A month and a day
April 20, 2005 @ 17:29
A month and a day ago our son Jilis was born. It's been an amazing and exhausting rollercoaster ride so far and I don't think...
Flying
March 15, 2005 @ 14:49
I can't remember ever having flown in my dreams. Apparently only some people fly in their dreams, just like only some people actually dream in...
Getting older
February 28, 2005 @ 12:50
Slashdot reminds us that it's 10 years now since names like Yahoo, Apache, Ebay, Amazon, and Netscape appeared on the then young internet scene. Has...
Yikes!
February 3, 2005 @ 13:46
Why did my computer freeze up? Crap! And why is iTunes still playing? Oh, ahem, it's just the batteries in the wireless mouse that are...
Last post of the year
December 31, 2004 @ 17:28
I haven't been posting much lately. Nevertheless, much has been going on. This blog has never been the baring all personal diary type and it's...
Mozilla product naming
October 10, 2004 @ 17:32
I've been installing Windows on a couple of computers for normal, non-geek, but certainly not dumb users. One of them my dad. I've installed the...
Not sticking to the norm
October 6, 2004 @ 15:50
A Webwereld item says that 45% of Dutch households now have digital cameras with which they on average take 580 pictures per year. 12% of...
Put-put-put
August 24, 2004 @ 16:13
Is it just me or is the internet sluggish today? Servers in the Netherlands seem to respond as quickly as normal, but fetching stuff from...
Who owns your ideas?
August 4, 2004 @ 09:45
A spooky article on Slashdot about a programmer who lost a long running court case about who owned the ideas in his head: the programmer...
New category in the File Sharing Database
August 1, 2004 @ 10:17
Slashdot points to the File Sharing Database, which offers people a place to register which CDs, DVDs, software or other stuff they bought after having...
Back
July 23, 2004 @ 10:07
Well, if you noticed that previous post you might have deducted that we're back from our holiday. Not that I had announced that we were...
Japanese lessons
June 8, 2004 @ 11:38
Preparing for our holiday in Japan I took some Japanese conversation classes. Liz does too. It's fun and Japan's a fascinating place, but it's not...
Shiki riki daidai
May 16, 2004 @ 00:44
Well, that was an evening well spend. Ukraine's Ruslana, who looks like Xena and Mad Max's lovebaby and sings and dances like a shaman on...
Hibernating
May 14, 2004 @ 21:07
I haven't posted much here lately. I've had a lot on my mind and, frankly, I didn't have much energy left to post nor did...
Internet wisdom
April 23, 2004 @ 12:01
I think this will be my slogan from now on: "It ain't broke unless we fix it." Really, I can explain why it is a...
The world's richest person
April 6, 2004 @ 07:51
Apparently the founder of IKEA is now richer than Bill Gates. Am I the only one who sees a little irony here? I mean, Microsoft...
I
March 21, 2004 @ 20:26
I thought this was interesting. Below are all the song titles from my iTunes library starting with "I" where "I" is a personal pronoun. Sort...
Google starting to turn evil?
March 16, 2004 @ 08:17
Alex Halavais has had a nasty run in with Google when he applied for the Google Adwords service and was "disproved" for, amongst other, I...
Reload a newspaper
March 15, 2004 @ 11:19
Jill writes: There are more people dead in Madrid every time you reload a newspaper and instead of being struck by the terrible reality behind...
Compound and hyphenated
March 10, 2004 @ 14:33
I'm informed that I need to spell the compound adjectives "English-speaking" and "Dutch-developed" with a hyphen. Which makes me wonder... does "high profile" also needs...
Internet wisdom
February 28, 2004 @ 23:15
I love it when you find modern "proverbs" floating around in cyberspace, like this one (cribbed from Slashdot): Remember, "professional" means that you get paid...
Instructions
February 16, 2004 @ 09:08
I love it when geeks talk dirty: Download this tarball. Explode it. Edit the file config.php to contain the correct DB connection information.* If needed,...
Sterling in Amsterdam
February 11, 2004 @ 09:38
Darn... Bruce Sterling is in Amsterdam today, but fat chance I'll bump into him. So near, so far away. I wonder if he wanders into...
Ikea walkthrough
January 25, 2004 @ 23:25
IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In...
Unfortunate naming
January 23, 2004 @ 16:05
Google quietly launches an online social network... eh... thingy. Kind of like Friendster. They call it Orkut, after the first name of the lead programmer...
Flotsam and jetsam
January 13, 2004 @ 11:11
I love language(s). Flotsam and jetsam are two wonderful words with an evocative history. Always good to know a little more: Your colleagues at work...
Markup
January 8, 2004 @ 10:30
Say, you covet a certain product that is manufactured somewhere and sold worldwide. Simplifying matters somewhat, the price of such a product is determined by...
Global economics
December 16, 2003 @ 17:37
There is some logic in this post, but it might just be my own kind of logic, so let me give you the parameters of...
Kill Bill
December 10, 2003 @ 11:23
Most comments on Tarantino's latest movie, Kill Bill (Vol. 1), praised it. And it is a fantastic movie. If you grew up in the seventies...
Snowy flakey
December 9, 2003 @ 12:54
Cool, make snowy-flakey figures and watch entropy set in....
404
December 3, 2003 @ 16:38
This custom 404 page is hard to spot if you're not looking closely, but pretty hilarious once you do....
Internet imag(in)ed
November 28, 2003 @ 15:16
A beautiful rendering of the structure of the internet, created by the Opte Project. They've apparently developed a method that allows them to remap...
Miss Digital World
November 27, 2003 @ 13:15
The Miss Digital World contest. The announcement of the contest sounds so surreal that I just quoted most of it. I mean, if we're talking...
Bit slow
November 24, 2003 @ 10:47
Okay, so it's been a bit slow here. I've been busy and will be for some time, so it might stay fairly quiet here for...
Gender genie
November 13, 2003 @ 11:54
A friend just reminded me of the Gender Genie. The Gender Genie will take a text, do some statistical analysis, and will then tell you...
Dark Passage
October 24, 2003 @ 11:58
Dark Passage (via Jurre). Reminds me of the haunting pictures of an abandoned hospital my dad brought back from a trip to Belgium. I should...
Micropayments
October 22, 2003 @ 21:20
Caspar Kleijne has dedicated a website to soliciting micropayment contributions for an undoubtedly ironic goal: I want to create an army large enough to invade...
Statement
October 22, 2003 @ 10:31
Hello. Please take note of the following if you happen to have a website, weblog, or any other form of presence on the Net: I...
Still dark
October 21, 2003 @ 08:14
You know winter's coming when you have to wake up and it's still dark outside. When the street lights are still on. I hate that....
iTunes for Windows
October 17, 2003 @ 13:52
The news was hard to miss, going through the news this morning, but I wasn't exactly planning on downloading Apple's iTunes for Windows until I...
Vlaamse gaai
October 14, 2003 @ 11:07
So Mena had a big spider in her garden, but when I just looked outside, this big fella (~30cm/1 foot) of a Garrulus glandarius glandarius,...
Toronto time lapse
October 10, 2003 @ 12:50
Beautiful 14 hour Toronto time lapse picture/movie (via Jish)....
Taking pictures
October 8, 2003 @ 10:41
For some people taking pictures is all about photographing people, capturing the moment of "being there" through the image of themselves or other people in...
