Use Tables!

En toen vroeg ik me dus af, nu Ilja en Jelmer ook een weblog hebben, of ik het dan ook maar (in het Nederlands?) meer over koetjes en kalfjes in plaats van technisch gel*l zou moeten hebben. Het is maar een vraag, dus voel je vrij om een beetje commentaar achter te laten.

And for the technical English-speaking readers: I don’t suppose there are easy ways to tell wordpress half your posts are in some other language? Can I get it to do two feeds, for example, one for English and one for Dutch posts?

Using the mildly interesting Google Webmaster tools, I was astonished at some of the search queries that land people on this site:

• ie7 “new tab” greyed out
• find out who blocked “you msn”
• onkp

These are supposedly first page hits (ie, my site ranks in the top 10 for those queries), as opposed to relevant things like “chatzilla” which apparently gets me roughly the 43rd position. Right…

So, GCal allows me to share my exam schedule, which is of course way cool and stuff. Here you go:

Well, it was bound to happen sometime. I just removed 256 spam comments. I hadn’t cleaned up for 4 days. Which is not too strange considering I don’t have internet at home, but still. I need a good way to shield this blog from spam, apparently. Suggestions are welcome.

In other news, I moved succesfully. I have tv by now, but still no internet or landline phone at my new home. Which is a shame, but oh well. Otherwise I like my new place. I have a couch now! If you’re in the area (Amsterdam) and want to drop by, let me know.

In other social news, I turned 19 a little less than an hour ago. I’m not sure what there is to be excited about, but the rest of the world seems to disagree. So be it.

I’ll be moving out of my container and into a flat in Amsterdam Oost/Watergraafsmeer. Moving day is the symbolic ‘day after tomorrow’, id est, wednesday. Give me a shout (email/IRC/IM/text/whatever) if you want to visit sometime after that. I’m unfortunately going to be stuck without internet at home for an uncomfortably unknown-but-probably-long period of time. I’ll try and check at school, my parents and all that, or to make a deal with some neighbour to borrow WiFi for a bit. We’ll see. Either way, if I have been and/or will seem inactive, this is why. I’ll make a due note when my internet connectivity is back to normal levels. For those who care, this also means my DynDNS named box (archer.homeunix.org) will be offline starting tomorrow evening.

For now, I’m back to packing.

So, first stop: I finally got and pointed the domain name www.gijsk.com to this site. Wordpress has been updated to that effect, or so I think, and hopefully all you people’s DNS servers will be, too, within a few hours/days.

Seconds stop: I’ve published a convenience page with my patches and some handy-dandy xpi files. You might find it interesting, or so I hope :-).

Now I’m off to go packing and do some last-minute shopping for my holiday. I just checked in (and picked perfect seats) from my desk chair - SAS are great so far!

Yesterday someone rang my doorbell, asked if I wanted to buy dvd’s from him, and upon my negative answer forced the door open wider (I’d only put it ajar) and pointed a knife at me. Me being unarmed and not much of a fighter, I didn’t do much but trying to stay calm, and he eventually left with my digital camera, an mp3 player and 40 euro in cash (but not my wallet (bank cards, creditcard…) or my laptop (which had been hiding under an empty shopping bag, by pure chance)).

Obviously I called the cops later on, and spent much of yesterday recounting the story to various people, roughly half of them police officers. I didn’t sleep much tonight, and I’m taking a break for two days to calm down and such… James Ross found a small Venkman bug that I want to squash on sunday if I feel more normal psychologically. In the meantime I’m at my parents. Mail will reach me.

Task List

And I’m happy. But it doesn’t end here, I still want to fix 2 more things on that list, and obviously I need to get all those patches reviewed and checked in. After which, right now, things look as if I’ll end up with 2/3 of my original list finished (the security issues popped up during the whole thing, and in the end turned out to be out of my league for the most part), and 3/4 of it resolved (1 worksforme, 1 wontfix). Additionally, it’s the top 15 items, so that hopefully means I’ll have stuck to my priorities pretty well.
I hope people feel that’s enough (for now), and we’ll see how things work out, won’t we?

On a separate note, I’ll be going on a holiday to Sweden the early morning of August 22 (yes, that’s the day after the deadline). Speaking of deadline, I have a little counter on my home pc that I’ll try to hack into this wordpress thing. By the time you read this is it should hopefully be there.

I’m back from my away time. I still have to get into a good daily rhythm after so much time in what’s really a different world, I suppose, but I’ll be alright within the coming week. I’ve caught up with email and such, just need to start being productive again.

As of tomorrow morning 4am I’m on holiday, vacation or sabbatical if you prefer that word. I’ll be off to France and will be without internet access in the coming week. I will return on July 16, and you can expect me to start replying to email (and generally being alive in the ‘net sense of things) again on July 17. If you need me for Summer of Code or Mozilla stuff, you can send me email and I’ll get back to you ASAP on July 16 or 17.