For second time in a week the numeric keypad on my keyboard stopped working under Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). And since I had to, once again, Google the solution, I might as well post it here as a mental note-to-self: CTRL + SHIFT + NUMLOCK
Yearly Archives: 2011
Webstats 2010, part two
Besides this weblog, I have this other website, which is basically something that started out quite innocently, and then got completely out of hand. I speak, of course, of The (almost) complete Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman lyric archive. Here is how that site did last year. In a word, compared to 2009, it was… Read more »
Citaat van de dag
Vandaag in de Volkskrant een artikel over hoe het Nederlands belastingstelsel alleenstaanden nogal bedeelt. Dat is an sich geen nieuws, maar er zat wel een opmerkelijke uitspraak in: Een belastingstelsel moet neutraal zijn en niet sturen op welke leefvorm mensen kiezen, zegt SGP-Kamerlid Elbert Dijkgraaf. Prima. Eens. Maar kunnen we dit principe—dat de overheid niet… Read more »
First Lines: Against Religion
On account of a broken rib—all’s very in that department now, thank you very much—my before bedtime reading was on hold for a couple of weeks. So I did most of my reading in the train to and from work. And sometimes, well, it’s hard to stay focused. Anyway, I finished my first book of… Read more »
I Could Drink a Case of You
Tonight I went to see Charlie Dée‘s Tribute to Joni for the second time. And like over a year ago, it was awesome. A Case of You Both Sides Now (song starts at 2:36)