Even more Vim goodies : Leonid Mamchenkov posted some clear and simple instructions about Perl programming with Vim. Most of it covers the scripts for Perl on vim.org, but it listed some nice vim settings I never knew about (eg the listchars option for vertical indentation).

Only thing I miss from a modern IDE (eg Eclipse with the EPIC plugin) is the option of showing command definitions (foreach, confess, split, ...) with a function key. You can summon Perldoc from Vim, but that does not cover function and statement syntax. Can someone provide any clues ?

What's more geekier than this Lego ice cube tray ?
There's only one drawback I see, and that is that you can't stack the cubes : there's no bottom mold, so the bottom is flat.

The title says it all : here are several color schemes for Vim, for more coding pleasure.

Since I bought a DVB-T decoder for my TV, I couldn't record anything anymore on my VCR : the video recorder did not have a SCART input, and that was the only way my DVB decoder offered a connection. I was already thinking about getting me a DVB decoder with hard disk, but that wouldn't let me record anything on video tape or DVD.

I spotted a digital VCR in the shop, which combined a HDD recorder with a DVD recorder, and I knew that was the gizmo I was looking for : it has a 250 GB hard disk, which offers me a maximum recording time of 320 hours, which should be sufficient ;)
What remains is digitalising all my video tapes; while trying that, the HDD recorder choked on the VCR signal when I connected the VCR output SCART with the input scart of the HDD recorder, even up to a point where I feared I foobarred the machine. Luckily, the machine came back up after some scary moments. Connecting the VCR with a coax cable worked, as the VCR emitted a signal around 590 MHz, which was detected by the HDD recorder.

Beat me, whip me, make me create something in Microsoft/Open Office.