Would you hire
September 27, 2003 @ 15:25
someone who lands on your website, searching for emglish language job in netherlands ?...
A new super hero
September 25, 2003 @ 15:57
This is the Web-Site of Angle-Grinder Man, the U.K.'s first wheel-clamp and speed camera vigilante cum subversive superhero philanthropist entertainer type personage. A big...
Pictures of my friends
September 23, 2003 @ 16:19
I love these Pictures of my friends....
Your bottom is public property
September 22, 2003 @ 16:21
According to the district attorney in Troms and Finnmark, your bottom is public property. He has not intention to appeal the acquittal of a chef...
New folder for sale
September 17, 2003 @ 10:13
Ebay continues to be a strange place. One, still running, auction offers a brand new Windows XP folder for sale. You'll have to top bids...
Stealth disco
September 16, 2003 @ 09:33
Here's a meme worth propagating: stealth disco. Boing Boing links to it and Owen too. Enough talk... let's boogie!...
Routing weirdness
September 14, 2003 @ 14:01
[Note: the traceroutes, contained in a PRE block, provided in this post have been edited out, because Internet Explorer fails do deal properly with the...
Interesting URL
September 13, 2003 @ 16:51
http://www.six-thousand-chicken-fa-ji-tas.org/ Seeing that title made me wonder whether we're supposed to write "URL" (Uniform Resource Locator) or "URI" (Uniform Resource Identifier)? W3 has an informative...
Schaap
September 11, 2003 @ 10:21
Google sent someone to this site who was asking for the meaning of the Dutch name "Schaap" "Schaap" means "sheep" (singular) in English. As for...
Silly
September 10, 2003 @ 22:56
About five years ago, when working for a publishing company that was upgrading to laser printers, I rescued an already ancient HP DeskJet 520 from...
Webcam
September 10, 2003 @ 19:30
Well, for as long as I don't get bored with it myself, you will find a webcam link in the navigation bar. Click the webcam...
ACRONYM
September 10, 2003 @ 11:22
Found floating in cyberspace: ACRONYM - A Capitalized Representation Of Names You Memorize...
Faking dead pixels
September 10, 2003 @ 10:07
Last week I got a replacement for the defective Acer AL732 LCD screen that I had ordered, but that I actually never bought. It's a...
Search terms
September 2, 2003 @ 08:57
Some people land on my site via a search engine with very interesting search terms. demonic Why, thank you! You look very diabolical yourself today....
Wallpaper
September 1, 2003 @ 16:32
Looking for some great wallpaper to decorate your desktop? Check out MintChaos's collection. There are some stunning images there....
AA
August 27, 2003 @ 11:16
A double vowel in Dutch is pronounced long. The double A in "schaap" means it is pronounced as "aah," sort of like the long A-sound...
No web update
August 26, 2003 @ 22:02
I cheated already. Yesterday the car dealership informed us about the cost of the repairs our car needs to get it safety approved for another...
Week without the web
August 25, 2003 @ 09:36
I'm not going to surf the web for a week. I'm not going offline or on a holiday, I'm just not going to use the...
Madonna Action Figures
August 21, 2003 @ 08:28
In a big heap of Sobig fallout and more banal spam I couldn't help but chuckle when being offered the chance to buy some Madonna...
Gone
August 19, 2003 @ 11:44
I'm sure that while trying to wake up this morning, I was writing a really interesting post in my head. But by the time I...
Inertia and the best machine for the job
August 16, 2003 @ 13:55
Robert Cringely wonders in his latest column why large organizations don't use more Macs, even as the number of Linux machines rises. According to Cringely...
Airbrushed beauty
August 13, 2003 @ 11:17
Feministe points to two digitally retouched images (1 and 2) in the portfolio of a retouche artist/photographer. With roll-over images he shows clearly how normal...
Synthetic diamonds
August 13, 2003 @ 09:42
Very interesting read about manufacturing synthetic diamonds. Kind of reminds you of all those alchemists trying to turn lead into gold, but this time for...
Melting
August 12, 2003 @ 15:42
I always try to avoid blogging about the weather, it's usually a sign of having nothing interesting to say. Right now I don't have much...
Not whistling through my teeth
August 11, 2003 @ 17:45
Well, that was a fun filled day, having one of my wisdom teeth brutally removed from its usual spot in my jaw. It only took...
Three more links
August 10, 2003 @ 19:27
These links don't really go anywhere... A real coilgun pistol: Gauss gun Pskov 1100. Now if I could only remember the name of that Amiga...
Latte art
August 10, 2003 @ 18:48
Once or twice I've had a latte with a swirly motive created by the mixing of the the dark crema and the light foam of...
While the music plays
August 5, 2003 @ 11:47
In two very interesting columns Robert Cringely talks about what he calls Snapster: the Son of Napster. You might want to read about Snapster first,...
Back
August 4, 2003 @ 12:37
We're back from our holiday in Sweden. I was mostly surprised about how focused Swedes appear on their own country and their own language. Although...
Too hot to blog & a guestblogger
July 17, 2003 @ 08:37
You wouldn't believe the weather... it's been too hot to think, too hot to blog. Also, I'm taking a while off during the summer, a...
End of an era
July 10, 2003 @ 14:21
I didn't buy last month's Wired magazine. I've read every issue of Wired cover to cover since the 1993 March/April 1.0 issue (or 1.01 according...
Losing my tabs
July 10, 2003 @ 09:09
One drawback of using Firebird with the Tabbrowser Extensions is that I've managed to loose all my open tabs a couple of times now. I...
Phone dial web browser
July 9, 2003 @ 10:57
Way grunge-matrix-retro-the-street-finds-it's-own-uses-for-it cool! Kottke points to the Phone Dial Web Browser. Instead of typing in some lame mnemonic alias for an IP number, you can...
Did I post a lot today?
July 8, 2003 @ 18:55
Blame it on the ease of use that Zempt provides!...
Body image
July 6, 2003 @ 16:49
Sometimes images and texts drift together, forming a new message. Last week's Volkskrant Magazine featured an article about ideal typical body-images for women and the...
Character entities
July 3, 2003 @ 10:09
When writing for the web, you can use SGML Character Entities to display typographic symbols and characters with diacritical marks in your text. The format...
And the music don't stop
July 2, 2003 @ 09:23
Monday night friends treated us to a concert of Michael Franti and Spearhead in Paradiso, because we'd helped them move house. I didn't really know...
Schlijper
June 25, 2003 @ 17:18
Check out professional photographer Thomas Schlijper's photolog. There are some wonderful collections in the archive....
Drifter
June 25, 2003 @ 12:27
Wonderful: drifter.tv. Especially check out 'channel' 37, "lonely-cam" (via D2D)....
Quiet
June 21, 2003 @ 21:52
It's quiet. The tv is off, the windows open to a warm summer night. The cats are sleeping on the couch. Paula's reading the new...
Male chromosome seriously weird
June 19, 2003 @ 11:01
Wired is running a seriously weird story. The entire text of the story reads like this: The Y chromosome is probably the weirdest chromosome in...
Links, miscellaneous
June 18, 2003 @ 09:59
After I inquired about how he did it, Martin put together a fine tutorial how to display entries from two (or more) different MT weblogs...
Whoosh
June 16, 2003 @ 10:31
I just downloaded the latest OpenOffice beta. It's 60.2 MB in size and I got it to my harddisk in 33 seconds. That makes an...
