Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

New monitor

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

I have just installed my new monitor; the BenQ FP202W. I must say, it is a real beauty. It is much more easy on the eyes then a CRT monitor. Since I couldn’t find any examples of a xorg.conf file I thought I’d post how I got mine working. It is too easy actually , but with ‘ddc’ as a module you don’t need to add or change anything except for the identifier maybe:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "BenQ FP202W"
EndSection

Now all I need to do is find some nice wallpapers sized 1680×1050 :D

BenQ FP202W

When Google starts thinking

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

When Google thinks that you are infected with a virus, or spyware, they are very sorry, but block you anyway. This happened to me yesterday, and after I quickly turned off the only Microsoft Windows PC in the house; the message went away and Google started working again. Pretty strange though that non of the 5 anti-spyware tools I ran found anything but some ten or twenty ‘tracking cookies’ which I am pretty sure cannot target Google. Thankfully, this message from Google made me realize I don’t like Windows PC’s to be doing stuff on my Network, so I removed the network card from the computer. Thanks for warning Google!

2.999.999 blogs disappeared

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005

Exactly one week after starting this blog, Google tells me there are now 456,000,000 hits when searching for blogs. Assuming I am in there somewhere (assumptions are dangerous, I know), there were 2.999.999 hits removed from it’s index. Let’s have a moment to think about these 2.999.999 hits…..

And yes, linking to Google image-search for some random word really is funny

Relaxing Christmas gift

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

I am currently sitting / lying on a very nice Christmas gift I received from my employer. This thing is a sort of sitting-bag; but then something like 10 times better :D It is filled with something that warms up very quick; and stays at a very nice temperature. It is greatly relaxing while reading some article about AJAX which is, although it is a spoof, a very nice article with definitely some good points in it to think about when developing using AJAX.

Blog #459.000.001

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Currently, Google returns 459.000.000 results when you search for the word ‘blog’, so I thought now is a good time to start another one. Unfortunatly, the number of hits will probably not increase to 459.000.001 with the start of sjon.blog; but I’ll give it a try anyway. If you are reading this, I was probably able to provide a steady flow of entries which might have been usefull and you are now searching through the archives finding the first post (which is this one, even though I left the Wordpress default message as well, but consider that post #0, and this #1). Congratulations, you found it!

I don’t know where this will end; but at least this is what it started with!

Hello world!

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!