I told you so!

What did I say yesterday ? It is going to be one of those days ...
damn right it was. I knew it!

so I went to the party yesterday, a pyjama party. and off course there were people running around in pyjama's. boxershorts, bathrobes, sleeping gowns.. all there. and the party was good was really good. all night long there was system of a down, Korn, rage against the machine ... just my kind of music. that night really brought back memories of "the bolero" in zonhoven. It was the only rock cafe in zonhoven when I was 14-15. And I have spent alot of time there. unbelievable.

but during the freak out songs on the dance floor, someone bumped into me and I spraid my ankle. At that point I didn't feel much of it after 5 mins but I guess it was the adrenaline.
they closed the party at half past 3, a pity though it was a lot of fun. and I was in bed by 4.

fast forward to the morning. I get up , my ankle hurts like hell. still does btw. so I limped around in the appartment getting a shower and eating something. I had to be at the fachhochschule by 9'o clock. Marcus was going to take me along to setup the network for the Iron man competition here. it's some kind of sport marathon thingy.

It was cool. we laid a 400m long cable. had to climb up onto the roof, poles over gates...
AND this time I HAD to break a doorknob. well unscrew it actually but this time it was intentionally. It was fun. we had a good laugh while doing the work.

But we didn't have any food with us and we were there from half past 9 till 5 'o clock.
so that means hungry hungry steve-o. I'm going to finish work on my paperwork for the school and then head to the spar to fix me some nice taco's.

**update
The day aint over yet! also first a thing I forget to mention.
as a student here, on my own. I need to be fed. but here I have to hunt my own food. so 2 times a week orso I head to the supermarkt here and resupply. there is cashier that knows me, seen me on regular intervals. and this morning. when I past her she demanded to see my backpack. but everything! what's under the laptop, the side pouches etc... People don't trust foreigners nowadays.

anyway, now that I want to cook , I grab a box of fishsticks out of the freezer and out jumps a piece of frozen chicken filet, hitting me in the head. those things are hard!
I want this day to end...
**end update

See ya everybody

The new steve

Hello everybody!

I'm back in good 'l austria. I had spent the past 5 days in belgium. A birthday present from my parents. It was really nice. Most people I know would pay to keep me out of the country. so it's true. mother love is blind :-)

Well my stay there was awesome. Saw my parents, grandparents, girlfriend, my dogs and off course my bunny. I missed the lil bugger. The weather was hot there. 30 -35 degrees and more at certain points. So plenty of oppertunity to hold a BBQ! which we did off course. my dad also had his birthday so that had to be celebrated. 49 years old now. it's starting to add up.
another event was off course mothers day. the woman we can't live without... or with for that matter but hey. details :-D

Sara and me also celebrated our first year together. ANOTHER person that's crazy enough to want me around. Even though I hit her in my sleep. Yup, Steve "Domestic Abuse" Bielen. Another nickname to the list.

Since tuesday I arrived back in austria. It was a long trip so I didn't see much of my evening here.
Now for the rest of the week.
currently working on my project. It has taking a big turn. I'm currently working on getting squid to put it's log files in a database. But squid doesn't support it. There is one plugin that allows it but it does not suit my needs. So .. I am starting to write my own software for squid. Yup you read it, I'm writing my own linux software. I've come a long way from starting the school in 2005. The program will be written in Perl, It's similair to Python which I do know but I have to learn Perl from scratch. so far it's going along great. I can open the file, read the contents and prepare the data to input them into the database. I am currently studying a book : PostgreSQL second edition. it has a whole section dedicated on how to use perl with Postgre. So I expect this to be finished soon.

Saterday is going to be fun. the ISN here is organizing a boat bike and wine tour. we're going to do some sight seeing, and have free wine on a boat with a big BBQ. I was convinced at the free wine part but they made an effort.
Also, I'm a celebrity here. The school edits a newspaper and they have done an interview with me. I had the chance the ramble about myself for 45 mins so that was pretty cool.

That's about it for this post. Tonight there might be the chance that i'm off the a party but don't know yet. I have to be in the school tomorrow at 9'o clock.
Uuggh. it's going to be one of those days.

Wacka Wacka

Greetings!

Woa I have a lot to talk about.

I had some visitors from belgium here and they came in peace. they als brought me a gift to show their kind intentions. It was a very pretty young lady that I could keep. Off course for your information that was Sara my girlfriend.

Robin and sandra and sara drove 9 hours by car just to see me. how awesome is that ? Well the girls came to see me. Robin came here to pick up the seasons of Stargate that I downloaded. We did a lot of fun stuff. Made some trips into the city here. ALOT of shopping. and I mean ALOT. fiendisch womans! but it was fun. Our trip to vienna was very cool.

When we arrived there on saturday there was a the vienna city fest in progress. so all the big squares with the library and all that had all kind of stands on it. a stage where some people where performing a sound check. and lots and lots of people. It was really great.

They also brought me some sweet sweet Jupiler. Now I have some REAL beer here. I'm going to savor it :-D
You can take a look at all of the photos, they're on my photobucket account.

there are some pictures that I'm very proud of.
This would be the first one: Look at the happy faces such a magical photo.. and then WHAM i'm in the background! neat huh!

also this is a pretty nasty one. it's a bear from a chocolate store.Look at the hands! look at em! Think of the children!
You might notice the amount of pictures. well there is a good explanation for it. Burst Mode.
we've been playing around with it and now I need to find some time to make animated gifs.
probably next week orso.

speaking of time, my project is making huge leaps forward and backwards aswell!
Steve typo Bielen struck again.
one random letter in the config file of squidguard and the entire proxy server crashed. sweet huh. But that's fixed now so all good.

Currently working on the blacklisting features. It's pretty scary though. I was at line 4300 on the porn blacklist and I didn't pass 1% of the entire file ... So much porn ...
ALSO!
urlblacklist.com is a commercial blacklist. the biggest one around. they have everything divided into categories so that you can block or allow them easily. the weird part is that they have a seperate category for french education ... yeah let it sink in FRENCH EDUCATION!
why in the love of god would someone need a seperate category for french education.
I can image something like this:
"Sys admin": Johnson the system is having that bandwith problem again. What can we do about it ?"
"IT assistant": No idea , perhaps we can blacklist some sites?
"Sys admin": Open and shut case Johnson. let's blacklist the french and get this over with!

No really, what the hell. This is a case like the netauthority. they consider beastiality and interracial sex on the same level of offensive behavior. off course that site was a parody on the extreme religion kind off guys.
But i'm going to stop here.
Got some work to do.

see you guys and thanks for reading!