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DNS issues fixed, some words about BlogDesk

I’ve been having some name DNS issue the last four or five days, but my web host finally solved the problem.
My domain payment went in a day late and my domain went into “client hold”. One day later it dropped from all DNS servers :).
In other news :), I’ve started using BlogDesk. It’s a great […]

When compiling time does matter

I was compiling a project, looking at my console window, just thinking that the build usually takes too long when I realised how much time I really loose while building.
I was staring at the screen, and then the Maven buildNumber for the parent pom pops up. It’s 384.
I wait for the build to finish. It […]

Open source car

After reading about the open source beer and the open source Cola, I am really surprised (in a pleasant way) to find out that an open source car has been developed that has 0 emissions, using a hydrogen hybrid engine.
I hope that all humanity (including the resource hungry corporations) will soon see the need for […]

A new day, still importing tablespaces

Just realised that it’s a new day. 2 AM, and 16 hours since I left home. Another one of those days.
As a techie this happens really often, sometimes I like it, other times I just hate it. I’m going to have to explain this to my girlfriend again :).
I’m importing tablespaces, and it has to […]

Finished migrating

Finished migrating my stuff to Wordpress.
It took me a while to decide what theme to use, and I found this nice one on hellobmw.com. As I only had a few lines to change in the header, the title and some meta I didn’t loose a lot of time, wich is a plus. A “thank you” […]