Watch it if you’ve got 7-or-so minutes of time to spend.

That is all.

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What I went with is a new mobile telephone. Not just any mobile telephone, but a 620 euro mobile telephone: An HTC TyTN II.
I read some good reviews about it so I had been wanting to buy it for some time now.

Of course, I don’t make 620 euros a month (It’s just a part-time job; I’m a full time student), but when combined with a 2-year 22,50 euros/month Vodaphone contract, together with a 9,50 euros/month Unlimited Internet BloX subscription, the phone was ‘only’ 270 euros. (Of course I’m also going to have to spend 32 euros a month for the next two years now :x)

So yeah, I’ll be enjoying my internet whilst on the road from now on, but I’ll also be enjoying the embedded GPS receiver and all the regular PDA-ness such as having a diary and being able to write e-mails.

Unfortunately I am known to be able to screw stuff up quite quickly. I bought the phone yesterday. Yesterday evening was when it went wrong: I ran the pre-installed Windows Live Messenger, and accidentally enabled the option where it syncs the phone’s contact list with the live account’s contact list.

This meant that I suddenly had all my Messenger contacts in my phone’s contact list, which was rather annoying because most of those contacts I don’t exactly call or e-mail (heck I rarely speak to most of them). So I tried disabling the option, only to find that the relevant checkbox was now grayed out (but checked). Silly as I am, I then started deleting all the useless contacts from my mobile phone’s contact list. Which of course meant that all those contacts also got deleted from my Live Messenger contacts.

This means that I now suddenly have some 60 contacts less than I used to. Luckily enough, all my old contacts are still in my ‘Allow to speak to me’ list, so I should be able to get most of them back.
Still, I wasn’t happy with Live Messenger digging itself into Windows Mobile like a friggin rootkit, so I did a hard reset and all was well.

Here’s the trip I ended up driving. The destinations in between were places where I had to reverse in order to find the address I was looking for.

While driving northbound over the A30 it suddenly started raining so hard, the windshield wipers couldn’t keep up. Not the type of weather you’d want to have when you’ve barely got the hang of the car you’re driving

And then after leaving the A30, as can be seen on the map, I drove on a road which had really annoying turns.
After that, when I was past Hoevelaken, I had to drive on very narrow roads. And I don’t know why but people in Hoevelaken seem to like big American cars or something, and they really don’t like making way for approaching cars…

So all in all it was a pretty tough drive, but I did okay.

In other news, I’m going to the UK this Friday to go to the TT-Forums meeting and to visit my sister in Oxford.
Exciting stuff.

No year has gone by where there was not a wasp nest somewhere in the house. Every year there’s at least one. If it’s not in our house, it’s in the garden of the neighbours and they find a way into our house anyway.

I’m starting to hate wasps with every fiber in my body. Why can’t they stay outside? >:(

Just wanted to tell you all that the new car arrived, a VW Touran.

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Too bad I can’t drive in it for another couple of months: My 18th birthday is in June (20th), and after that I’ll still need to get driving lessons

I’ll post something bigger when I have time.

Maybe you already noticed it, maybe you didn’t, but the navigational bar at the top of the screen has a new Scripts tab.
Currently there’s only one script, which I mainly wrote for Born_Acorn, but I figured I had to start the portfolio section sometime with something. So that’s now, with rss2png.

Furthermore, I noticed there’s been a lot of new posts on Planet TT-Forums lately (including quite a lot of posts by me, as of late).
I must say it’s good to have something new to read every 3 or 4 hours

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=426566504844044258

I quote the page:

This is a cover of the well-known eurobeat hit NIGHT OF FIRE, by the HINOI Team, and Korikki. Korikki is a wrestler guy. It’s… odd.

The girls are actually quite hot.
And then some other guy told me today that they’re all loli’s (AKA underage)

I decided to get started on hacking around in the blog’s theme so I could possibly turn it into my Website’s design as well.
I’m not 100% sure if this would be allowed under the terms of the GPL license, but I’m going to give it a go anyhow; I think I’ll try making my own design not too long afterwards in the first place.

As said, I started with some basic hacking around. I moved the list of Pages from the top navigational bar to the sidebar (notice how the link to the About Me page has moved to the sidebar).

I plan to use the navigational bar at the top of the page for the actual site navigation.
Further more I plan to fix some other nuisances while I am at it. For example, this theme does not list links in their own categories but instead just lists them all and places the ‘Blogroll’ header above the list; Even when there isn’t even a link category called Blogroll.

Oh, and I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 again, just for the heck of it.
Turned off the WYSIWYG editor first thing. Annoying little bugger.

Not only am I wondering about the actual new content, I am also looking at various ways to ‘present’ the page.

I could choose for a similar solution as Sionide, in which case the website is completely ‘detached’ from the blog.
Or I could go for Owen’s solution, in which case the blog is somehow embedded into the page design.

Currently I’m leaning towards the latter solution. Although, funilly enough, I do like what Sionide’s done to his page. The colors are very neat. This is usually my biggest problem; Finding colors. (And then when I have some nice colors, I mess up the design anyhow)
I am already planning on hacking around a bit - or heavily, rather - in this blog’s theme so I might as well try to make it into my website’s theme.

Anyhow, I’m looking for suggestions and ideas concerning the various things I could add (I’ve got some ideas myself already) and how to implement it all. Give me your input!

I’m not actually writing this at the moment, but I’ve written it in advance, so you’ll have to wait for any interesting stories about New Years Eve.

Woo!