Semi-random links
June 12, 2003 @ 10:04
Some semi-random links are all I have time for today: • The Raptor Mark III, found at the bottom of another fascinating post by Gibson....
Tsssssh!
June 8, 2003 @ 01:01
It's been just too hot to do anything today. It's oh-forty-five am and it's only barely getting a bit cooler now. I sat in the...
Bill
June 6, 2003 @ 10:36
Getting a webhosting bill from my webhoster is almost an enjoyable event, because at the bottom you find a (randomly generated?) fortune-cookie-like insight. This time...
Hidden area of the Matrix site
May 29, 2003 @ 11:50
Atmosphere provides details about how to enter a hidden area of the Matrix website. • Go to www.matrixmovie.com • Click on the 'Enter high bandwidth'...
Starbucks in the picture
May 28, 2003 @ 10:48
When I was in Seattle, everyone insisted that Starbucks was somehow 'evil,' just like Microsoft, but no-one could explain me why. I had already returned...
Cat and Girl
May 27, 2003 @ 17:51
Cat and Girl make a Sound...
Latitude longitude
May 21, 2003 @ 13:54
So how do you look up the exact latitude and longitude of a street address (outside of the USA!) on the internet? It seems pretty...
Like Weegee
May 16, 2003 @ 00:20
Both Boing Boing and Die Puny Humans link to the Fire..Cuffs and Guts fotolog. The author is a New York City medical photographer and the...
Open windows, pt. 1
May 14, 2003 @ 06:33
"Show me what your links are, and I'll tell you what kind of person you are." Johnny Manhattan Root Blog DiGRA Quicksilver Blood Gulch Chronicles...
Posting priviliges
May 14, 2003 @ 06:25
Posting from public terminals, I realized that, while small, there was a greater chance that someone would be able to intercept my MovableType username and...
Back in Amsterdam
May 13, 2003 @ 13:33
I got back home yesterday and today I can't seem to get the Beatles' song Back in the USSR out of my head. Blurred timezones...
From the conference room
May 11, 2003 @ 00:32
The last session of the conference is over, now we're on a few minute break before the wrap-up. I'm pretty exhausted, but also really jazzed...
The hotel lobby
May 8, 2003 @ 21:23
So I moved from the Travelodge to the Best Western conference hotel and it has two internet terminals in the lobby. I really need to...
From David's office
May 8, 2003 @ 02:44
A quick entry from David's office. Cool!...
From Seattle
May 6, 2003 @ 05:43
I had a really cool ticket and I didn't even know it. I booked the ticket online and when I arrived at the airport to...
Wiktionary
May 2, 2003 @ 15:53
William Gibson mentions the really cool Wiktionary site ("a wiki-based Open Content dictionary"; neologisms here) in a very brief interview. Wiktionary appears to offer somewhat...
Preferential treatment
May 1, 2003 @ 17:27
Heh... it seems that Travelodge is out to screw users of the Opera browser for at least 20 USD. I've tried booking the same room...
Tsk tsk
May 1, 2003 @ 16:46
Next week I will be in Seattle for a conference. I'll be arriving a bit early so I can sleep off my jetlag and see...
Password security
April 28, 2003 @ 11:45
I was thinking about the sloppy network security at the university (shh!) and how, for a start, passwords might be made more secure. Of course...
Zersplittert: Aufrichtiges weblog selbstverständlich
April 24, 2003 @ 11:39
With a big grin on my face I'm looking at Google's German translation of this website. There are some real gems in there, like the...
PR-otaku
April 22, 2003 @ 10:30
PR-otaku, logging and annotating William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. Worryingly, this sounds like a wonderful undertaking to me....
Otaku
April 21, 2003 @ 19:49
In Japan, this is a negative label of one so obsessed with something that it interferes with normal life. This definition differs in America in...
We need words
April 18, 2003 @ 15:18
We do. Because people write the Net....
Not postmodern
April 18, 2003 @ 11:50
Business card drawings by Hugh Macleod....
Interesting transportation
April 15, 2003 @ 19:14
One of the first sunny and warm days of the year and I encountered two interesting vehicles on my way to and from work. I...
Good music
April 15, 2003 @ 18:55
Owen discovers Solex. Really, more people should discover the yummy quirkiness of Solex's music. I don't have an iPod, but I do have a near-perfect...
Hmm
April 14, 2003 @ 10:21
Too many whiney posts about rather inconsequential details the past month or so. Probably hiding, expressing frustration about slow progress and writer's block by proxy....
Wired interstitial advertising
April 11, 2003 @ 14:55
I just tried to visit the Wired website and was presented with a HUGE "interstitial" Intel advertisement. Interstitial means that the advertisement takes up the...
Borges
April 11, 2003 @ 09:28
This picture of Jorge Luis Borges appeared in the print version of de Volkskrant this morning and it sums up everything I love about photography...
More 103
April 9, 2003 @ 13:07
Humbug. The lovely Unlimited Lives uses a browser sniffing javascript to display the current date on its website, but the script doesn't sniff anything other...
Late Y2k buglet
April 7, 2003 @ 16:09
Oops... if you visit the Gamasutra website with Opera 6 or 7, you're assumed to be living in the second century AD. I don't mind...
Oh yeah!
March 31, 2003 @ 19:08
What can I say... it was a fantastic concert. And they were pretty darn serious about the smoke part of the tour name :-)...
Got game?
March 29, 2003 @ 21:24
Today we've been helping our friends fix up the apartment they recently bought. It's a pretty four room apartment with high ceilings and loads of...
Get in line will ya?
March 26, 2003 @ 16:04
It's those small things that can really annoy me. When I want to log on to the university's Exchange server through webmail, I get an...
Uh...
March 21, 2003 @ 17:08
www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com No, really, it all happens on css-d....
Do not eat this fruit
March 20, 2003 @ 22:05
In 1772 Diderot wrote a piece called "Supplement to the voyage of Bougainville, or dialogue between A and B on the inappropriateness of attaching moral...
Good evening
March 19, 2003 @ 17:22
Fed the cats, so it's off for dinner and a Madrugada concert at Paradiso. Yay!...
RIP espresso machine
March 18, 2003 @ 15:24
This is a veritable disaster. Our espresso machine just kicked the bucket.* The steamy-pipey-thingy simply broke off when I was cleaning it. No more cappucino,...
Who let the aliens out?
March 17, 2003 @ 07:43
This website is the number five hit when you search Google for "shapeshifting reptiles". Heh... Don't blame me, I only quoted William Gibson....
My first ever PHP code
March 16, 2003 @ 17:16
Hah! Took me about 20 minutes to dig through the documentation at PHP.net and write my first ever snippet of PHP code. To get exactly...
Nickname
March 13, 2003 @ 15:43
This is too cute not to mention: My Hobbit name would have been: Fastolph Grubb, but had I been an Elf, I'd go by the...
Quoting The Sisters
March 12, 2003 @ 10:20
Last night I saw the second episode of a new tv series, John Doe. It's set in Seattle (which is nice, because I'm going there...
Caught cheating
March 5, 2003 @ 09:38
My dad, who teaches in highschool, just caught some cheaters. The students had a two hour exam where they had to write an essay. The...
Clickety click
February 26, 2003 @ 11:18
Now this worries me... One of my harddrives just went through a few minutes of intermittently making clicking sounds, repositioning its read/write heads while I...
