Ok, this could have easily been a video for the “Jackass” department, but I guess it’s kinda cool đ [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 […]
Is Steve Ballmer a coke-head?
Every evil empire has it’s henchmen that do the dirty work. At Microsoft it just must be Steve Ballmer. I mean: the guy is a real PR nightmare! There are many embarassing video’s of him around, but I didn’t know this one yet: a compilation of a bunch of terrible Ballmer video’s. When you see the really old stuff you can only come to one conclusion: he has always been this way. Because of his outrageous behaviour there have been many speculations that he’s a coke head. Who knows. He might be just plain crazy. [youtube]e8M6S8EKbnU[/youtube]
More Savage
After I posted my story about Adam Savage’ obsessions, I came across this Google video of him attending the Last H.O.P.E. Hacker Conference (www.HOPE.net) which took place on July, 18-20 2008 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. He basically tells the same story as before (almost verbatim), but what makes it more interesting, is the part where he is answering questions coming from the audience afterwards. If you already saw the other video I posted, just skip to 22:20 minutes, and see Adam answer some questions. Interestingly, Savage  retracted comments he made at another hackers conference where he said […]
Obsessions of a Mythbuster
I came across this cool video of “Mythbusters” co-host Adam Savage, in which he is telling – in detail – about a couple of his hobbies obesessions. I didn’t know about it, but he would have shared at least one of these obsessions with the late Dutch writer, poet and TV-presenter Boudwijn Buch. I am talking about the Dodo bird. In the video below, Savage speaks about reconsructing the skeleton of a Dodo. As you might – or might not – know, there was no full (reconstructed) skeleton from a single Dodo around, until 2005 (they where reconstructed from different skeletons). […]
Dutch weather
Driving to work this morning, I went straight from nice sunny weather into a hail/snowstorm. Could not resist to take these photos. I never get bored with the Dutch weather. [imagebrowser id=1] Â Ps: one of my photos made the news đ
Thank God for Darwin
In the same week the Pope is struggling with some incredibly dumb people who deny the full extend of the holocaust, we have a religious scandal of our own. Famous TV-personality Andries Knevel, has denounced the creation of the universe took place in 7 days (well, 6 days actually as the 7th day was for resting). As he is part of the EO (a Dutch evangelic TV-station) this has caused a scandal within the TV-station and its followers. In August 2007 I wrote already about the EO when they purposely left out a whole segment of David Attenborough’s documentary ‘The […]
Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.
I think the title of this post largely sums up what the difference is between Mac and PC. However, if you work long enough with both OS’s – like I do – you’ll find things you don’t like with both platforms. Usually when I blog about computer annoyances, it is about Windows annoyances. But this time I’ll write about a specific Mac OS X annoyance I endure every day. Just as a bit of background: back in 2002 I switched from one company (Lost Boys) to another (VGM). The first company was a full-fledged Internet company, the latter a pre-press company that […]