Adding system info to your desktop background

I’d seen this in the past at a couple of clients, but never was able to figure out how their admins had accomplished it. I assumed it was some sort of setting hidden very far away in the bowels of Windows Server. I was wrong.

All my server's info in the background image.

All my server's info in the background image.

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Quote of the day

This had me chuckle when I when I saw it it pop up in my feed reader:

Sir, I find it intensely humiliating to be asked by airport security staff if I have packed my own bag. This forces one to admit, usually within earshot of others, that I no longer have a manservant to do the chore for me. Gentlemen should be able to answer such questions with a disdainful: “Of course not! Do I look like that sort of person?”

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Salmonella typhi font

I love creativity and, admittedly, have a bit of a font fetish. Which is why I thought this experimental project which involved printing with bacteria is really interesting.

How many people are in space right now?

Not much of a KPI, but there you  go.

The harvest of an evening in a hotel with Web Designer magazine

Philip Freriks ik ben je bitch niet

Too funny this (unfortunately in Dutch).


Fallout 3 is way too addicting

If you’re wondering why it’s been a bit quiet over here lately. Well, the main reason is that the latest installment of Fallout is proving to be quite addictive!

Grease lightning

You are supreme. The chicks’ll cream, for grease lightning.

Business Objects XI 3.1 SP2 out soon

Judging from the fact that the release notes (S-ID required) have been released, it cannot be long before it’ll be available from the SAP MarketPlace.

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How to make your (SAP Business Objects) training budget last longer in times of crisis

In these times of economic turmoil it might prove difficult to get funding for training courses you’d like to attend. Your training budget, if you have one, might have been cut or altogether dissipated. Timo Elliott wrote a helpful blog post with links to 96 (to be exact) SAP BusinessObjects web seminars, which should give you plenty of opportunity to further hone your skills or perhaps give you an idea what to spend that budget on. I personally prefer attending an actual class for seriously delving into a subject. But then again, I did become Web Intelligence certified by sheer experience and preparing for the exams with the aid of online materials on SAP’s Partner Training Catalog.

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