Turns out the dutch Queens day is not the only party that is characterised by lots of drinking and lots of fights. Similar stories in canada. Yet there are so many other parties with just as many if not more people, and just as much if not more availability of booze, and there is nary [...]
Al Gore apparently knows how to present. Well, colour me surprised! I wasn’t aware that politicians are capable of leaving the bureaucratic old boring stuff out of presentations and cook something up that actually impresses the heck out of people. Add to this the ability to be lighthearted about your own serious mishaps (the whole [...]
I’m still anxiously awaiting delivery of my MacBook (also known as ‘GlossBook’amongst some). TNT’s track and trace is brilliant in how it says absolutely nothing useful so I have no idea if they’ll make the original planned delivery time of tomorrow. It’s interesting how so many things just become too much of a drag to [...]
I sold the iBook and bought the MacBook. Fortunately, I managed to sell the iBook for almost the same price I paid for it 7 months ago. I’ll admit that such an unprecedented resale value for computer hardware is made possible partly by some really decent student discounts, but still: Resell a computer for the [...]
Yesterday at barcamp I was showing off bomberman and some folks from Opera and Firefox were there. Their reaction to Safari being the quickest of them all when rendering the bomberman debug build on the mac is best described as incredulous shock. Anne of Opera said, in no uncertain terms, that Opera being slower than [...]
Apparently my forays into bomberman last time I was at the mediamatics building in Amsterdam for an unconference made some sort of impression. There are some Firefox dev guys here along with an Opera employee, and it turns out bomberman makes for an excellent speed test. Only safari manages the full 50 FPS that bomberman [...]
I hate overgeneralizing statements, so I’m not entirely certain why I keep coming up with these zingy titles. Still, I don’t really like the notion of someone coming in, checking out what you do right, and then going to your competitor to implement the same stuff. I’d much rather run a tight ship, and be [...]
Everyone and their uncle has heard about it by now, but in the spirit of ‘me too’… OMG! Shiny! Me want one! So, someone, buy my current iBook. Now to clean up this puddle.
I was looking for some information the Kalkar Fast Breeder nuclear reactor, but to my surprise there was no wikipedia article. I remedied the situation. Feel free to proofread. It’s not much more than a stab and I used my rather inferior knowledge of german and the German page. Speaking of, this kind of thing [...]
Wherein I bash a decision made by my current (but soon to be ex-?) favourite news aggregator, reddit, continue on for an encore about how any such popularity contest-based stuff is doomed from the beginning, and then offer a workable solution for all to enjoy.