Eek… Deleting my non-existing social life?!

I decided to delete some social-networking accounts. Among those is my hyves account. Hyves is very similar to facebook, with a large NL user base.

When you finally find out how to delete your hyves account, they sent a email saying (todo is translate to English):

Er moet een vergissing in het spel zijn, want als we niet beter wisten zouden we denken dat je je account permanent wilt verwijderen. Hiermee verwijder je ook al je foto’s, video’s, vrienden en deel je je sociale leven een klap toe die niet zelden fataal blijkt… Vaak hebben mensen ook even nodig om hun draai te vinden op Hyves. Maar goed. Haal diep adem, tel tot 10 en klik op de link om je verwijdering definitief te maken. Gebruik je Hotmail of werkt de link niet? Copy-paste dan de link tekst naar je browser.

roughly translated:

There must be something wrong, because if we didn’t know better, we would think you want to delete your account permanently. With doing this, you would delete all your photo’s, video’s, friends and give your social life a blow of which it rarely recovers. Very often people need some time to get used to Hyves. but anyway. Take a deep breath, count to ten and click the provided link to delete your account. Are you using hotmail or does the provided link doesn’t work? Then copy’n'paste the link to your browser.

Eeek. The sad thing…They convinced me…sort of…

Sweden

Last week I found myself throwing myself from a mountain side in Sweden on skies.
It was my first real winter-sport holiday and it was in one word: Awesome.

I love Sweden. Great countryside, great people. It’s empty (1 person / square kilometer in the region north of our place!) and they like eat a lot :)

2 Downsides…WTF with a maximum speed of 90 kmh at 90% of the roads! and WTF with selling 3.5% beer and making the real beer bloody expensive.
Luckily the blonde-blue-eyed girls do make up for that.

Work in Progress

Give more Xmas-holidays :p
I finally was bored enough to create my own wordpress theme from scratch.
I have tried to keep it as minimalistic as possible, and I am pretty satisfied with the result.
The layout is the *yawn* 3 column one, but hey… they are popular for a reason. The theme is not tested in any other browser as Safari (10.5)…but to be honest…I don’t give a #insert nasty word#.

Todo is creating and adding some graphics…but I discovered I don’t have any image editor installed on my iMac…>.<

The next weeks I will be finishing off, but I like it already…

Happy New Year!

2007 just came to an end, 2008 is awaiting and 1 minute old.
I wish everyone a good and healthy 2008.

site update

I will be updating gargleblaster.org this weekend…already am trying out new templates to pick one to adjust and tweak.
And…i think i will start writing some more posts again… :)

 

Gargleblaster.org

This is my weblog. I started it around march 2001, shortly after I registered my 1st domain, gargleblaster.org. The name comes from the novel written by Douglas Adams: “the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”. Besides my daytime job as coder, sysadmin, networkadmin, database-admin and projectmanager (nerf working in a small company), I try to read books, watch movies, listen to music…in other words…enjoy life.

My latest run

date: 11 Oct 08 11:36 CEST
distance: 5 km
duration: 29'12"
my last run

All my runs

total runs: 46
total km: 221.34
total time: 24:02'37"
farthest run: 7.67 km