Today I signed up for IP telephony at Musimi – a danish IP telephony provider. I also bought a IP telephone analog telephone converter. Last thuesday I reseeved a ZyXEL wireless access point with build in router and LAN/WAN interface. I’m getting prepared to move to my new appartment, now I’m only missing a internet connection (the most important). Who needs food when they have all their geek toys, heh. 
Why do I have to learn the hard way?!?
When you want to write rm *~ dont stop half way there (rm *). Luckily It was only a few templates for the developer version of Debianart that got wiped, but it has delayed kick off yet again. Perhapes next weekend?
But the event made me look at a way to backup my important files. A colleague recommended rdiff-backup for backup and I have look at it and found it worthy 
I have used some examples I found on the net to get a picture on how it works. The good news is that rdiff-backup exists as a Debian package.
I have trouble making my laptop resume after I finally got it to sleep. I have reported a bug on the problem. It seems that it is making progress… though I will test some more to se if I have made mistakes 
It seems I’m good at that.
I’m a happy owner of a new Samsung 172X…. WITH NO PIXEL ERRORS. Did I mention that I’m very happy.
Update: I have added a few low quality pictures
I have continued my spending spree…
I have bought little bag for my laptop to protect it under transport. Until now I have been wrapping it into an old poloshirt (not even my own – thanks Stoffer for the borrow, but hey you didn’t use it anyway 
).
The bag is designed for PowerBook’s but it fits my IBM X40 okay, even though I have the large battry.
Here are som pictures:
I have bought The Sims 2, and I must say that I’m not dissapointed (at least not yet). It has a lot of new twists to it which makes it differ from the original and a lot more fun and variated. The only bad thing about it is that I don’t have the time to play the game
I’m going to implement types/categories on sumbissions for Debianart.dk to classify them. I friend send me this great link on how to implement this and at the same time think of performance.
Take a look at this: Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database
I have started rewriting debianart.dk to use the Smarty template engine. I gives me better overview of the coding and it also provides me with tools which helps me create a better website. Although I have already encountered a few quirks with it. I had trouble concating smarty variables with smarty variables and text strings with smarty variables within a smarty function. I use the Smarty plugin: PNG image with Alpha Transparency to display PNG images with transparency in IE.
Here is my ugly workaround. Notice the ’src’ and ‘extra’ parameter:
{* It have to be possible to do this better... but for now it will suffice *}
{* It seems to impossible to call modifiers / functions from within a function
and at the same time concat with a string, with default modifies / functions *}
{* concat is a custom plugin *}
{assign var="thumb_title" value=$submission.file_size|filesizeSize}
{png_image src="`$thumb_path``$submission.thumb`" Height="0" width="0"
alt="Thumb for `$submission.file_name`"
extra='class=\"thumb" title="File size '|concat:$thumb_title|concat:'"'}
I found a promising GAIM plugin, Guifications recommended by a friend. It displays buddy states similar to MSN with a popup box in the cornor of the screen, which disappears after a few seconds.
It comes in Debian packages too