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fotoblog – no words, just looks

dog fotos

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it has come to my attention that there is WAY TOO MANY dog pictures on this website.

so let’s change that :)

but I have to admit.. the chaotic energy of a husky is just.. cat’s can’t top that.

but cats are more cozy <3

Company for her Grace

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Her Majesty, Grace of Mcmuirich. Doing what she can do best.

Since Lucky passed away she has become a little lonely, but we met a nice dog at the beach, his owner actually was looking for a female dog for him to play with, these two are a sweet match :)

this is Dexter. he just spent a few days at my place.

he keeps Grace busy <3

only the cats are not convinced, yet. xD

diva-dog

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honestly… if I were that attractive, I would also just lie around and look beautiful… Or.. (wait for it)

Grace-Ful 😂🙈

Paris with doggo

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so travelling to paris with 2 teenagers and a husky is possible!

Had to upgrade the car a little bit but she really can do long drives with occasional breaks to stretch her legs.

I had to adjust to a different lifestyle, mainly sitting in bars and waiting for the kids to come back from museums and palaces drinking wine and eating croissant… but I can get used to that.

What Grace likes

Baguette
Frenchmen
hotel beds

What Grace doesn’t like

public transport in Paris
tourism
not being served in a cafe

Cattitude

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So I own two cats (or: they own me) – they were only given away together, I called them Eren and Mikasa.

Now Mikasa is a black cat, and whatever they do, black cats always look neat, mysterious, cute and/or elegant.

And then.. there is Eren.

Eren is different ;)

but I love them a lot, they can not be separated!

thanks to Stichting Idemo <3

fathers day (my first!)

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Today is fathers day – my first one :)

Sander was here last tuesday and made some photos, that guy is just good!
Instead of expressing my bad feelings that I don’t write much of lately (blame the small guy!) I will just put the pictures that he took online.

laughing

Thanks for this, Sander.. next baby we will hire you for the “gebortekaartjes”!

P.S.: Can anyone tell me why he frowns so much? ;)

shiny new hardware

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I got myself new toys (finally!) :)
n800_1 n800_2 e60

I got a “compensation payment” from my previous employer, unexpected, that is. And such money needs to be spend immediately :P

The Nokia N800 “Internet tablet” – basically a 800×480 touchscreen that runs linux ;)
Well, it’s a bit more than that. The screen is just amazing, featuring 220 DPI (!) displaying virtually any PDF or website without having to zoom.
WPA2 WLAN encryption, (unfortunately, there is no VPN client, yet.. but as the OS is Debian-based, it can be only a matter of time till someone ports vpnc to it’s developer platform, Maemo).
(I am waiting for Skype (with video) and a good PIM, then this device is perfect!!!)
If there is no WLAN access, it connects through my mobile phone, using bluetooth.
I can listen to AAC+ music streams (like SomaFM) on it, read my email, well… it does almost anything I want ;)
Once I have trained the handwriting recognition, I can also skip the iPhone-style on-screen thumb-keyboard (basically a neat idea, but so slooow…)

Also: I got myself a Nokia E60 “business” cellphone, which has no camera but amazing PIM and document/internet functions and VoIP over WLAN capabilities! So whenever I am at home it switches from “cell phone” to VoIP, how cool is that? ;)
And finally… Now I can sync with my iCal and address book again..

I like its “retro” look a lot, now that people buy phones by colour and ringtone-variety, I buy a phone that looks old but at a close look has fantastic functions.
A N95 or N73 would also have been interesting but I realized that VoIP and long battery life is way more important than having a multimedia computer with you. (besides, that’s what I have the n800 for) :P
One device that does everything somehow.. well.. I tried that with the C500 “smartphone” (which is understatement, it runs windows mobile) :P and I decided I don’t want a smartphone anymore. I will wait till voice recogniton is better and people have PADDs everywhere.

Hey, wait! There is a “PADD” skin, look here
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long range wireless lan

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Sometimes when I find the time, I play with wireless lan components, trying to find out how to enhance the reach of my wireless network using self-made antennas, professional antennas,
cd-spindel cAntenna
tweaking wlan-cards or modifying a router (link) to get a couple of meters more out of the network or to be able to transmit from the basement go the attic.
Using 2 modified Linksys-Routers and 2 of the cAntennas, I was able to get a wireless link over more than 1km.

But the guys at Defcon seriously overdid it this time, breaking their own world record from last year, where they achieved a 55 mile wireless link.
More than 200 km of wireless connection without amplification!

The final result was a full 11 Mbps data transfer rate over a distance of 125 miles, a new world record for an unamplified wireless networking connection.

monster-wlan-dish
I just love extreme technology :D

See the details at wifi-shootout and for details go to the blog of the team at http://pasadena.net/shootout05/