Posted by Herman on 24 July, 2008
A while back I came across www.chinglish.de, some German in China who keeps track of the very creative translations he finds on his way. Just wanted to share this. Less funny and a website owner with quite a special interest is www.sleepingchinese.com. If you feel bored might as well check that one out.
Posted by Herman on 21 July, 2008
This is the good stuff: http://currentconfig.com/archives/000083.html Checking out IRC channels topics once in a while is worthwhile.
Posted by Herman on 3 February, 2007
It has been in the news lately that Futurama will be back. I’m really happy with that since Futurama is absolutely one of my favourite series. The actual reason it made me blog about it is the following quote from the interview with David X. Cohen: COHEN: Hypnotoad. By the way, we are looking into [...]
Posted by Herman on 27 January, 2007
When using apt-get dist-upgrade: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! e2fsprogs perl-base sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) 21 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 156 to remove and 106 not upgraded. Need to get 15.7MB of archives. After unpacking 230MB disk space [...]
Posted by Herman on 13 December, 2006
Every once in a while you read something on slashdot which makes you go “hmmm” (actually quite a lot). Yesterday the Netherlands completely ended transmission of analog television signals, becoming the first country in the world to do so. So what about cars and portable TVs? I’m guessing a market will emerge for portable set [...]
Posted by Herman on 19 November, 2006
Got to love what comes by on #ubuntu-nl: http://giveusbacknewyork.com/ Check out the great promotional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUwjFEwexI This weeks South Park episode was great too (at least 2 or 3 steve irwin jokes )
Posted by Herman on 10 April, 2006
Link: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/ Don’t forget Herman’s comedy club! :p I promise you my own adventures are nothing like the above. Googling for you own name just turns up “interesting” stuff.
Posted by Herman on 19 March, 2006
Just browsed the site a bit because someone pasted a link. Recommendable. Bush his little nephew I love you Mario song on two guitars Homie girl Gifted musician Simpsons intro live action funny but painful Barbie girl Update: Some additions The Flying Car Randgruppe nazis Thanks ForeCast and Treenaks.
Posted by Herman on 19 January, 2006
At least it made me laugh. Link.
Posted by Herman on 8 January, 2006
Seveas has a list on his wiki with possible Ubuntu names. Personal favourites: Charming Chimp, Perky Penguin, Randy Rhino, Tricky Turtle and Wifebeater Wombat. Yummy Yak makes me hungry.