Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.

Bird Brain

So far it’s Owen 0 – Pigeon 1
I’m loosing a battle of wills with a pea-brain. Arrgh. Can’t persuade her to leave my balcony.

Update: I’d have preferred to solve this problem some other way than having her die on me, obviously exhausted or sick. Now I feel really bad.

Ikea just lost me.

Nice products, but when I arrive at the collection counter and get ticket 160 I thought ‘great’ since they had just brought out number 157.
30 Minutes later I got the 36×40 cm piece of wood I needed to collect. It could of quite easily been in the self-service part, like the other 8 pieces of the small cabinet I was buying.
Needless to say I did not buy anything at the food counter which is ‘conveniently’ nearby.
Well, you transparent and crap prats, there are lots of nice furniture shops and I’ll go elsewhere next time.

Modern Business

This is war. And wars for the customers’ hearts and minds are won by ridicule, bad manners and SHOUTING!!! And, above all else, never give in to reality.
- The Register.

My server is back up and running now.

I’ve decided to start tracking FreeBSD CURRENT. Building my own kernel and world worked like a charm. And now the system has all the most current FreeBSD security patches and technologies, plus it is highly optimised for my hardware and now runs a bit quicker.

Server Down?? No Webcam?? :-O

Sorry hoor; ik werkt op mijn server vanavond.

Your Flag?

IP Address Lookup flag display from hostip.info And if it´s not your flag. Please go here and tell them.
A very cool resource, I will be updating my webcam page soon, and I plan to use that to humurous effect.

Website/Server Plans

I´m going to have to do it, and get some of that Ole´PHP goodness into my site. There are now some things I want to run on my server that require it. But not for the webmail, not yet.