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are hard. I've got so many t-shirts from conferences or events that I'm just never going to wear except when I'm painting walls or something. Also, most t-shirts come in one size, which some people call Extra-Extra-Large-American.

Recently the ACCESS T-shirts were a prime example. Even Google, who get so many things right, usually get their shirts wrong.

Once in a while though someone gets it right and a shirt passes the simple girlfriend test - at least, as long as you don't actually start explaining what the shirt is about. The LCA 2007 shirt is an excellent example.

The most recent acquisition passing the test is the Openismus t-shirt. It looks cool, has a nice design, felt-feel letters, and it does not say "nerd" at any angle. This week, however, some visitors pointed out an easter egg of the T-shirt:

I'm not sure if that raises or lowers the score for this shirt on the nerd scale yet, but it is definitely a balance tipper.

P.S.: with extraordinary mental control I've managed to avoid making purile jokes about similar easter eggs in the name of Openismus' founder. One day I will be rewarded.

are hard. I've got so many t-shirts from conferences or events that I'm just never going to wear except when I'm painting walls or something. Also, most t-shirts come in...

Is when you have a three day weekend with big plans for Getting Shit Done, and every night throws a spanner in the wheel.

Saturday was particularly delicious - our main mail/web server crashed, and I couldn't reboot it remotely. Aparently this was my own fault, it's the one machine I never configured Serial-On-Lan for. Apparently the drives had left the virtual RAID-1 disk, which I have now figured out is likely due to a firmware bug on the controller. In any case, I left for the data center around 2:30 AM, and left there around 4:30 AM. Except they couldn't get me a taxi - 10 minutes of hold music on the taxi phone. All of Barcelona is celebrating La Merce.

The guy at the data center told me to walk to a hotel nearby and try my luck there, but no dice. Around 5:15 AM, I resigned myself to take the long way home on foot from IKEA on Gran Via. After half an hour, an empty taxi drove by and took me home. I swear I never kissed a taxi driver so violently as I did that night.

So, very little rest for me this weekend, and not that much Shit Done Getting.

Last night was a good breather though - Travis were playing ten minutes from where I live, out in the streets, for free. They're not my favourite band, but they hold their own live, and I have good memories of seeing them live. And I swear, it is hard to stay depressed when you're listening to Writing To Reach You or Why Does It Always Rain On Me.

Is when you have a three day weekend with big plans for Getting Shit Done, and every night throws a spanner in the wheel. Saturday was particularly delicious - our...

If you have next business day support, Dell's support strategy is to delay you as much as possible, asking you to perform unrelated diagnostics checks, until it's past 17.00. From that point on, they accept the possibility of a hardware failure, and let you know that Next Business Day only applies if the ticket has been confirmed before 17.00 (which you need the diagnostics output for). After 17.00, it's the day-after-tomorrow.

Apparently this is standard. I should have known.

If you have next business day support, Dell's support strategy is to delay you as much as possible, asking you to perform unrelated diagnostics checks, until it's past 17.00. From...

Today's xkcd is both funny-on-a-thaytan-scale and incredibly intriguing. God, I'd love to try this and see if it works for me.

Somehow it has a better appeal than that technique I read about where you only sleep 5 intervals of 15 minutes during a full day, but at very specific times, and non-flexible - if you skip it you're exhausted. A little too invasive to say "I need to sleep 15 minutes now, I'll get back to fixing this server on fire after that".

Today's xkcd is both funny-on-a-thaytan-scale and incredibly intriguing. God, I'd love to try this and see if it works for me. Somehow it has a better appeal than that technique...

I'll be in Madrid from tonight on for the Open Source in Mobile conference the next two days. Feel free to come up and talk to me about the usual topics - Fluendo, codecs, Flumotion, GStreamer, ...

I'll be bringing a Samsung/Intel Ultra-mobile PC with Elisa on it, if you like eye candy.

I'll be in Madrid from tonight on for the Open Source in Mobile conference the next two days. Feel free to come up and talk to me about the usual...