More than five years ago I updated my email signature, as I'm sure you all know. Except for the address it hasn't changed much. This is another signature candidate, which, due to advanced age and downright maturity, I will neither laugh about nor tell anyone.

Never hold your farts in.
They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty ideas come from!

And, my fellow kitesurfers, please remember: Never fart in a wetsuit.

Since Gmail added IMAP support a while ago, I just uploaded  Jannis Hermanns' GPG/PGP key to the keyservers. You can find more info on my contact page or quickly fetch my key 70EEE1CC from the servers.

Ever since TFTs became cheap, I've been a fan of using two screens at once. I usually had two (more or less) equally sized TFTs sitting on my desk, both connected to the same workstation. At some point I ditched my old G5 PowerMac and replaced it with a MacBook. On the upper right corner, you can see my first laptop+external screen setup (click to enlarge). I still had the external keyboard, mouse and monitor left over from my PowerMac, so I figured why not use it. After a while I was tired of having the two screens sitting next to each other but totally un-aligned.

When I switched laptops again, I finally got me a little stand to put the laptop on, so it's screen is about next to the external monitor. As you can see on the image to the left, this setup was a lot better than what I had before, because the two displays felt a little more like one canvas. I was happy and stopped thinking about screen-alignment. Yesterday, though, I was in the office and had an external monitor - but no external keyboard and mouse. I put the laptop right in front of me, with the external screen right next to it. It was okay, but...