QuickLinks™ within this site

http://micki.sheep-thrills.net	my simplistic wiki-engine
http://blog.sheep-thrills.net	my lovely blog! (revived! hurrah!)
http://michai.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/plain	example of a very basic default-config MicKI wiki

Disclaimer

#include <stddiscl.h>

/*
 * Nothing on this site is real. Nor true. Nor interesting. Or perhaps
 * it is - it's up to you. I don't take responsibility for anything,
 * ever, and I don't just mean things in any way related to this site,
 * but in general, always and ever, unless I do.
 *
 * Have a nice day.
 */

Furthermore, I'll focus on content rather than eye candy - there's enough of that already. For example, I just spent 20 minutes googling for a pic to make this graveyard look a bit less like one, and in the end figured it wasn't worth it.

Instead I could have done this and this or even this, although neither one seems like much fun.

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Graphics are nice but not my game. If you don't like it, feel free to leave :-) Talking of which,...

if you can draw a better sheep than the one in the logo, above, please mail me !

News!

Goodie. What's new:

2008.05.08	page was down for a long time; now it's - hopefully - up again, running thttpd, and as a xen domain!
2007.10.28	moved/revived some pages from TWiki: DMA which triggers a bug, My_Digitus_Connect_4_port_KVM_switch - raw text, My_Newstar_NS-211MICRO_2_port_KVM_switch - raw text, PCMCIA_bus, and last and least: X0_cli
2007.10.07	made ExtraCaturday page
2007.07.30	made Send_your_PC_commands_using_your_cellphone page
2007.07.14	made PersonalGuidelines page
2007.07.08	made NetBSD_roaming_ssh page
2007.05.18	made http://stats.sheep-thrills.net page
2007.04.07	changed page sheep logo - hurrah! (WebLogoChanges)
2007.03.26	made Motorola_V360_NetBSD_GPRS page

About this site

This lovely site is a MicKI [image]

wiki through a thttpd [image]

httpd, on a Xen [image]

guest running (of course) NetBSD [image]

, powered by a real Intel [image]

Celeron; all this is connected to Teh IntarWeb through a Pretium Telecom 384/128kbps ADSL connection.

Thank you, Jari Tuominen, for the sheep

icon, and thank you, other people, for beta-testing the MicKI engine.

Of course you want to know why you are wasting your time with this nonsense - well here you go:

Purpose...

...for me

First, some facts:

almost every place has internet access these days
WWW is, imho, the public interface of internet and therefore seldomly blocked
duplication of volatile information is bad
my memory is bad

Therefore,...

I need a personal, centralized, web-accessible information store.

Note that I have left out a few steps in my reasoning, but who's counting. :-)

The main purpose of this site is to have a quickly-editable web-scratchpad. My memory is rather bad; therefore my ultimate, yet humble goal is to eliminate as many barriers as possible for recording thoughts, ideas and nonsense onto a permanent medium (unlike my own memory) from almost anywhere in the world.

Compare this to the goal of e.g. world domination - mine's easier.

...for you

Consider this site to fall back on when you...

are bored
can't sleep
have already done every possible other thing
need inspiration
need a good laugh
want to boost your ego by looking at something you could have done better
are me, and are actually using this site for what it's meant for

Apart from nonsense-content, there may actually be something of interest to you; the topics may well be your best bet, since a LOT of stuff was lost during last disk crash.

I learned a lot from readily-available information on the internet, such as David Tait's PIC LED-flasher, forming an ideal primer for PIC-controller enthousiasts, from introductory text to schematics to 6-instruction asm-source to Intel hex-file. IMHO, There should be more stuff like this on the net - to the point, yet complete. Well done, David!

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Q: why did you mention techy crap while I'm not AT ALL interested in that?
A: just READ ON.

Who am I?

I am michai, basically.

Physical profile

gender	male
age	33, hmpf.
height	192cm (depends on gravity)
mass	approx 100kg and increasing OMFG!!1
width	still smaller than my height
sense of humour	installed, but comes with manual
mood	acceptable, unless early or hungry

Fluffy profile

I like...

pizza
to sleep late
to stay up late
Li Choo (my female unit :-)
to watch cartoons
to do "computer stuff", in particular programming and toying with simple electronics
some impressive buildings
to walk every now and then
Unix
simple and elegant things
X Windows System (which is not simple and perhaps not elegant, but ok)
miserable and rough weather

while I don't like...

hot weather combined with physical activity
overcrowded and screaming websites
people who repeat themselves
mindless marketing fuzzy wuzzy buzzword talk without meaning
people who repeat themselves
wine
things escalating to rediculous proportions
people speaking when there's nothing to be said
small and irritating dogs

I hope that was useful.

(cough) Professional profile

Since 1.1.2007, I work for a small Dutch software company, and I am very happy there (not just sucking up!) My job there is, basically, programming. I have worked in some other places, mostly doing computer-related stuff, which is what I like. "Nerd", you say? scr3w j00.

The most social-related (side) jobs I ever had were...

working in a small shop, which unfortunately no longer exists. Somehow I feel my qualities lie in working with inanimate objects instead of customers, but I had a good time there anyway.
application support / helpdesk at a hospital. If anything, I learned to appreciate well-written documentation to avoid the need for answering the same question over and over again, and to be able to respond quickly and systematically to situations.