Setting sun
February 24, 2003 @ 09:38
Nothing like playing a Chemical Brothers cd very loudly on your walkman to wake up....
Nerds
February 19, 2003 @ 12:55
Paul Graham wrote an important article called Why Nerds are Unpopular. Even coming from a different (although Western industrialized) culture with, as I perceived it...
Online reputation management
February 18, 2003 @ 11:33
Interesting read: Spinning The Web: The Realities of Online Reputation Management (via Slashdot)....
Uptime outage
February 18, 2003 @ 10:58
Nothing terribly important in the grand scheme of things, but I returned home last night to find the alarm clock on my desk blinking its...
Frodo has failed
February 15, 2003 @ 00:35
It's all so very clear now....
Excuse me but...
February 12, 2003 @ 21:24
It looks like you're suing Microsoft......
Backups
February 4, 2003 @ 13:57
Hmm... I really should start backing up my data again. I stopped doing that regularly when I reinstalled my computer a while ago. I had...
Space elevator
February 4, 2003 @ 13:03
Wasn't it Carl Sagan who first came up with the idea of the space elevator (or at least brought it into popular imagination)? I can...
Bug report
February 3, 2003 @ 07:56
I just filed a bug report with Opera. The Low weblog consistently crashes my Opera 7 (on Win2k/SP3) on loading the page. Does your O7...
Light and snow
January 30, 2003 @ 08:36
An eery blue hue in my study because last night it snowed a little, with some snow left on the branches of the tree outside...
Snap!
January 29, 2003 @ 17:11
Thanks to a friendly colleague I can now play around with an almost ancient digital camera, a Sony Mavica FD7. It's about twice as big...
Updates and upgrades
January 29, 2003 @ 13:36
Well, Opera released their version 7 browser yesterday. News.com actually writes that it's Opera's "first final version", which is a bit paradoxical, but it makes...
In Bremen
January 25, 2003 @ 14:05
Blogging to you from Bremen where I've just finished my presentation. Presentation went fairly okay, it's a fairly fun conference as we're here with all...
Pop quiz
January 23, 2003 @ 09:20
A girl phoned in to the radio station with the right answer to a pop quiz and won herself a domain name of choice plus...
Busy
January 15, 2003 @ 20:28
Papers, presentations, classes. Later....
WG links
January 7, 2003 @ 15:28
Apparently a new book entitled Pattern Recognition by William Gibson is coming out in hardback in February. Mr. Gibson also has a brand spanking new...
Keyboards
January 2, 2003 @ 11:58
Remember those old IBM keyboards? They weigh a ton because they have a solid steel backplate and when hitting a key it travels a satisfying...
Happy
January 1, 2003 @ 15:44
Happy New Year...
Oh, and...
December 25, 2002 @ 13:30
Happy Christmas!...
Back from Berlin
December 25, 2002 @ 12:57
Berlin is beautiful. We even got to see it in the snow for one night, but most of that white blanket was gone the next...
Some privacy please
December 18, 2002 @ 16:45
So, who owns your identity right now?...
Anagrams
December 18, 2002 @ 10:01
Just in case it's a rainy morning where you are reading this: the internet anagram server....
Fixing
December 17, 2002 @ 16:53
I fixed the car; took me about 2 hours. I fixed Paula's computer, the router and network; took most of last weekend. I messed up...
Lawsuit waiting to happen
December 11, 2002 @ 13:42
In Wired and even in my dead tree based morning newspaper: In a landmark case, Australia's highest court on Tuesday gave a businessman the right...
Bleep
December 10, 2002 @ 10:53
Make your own barcode....
Massive attack
November 26, 2002 @ 13:07
No, to the band, but a fascinating article on Popular Science how the massive computer-generated battle scenes for the Two Towers episode of the Lord...
Ellen Feiss interview
November 22, 2002 @ 16:53
On Slashdot it is written that: "The Wait is over! Ellen Feiss's interview is up! And she really was on drugs, (well, allergy meds.)" She's,...
Article by Baudrillard
November 21, 2002 @ 11:46
"Terrorism Is Society's Condemnation of Itself" by Jean Baudrillard (via Lokman). A short quote from the article: Violence revenges all the varied cultures that disappeared...
Technobabble
November 21, 2002 @ 09:22
The Inquirer (like The Register) regularly question (or debunk) the hyperbolic marketing speak of big technology companies through a clever use of puns. The continuing...
Xmas resistance
November 18, 2002 @ 13:16
Ninjai
November 12, 2002 @ 23:27
You really want to check out Ninjai: The Little Ninja. It's a movie made in flash and they currently have 10 chapters of the story...
Ugh
November 12, 2002 @ 14:29
Pretty close to how I felt this morning. (Image from here.)...
Some links
November 6, 2002 @ 11:21
Cleaning up again, some links that really aren't much related, but should go somewhere: Excellent basic article at Ars Technica: Security Practicum: Essential Home Wireless...
PhD
November 5, 2002 @ 22:53
More comics... PhD: Piled Higher and Deeper. Some excellent episodes like the one based on the the Matrix, there's one on Indiana Jones, procrastination and...
Cute
November 4, 2002 @ 13:41
The Cutie Bunch Friendly Pal Pack (Thanks Tamara!)....
RIP Router
November 3, 2002 @ 16:29
This morning I woke up to find that my almost ancient IBM PC-330 had died. This little Pentium I @ 75 MHz desktop faithfully served...
More blogger archetypes
November 1, 2002 @ 18:04
With regard to yesterday's post on blogger typology, here's another Blogger Bestiary (via distant.sun), that does have an entry for academic bloggers: Academic Blogger (AcaBlogger)...
Blogger typology
October 31, 2002 @ 10:41
Good fun, Portrait of a Blogger, though I kind of miss the Research Blogger. Research Blogger (Reblogger) Percentage of blogger population: 1.634% Hours spent blogging:...
Fake copy application
October 30, 2002 @ 11:25
This application pretends to be copying files, when in fact no files are being copied. Feel like goofing off at work? Run this application and...
Re-installing
October 23, 2002 @ 16:13
Well, I'm about to re-install my computer. The unzip program that is tied in with the explorer through right-click context menus now manages to crash...
Book reviews
October 22, 2002 @ 17:42
Now I want to go read the other two books ;-)...
Book: The Movie
October 17, 2002 @ 17:06
I think that at some point in my life I'd like to make a movie about a book. Literally....
Back
October 17, 2002 @ 12:50
Back from the AoIR conference in Maastricht. It was a great conference, good seeing everyone again, and many smart and stimulating presentations. One niggle though:...
Borked
October 12, 2002 @ 11:03
Well, I finally managed to bork up Win2k pretty badly. Yesterday morning I was in a hurry and figured I'd quickly send an email with...
Always wanted to know
October 11, 2002 @ 16:59
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex? (via distantsun)...
Say what?!
October 11, 2002 @ 14:39
*uncontrollable giggle* (via blurbomat and as an explanation since they appear to have fixed the hack: this specific location of the map had been hacked...
Q-q-q
October 9, 2002 @ 12:29
q-q-q.net, distorted Quake gamemodification art (via milov.nl); a bit hallucinogetic, especially the videos. Unrelated but pretty funny (via Mark), two silly Microsoft Knowledgebase articles: Earth...
