SwitchBL8’s gebazel

My father recently switched from having a Nokia cellphone to a Sony-Ericsson. I’m thinking of buying a new phone myself, since my current Nokia (6310i) does not reliably communicate with my (Nokia) blue-tooth carkit. I get a reliable connection about 40-50% of the time. Unacceptable. Nokia phones are not cheap, certainly not when you compare them to similar phones like Sony-Ericsson. Nokia offers less for more money, and we customers like it the other way around.
So I took my fathers phone (a W810i) and walked to my car. I put the key in the ignition and turned the car “on”. In the phones menu I enabled blue-tooth and looked for available devices. It found the Nokia carkit without any trouble and after supplying the connection-code (just 0000) I made a call over the Nokia carkit. Excellent. Next phone: no more Nokia.

Firefox 2.0 is a fact. Get it here. It’s not on the official frontpage yet.

Update (24-10-2006 23:34): Firefox 2 is on Mozilla’s frontpage too now.

You watch commercials, right? And you skim through the occassional glossy, right? Did you ever wonder why every single girl looks stunning? No imperfection, no character in their expression, nothing to comment on? Except perhaps the lightning crew could have done a better job?
Have a look at this movie (by Dove) and see how girls get to be so pretty.

Yesterday I installed forum software. Because I use WordPress for my weblog and like that very much, I decided to give bbPress a try. Very simple install, very clean layout, but…a little too immature. So I installed the good-old phpBB instead. A very simple install too, a rename of two folders, a change of a couple of settings and you’re good to go. Not sure how phpBB integrates with WordPress. There are hacks out there, but I’d rather have a proper plugin.
phpBB is supposed to work with an Oracle database, but my webserver runs MySQL at the moment, so I used that.

There is a lot of stir-up about Google’s CodeSearch. There is code to be found that’s better not found or used at all. One example being a WinZip keygenerator. I’m not going to include the search as a link (you people are smart enough) for obvious reasons. But the code found actually does compile into a working generator.
I tested it in a fresh Windows XP installation (in VMWare) that did not have WinZIP yet. I installed it, ran the new program and pasted the generated registration information into WinZIP. Voila: a registered version.

Mind you: I legally own all software mentioned in this post. I only ran this exercise because I was curious to see whether it actually worked. It did. I deleted the registered version of WinZIP afterwards.