Perl wisdom

…of course, the actual government of any computer is run by that fascist dictator known as the operating system. But a wise dictator knows when to let the people think they´re capitalist – and when to let them think they´re communists. (on parallel processing)

…The crypt() function is unimplemented  due to excessive paranoia (error message you might get)

…strictly speaking this is not true (about truth)

…Sociology has to be good for something (on operators, aka relationships)

Training

started running again in august. Gets along nicely. Good workout today: 35 minutes, 6,5km, average heartbeat 170

This is a windows vista test

just testing the vista live writer to see if I can update my blog from the ‘comfort’ of my own OS.

Behold the Evil Banker

Some of you might've noticed that I disappeared out of this blog for quiet some time (no, I'm not a very good blogger)
The more clever of them might've noticed that during the same period a little thing called 'financial crisis' happened. To them, it will come as no surprise that I've started working for a bank, KBC (all hail KBC and its CEO and all of its management, especially those who can give me a raise :p)

or as one shrimp used to say:
"A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate o' shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness."

Euro 2008

"Soccer is a game with 22 people and in the end the Germans win"

wise words from Gary Linecker, and this year this will once again be proven true.

the belgians are not present, our team is crappy (well, that's not true, but the coach is and playing with 4 defensive mids, a keeper and 6 defenders gets you nowhere)

Lords from lord of the rings

Some people asked me some questions about different names in the Tolkien world, I'll briefly try to answer them in this post.

First of all, who is Elendur?
In the stories of Tolkien two people go by the name of Elendur. The first is Elendur, son of Isildur (the guy that took the ring in the opening scene of the movie, but was murdered in that very scene...). He fought with his father and brothers and uncle and grandfather in the battle of the Last Alliance. After Isildur took the ring, he counselled his father to throw it away in the fires of Mount Doom. His father didn't listen. It is noted that Elendur had a striking resemblance with his grandfather Elendil. Elendur was killed along with his father and his brothers Aratan and Ciryon in the disaster of the gladden fields.
The second Elendur was a king of Arnor who ascended the throne in 652TA. Not much of him is known except his birthyear (552 TA) and that he died in 777 TA. He was the father of Eärendur, the last king of Arnor before the kingdom was split in three parts; Arthedain, Cardolan and Rhudaur.

Next question, who was Ereinion? Ereinion is actually more a title, than a name. It was the Kingsname of Gil-Galad and means "descendant of kings", this was of course applicable to Gil-Galad because he was of the house of finarfin. He became high king of the Noldor after the death of Turgon.

thesis troubles

I'm writing the master piece of my academic career at the moment, the thesis. It really sucks. Hopefully I finish it friday and then i can study the final exams. yeah.

on the lighter sight of things, I found another muse (albeit she already inspired me in the past), to spice up things, I added some pepper and hopefully K. (which I'll call Terpsichore), will soon realise this. (btw, terpsichore, if you read this, assure B. that it has nothing to do with such earthly feelings as love or hate or whatever, he seems a bit restless)

I really should restart working on my thesis now, so see you later alligators :)