Busy
October 5, 2002 @ 10:58
Phew, I've been busy and I think I'm gonna be busy for quite a while: I have a schedule for my research that runs to...
Two questions
October 3, 2002 @ 10:44
1) Why is it that every organisation or company doesn't simply create the preconditions for you to do the work they hired you to do...
Who's who?
September 30, 2002 @ 17:03
Workspace exhibit. Now wouldn't it be fun to piece together who's working at what desk?...
Illusion
September 28, 2002 @ 09:22
Quite amazing: checker-shadow illusion (via kottke)....
Feet
September 28, 2002 @ 09:05
A different kind of foot fetish (via Evhead)....
Herd of cows solves international mystery
September 26, 2002 @ 21:49
RC5-64 is finally over, no more cows grazing in my taskbar after almost 5 years....
Tips and tricks
September 25, 2002 @ 11:09
Yesterday our research group discussed a paper about a research on how people look for health information. Internet is now one of the venues where...
Shoot!
September 24, 2002 @ 21:15
PictureYourself.org I'm going to sell all my 35mm gear, body, lenses, filters... even my beloved 85mm/F2.0 lens, the darkroom equipment and buy a good digital...
First :-)
September 13, 2002 @ 12:40
Slashdot refers us to the results of a hunt for the first ever use of a smiley. The Register helpfully provides us with a link...
Sun
September 12, 2002 @ 13:37
Maybe I should have complained earlier. There's a nice sun out today, but it somehow feels like the light here is always filtered through a...
Diffuseness
September 11, 2002 @ 15:41
Meanwhile the light's gone back to diffuse. Overcast sky. It's muggy because summer's not gone completely. People back from holiday. They appear to have left...
Cat and Girl
September 11, 2002 @ 13:09
On a lighter note: Cat and Girl....
So...
September 11, 2002 @ 09:45
A lot has happened in the past year and a lot didn't happen after all. A year ago I was in a conference that was...
Wishing you google luck
September 6, 2002 @ 09:48
I just fired off a mail to someone about finding something on the net and I wished him "google luck". I thought that was a...
Done
September 5, 2002 @ 11:27
In the meanwhile I've finished Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Pashazade: The First Arabesque and Cory Doctorow's short story 0wnz0red. I'm rather impressed by Pashazade and I...
Dot com is US property
September 4, 2002 @ 15:50
Yuck! The Register writes that two recent court decisions in combination with the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting legislation mean that .com domainnames are now considered "property" you...
Zuuuul
September 3, 2002 @ 00:25
Maybe you don't have this problem where you live, but here in the Netherlands we also get the German shampoo brand Guhl. Whenever I see...
Irony
September 2, 2002 @ 14:04
This is pretty ironic, don't you think? You ask Sygate to do a scan for open ports on your system and it can't do it...
Nine, not ten
September 2, 2002 @ 09:21
Yes, this has bugged me too. Why does the snooze button of your alarm clock give you a 9 minute reprieve from the dangers of...
Sterling's Open Source speech
September 1, 2002 @ 11:41
I really think you should read Bruce Sterling's Open Source speech....
Sterling's Open Source speech
September 1, 2002 @ 11:41
I really think you should read Bruce Sterling's Open Source speech....
Choosing
August 29, 2002 @ 18:38
Netscape launches version 7 and News.com reports Netscape's marketshare is down to an all time low of only 3.4 percent (also see the browser stats...
Geoblog and gendertest
August 28, 2002 @ 10:20
Bruce Sterling in the Schism Matrix blog: This is cute. There's a little regional map of London and people are sticking blogs in it. Geographically...
16 Horsepower
August 27, 2002 @ 10:36
The 16 Horsepower concert last night in Paradiso, Amsterdam was very impressive. Superlatives fail me. (fansite 1 and 2)...
Rethinking structure
August 26, 2002 @ 15:27
A superfluous note to self (and others who I can't imagine being all that interested): I'm rethinking some of the structure of the site and...
Shocking discovery! Hyperlinks often used!
August 26, 2002 @ 10:44
British Telecom (BT) had filed a suit claiming a patent on hyperlinks, aiming to levy a tax on the use of hyperlinks. They lost the...
Zillified
August 23, 2002 @ 22:05
Zilla! (But ma...! Mark did it first....)...
Everybody
August 23, 2002 @ 16:28
Blogs. Everybody is a movie critic. I'm not. I have sinned. Twice. My sincerest apologies....
Photo contest
August 22, 2002 @ 12:21
Take the Photo Quiz. It's a good one. (You can view the results after 10 or so choices.)...
New graphics chip for XBox?
August 22, 2002 @ 11:10
Dutch internet news site Webwereld reports that Microsoft will incorporate a new graphics solution for the XBox when they switch production over to a cheaper...
Free Davezilla
August 21, 2002 @ 16:49
Free Davezilla image nicked from Punkprincess, original here. This one's pretty cool too :-)...
What?!
August 21, 2002 @ 00:50
No video footage? (by way of Leuschke pointing to MeFi)...
What happened
August 20, 2002 @ 10:17
This happened. Brilliant. Very recognizable for a pet owner....
Feeding frenzy
August 20, 2002 @ 09:28
Just looking at the server statistics of this site: Ten out of the top thirty visitors (by number of hits) are search engines and six...
Version 1 browsers
August 19, 2002 @ 21:59
The Counter.com browser stats: Mon Jul 1 00:05:01 2002 - Wed Jul 31 23:55:03 2002 31.0 Days 1. MSIE 5.x 186444766 (50%) 2. MSIE 6.x...
-zilla
August 18, 2002 @ 14:18
Is it GODZILLA? Take the quiz brought to you by Quizilla. Little dragon guy sued by silly corporation. Who's next? Signed, Fragzilla....
Norah Jones
August 18, 2002 @ 00:38
Just discovered this and I like the jazzy/bluesy songs. NorahJones.com, that's the way to sell your music. Simply put a live concert and some other...
Photos
August 17, 2002 @ 22:26
I didn't know there were pictures! That's me, fragging some people to pieces in Quake after the 2001 Computer Games and Digital Textualities conference in...
Digging a hole
August 15, 2002 @ 17:24
With respect to the previous post about yet another big website not validating... isn't it a bit ironic that linking to the W3 validator breaks...
More bad webdesign
August 15, 2002 @ 16:01
Apologies if this appears repetitive, but it irks me to no end that the webdesigners of high traffic websites can't seem to put together a...
Bruce Schneier on security
August 12, 2002 @ 21:21
A long article in The Atlantic that goes into many aspects of security, both electronic and physical, based in a large part on Bruce Schneier's...
Two silly links
August 12, 2002 @ 09:40
Driving lessons... scroll down a bit and wait for the 1.1 meg shockwave file to load. Midget Tossing... no actual little people were harmed in...
Popinstituut
August 11, 2002 @ 23:10
What the !@#$%? The Dutch institute for popular music, the Popinstituut, which has an international/English version as well, is only accessible with Internet Explorer and...
Mozilla Museum
August 8, 2002 @ 10:03
The Mozilla Museum. Many mesmerizing Mozilla memories....
MSNBC blogs coming?
August 6, 2002 @ 12:36
Webwereld, a Dutch internet news site, reports that by the end of August MSNBC is going to offer users weblogs in an attempt to gain...
in/outsite links difference
August 6, 2002 @ 12:12
Hmm, Rebecca Blood did something interesting with the hyperlinks on her website: the links that point to another website have a different appearance than the...
