As they say: life happens. So yeah I’m still trying to resurrect my blog. Yeah right now the SSL is expired and all that goodness. I’m still looking for a good cheap VPS solution where I have 100% access to the server. But it’s not that easy to find a suitable one. In the meantime I’m just busy with my other hobbies (mostly watches) and setting up my ‘new’ 32TB NAS. And work. Lots of work. So yeah this might take a while. Maybe by the time I’m ready the subtitle of the blog will say “Rantings from a 60+ […]
Ressurection
Soooo, after neglecting this blog for a few years while trying some other webhosts and never investing enough time in it, I decided to pick things up again here. As you will notice, all the going back and forth between other webhosts, had led to me loosing all my images from older posts. As it goes I made a backup, but that backup only had links to the images & illustrations and not the actual items. I’ll need figure out how to handle that, but hey – at least my thoughts are still there. I’ll probably integrate my Twitter feed and […]
The case of the lost wheelchair
If you have followed my blog, you know by now that I have started to dislike flying a lot in the last few years. Ever since the financial crisis went from Wall Street to Main Street airlines have been trying to cope with the fact that fuel prices went up and fewer people can afford travelling internationally. On top of that their service is getting really crappy as well. Believe me: airlines are trying to pinch every penny. I also think this is wrong; instead of raising prices and lowering service overall to a lousy level (paying $5 for a […]
Forget customer service; just tweet…
I hear a lot of people gripe about companies and how lousy customer service is when something goes wrong. I have some personal experience with that myself. Just search my blog for the word “fail”. It seems that calling or emailing customer support nowadays isn’t getting you anywhere. So what is a person to do about it? Well, I have found that for whatever reason the whole “social media” thing is apparently more important now to companies than good old complaints by email. So lately I have been tweeting my gripes. And it has proven to be more effective than emailing. […]
Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011) – “Think Different”
Sad – but not unexpected – news when I woke up this morning: Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. A month after leaving Apple permanently, one day after the iPhone 4S was announced and just a few weeks before his (authorized) autobiography will come out. Regardless what you think you know about the man: he changed the industry and the world. Yes, I can say that without sounding dramatic. Just take a look around next time you commute from home to work. How many Apple products do you see around you? How many brands you know that […]
9/11/2001 – 9/11-2011
It is kind off surreal to me, that 9/11 is already 10 years ago! It was a Tuesday afternoon for me (6 hours of time difference with New York) and I was at my work at my former employer; Internet company Lost Boys (Business Solutions). Around 15:10, which was about 20 minutes after the first plane hit the North tower of the WTC, the news trickled in at my work. The initial reports where that a “small airplane” had hit the WTC. My first thought was, “wow, that’s a freak accident.” I also thought about the fact that in 1945 […]
Stop the Google spam!
Ok guys & girls. This post is a full-blown rant aimed against Google and the annoying way they do their offline advertising! Why is it that I can’t open up *any* magazine here in Holland without this annoying piece of paper falling out of it? WTF! It’s 2011 and Google uses PAPER to spam us! I am talking about the 50 Euro credit advertising for Google Ads. Literally for months and months now I am getting annoyed with this! It is just as bad as back in the 90’s when both CompuServe ad AOL where spamming us to death by […]
The tablet (r)evolution
Three months after a very sick looking Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad 2, I jumped on the tablet bandwagon as well. Yes, I now own an iPad 2. To be exact the white 16GB 3G version (I wanted GPS and for that you need the 3G version). So far I can say that it is by far the best gadget I ever bought. It fills the gap between laptop and smartphone in a way I never dreamed of. Last year I bought an Android powered smartphone (the Samsung Galaxy S) and I love it. It basically can do anything the iPad […]
A trial for Saddam Hussein, a bullet for Osama Bin Laden
When US president Barack Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden (OBL) on national television, he claimed “justice has been done”. The question is of course: who’s justice? Certainly not justice by international standards. If you look at the way things unfolded, there are many questions one can raise with his course of action. In fact: in this case the “justice” that was served was nothing else but revenge. Revenge for 9/11 2001 and the ghost chase the US government was on since 9/11. Don’t get me wrong: I totally understand revenge and I don’t shed a tear about […]