A quick reminder for myself and google:

Steps to make ubuntu (on Fit-PCs) boot into console instead of GDM:
1) Remove S30gdm from /etc/rc2.d
2) Go to /etc/event.d
3) Copy tty1 to tty0, and edit last line in tty0 to use tty0 instead of tty1
4) Reboot

While everyone else is being gracious and looking forward, I'd like to be the one to address an unfortunate aspect of the office of the outgoing president: Some of you elected this massive failure of a president.
I think it would be unwise to look forward so singlemindedly, that we might forget how bad the last [...]

I wished for a book about memory techniques for christmas, and my friend Rasmus gave it to me.
I've learned a couple of the techniques in the book, and I think I've already achieved a reasonable proficiency in them – enough for them to be useful.
I found that several of them are described here, and some [...]

I noticed recently that twitter functions like a valve that releases the pressure that would otherwise build up to blog articles.
Since I upgraded to WordPress 2.7, which has the QuickPress functionality (just a slightly handier way to write a blog article), I decided to catch myself whenever I am going to write a tweet, and [...]

Home again after a nice new years eve with good friends.

Even though Anna was driving this year, I managed to end up getting a 0.0 reading on the breathalyzer in the car home (I like to check my sense of sobriety against a breathalyzer now and then).
I am no good at getting drunk anymore, and [...]