0xe0030005 I loathe thee

Posted on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 in Technology • Tagged with Failure, Hardware, WTF

Yesterday my MacBook Pro started to act weird, and I began getting a lot of these in my system.log

{% codeblock lang:bash %} kernel[0]: disk0s2: 0xe0030005 (UNDEFINED).

Which according to Google means my disk is failing... Which means crap, damn crap! It also means that I got the chance …


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Can your wife do this?

Posted on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 in Personal • Tagged with CPAN, Perl, Wife

sm_perl_id_bk_wt.gifToday my wife got registered on PAUSE, which means she can now upload her own Perl modules on CPAN - She's even in the process of porting a Ruby on Rails app to Catalyst. Ain't she cool?


Apple please buy Yahoo!

Posted on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 in Technology • Tagged with Apple, Business, Yahoo!

It would be really cool if Apple bought Yahoo! instead of Microsoft, that way Apple could really take .Mac to the next level - and Microsoft wouldn't ruin flickr. So Steve, please convince the rest of the board that Apple should buy Yahoo!


Apple IIc unboxing

Posted on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 in Nostalgia • Tagged with Apple, Flickr

Now this is cool!


Command line pasting

Posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 in Technology • Tagged with MacOSX

Terminal.png While working on a project at $work, I found the need to copy the output from a command into my pasteboard. A little digging around turned up [cc lang="bash"]pbcopy[/cc] and [cc lang="bash"]pbpaste[/cc], which is shipped with Leopard per default. So now I do stuff …


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Addicted to Apple?

Posted on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 in Technology • Tagged with Apple

How_Addicted_to_Apple_Are_You.pngMy friends already know... I have an addiction - I'm a technophile, with a passion for everything that glows in the dark :-) This of-course includes products from Apple, and now you too can find out if you're addicted with this nice little test.


Avatars 1.1

Posted on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 in Technology • Tagged with Apps, MacOSX

AddressBook.pngI have found a nice little plugin for Address Book, that'll let you look up gravatars and pavartars for your contacts - Nifty! And to quote TUAW "Now I just need more friends with avatars" ;-)


Christmas rocks!

Posted on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 in Photography • Tagged with Christmas, Gifts

060905_1.jpg This year my wife went crazy and got me a new camera. Actually its kinda a gift for both of us, as we'll both be using it - but anyways, its a totally cool gift! Gotta love that! :-D


It has begun!

Posted on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 in Technology • Tagged with Fiber, Home improvement, Internet

IMG_0005.JPG Well... it actually began quite a while ago, I have just been to busy to write about it, and it should have been finished by now - But stuff just takes time... Dong Energy is converting all air-power wires into ground wires, and while doing that they also lay in fibercables …


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It has arrived!

Posted on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 in Personal • Tagged with Christmas, Gifts

IMG_0088.JPG Finally! - The package from Apple has arrived! Hopes she likes it! - even if it is 5 days late... Guesses, as to what is in the box is welcome in the comments ;-)

First clue - It's from Apple...