Linux trial
August 5, 2002 @ 14:12
Knoppix is a full Linux distribution, with lots of software and automatic hardware detection, that comes on a single, bootable cd-rom. It runs completely off...
Slip them a Dreamcast
August 2, 2002 @ 14:33
The Register reprinted a Security Focus article by Kevin Poulsen, titled When Dreamcasts Attack. Two white hat hackers developed their game box cum attack tool...
Salon blogs a succes
August 2, 2002 @ 10:21
Dave writes: "Imho the Salon blogs have been a total success." I don't mean to diss Dave, but... already?...
space was all
August 2, 2002 @ 10:07
Scarce, I thought, were designers who embraced the smallness; who looked it in the eye and, instead of squinting, tried to imagine what good could...
Between a bug and a deep hole
August 1, 2002 @ 23:32
Yep. Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000. As was to be expected, they changed the EULA (End User License Agreement, you know, that...
Book burning
July 30, 2002 @ 17:40
Right... if you happen to know some powerful spells to ward off evil and bad luck, feel free to cast some in my direction :-)...
Salon Blogs update
July 30, 2002 @ 10:30
Pornographer's Picks on Salon Blogs is currently the second best read blog in their most read ranking. The blogs author describes the blog like this:...
Cruft Force
July 30, 2002 @ 09:53
This struck me as a particularly useful analysis tool (by way of Slashdot). I'm happy to report that my machine at home is happily puttering...
Perfect HR
July 28, 2002 @ 12:07
Milo's ceiling contains a perfect HR. Amazing....
Client side blog software
July 26, 2002 @ 18:34
The other day I mentioned John Hiler's Blogging Software Roundup. He makes a little typology of blogging software and one of the types he defines...
I love having written
July 26, 2002 @ 11:03
Turbulent Velvet says: "I hate writing. I love having written." I couldn't agree more....
TrackBack rebuilding
July 26, 2002 @ 09:42
Right. Yesterday I harped about the virtues of TrackBack, but upon receiving the first TrackBack ping to my blog for some reason it failed to...
Salon weblogs integration
July 25, 2002 @ 15:24
Yesterday Dave Winer announced a deal between Salon.com and Radio Userland, providers of fine weblog software. Radio Userland is providing Salon.com with software and services...
Blogstickers
July 24, 2002 @ 23:29
Blogstickers.com. Yeah, a bit cheesy, but they deserve a link :-)...
Game engine cinema
July 23, 2002 @ 22:31
Wired reports on a new (?) phenomenon: Machinima. With the power of modern game engines and freely available character-, animation- and level-editors at their fingers,...
Is that your tag?
July 23, 2002 @ 14:09
I arrived this morning at the subway station (which isn't even underground where I live) to find that a couple of people had spend the...
Nerd Cult mini sourcebook
July 22, 2002 @ 12:44
This site collects and briefly introduces some of the hypes (or memes if you wish) of online popular culture. From Mahir (I kiss you!) to...
Password burnout
July 19, 2002 @ 12:20
A research indicates that 39% of Britons experience PIN and password burnout. It says that the questioned people have up to 13 PINs and passwords...
The Observer
July 19, 2002 @ 11:57
"Everything is so subjective. The observer is the feeler of the pain." (Scripting News)...
Waitsian texts
July 18, 2002 @ 10:08
For a while now I've been reading Textism. It always reminds me of listening to Tom Waits. Yesterday's post seems a case in point. Beautiful...
Listening Post
July 17, 2002 @ 10:14
"What does the collective voice of the internet sound like?" This is a stunningly beautiful object/project. (Prepare for a 6MB Quicktime download though; by way...
Proper hyperlink appearance
July 16, 2002 @ 16:36
There's some discussion over at Kottke.org about the recent wave of CSS styled hyperlinks. Instead of going with the bare-bones approach of standard-blue and underlined...
Common mistake
July 8, 2002 @ 17:24
This article on News.com discusses the fact that many websites are developed only with Microsoft's Internet Explorer in mind. Although most websites initially show up...
Please hand me the hammer, dear
July 6, 2002 @ 23:34
We spent most of the day putting together a 3 piece Ikea wardrobe. It's from this series, but ours is a weird kind of icy...
Another quote
July 4, 2002 @ 11:05
An addendum to yesterday's post, helpfully provided by jill/txt: Douglas Adams: I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by....
Some quotes
July 3, 2002 @ 09:43
Murphy's Technology Law #2: A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entymology: There's always one more...
Kermit gets star on Walk of Fame
June 25, 2002 @ 12:17
Ah, this one's good. Kermit gets a star on the Walk of Fame! Details over at BBC news and CNN. Miss Piggy will be so...
Hmm...
June 17, 2002 @ 21:40
Thinking about some exciting things that MovableType's categories will make possible for this blog. I'm not telling yet though... }:-P Tired already of me gushing...
Book distribution going slow
June 16, 2002 @ 21:04
Hmm... it's close to a month since my book came back from the printer, but the international distribution hasn't started yet... what's taking them so...
Updating the Resources section
June 16, 2002 @ 21:02
I've been working hard on the Resources section of the site. Just thought I'd mention that in case you missed it. The MovableType blog tool...
CSS and how to define horizontal rules (HR)
June 14, 2002 @ 21:41
Just what you wanted to know... Since W3C says that the NOSHADE, SIZE and WIDTH attributes of the horizontal rule are now deprecated, you probably...
Powers of ten
June 10, 2002 @ 10:11
Cool. Powers of ten....
*click* dream
June 9, 2002 @ 17:14
You know how sometimes when you're dreaming you know you are dreaming and because you know you are dreaming you can stop dreaming that dream...
Back and lagged
May 26, 2002 @ 22:49
Back and still rather jetlagged. A month is not enough to really see Australia, but boy, did we enjoy every second of it! A completely...
Vacation
April 26, 2002 @ 15:43
It's going to be quiet here for a while, because I'm off on vacation. I'm not planning on doing any travel updates, but maybe opportunity...
101st post!
April 26, 2002 @ 11:30
This is the 101st post! I know the permalink says this is post number 106 [update: in the old system yeah], but the first four...
Online reading
April 24, 2002 @ 14:35
I want one!!! Well, I want one that doesn't have a black on green display, but the layout looks like what I've been wanting for...
Shocking facts
April 22, 2002 @ 09:18
Google says there are about 139.000 "shocking facts" reported on the internet. The most shocking facts apparently are about pet food, electricity and the church....
Teddy Borg
April 20, 2002 @ 13:23
Teddy Borg, a huggable network switch. I think the cats wouldn't let it do much switching in our house....
Tom's VGA charts
April 19, 2002 @ 10:57
It's the hardware loving nerd in me who enjoys Tom's VGA charts, which lists the performance for a lot of 3D graphics cards from the...
Xbox
April 19, 2002 @ 10:11
Slashdot reports imminent Xbox price drops to current PS2 level in Europe and Australia, i.e. 299 euro. Now let's just see how much money I've...
Slashdot rehash
April 17, 2002 @ 09:54
Linking up some open browser windows, probably all found through Slashdot, but I'm not terribly sure anymore: Triumph of the mod, article on Salon.com how...
Sorting is cool
April 16, 2002 @ 16:18
One of the reasons I installed MovableType the other day is that it will do sorting and allows you to attach categories to your posts....
