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Someone’s got too much time!

Just a little goodie for all you Star Wars fans out there! There’s an ASCII animation available if you telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl. Just open a terminal session / command prompt, whichever it is on your operating system and type the following:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

So long, Jens

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Tags

Last week Jens added a tagging system to the blog. I was looking for the same on our forum.

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Cool javascript library

Every once in a while, I find something so cool that I want to share it with someone. When this blog didn’t exist, I had to find an outlet somehow; Eric will be nodding when he reads this…

Now, I can simply blog about it, so here goes: Lightbox is a script that will show fullsize [...]

The World is ever changing

Just to let you know that we didn’t die and went to heaven, here’s a quick update on what’s going on!

As you all probably know by now, this week saw the final release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. [Get it now](http://www.getfirefox.com)!

In my last post, I compared Firefox 2.0 RC3 to Opera 9 and Internet Explorer 7 [...]

The need for speed

### Introduction

Yes, I’m actually gonna do it. Everyone’s done it, and everyone who hasn’t yet will, soon… Or not. By now, you’re probably wondering what the hell I’m talking about. I could be mean and only tell you when you click the “Read more”-link below…

But you know I’m not that kind of person. At least [...]

What’s in it for me?

### The carrot and the stick

As children, we learn by praise and punishment. If we did something right, there was a hug in it for us, a _”well done, way to go”_, maybe even a present. If we did something wrong, took candy without asking again, there is a penalty, a week without TV, no [...]

The think tank idea

Here we are now. Distant-Help, the think tank. Now the question, what do we mean with think tank ? Let’s try to define what we propose and what you can expect.

First off all, this place is free, has always been and will be (most probably). What we provide is a framework where you can drop [...]

Downtime

Just a little quick note to say Murphy has been around again last night (European time).

This is what happened according DC : “The main power bar to the rack your server was in failed taking down the whole rack. We have now replace the bar and your server should be back online shortly.” The [...]

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