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… waking up at 6 in the morning, because you hear a certain sound you associate with water that’s coming under high pressure from a tap.

Upon closer inspection, the tap in the shower was spraying hot water from one of the sides. Luckely, the shower door was closed, or the bathroom would have been flooded.

After shutting down the water flow and removing the tap, we found this:

Broken tap

Side which is still good (cold water)

Side which is broken (hot water)

It basically cleanly split off from the tube, causing the place to be sprayed in hot water. Fun, not. Goddamn shoddy quality products!!

So true… ;)

(thanks to Gh0sty)

An interesting read on Ars Technica: How the ‘Net works: an introduction to peering and transit.

Since I can haz cheezburger? is part of my daily dose of humour, and they sold fun lolspeak magnets, I decided to purchase a pack.

They arrived today in the mail ;)

I can get so goddamn annoyed at our local sport-crazy people…

The latest idiocy: Tom Boonen, a professional cyclist, has been caught (outside of a sports event) using cocaine. Using this drug is an offence, punishable by law.

What does our wonderful country do? “Oh, my, poor guy, he probably took it because he was so lonely… bad drugs! bad drugs! good Tom! Let’s make a martyr and a hero out of him, but most of all, let’s definitly not punish him!”

WTF?!? He’s just an idiot, who 1. doesn’t do SHIT for our country (he’s been living in Monaco since 2005, so we don’t really see any tax revenue from him), does harddrugs, and now says “I’m sorry” and everything is okay again?!?

His team is not gonna punish him. The government is not going to punish him. Luckely some other countries (thank you Switserland) have a bit more sense and banned him participating.

I really do hate this aspect of my country. Really really do.

In another episode of totally wonky legal battles, eBay was found guilty of selling counterfeit Hermes handbags by a french court.

So, let me get this straight:

• Person A sells something on eBay that’s a fake
• Person B buys said fake
• Person B finds out it’s a fake, and instead of taking it up with the seller attacks the company that’s a mere falicitator of online auctions…
• … and the french courts follow him?!??

Me no comprendo.

This is sometimes so very true:

Woohoo! Another milestone reached:

Thanks to Askimet, the blog is 10,051 spam messages poorer! :p

Yesterday, when walking through Ghent, we discovered a new shop specialised in coffee and tea: Simon Lévelt on the Kleine Vismarkt (nr. 5) in Ghent. It’s a small shop easily passed, but really worth a visit.

From their choices we took home a 250g package of “Espresso Del Barista Bio” (espresso of the espressomaster), and a package of Pai Mu Tan, white chinese tea. We also got a freebee: Whitepoint mix, a tea mix of Bai Hao Yenzhen tea and Oolong tea.

We just had a cup of the coffee - it’s close to the best espresso we’ve had ever.