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Velen onder u vragen zich af wat die foto hierboven te betekenen heeft. Wel, mijn Minolta camera is stuk, iets raars electronisch wat buggy doet, dus ik hoop dat 'ze' 'm kunnen fixen, en anders moet ik maar een nieuwe krijgen want deze bug heb ik niet veroorzaakt. Firmware her-updaten hielp trouwens niet, nee. De enige camera's die ik hier nu nog heb zijn mijn cam in mijn mobiele telefoon, en een oude High-8 van SONY, maar dat is meer een filmcamera. Verder wilt u weten hoe het nu allemaal zit en is gegaan met die liefde van afgelopen zomer. Wel, we (G en ik) hebben het een tijdje aangezien en geprobeerd, maar een relatie zat er ondanks wat overeenkomsten niet in. Voor haar vooral omdat ze niet…

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LGA versus WGA

This had me laughing out loud: www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org - I know what they mean to say, and I really dig how they went and actually did it, bought the domain name, and wrote all the funny lines. That annoying Windows Genuine Advantage validation crap is the first thing about MicroSoft Windows that really made me consider moving towards Linux for my desktop use, even if I would have to miss some software. Just an example story on this WGA thing: I have a Toshiba laptop, and with that came a Windows XP Home CD. I actually licensed the copy with MicroSoft's website after installing, like a good little user should. A couple of years and many Windows Updates later I suddenly couldn't validate my copy any longer and it…

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Spelling & Grammar for dummies (updated).

I wonder what they teach in schools today. In the Rules and Guidelines of a well-known webbased forum I read:3. If you're English is not perfect, no problem but than always try to make short understandable sentencesThat's such bad advice it's not even funny! It's "your English", the comma is in a strange place, I'm missing a dot, and your English should at least show some attempt at making it understandable, i.e. it is a problem if it's not perfect. Let me put down some simple basic rules:You're - A contraction for "you are" (You're hot!). Your - Ownership (Isn't that your car?). They're - A contraction for "they are" (They're leaving now). Their - Ownership (That's their car). There - A place (It's not here, so it…

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