Usability
April 16, 2002 @ 10:09
Usability Problems Hurt Kids! Adults Too! A while ago I remarked on good interface design and the horrors of navigating my university's websites. Today I...
On the internet
April 15, 2002 @ 17:34
In case you were looking (and you were, weren't you?!), the New Yorker cartoon "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is located here....
Cheap
April 15, 2002 @ 13:18
I feel cheap. I installed MovableType to see if I'd like it, but I'm still blogging this with Greymatter. Long time ago I started blogging...
Smurf communism
April 12, 2002 @ 15:01
Oh yeah! The Smurfs Were Communists!...
Aldus
April 12, 2002 @ 12:19
A journey through a longtime object of fascination of mine: typography. There are fonts called Palatino installed on millions of desktop computers; inevitably a weak...
Hooga chakka
April 12, 2002 @ 11:12
This is at number 13 of the Blogdex fresh index. Don't ask me why... or why I link it up too!...
Infinite matrix
April 9, 2002 @ 14:57
Heh... InfiniteMatrix.net is a place where, amongst a couple of other really cool people, you can find Bruce Sterling and his blog called Schism Matrix....
Auto-updating and worms
April 8, 2002 @ 10:25
In the wake of the news that the 'million-downloader' KaZaA, a file-sharing utility, contains a hidden, auto-updating peer-to-peer program written by a company called Brilliant...
Zen metaphors
March 27, 2002 @ 10:46
I love Zen metaphors: Ah, the Zen of word processors is the sound of one mind typing. Let's face it, we want something that will...
Üfö-übermetablogging
March 26, 2002 @ 15:28
Ufo breakfast does us as humans a great service in posting this analysis of metablogging....
Game Service Providers
March 22, 2002 @ 16:25
It seems that Valve Software is trying to bring ASP (Application Service Provision) to the games market, with their Steam project, reported on by Slashdot,...
Interfaces
March 21, 2002 @ 11:04
Meg Hourihan writes in a thoughtful column: "Poor Interface = Poor Interactions. As a Web application developer, I spend a lot of my time working...
3D graphics cards
March 20, 2002 @ 10:05
There's a nice article about the history of 3D graphics acceleration cards at Acceleration.com. Stumbled onto that link on Slashdot....
Half-life, no sleep
March 18, 2002 @ 22:53
On the box of Half-Life there should be a big warning: stop playing this game at least 45 minutes before you want to get some...
Ooh...
March 15, 2002 @ 13:00
X-Box pricedrop in Germany to 399 euro, reported by the Inquirer. Previous X-Box reporting on this site here....
The magic camera
March 13, 2002 @ 10:56
Drop a Nikon Coolpix 990 camera in a pond, dry it well and it turns into a magic camera. Link by way of ArsTechnica.com....
Optional new window function
March 13, 2002 @ 01:21
Eew! Up way too late to make the optional new-window-link work... but it should now. I got the cool code from RandomWalks.com, modified it a...
Wide as my screen
March 12, 2002 @ 11:44
In a strangely postmodern action, yesterday a man walked into the lobby of Amsterdam's tallest building, armed with a machinegun, a handgun and reportedly a...
As it should be
March 11, 2002 @ 10:55
Wouldn't you love to study Anthropology here? Judging from the picture *wink*notch* here they teach Anthropology as it should be....
Night drive
March 11, 2002 @ 07:55
I love the abstraction of nighttime driving: headlights, taillights and the fluorescent white lines on that endless strip of tarmac. Me and Captain Beefheart barelling...
Redecorating again
March 7, 2002 @ 22:29
Please note that I'm working on the resources section of the site. As far as I see everything still works, but it might look a...
Keeping it virtually real
March 6, 2002 @ 14:26
A paper by Lisa Nakamura, titled Keeping it (Virtually) Real: The Discourse of Cyberspace as an Object of Knowledge, that I hadn't read yet....
Ironical, isn't it?
March 5, 2002 @ 17:17
In this article on Wired, that reports on the ongoing case against Russian programmer Sklyarov, who was sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)...
Prince
March 5, 2002 @ 10:16
Joy in repetition...
More IE bugs
March 5, 2002 @ 09:32
Bugs in IE seem to be a continuing story, but this one is pretty nasty: even with ActiveX and active scripting disabled, a few simple...
Like the leaves changing color
March 4, 2002 @ 21:07
Check out this site. There's some nice content, but if you stick around there for a minute or two and you're not colorblind, you'll know...
Man
March 3, 2002 @ 13:40
Blogdex is a pretty cool project. Apparently this is a hot link at the moment. I can see why....
Yay!
March 3, 2002 @ 00:34
Great concert! Went to see US3 tonight at Paradiso, Amsterdam. Funky! Funky! Can't feel my legs anymore, but I still feel like dancing :-)...
*hurting badly*
March 2, 2002 @ 16:20
I hate browser incompatibilities! I'm working on the very necessary redesign of the rest of the site and it's just a horror trying to get...
Übermeta & unrelated
March 2, 2002 @ 13:56
More fodder for meta blogging. Meta blogging reminds me of Derrida's comments on discourses spiralling out in ever greater self-referentiality. On a totally unrelated note:...
Powerful stuff
March 1, 2002 @ 21:27
Read this contribution on Slashdot, even if it's the only thing you do today! Now! It's written in response to the news that Slashdot is...
Too much coffee
February 26, 2002 @ 15:56
My colleagues looked very disturbed when they heard my howls of laughter. Link courtesy of Lisbeth's Cataclysms....
Rebuilding update!
February 24, 2002 @ 23:25
Well, got most of the dirty work done and of course it took longer than I thought, but I'm pretty happy with the new frontpage....
Rebuilding
February 24, 2002 @ 16:50
Rebuilding the site, not everything might look as it should......
In the game
February 14, 2002 @ 14:19
Yesterday, when stepping onto the escalator in the subway station, I had the eeriest feeling of being inside a videogame. I was looking down at...
Unintended use
February 7, 2002 @ 15:04
Chalk up another one for the unintended use of an existing technology. Researchers found that the compression algorithms, such as you find in popular "zip"...
Neat and tiny
February 2, 2002 @ 21:50
Amsterdam's got a big housing problem... this could help... a lot of students for instance....
Antcity
February 2, 2002 @ 19:46
Burn, baby, burn!...
ADSL vs cable
January 31, 2002 @ 15:47
Whee! I just picked up my new ADSL modem. They installed a new phoneline last week and next week that line should get switched to...
Spooked
January 28, 2002 @ 10:46
Gawd... this really spooked me! News.com has these 'interactive' flash ads for a while now, but today's the first time that one of those things...
Bootdisk
January 21, 2002 @ 16:44
If you ever desperately need to boot your computer and do some diagnoses or repairs because it crashed (and it will, sooner or later, so...
Better passwords
January 21, 2002 @ 00:03
The Simplest Security: A Guide To Better Password Practices over at SecurityFocus. This should have been one of your New Year's resolutions... recommended....
quote of the day: Anthropology
January 20, 2002 @ 23:38
"The drive home was uneventful. I left the car in Stover's driveway. The rear seat was covered with blood. There was blood on the steering...
Dripping
January 14, 2002 @ 10:40
Being human is a messy proposition IMHO, especially if you factor in those two-week flu's that every day manage to cause a new sort of...
