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Four Starters

I’ve been a bit silent on the blogging front until recently, however I’ve picked up the pace again. My posts will generally be found at FourStarters.com from now on though, unless it’s about very specific programming ramblings. enjoy!

2007 05 09 Uncategorized Comments Off

Legislative crud – iPhone trademark is apple’s.

I’m back from an excellent vacation, and more about this later. However, for now, just a quick shine on the ongoing internet armchair debates on who really owns the “iPhone” name – apple, or cisco? It’s apple’s, and the reason is simple. Fortunately, in this case, Cisco’s clear bungling of the case should make this [...]

2007 01 13 apple Comments Off

Belated, Wimpy – TAG!

Apparently, I’m it!, but I’m extremely tired (spending 3 hours chewing the fat with some very talented (they do exist out here in Delft!) web 2 prodigies at the mashup contest where Alper lifted himself into top spot wasn’t exactly in the planning for an already busy day but I’m very glad I went), so [...]

2006 12 20 Comments (2)

Reinier WINS!

Two excellent pieces of news for you, my dear friends, readers, and random stumblers! Today I have received word that I am, indeed, getting my engineering degree – &it’s been confirmed. Another interesting piece of news: You may remember my clash with the justice system regarding running a red light that I’m certain I never [...]

2006 11 09 education
politics Comments (1)

The tethered life

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 [...]

2006 05 25 Comments Off

Back to the bomberman

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 [...]

2006 05 20 tech Comments (4)

No more Exams. Ever?

Just got my Cryptography exam graded. An 8 (out of 10). I have an interesting observation regarding the way I studied for this (Executive Summary: I read Wikipedia articles instead of the book), but for now, let’s just leave it at: That was my last exam for my MSc degree. Just some presentations and reports [...]

2006 05 03 Comments (6)

Nothing to report, move along…

Just working on tipjar all day, unfortunately haven’t had any revelations of Truth and Light these last few days. So, I’ll just entertain you with some brilliant inventions instead: chindogu.

2006 04 26 Comments Off

bomberman update

Reporting from Cocoa Dev House, Amsterdam, I’ve finally produced something playable with a little advice from the Mac gurus here. check it out! (bring a friend, 2-player only for now). Andy from Flock also managed to solve the sound dilemma (how to add sound effects) for me and he has a lead on a potential [...]

2006 04 22 programming Comments (1)

Measuring hits and the like.

I’d love to have some stats. (unique) visitors per day, same but for each article separately, some sort of nicely sorted view of referrers, etcetera. How do I go about this? I believe (not sure) that it placed a google analytics bug on every page but so far I have no clue how that works. [...]

2006 04 17 Comments (3)