Got at work late today…

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 10:59 pm on Friday, June 27, 2008

accident signI arrived late at work today and had a perfectly valid reason. As I left home for work I saw no major issues on the road. As soon as I hit the freeway however I found myself stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour. This is the reason why.

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Ghost Hunters

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 10:46 pm on Friday, June 27, 2008

Ghost HuntersOnce in a great while a TV show comes on my path that will utterly hook me. This time it is Ghost Hunters, a TV series from the Sci-Fi channel. This program views the paranormal pretty much the way I look at it; down to earth.

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Weirdest advertisement… ever… period

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 12:00 pm on Friday, June 20, 2008

YouTube LogoThis must be definitely the most curious thing I have seen in the sense of advertisement; a promotion video for Windows 386. Aside from the fact that the 80’s is a decade best forgotten, I wonder how well this promotion was received by contemporary human beings.

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Bloody thieves

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 9:30 am on Saturday, June 14, 2008

JailcellsYesterday at work we (my co-workers and I) made a startling discovery. Half of the mobiles we had for testing mobile/pda sites were missing. Considering the boxes were still there it can only be concluded that they were stolen. It really turned my already blah day into a full-blown crap day.

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Playing with dolls

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 1:04 am on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

EQ2 logoSo who said guys never play with their dolls. Mine is just an EverQuest II toon. Recently I’ve been ‘fleshing out’ my main toon with a biography, screenshots and some titles. I took the time and effort to immerse myself into the EQ2 storyline.

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Working on something new - Wordpress MP3 player widget

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 1:17 am on Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Website buildingIt starts out as answering a demand. This weekend my wife finally switch ed from LiveJournal to a Wordpress blog and immediately started to scrounge for widgets and plug-ins. One plug-in she could not find; an MP3 player for in your menu bar. (much like you can have on myspace)

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Got spare time? Build your own MVC framework

Posted by GrefTek in Technology at 1:37 pm on Thursday, May 1, 2008

Website buildingThis week is a bit of an awkward week for me. Here in Holland we are off for the queen’s birthday, then we have Ascension and on friday the company I work for is closed. So basically I have had a 2 day workweek. (Worse things have happened to me in the past ;) )

So, you have practically 5 days of no work what are you going to do? Right… program your own MVC framework.

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Daily Dilbert plug-in Wordpress 2.5 ready

Posted by GrefTek in Personal at 8:14 am on Wednesday, April 23, 2008

DilbertThe Daily Dilbert plug-in has survived the release of Wordpress 2.5. After upgrading my blog to it I quickly decided to downgrade back to 2.3.3. However I did test to see that the plug-in was fully functional.

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Dilbert now available on Wordpress Plugins Directory

Posted by GrefTek in Technology at 10:35 am on Sunday, April 13, 2008

DilbertI created the Daily Dilbert widget plug in some time ago but I finally came around to put it all on the repository at the Wordpress Plugins Directory. You can get it there now as well.

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Size Matters: The Samsung SyncMaster 245B

Posted by GrefTek in Close-up at 10:11 am on Sunday, April 13, 2008

Samsung SyncMaster 245BAlas poor IIyama, I knew ye well. Ever since you started to go weird on my I have cast my eyes at screens other than yours. And I have found a worthy successor: the Samsung SyncMaster 245B.

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