Pacman ghost
January 13, 2002 @ 12:34
I am a Pacman Ghost. I like to hang around with friends, chatting, dancing, all that sort of thing. We don't appreciate outsiders, and do...
Wishes
December 24, 2001 @ 11:48
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody :)...
Uptime
December 19, 2001 @ 10:44
uptime: up 93 days, 19:59, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 Nothing much special, but I'm kinda proud of my little FreeSCO Linux based...
Lara factoid
December 17, 2001 @ 17:20
Interesting... I never saw this described anywhere, but it probably is a known feature of Tomb Raider (2?) anyway. If you're hanging from a ledge...
Atari 2600 Lord of the Rings game
December 17, 2001 @ 11:15
Slashdot has an article up, referring to this article at Atari Age with details of a never released Lord of the Rings game for the...
Funky stuff with Lara
December 17, 2001 @ 08:40
I never played Tomb Raider when it came out, when I was running Win95 on a Pentium 100 machine with a 2 meg video card....
In the mail
December 16, 2001 @ 14:57
Translation: "It came with an e-mail!"...
Harry Potter
December 13, 2001 @ 09:04
I went to see the Harry Potter movie last night and I was pleasantly surprised, just like when reading the books. I started reading the...
You think you had it
December 12, 2001 @ 09:50
"You think you had it, but you're nowhere near" (Madrugada, Black Mambo)...
quote of the day: Words
December 10, 2001 @ 10:35
"Hot and cold are words. Think of them as words. We have to use words. We can't just grunt." (Don DeLillo, White Noise)...
Madrugada
December 3, 2001 @ 11:03
I got Madrugada's cd The Nightly Disease as a present and it just blew me away. It's right there, among some of my all time...
Crash a Nokia mobile phone by SMS
November 29, 2001 @ 10:37
An article at The Register mentions that a hacker (aka security researcher) has found a way to crash certain Nokia mobile phones by sending a...
Spamcop works... sometimes.
November 23, 2001 @ 12:15
Well, this is just too good to pass up for the blog :) I always report the spam I receive with Spamcop and occasionally you...
A new beginning
November 23, 2001 @ 12:03
First post on the new system! Well, it took me quite a bit of fiddling, but the New and Improved Blog is up and running,...
Greymatter
November 22, 2001 @ 14:23
Yep... some cosmetic changes happening, so some things might look a bit askew right now, but this should change soon. On a more fundamental level...
Shadowmarch
November 20, 2001 @ 12:28
I forgot how I ended up there in the first place (I think I clicked a banner on some gamesite; as a rule I force...
One of those sites
November 20, 2001 @ 11:05
One of those sites you continually forget you already knew, but still one of my favorites: Postmodern articles @ Elsewhere.org....
Quote
November 2, 2001 @ 18:55
Hilarious quote of the week comes from an article in The Register: "Microsoft stated, if I were to bypass the any parts of licensed documents,...
Artemis Fowl
October 24, 2001 @ 09:59
For three nights in a row I stayed up way too late because I just _had_ to finish a great novel: Artemis Fowl, by Eoin...
Discontinued
September 28, 2001 @ 07:42
This keeps annoying me: you manage to find a pair of pants that really fit you well and after a year or so you need...
Two interesting sites
September 25, 2001 @ 08:43
NYCASD.com - see for yourself Nooface.org - "In search of the Post-PC interface"...
Quiet
September 24, 2001 @ 09:20
It's been quiet here. I'm preparing for the AoIR Internet Research 2.0 conference. There might be some short comments before I leave on October 4th,...
With a deep Brooklyn accent
September 16, 2001 @ 16:20
Through a story on Wired News I landed on this personal account of the NY attacks. Usman Farman fell to the ground as one of...
Smiley
September 14, 2001 @ 09:27
Someone asked how to type a crying 'smiley'. I figure this is how: )-;...
Big Bad Chinese Mama
September 7, 2001 @ 13:04
Welcome to the home of the Big Bad Chinese Mama! "Inside are contained the "demure lotus blossoms," the "geishas," the "oriental sluts"-- whatever you had...
Search terms
September 4, 2001 @ 23:42
The logs of my website show which search terms sent people to my site. These are the 15 top search terms/phrases for the first 4...
Blogs linking
September 4, 2001 @ 18:52
Funny to see how this blog got linked up through other bloggers around the world. I told Lisbeth Klastrup in Denmark I also started blogging....
HP buys Compaq
September 4, 2001 @ 10:01
HP buys Compaq... for $25 billion. Wow. I keep an eye on tech-news, but I never saw this one coming. The new company will be...
Mobile Phun
August 29, 2001 @ 10:54
I'm going out to get my new mobile phone (the old one looks like a brick clad in leather, is about as heavy and runs...
Where HTML is flawed
August 27, 2001 @ 10:24
When making a link, I can point the reader to another page, but I cannot send the reader to exactly the section that is relevant....
Final Fantasy the movie
August 21, 2001 @ 09:25
I went to see Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within yesterday and I'm impressed. The most impressive feat I think is that they managed to tell...
Geri screams
August 20, 2001 @ 17:45
BTW, I saw Geri Halliwell's new video, Scream if you wanna go faster, the other day and I think they made a big mistake casting...
Extracting data
August 20, 2001 @ 12:08
The ingenuity of cryptographic systems and the attacks waged against them keeps amazing me. This article describes a method, presented at the USENIX conference, for...
First post
August 17, 2001 @ 11:55
Voila. The first entry for the Fragments blog. Let's begin with a not so scientific theory: from careful observation I have deducted that cats probably...
Updates
June 7, 2001 @ 00:00
Did a fairly substantial update on the CCIG Resources, fixing a lot of dead links and adding some new stuff too. Then went on an...
No mail
February 6, 2001 @ 00:00
I noticed I don't have a mail-a-form script running in my cgi-bin, so for the moment the contact form isn't working. Mail me with comments...
Moving to my own domain
February 2, 2001 @ 00:00
Big chunks of this website were lifted from my old website, which resided on the webserver of my ISP instead of here on its own...
Big update
June 14, 1999 @ 00:00
Big update to the "Cyber" Resources: 9 additions to the Online Articles section, 3 additions to the Online Journals section, 6 additions to the General...
Proposal
March 20, 1999 @ 00:00
I've done quite some updating in the past two weeks, adding to the online resources section and I put up my research proposal (which is...
Too much time
March 3, 1999 @ 00:00
Egads... just spend too much time updating the site while I should have been writing. Oh well. Updated the Cyberculture archives, updated a lot of...
Short message
February 14, 1999 @ 00:00
I will graduate in about six months time. To accomplish this I have worked out a schedule that is demanding, but doable. That will unfortunately...
New format
January 26, 1999 @ 00:00
Alright... I've updated most of the pages to the new format. All the resources pages have been changed and the old "online information" page will...
Archive
January 19, 1999 @ 00:00
Will work on archive this weekend....
Hot tip
January 3, 1999 @ 00:00
Welcome to the New Year. Hot tip: reading the specs for something like CSS _before_ you start using it can save you a lot of...
Browser trouble
December 28, 1998 @ 00:00
Well, after checking it seems that the site currently looks best with IE4. Netscape has serious trouble with rendering the tables and stylesheets right. The...
Under construction
December 21, 1998 @ 00:00
Uploaded an "under construction" version of the Webbah site. This was necessary to preview the site in my browser window because relative-to-site-root links only work...