Last night I had dinner in Amsterdam with a good friend who I have known since highschool. We always go to the same Indonesian restaurant: Kantjil & De Tijger and we always order the same food: “Nasi Goreng Rames” (fried rice with pork kebabs, stewed beef, pickled cucumbers, and mixed vegetables). It contains everything we like about Indonesian food on one plate and it is reasonably priced. Funny enough there was what seemed a Japanese camera-crew filming the food in the restaurant (unfortunately for some weird reason my video of that event is corrupted, so I can’t show it here). […]
The format soap continues
Obsolete? As you might have noticed the consumer electronics world is eagerly awaiting the mass introduction (probably later this year – Sony already ships some devices) of the successor of the DVD. But the problem is that the ‘powers that be’ can not decide among each other which format should be leading (unlike with the DVD). The consumer is off course the one to suffer. Off course I was happy when some manufacturers announced they would produce some models that would play both formats. So I decided that when the time will come, I will play it safe and get […]