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Inspiration Days Photo-contest 2010

Peter van Arkel — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:29:30 +0000

Upcoming event is the Inspiration Days (26/27/28-06), for more awareness of the global problem which is our environment. Consequently, they organized a photo-contest which I couldn’t refuse entering.

Do you want to join the contest as well, or just want to read more about the event, visit www.inspirationdays.nl

Inspiration Days 2010

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Inspiration Days Photo-contest 2010

Fun Times!

Peter van Arkel — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:39:27 +0000

I’m really looking forward to the next two months! Coming up, aside from some days off from works because of national holidays;

20-24/05 : Einheri LRP
18/06 : KISS in Gelredome Arnhem –> http://www.gelredome.nl/evenementen/274/kiss
19/06 : Muse in Goffertpark Nijmegen –> http://www.livenation.nl/event/9295/muse-tickets

And after the concerts, Anne and I have the week off, so plenty of time to enjoy the weather!

18/06 : KISS in Gelredome Arnhem –> http://www.gelredome.nl/evenementen/274/kiss

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Fun Times!

Gozerbot plugin : fact.py

Peter van Arkel — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:36:30 +0000

Hi all!

I whipped up a quick plugin for gozerbot you can all use if you want, of course I’d like comments and feedback if you feel like something’s wrong or if you just like the plugin :)

The plugin can be found here, together with the md5sum it should match.

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Gozerbot plugin : fact.py

Come one, come all!

Peter van Arkel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:26:33 +0000

Coming up for the 29th, the new release of Ubuntu (9.10), dubbed Karmic Koala.
I’ve been testing this release for quite a while, and I’m quite content of it, though I still think the Jaunty release had more new and improved features

Well, this was just a FYI :)

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Come one, come all!

Moving out – Pt. II

Peter van Arkel — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:38:20 +0000

As I mentioned before, I was still going to post some pictures of our new apt. We got the keys on thursday, so we finally had the time to make some, so I’ll share :)
There aren’t much pictures, and since I had the blinds closed, some of them are a bit weird with the lighting, but it’ll have to do :)

http://cthulhu.oldones.net/fotodump/main.php?g2_itemId=1446

On another note, in that gallery you can also find other pictures I made. They’re not filtered, so there are some pretty bad ones between the good ones, so be warned ;)

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Moving out – Pt. II

Also available on ipv6 now!

Peter van Arkel — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:33:55 +0000

BIT (my employer) was kind enough to supply me with a block of ipv6, more than I, or 100 generations of my family to come, could possibly ever use. Anyway, if you whois 2001:07b8:0620::/48, you’re looking at my allocation :)

With this, I took the liberty of setting up a tertiary nameserver on cthulhu to help ns1 & ns2 with their jobs, as well as providing AAAA records to the world, so a lot of my services and websites I run are now available through ipv6, this blog not excluded (2001:07b8:0620:0080::6) Also, I made a small modification to the sidebar, it now shows which IP you’re coming from, so if you’re connected through ipv6 (With a native connection, sixxs or teredo, for instance), you’ll notice it right away. Of course, if you still don’t use ipv6 (alongside ipv4), try to be a good person and do so :) I’ll devote a post on how to use ipv6 later, but if you just search around on the internet, you’ll probably find more than enough info about it :)

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Also available on ipv6 now!

Moving out – Pt. I

Peter van Arkel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:32:09 +0000

Good news, at least for Anne and myself. We found a new apartment, one that’s closer to Anne’s future job (University of Enschede) and is about the same trip for me as it is now. Of course, after living 2,5 years in this small ‘apartment’, we’re very happy to move out to a three-bedroom, 2 floor apartment.

Anyway, we signed the contract today, we’ll begin moving after the first of October, when it’s official.

As things develop, I’ll post more info here and I will also post some pictures when I have them :)

Yay!

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Moving out – Pt. I

New gozerbot plugin

Peter van Arkel — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:34:41 +0000

I’ve been playing with the gozerbot on my irc-server for a while, since I noticed it’s awesome capabilities. (We also use it @ work for the irc-server, for about everything) Since I’m also trying to learn python, the language the bot is written in, I took the opportunity of programming a nice little plugin, while also learning a bit of python on the way there.

As you might know, I’m also an avid Dungeons and Dragons player, so I made a plugin which creates a generic, random character, for whenever you can’t choose what to play. Output from the script on irc looks like this:

<@peterva> !chargen-create
<@nigel> Character:
<@nigel> Name    : Leantas Echs
<@nigel> Hair    : Long, Light Brown
<@nigel> Eyes    : Blue
<@nigel> Race    : Halfling

If you run a gozerbot, or are just interested in the code of the plugin, you can get it over here:
http://projects.oldones.net/gozerbot-plugins/chargen/chargen.py
(md5sum for version 0.1 = 1c1dd92ec8e749934470b0e0c66c344d)

If you like the bot, or you think something’s wrong with it, then contact me on #talk @ cthulhu.oldones.net:6667 or drop me an email at peterva @ oldones . net

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New gozerbot plugin

Diergaarde Blijdorp

Peter van Arkel — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:19:59 +0000

Made some new pictures in the “Diergaarde Blijdorp” in Rotterdam; See below for the result :)

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Diergaarde Blijdorp

New category: Photography

Peter van Arkel — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:19:32 +0000

For a long time, I wanted to pick up my old hobby again, but the lack of a good camera had kept me from doing that, obviously. When my tax-money from this year was deposited on my bankaccount, I decided to buy a new camera and start again.
I bought the Canon EOS 1000D, with the standard 18-55mm objective, a good bag and some memorycards to fill. I will be posting some pictures I make every now and then, so you can see them and perhaps comment on them.

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New category: Photography