A pole to rest on

I arrived in Rotterdam a few days ago, and have not had the chance to blog about it yet. Look at me looking smug, enjoying the breeze outside. Pretty cool windmill eh? Yeah I thought so as well.

Take a look at that. It was cold, but it was a great way to get out and get some fresh air, did I mention fresh air smells so good! Yeah, that is the Erasmus bridge in Rotterdam. I also went and visited the place where passengers used to buy tickets to go on big cruise liners to go to America. The Holland Amerika Lijn.

The wind was so bad I needed to rest against something to make sure I would not fly off. It was cool to see some history.

So, there you have it. My adventures. I would have taken pictures of me celebrating New Years with fireworks, but unfortunately fireworks were nowhere to be seen. There was some very thick fog in the city of Hengelo, which reduced visibility to about 7 feet. Meaning I could hear fireworks, but unfortunately not see.

Walk through the Swiss hills/landscape

Today was a great day to go for a walk through the swiss landscape/hills near Basel. The sky was blue, the air was crisp, and it was not too cold and not too warm it was just right. It was a blast, check out the pictures! Switzerland is such a beautiful country!

In Newark, NJ

The hell-hole of Jersey basically. Sitting in the lounge. Eating foods, stealing wireless. Yes, I said stealing. Some jackass put up a Wifi hotspot named "Free Wifi" using his Verizon EVDO enabled laptop. So I VPN'ed home, and now I have secure internet over an potentially very insecure network link.

Yes, the hat is with me!

I'm holding your hat hostage

And it will be visiting Europe for the first time!

With apologies to LostboY. Your hat will be visiting Europe before you!

FreeBSD foundation needs your love people

I am not sure if I posted this here back in February, but I can at least repost it now.

The FreeBSD foundation is looking for donations to help support developers with specific projects, send them to conferences and buy equipment. This year so far they have raised over 216000 US dollars to support everything they do. I am asking that if you read my blog and you have a few extra dollars left over, send them to the FreeBSD foundation so that they may use it to further the FreeBSD operating system.

You may ask why I am asking you to be so selfless an donate to this organisation and it is because I use FreeBSD extensively though out my day. It is used to serve up this page on Lighttpd. The more funds they have available to sponsor projects, and buy hardware the more stable the OS will become, the faster it will become. While it won't affect me directly (the donations) they will benefit us all in the long run. Many websites and servers run FreeBSD for DNS/Web server/Mail server and other services.

So please donate to the FreeBSD Foundation. It will make you feel good inside!