February 2008

Last.fm dating?

Submitted by bdeferme on February 14, 2008 - 12:24

Well...

I got a message in my last.fm inbox, either it's spam, or it's a silly (breezer-like) girl/woman that's really really desperate. Well actually in both cases it's spam. Didn't expect to see this on last.fm though:

  From: G**
  Subject: hi.. what's up!
  Date: 14 Feb 2008, 03:18

  So, i guess it's time for me to start using this site. I can hold back no longer!
  I looked at your page and well,
  I liked   what I saw.. ;p

  So um, my name is K** P**. I think we should be friends, cause you seem pretty cool, and maybe even cute!
  (it's everso hard to tell in this digital world :)

  anyway, i'd go on all day, but I wanna get a response from you.. You should check out my other "space"
  on this other site, I'm always on over there: www.  date-centrale.  com/  ?id=2536&mypics (my
  username is petitebelle). Then maybe we could chat sometime! you know what they say..
  appearance wins over the eyes, but personality captures the heart.. haha..

  take care,

  K** P**

And I always thought I was safe from these kind of situations because I didn't participate in the netlog/looknmeet/... BS :( Thanks last.fm :(

Aaaah The Internets... Don't we just love it :-)

P.S. I censored her (nick)name and the url because I don't want any google hits on dating sites offcourse :-P

Ca stink!

Submitted by bdeferme on February 13, 2008 - 22:12

bah
life

Voor de mensen die het nog niet weten:

Ca stink en Brussel Centraal!

C’est un mengelsoep de pisgeur, zwerfvuil, wierrook et un peu de tout.

English translation:

For the people that don’t know it yet:

It stinks in Brussels Central(The Station)

Smarter BASH prompt

Submitted by bdeferme on February 12, 2008 - 12:18

After reading this post I tried out the code snippet of Jan but honestly my eyes did not like it. The yellow didn't look good to me and I also had the feeling that the smiley was a bit overkill.

But as I truly liked the Idea (thanks Jan) I changed it a bit to comfort me.

A screenshot:

Smarter Bash

I'm going to FOSDEM!

Submitted by bdeferme on February 11, 2008 - 11:22

Grumpy Security [repeated]

Submitted by bdeferme on February 4, 2008 - 21:32

Again(previous anger), I encountered the anger of a grumpy security guy, oh wait no it was a woman this time…

Anyway I’m starting to believe that being grumpy and angry is part of the job, or at least a side-effect. As I walked into the client’s building today I didn’t notice the security being grumpy or angry, but then when I went for a smoke the first time, and knocked on the door to let me back in I said ‘Thank You’. Sadly enough I did not get any response.

Second smoke… Thank you! - No response.

Third smoke… Thank You! - No response.

…

At the end of the day I was outside smoking when she suddenly left, so I say “Excuse me miss, but I won’t be able to get in the building now?”.

She told me: “No, you need a badge to get in.” (As if consultants get badges for all clients, and certainly not on the first day…)

* “Would you mind waiting 1 minute? My cigarette is nearly finished…”

- “No can’t do that.”

And she left.

I had to call my colleage to let me back in again! Now that’s just rude, grumpy, and a lot of anger…

Maybe companies could consider anger management courses for the security personnel.

That’s all wining for today :-)

/dev/out

P.S. yes I do smoke, yes I know it is not healthy so please do not tell me to stop, you’ll be nothing but another person telling me what I should do, and I won’t! Yet… :-)

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