... and other wisdom from Joel. Finally, after weeks of slightly boring posts about travel, speeches and FogBugz, Joel has an article on his blog he was so famous for: Martian Headsets. The article discusses the problems with the HTML spec, and numerous other problems developers are facing these days. That, and the …

Last week, my trusty Sony Ericsson T610 became a bit awkward to use. The "down" function of the joystick finally gave up on me, after intermitting failures the past month. The only way to select the next menu item was to go "up" through all menu items. It became a pain to use, so I needed a new one. …

In a previous post on this blog, I indicated that the 10.5.1. update of Apple's OSX did not fix my network and SMB problems with my Iomega drive. In the comments underneath, some readers kindly pointed out that Iomega's K104w11 Firmware update is available for the Iomega drive I have. Now that 10.5.2 is out, I …

After a lot of discussions about the tarmac, who has done what and why, and who has to solve which problems and who is to pay for it all, a "...declaration of Intent has been signed by Dragrace club eXplosion and Stichting Vliegveld Drachten, which means for the next five years, dragracing can be held again on the …

This morning I thought I had way too much tasks, way too much paper on my desk, a messy inbox, and a cluttered schedule. Then I made a terrible mistake: try to solve this with more tools. You don't always solve "more X" with "more Y". I remembererd a discussion about ["remember the …

At work we were testdriving SourceForge Enterprise Edition. It is a great system to keep all your project information, source code, documents, bug reports and changes together, and linked. As you may have noticed, the pricing model of the Enterprise Edition is a well kept secret on the site. Our management bargained …

Lately I've been recieving mails with the letter "J" in seemingly random places. At first I thought I had gotten old, the world around me changed and people were starting to replace the smileys with single letter J's. I thought it meant "Joke" and carried on. Recently I noticed other people being …

Recently we had a problem connecting to our GForge CVS through SSH. We added the public RSA key to the GForge user, but because of wrong configuration on the client we tried to connect a couple of times with the wrong key. After a while the GForge CVS will return the following error: Received disconnect from : 2: Too …

Today I spent some time figuring out what the exact format of the CVS comment is when I want to link a commit to a GForge tracker item. I'll try to explain it a bit simpler: * We have [GForge](http://gforge.org/) installed at work. We use GForge to manage a software project for a customer. * The customer reports a bug …

Hi, I just wanted to share with you that I actually recovered a mail item which I had written in Thunderbird for Windows with Time Machine. Yes, Apple's Time Machine. At work, we use Windows XP machines. Because I hate to wait 4 weeks for my mail program to load, I use …