5 Things?

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Jan 132007
 

No, I’m not tagged. And I’m not going to write about 5 things that people did not know about me. I’ll save them for when the context permits to write about them. Or not at all. So what’s the title “5 Things” about? Well, I present you the 5 reasons why bloggers participate in these memes.

1) they have nothing else to write about, and don’t want to be silent for too long
2) they’re just like sheep: everybody else does it, so “me too!”
3) they think we want to know about kisses in highschool, secret admirations, fuck-ups in previous jobs, at what time they get up in the morning, or that they like their jocks to be ironed.
4) they think that meme’s are a game
5) they think that by sharing five things nobody knows about, that makes them unique

And there is only 1 reason why participants “tag” other bloggers. Simple: now that they took the plunge, they want to get even and dare others to do the same.

Suckers!

 Posted by at 18:08

WinAMP quircks

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Jan 132007
 

Lately I noticed that most music I played showed up as being “mono” in WinAMP. Today I clicked on some music and it opened Mediaplayer (for some unknown reason, since it should have opened WinAMP, but hey, it’s Windows). The music was in stereo. I closed Mediaplayer (just don’t like it) and started WinAMP. The same file played in mono.
I opened the options dialog to look whether I accidently configured something in a way it shouldn’t but could not find any anomaly. So whilst downloading the latest version (5.32) of WinAMP I uninstalled the current (5.0x). I left the skins directory intact, but removed everything else the uninstaller could not remove (mainly the plugins directory).
After installing the new version, WinAMP plays stereo again. Very strange.

 Posted by at 15:20

The end of Outlook as we know it

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Jan 132007
 

Outlook is slow. Outlook does not support imap that well. Outlook is not Open-Source and a pain in the *ss to extend. Outlook does not support storing multiple accounts into seperate folders. But I still use it. Why? Because it synchronizes with my iPaq.
But can this be the end of Outlook as we know it? No more HTML support. WTF?

Now if only Thunderbird featured a decent previous/next button…

 Posted by at 02:48

Studying Java

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Jan 132007
 

This week I received an e-mail from one of my colleagues, asking if there were people that would join him in his quest to get the SCJD certification. Some colleagues (before I got to work for the company, so unfortunately I was not one of them) did the same earlier for the SCJP certification.

Because one of my personal goals was to get SCJP certified this year, I could not resist and added some extra weight to that: get SCJP certified A.S.A.P. so that I can join the collective initiative to become SCJD certified. This year.

Fortunately I’m not the only one that still needs to get his SCJP first, so that enlarges the chance that I will have some more time to actually study for it and do an examination with positive outcome.

So if the software world would be so kind to come to a screeching halt, so I don’t get distracted and can maintain focus, thank you very much. After my certification you can all continue with what you were doing before that: producing too much interesting, distracting software that needs to be installed or tried once, or at least having the specs looked at.

Kathy’s book is over 800 pages. Gotta stop typing and start reading.

 Posted by at 01:14