk to people (although my last phone, the Motorola V300 did have a camera). This time I went all out. I didn’t get just a phone...

Today was a special day. It would have been my dad's 77th birthday. He didn't even live to celebrate his 70th. As a technical engineer, specialized in thin layers, he worked for Philips. His first main project concerned the inner coating of CRT tubes, his second was taking part in the development of...

Working all day with screen, keyboard and mouse is quite a stress to some parts of your body. Over the years, getting old, you have to pay the toll. Sore wrists and tired eyes can become side-effects of your hard work. So far I'm surviving quite well but I do pay a lot of attention to anything which...

In the Dutch city of Groningen is the Mediacentrale : It's a former power plant which has been transformed into a centre for multimedia and other IT business. March 16th, it was stage for Amigro , a 1 day conference on ambient intelligence .(Google for variations ). Organized by the department of AI...

Friends of mine fried their Dell family box. The fan outlet had been blocked to long so the poor thing died. They carted in a new one; the new models seem to anticipate on overheating, as they have a very cool air inlet on the front side as well. Anyway, I was asked to salvage the contents of the old...

My company (which is just me ) has a web site which really needs a big refresh. At the moment it is a static bunch of html on a Unix box. I want a lot more and taking a look at the wish-list there is only one way to get that all done without spending huge amounts of money: start hosting myself. I will...

Received an email from a guy I know through our blogs and the shared blogs we follow regarding quantum computing. I posted awhile back on quantum cryptography . If you haven’t seen some of what AtomChip Corporation is doing, you should check it out. I believe this is the future of componentry. Here are...

Everything is going digital over the last couple of years. Which revolutionizes the way we work with information. But digital is not a substitute for everything. Take digital photography. The number of mega-pixels of the camera (in your phone) is rising by the month. But when I see the loads and loads...