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As some of you might already know, last friday was my last day of work for Tri-enniuM (and ergo, Reuters and KBC). I went to say goodbye at our head-office in Rotterdam on the 25th, gave a farewell drink for the collegues at KBC on the 26th, and finally left the company on the 28th. It’s still somewhat strange, being that this was my first job after leaving school. Oh well, we move on in life…

During my farewell drink I was pleasently surprised by Reuters: they gave me a bag of Reuters goodies (yeah, yeah, I can hear you people already, but they’re nice and I appreciate the gesture and they’ll come in handy!)

From the people of the bank, I got a gift certificate for Media Markt… very bad for my own wallet too :p

It’s a bit sad to think that my own company didn’t bother to give anything - I hadn’t expected it, but while the people that I only worked with - not for - bothered, it highlights one of the reasons why I decided to leave: lack of any kind of caring for your employees. For those that are wondering: the other reasons I decided to change jobs is the lack of actual work and diversity in it. Oh, and also the fact that they still don’t get the Belgian legislation right…

Enough about the past! The future is bright, it’s CTG ;) (but only starting 2nd of november, I’m taking a month off in between)

Here’s a simple howto on how to install an ARM crosscompiling environment on your Debian Unstable:

1. Install crosscompiler packages from http://debian.speedblue.org/
2. Create a virtual deb package extraction directory:
   1. Create the directory /usr/arm-deb
   2. Create the directory /usr/arm-deb/usr
   3. Create the following symlinks in /usr/arm-deb/usr:
      1. ln -s /usr/arm/bin /usr/arm-deb/usr/bin
      2. ln -s /usr/arm/lib /usr/arm-deb/usr/lib
      3. ln -s /usr/arm/include /usr/arm-deb/usr/include
      4. ln -s /usr/arm/share /usr/arm-deb/usr/share

   This will allow easy package extraction.

Now, download the packages you need manually (from http://packages.debian.org/ and extract them in the directory using dpkg -x <package file> /usr/arm-deb

To compile something, you first have to add /usr/arm/bin to your path (export PATH=/usr/arm/bin:$PATH), set include paths to those include files (export CPPFLAGS=”-I/usr/arm/include”) and add
-host=arm-linux to your ./configure.

Happy compiling ;)

I’ve been cleaning up a bit.. and finally decided to check/sort all my empty cd boxes I had lying about.

The grand total: 449 empty boxes. Argh!

Want one? :)

I’m teh Cool Nerd King! Bow to me! ;)

I guess this _isn’t_ what I would call politically correct ;)

Yeah, yeah, I know, that title is about the lamest I could come up with. It’s appropriate though - since yesterday evening the main source of background noise when my pc is on is no longer my pc! I finally decided to get that noisebucket tamed, after hearing my brother-in-law’s new computer (or better, the lack of hearing it).

I replaced my old Atrix C9001-C4  (pic) case (which looks cool but is not that cool, you get tired of those fancy leds VERY quickly) with an Antec Sonata III (pic), and replacing my old boxed AMD CPU cooler with a Scythe Katana 2 CPU cooler (pic).

The difference this made to my background noise level is amazing. The noisiest things now are my harddisks… let’s go find some mufflers!

Diana’s been here since the 27th of july, and we’ve been busy bees sofar ! Ofcourse the necessary amount of relaxing and just enjoying the time, too :)

We’ve replaced one of the closets with a new Ikea Billy closet, and are still looking to find a magnetic whiteboard that has been very elusive at best ;) every time the website says they have it, we go and it’s no longer there. Pout!

We also went to play catch-up with our movies: we’ve seen Pirates Of The Carribean: At World’s End (good), Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix (good), Ratatouille (hilarious), Shrek the Third (could have skipped it), The Simpsons Movie (good) and Transformers (good but definitely not for kids).
(thank you Kinepolis and your cheap 100-days card!)

Diana’s cooked loads of lovely meals and also vegan cupcakes (weird ones (pic, pic) but oh so gooooooood)

We also bought three lovely cacti, which are currently flowering!

We’ve also made a short trip to Germany, to visit friends.

Diana had to go back to Spain, unfortunately, though …

Querer - Cirque Du Soleil (Alegria)

Querer
Dentro del corazon
Sin pudor, sin razon
Con el fuego de la pasion

Querer
Sin mirar hacia atras
A traves de los ojos
Siempre y todavia mas

Amar
Para poder luchar
Contra el viento y volar
Descubrir la belleza del mar

Querer
Y poder compartir
Nuestra sed de vivir
El regalo que nos da el amor
Es la vida

Querer
Entre cielo y mar
Sin fuerza de gravedad
Sentimiento de libertad

Querer
Sin jamas esperar
Dar solo para dar
Siempre y todavia mas

Amar
Para poder luchar
Contra el viento y volar
Descubir la belleza del mar

Querer
Y poder compartir
Nuestra sed de vivir
El regalo que nos da el amor
Es la vida

Musical Interlude

Querer
Entre cielo y mar
Sin fuerza de gravedad
Sentimiento de libertad

Querer
Sin jamas esperar
Dar solo para dar
Siempre y todavia mas

Amar
Para poder luchar
Contr el viento y volar
Descubir la belleza del mar

Querer
Y poder compartir
Nuestra sed de vivir
El regalo que nos da el amor
Es la vida

Querer
Dentro del corazon
Sin pudor, sin razon
Con el fuego de la pasion
Y volar