This blog is not dead.»

Due to quite a lot of work with my thesis, school assignments as well as some money-making job, I haven’t been able to update my blog as actively as I would’ve wanted. Of course, having been busy means that I wouldn’t have had anything to write about either. Anyway, here’s some links in a more or less brainstormy, taley form.

Presentation Zen is a site I accidentally bumped into when reading the blog of Jason Walker (who, by the way, wasn’t the musician Jason Walker who I was searching for). They had a nice article on how to make presentations in the TED style.

So, everybody knows TED?

Okay, so the PZ article linked to a TED talk by Hans Rosling about the myths of the so-called developing world with some very nice statistic artwork. Go to Gapminder.org to browse them yourself.

On TED, among others I listened to talks by Benjamin Zander and Jamie Oliver. Awesomeness! Also, I watched a video by Ze Frank on the TED blog.

Ze Frank led me to, well zefrank.com. And eventually to ScribblerToo by Mario Klingemann. If you thought you can’t draw, please do fiddle around with ScribblerToo. You sure can.

On a completely different journey to Internet, I wandered to Eran Hilleli’s profile on Vimeo. That stuff is gorgeous. Probably should dive deeper into Vimeo.

And finally, just a bunch of (alphabetically ordered) links that have been floating around too long in the “learn more” -section of my brain and bookmarks:

Sorry for the dump. I’ll get back to you with more serious tone later.

Alternative control?»

For some time, I had a weird problem with VirtualBox. The Ctrl key was working as Alt and the other way around. Madness! This was totally driving me crazy…

Anyway, after a few not-so-serious and a few way-more-serious attempts to fix the issue, I’ve finally found the solution. In the Xfce Settings Manager, under section Keyboard and tab Layout, there’s a check box to either use or not to use system defaults. Apparently, my system default was wrong or this setting was not functioning properly, since as soon as I unchecked the box, VirtualBox seemed to capture the keys right. Hooray!

Rants for autumn»

Apparently, it takes some time until a laptop with Windows Vista can correctly connect to my wireless network. I wonder if it’s about TKIP+AES?

Getting Thunderbird profile manager open for the first time in Windows is way too slow. Oh, how I love having /usr/bin in my PATH!

What’s with the fat, ugly window borders?

When do they stop to ship useless and ugly OEM software with Windows? Also, start making sense with playing DVD’s! Who wants a DVD player with (ugly) bling when you can have VLC?

Is it too much to ask to not have Windows preinstalled and calculated to the laptop price anyway?

And, finally, is it really so weird not being on Facebook?