I've opened up a livejournal account. Coupled with ljupdate.el mode in GNU/Emacs I'm pretty happy.

The recent slashdot story about Stallman visiting India reminds me why I can never go there.

My shortend Hebrew name "Yoni", means Vagina in Hindu.

"Nice to meet you, I am Vagina!"

If I ever visit I'll have to get used to calling myself by my full Hebrew name "Yehonatan".

Backsberg Estate 2000, Pinotage. South American. Even though it's a good dry red wine it does not shine as a Pinotage. Worth buying again but nothing to write home about.

This is a typical scenario for my company. A company which is far too large for its own good.

This really happened to me today.

As usual life is throwing at me its curve-balls. Good thing too. I've become way too soft and complacent at my "hi-tech" desk job. The main difference is that this time I'm a little bit older and tougher. I am slowly learning, gaining references. I look at old emotional scars and smile, mentally running my hands over them.

I keep on talking the tough talk, it's nice to see that life decides to call me out.

It took me a long while but I did it, I've moved my mail from mutt to GNU/Emacs's gnus.

Mutt and Mozilla Firebird remained the two last applications that withstood my gradual migration into Emacs. Now Mozilla Firebird stands alone. Unlike Firebird though, I always knew that mutt would go. Not because of mutt mind you, but because of sendmail. I'll detail the migration which took 3 hours last night on www.emacswiki.org.

On January the 16th, 2004 I saw the following sig on comp.lang.c

"Derk Gwen http://derkgwen.250free.com/html/index.html
Elvis was an artist. But that didn't stop him from joining the service
in time of war. That's why he is the king, and you're a shmuck."

I'm back on my feet and at work again after 4 days of post-surgery downtime. I'm a bit woozy from the medication but I'm feeling the need do the work thing.

We will see how it all pans out.

Had some minor surgery to get an impacted wisdom tooth out. That shit really hurts. I've ranked it out there with smashing my fingers and Herpes Zoster in my pain hall of fame.

I hope to eat solid food tomorrow.

Here is my pain medication rule: If you are asking yourself whether you should or should not take pain medication then don't. When you hit the wall and your entire mind is filled with nothing but pain you will know that it is time to make use of science.

I don't care if you use it or not.

These are the good guys. If you can afford clothing, bandwidth and a nice dinner.

Read this [http://www.wikimedia.org/letter.html] and do it.

Don't be a cheap fuck, ask your self if that hamburger is really on par with Wikipedia's efforts.

I spent the weekend curled up into a little ball of pain. Some kind of stomach flu has decided to make my life a misery. Today I'm back at work but taking things very slowly.

It requires conscious effort on my part to walk slowly and take it easy. I'm usually pushing myself as hard as I can. I'm also seeing the age old pattern in my behavior:

I've decided to end development of my "big number" math library. It was a very cool project that taught me a lot about math and the C language. While the library is pathetically slow, it's mathematically sound. That is given enough time it would arrive at the correct answer. I've no intention on trying to be fast. There are enough "big number" math libraries out there that do that.

Looking back at the development process here is what I've noticed:

The next week will be interesting. I'll either be coming home at about
20:30 or 22:00 each day. On some days I'll be driving right from work
to Aikido. I'll also be driving myself to the max. Good stuff.

A friend who is sleeping over at our apartment stocked the
fridge with beers. Nice.

Spent the weekend reading up on Godel's Theorem. Confusing.