Italian engineering

Sometimes you find that a choice you made turns out less good then one hopes. When I was picking my leased car about 1 1/2 year ago, I was pretty convinced that my sporty looking Fiat Stilo was a good choice. After all: it feels pretty sturdy, has good driving abillities and it didn’t seem as flaky as the older Fiat’s. The combination of the design and all the electronics it has on board (built-in GSM cellphone, GPS-navigation, CD-player, 7″ color screen etc. etc.), made me choose the Stilo over a Citroën C5, and the Peugeot 307. This last car […]

Who’s the BOB?

In Holland we have this rather dorky campaign about driving safely when you (or some friends) have had some alchohol to drink. The whole campaign pivots around an imaginary person called “BOB” which stands for “Bewust Onbeschonken Bestuurder”. This translates roughly into something like “conciously un-drunk driver” (I know: it sounds awfull and in Dutch its rather stupid also, but hey: what do you expect from a government sponsored campaign?). Anyway: one of the slogans they use is (again a rough translation): “You can always count on BOB to take you home (safely)”. The idea is that when you go […]

My own PHP Webforum

Kewl, I now have my own PHP Webforum. Try it out and let me know what you all think ;-). I will add more forums if there are any users that like to use it.. Have fun!