I lost one of the rubber buds used on my in-ear earphones, and now I need to use a size that’s a bit too big for my ear-canal. It’s annoying because they keep popping out, unless I sit perfectly still. As luck would have it, you can’t get the buds seperately, and at a cost of €30 I’m in no mood to buy new earphones.
If anyone of you have the Creative EP-630 or Sennheiser CX300 (they’re basically the same), and doesn’t use the medium buds, I propose a swap. I still have both small and large buds. This way I don’t need to buy new earphones, and you have some spare in case you lose your buds.
Everyone knows PC components devalue at a very fast rate. Here’s a calculation based on my latest purchase.
I ordered the components for my new PC on February 21. Total price: €945,5. Today, about 40 days later, the price of all those components together has dropped by €54.5, a decrease of 6%. Especially the RAM (15% drop) and processor (15% drop) have devalued significantly.
That’s 54 beers, gone!
Having a job at the University of Ghent comes with certain perks. One of them allows me to have a dedicated hostname and IP for my laptop on the network of UGent.
It didn’t took long for me to come up with something original, and I’m now the proud owner of awesome.ugent.be.
Awesome.
If you think I’m behind on my blogging, you’re right. There are about 9 drafts in the pipeline, but I just don’t have as much time as I used to to finish them.
Apart from the regular time-consumers that appear in the middle of a semester like tasks and projects for the university, I also have a job now. Since Monday March 10 I’m the new ICT-dude at the DSA (Dienst StudentenActiviteiten, the link between all the student organizations and the University of Ghent), replacing Dieter Adriaenssens, who got a job at the VUB.
I’m now in charge of keeping the DSA servers running, and troubleshooting some 20 client PC’s in De Therminal, which is the student house of our university. My job consists of some php programming, a lot of sysadminning, and regular hardware maintenance.
My office is a concrete cave underneath the Schelde. It’s filled with buzzing 19″ rackmount servers, discarded PC’s, and boxes full of cables. The IT-cave is the only room in the whole building with air conditioning, and I also have my very own fake-leather CEO-style chair.
Awesome? Very.
Luckily one can always rely on the default happy birthday notifications from the internet to warn you about it.
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