It’s tax season and I need to finish my tax form by April 1st. Luckily in Holland our “Belastingdienst” (the Dutch IRS) is fully automated so I can just fill out some electronic tax form and just push a button: presto! When I compare this with other countries (i.e. the USA) we are much more automated. For instance electronic banking: I have been doing that for 7 or 8 years now. My girlfriend can’t do it that way yet (at least not as easy). Weird because the concept of electronic banking and using the internet for it, is a concept […]
Norton Goback: GO Away!
A word of advice: if you plan on using Norton Systemworks 2003, do *NOT* install Norton Goback. If you mess up your system, it will make thing WORSE than actually help you! I just spend the last 4 hours trying to fix my sisters and brother in law’s PC that they bought only 3 weeks ago. When they bought it, I loaded it with stuff like Norton and some DVD burning tools. I also installed Goback. I figured that it would give better protection in case my sis (or her kids) would mess up their PC. However, this tuesday the […]
Radio Zion: Lounge 4 U
Ok, just a quickpost for today. As many people know, I like to experiment with my PC’s. When reading some PC magazines I stumbled upon a article on how to set up your own Shoutcast streaming radio station. Off course I could not resist and I just set up my own station: Radio Zion: Lounge 24×7. Just a big mix of electronic & lounge music. Something to relax by. You will need a player capable of streaming audio like Winamp. Just try it: you might like it. I cannot guarrantee It will be online by the time you try this […]
Free Pictures for your website
As some might know I have been trying to make a more attractive website for some time. My HTML knowlegde is very, very basic and I really don’t like to mess with it too much. I have been using Frontpage but it doesn’t produce attractive looking webpages. So I am still trying out some stuff and I could use some help. I do have some Ideas but how to put them into a design and then into webpages? Anyhow: in my search for some cool resources I stumbled upon this website: FreeFoto.com they provide free (for non-comemrcial use that is) […]
Leap year
Today it was February 29th; a leap day in a leap year. And for a lot of people the only time in 4 years they can celebrate their birthday. A leap year is a year in which an extra day in added to the calendar in order to synchronize it with the seasons. Since the tropical year is 365.242190 days long, a leap year must be added roughly once every four years (four times the fractional day gives ). In a leap year, the extra day (known as a leap day) is added at the end of February, giving it […]