Amoebe with Alzheimer Yes folks, there is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. Especially when it comes to politics (let’s say, Bush) or – closer to home – my work. Now, besides some exceptions, I normally do not write about my (current) work. Well, this is gonna be one of those exceptions.Yesterday I had the pleasure of attenting a board meeting at my company (2nd time). The company I work for consists of 8 subsidiaries (actually 9 but one is inactive) that have been bought over the last 15 years or so and now are part of a group. […]
TiVo – well, sort of
TiVo clone Ever since I got my girlfriend Carrie hooked on TiVo, I wanted TiVo for myself as well. Tough luck for me because you can’t get it in Europe/Holland. And it’s not because of technical restrictions, it’s because of all the damn politics surrounding the cable companies here. They understand all too well that TiVo revolutionizes the TV market and they all want to make money from it. So instead we have all kinds of weird constructions to get TiVo like functions (mainly: every cable company has it’s own set-top box solution). To cut a long story short: one […]