Yesterday a friend of mine pointed out that I have six computers which I all use regularly: a laptop for work, a laptop at home (for photography and hacking), a netbook, a backup/file server at home, a webserver and a smartphone.

Is this too much, do I need to go into rehab? Or is the average much higher? How much computers does the average IT-er have (and why do you have them)?

Discuss in the comments!

Officially a computer scientist
As of today, I have graduated and I am now officially a master of computer science, with a specialization in software engineering. Awesome! I graduated magna cum laude (with an average of 81.52%) and scored 18.5/20 on my masters thesis. Needless to say, I'm very pleased with this.

What's next? After much indecision as to whether I'd like to find a job in the open-source (GNOME) world or do something else, I've accepted a PhD offer at the Distrinet Research Group of K.U.Leuven. GNOME hacking will stay a spare-time activity for now, though I might change that decision in a few years. Exciting times ahead!

Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
Tomorrow I'll be flying out to the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. I'll be spending 11 days in Gran Canaria. I will be arriving in the late afternoon, so that shouldn't stop me from dropping by at the Canonical hosted opening party. Really looking forward to another GUADEC, Istanbul 2008 was really great. Many thanks to the GNOME Foundation for sponsoring part of this trip, without them, this would not have been possible.



I won't be giving a talk, but if anyone wants to have a chat about F-Spot (or any other subject), come and find me!

Due to a mistake in their administration work Dell recently sent me a 6-cell battery for the mini 12. I cannot use this battery, as I own a mini 10 (and it really doesn't fit in that one). Fortunately, a quick phone call sorted things out and they sent me a new correct one. No need to send back the old one, that's not economic for Dell.

Therefore I'm offering it up for sale. If you are a free-software hacker who owns a Dell Mini 12 and you want a 6-cell battery: I'm offering mine, brand new and unused (I can't anyway), for the bargain price of around 80 euro. These batteries usually sell for around 120 euro / 150 USD, so you're getting about a third off (aint't that nice?). With this purchase, you'll also be sponsoring F/OSS development of a poor hacker, consider that the additional benefit.

The only problem will be how to get it: shipping these things costs quite a bundle, so unless there's some way of hand-delivery, it probably won't save you that much. I live in Belgium and I will be at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit next week. If you are interested, contact me before Friday and I'll bring it along.

Went to the awesome Renault World Series yesterday in Spa-Francorchamps, the sound these machines make is incredible.

GNOME just got 25 students accepted for GSoC 2009: check them out here.

I'm happy to be one of them, working on RAW for f-spot.

Less pleasant news, it turns out I'll have to withstand Stephane Delcroix' terror reign another summer to be his student slave ;-).

Dear lazyweb,

I used to get my formula one news through magazines. They often lag behind, so it's time to go digital. Where do you guys and girls get your dose of F1 news and technical information?