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Google’s Four Seasons 17 Apr 2012 | 10:52 am
I googled “Spring” because I was looked for something on the Java framework. The result inspired me to google the other four seasons as well and take a look at the four image results.
QR codes rock, strictly personal tablets don’t 17 Aug 2011 | 08:40 am
Although I am aware of (and use) wonderful services like Read It Later, Springpad, Evernote and the ability to send myself links through various means such as mail, Twitter, Facebook updates or the ol...
Virtualbox running PostgreSQL 23 Jul 2011 | 02:14 am
If like to keep the PC I use for development as clean as possible, to reduce the odds of “other installed stuff” influencing whatever I’m writing. Whenever I need to install some kind of server-type s...
Rant: welcome to 2011, not unlike 2001 18 Jul 2011 | 03:58 am
Remember how mediaplayers were really primitive back in the day? How they always had trouble keeping your music properly sorted and display the right metadata for whatever format you preferred? I bet ...
Two admins and a security hole 15 May 2011 | 06:56 am
If you’re like me and you trust your wife to be the other admin on your desktop PC running Windows, you may have a serious security hole. I didn’t realize until recently, but if you’re logged in to Wi...
NRC quote - significant 9 May 2011 | 05:30 pm
“Quotation is a servicable substitute for wit” is a quote frequently attributed to both William Somerset Maugham and Oscar Wilde. And it’s true, it can be. But in the weekend edition of my newspaper t...
Nuclear vs. democracy 3 May 2011 | 11:50 am
With the Fukushima situation in Japan still slowly growing further out of hand, discussions about the pro’s and cons of nuclear energy abound. Whereas some governments like the one of Angela Merkel in...
Too busy! 7 Nov 2010 | 02:53 am
You know how people always tell you they don’t have time, or they’re too busy to do something with/for you? This is what they’re really doing. Oh, and perfection matters, don’t try telling me otherwis...
Fight flames with Unix and Firefox 26 Oct 2010 | 12:33 am
Thanks to my colleague, who went tripping around Andalusia in the south of Spain and spotted several of these fire extinguishers. Finding the Firefox alone would have been awesome, but the Unix one ta...
Pix in space! 8 Oct 2010 | 08:17 pm
The first photograph of earth, taken from space dates back to October 24th 1946. The actual image reminded me of frequent recent news stories featuring hobbyists sending camera’s into space (if you ta...
