I’ve been playing around with my Gutsy install on the laptop. Since it uses a tickless kernel (2.6.22), I decided to give powertop a chance and see what’s ticking away my computer. To do a somewhat informed analysis, I tried a couple of scenarios, all with wireless transmitting and without [...]

After starting to getting things done, I noticed that I still procrastinate. Procrastination is evil. There should be religions around Anti-Procrastination, gathering in cults and praying to keep procrastination at bay. With this in mind I’ve picked up a few tips, here and there, that help me to avoid procrastination: [...]

So SUSE/Novell really came through, taking advantage of AMD’s recently released specs to provide us with a new open source driver. It’s still fresh out the gates, so don’t expect a bulletproof or even fully working driver. Thanks and credits go to a few wonderful developers like libv, egbert and [...]

I’ve recently read the famous book by David Allen, Getting Things Done. I have to say that it was very good reading which I enjoyed thoroughly and really has motivated me on Going GTD. In spite of some things being common sense, you get the Columbus Egg feeling wanting to [...]

For those of you who don’t know, I have a (about) three year old male iguana, called Gimli. That’s him below, shedding his skin. He’s still greenish and seems to be staying that way in the future, except when he’s in heat, where he takes on an orange groovy look. [...]