Some movies will always remain classics. I happen to own “Spaceballs the Movie” on DVD with a lot of extra’s on it. [youtube]AcY090XV284[/youtube]
Escape from City-17
I’ve been a huge fan of the Half-Life video games series, ever since the original came out in 1998. It set some new standards in storyline and also graphics (altough it basically uses a modified Quake engine). I remeber how I hugely enjoyed the opening scene for Half-Life with its cinematic effect and how it pulled you right into the game (something I only enjoyed again when playing Call of Duty 4). Half-Life 2 expanded in this and it even had a better storyline and looked great. I always thought that it might be worth making a movie out of […]
Commuter hell
You know what: it’s the small things in life that can annoy me the most. Like this morning; it took me 1hr. 19min. to cover 47 kilometers (29 mph). That came up to an average speed of… 35km/h (21,7 mph). Usually when it takes me that long, there has been an accident or it’s bad weather. No such thing this morning however. Just one of those things that makes you go ‘uhh?’ [nggallery id=2]
Two infinite things: the universe and man’s stupidity
The saying goes: “There are two infinite things: the universe and man’s stupidity.” Well, nothing proves better that this saying is absolutely right, than todays news. Even in a week with a plane crash and more news about the financial crisis developing, there is one Dutch politician that is able to dominate the Dutch news: Geert Wilders of the PVV. Why? According to the latest polls, made public today, Wilders right-wing political party would become the biggest political party in the Netherlands if elections would be be held today. Wilders reacted extatic to the news and even sees himself becoming […]
Come fly with me
I think that most people who know me, are aware of the fact that I’m not that keen on flying. Don’t get me wrong: I will get on a plane, I have my fear under control. I just don’t like flying. According to some psychologists it’s because people don’t like the fact that they are not in control. Whatever it may be, my heart skipped a beat this Wednesday when a plane from Turkish Airlines crashed about a mile short of the runway at Schiphol airport. Out of the 134 passengers 9 people died and 44 people got injured. There […]
Slip’n’slide
Ok, this could have easily been a video for the “Jackass” department, but I guess it’s kinda cool 😉 [youtube]DPp2HlIMkmU[/youtube]
Mayday! Mayday! Gmail down!
Hmm, I don’ t hope this is going to be a trend, but this morning around 10:20am (GMT) Google Gmail went down globally! Since then it has failed to come up again. I noticed it because my Gmail checker on my Mac ceased to work and said it timed out. Off course I tried to find out if it was just my connection or if something else was going on. I soon ran into a page in the UK that confirmed what I figured out already: Gmail is down globally! And it’s the second big outage in two months. On […]