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Today is “our” last chance as a soccer nation to go for the title of European soccer Champion of 2004. After a 1:1 stand-off against our German “friends”, we played a good match against the Tjechs. Even though we started with a 2:0 advantage, we managed to loose the match 2-3. Mostly due to a very questionable player change from our Dutch coach “Dick” Advocaat. So today we need to win big from Letland if we want to proceed to the quarter finals. However, if the Germans win from the Tsjechs, we still loose because we won’t have enough points […]

Haha, a collegue just send me this great Harry Potter spoof from Saturday Night Live:“Horny Potter”. You need Windows media player to see it 😉

Ok, this is NOT a joke, I repeat: this is NOT a joke! Remember Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak? Well, a professor at the University of Tokyo has created an optical camouflage system that makes anyone wearing a special reflective material seem to disappear. Here’s how: a video camera records the real-life scenery behind the subject, transmits that image to a front-mounted projector, which then displays the scene on the reflective material. It’s the darnest thing I ever have seen: It’s like the special effects you see in movies for real! I admit I thought it was a hoax or a […]

Let’s face it: Microsoft Internet Explorer is the standard browser for 98% of this world. But there are a lot of issues I have with MSIE in regards to what other browsers have to offer. For instance: I’m completely addicted to tabbed browsing (something I started to like once I tried out Opera). Also, built-in ad-blocking and pop-up blocking (also something Opera offered years ago) is a nice option. For those looking for an alternative to MSIE, look no further: just download Avant Browser, a tabbed browser with Flash Filter, Popup Stopper, Cleaner, Web Search and more. It just does […]

With the European soccer cup in full swing, some memories pop up about the famous – or should I say: infamous – World soccer cup final of 1974. Ever since WW II there has been some animosity between the Dutch and the Germans. It’s the same kind of animosity that exists between the British and the French (although their history goes farther back then ours). Back in ’74 the Dutch soccer-team definitely was the underdog of the tournament. We never got far and usually we stranded way before the semi- or quarterfinals. But that year it was different. We had […]

I just spend another weekend being totally absorbed by my computers. It all started when I wanted to upgrade my main game computer to Norton System Works 2003 and also installing Norton Internet Security Professional. Now, I have had my fair share of computer problems with Norton (if you can’t remember check the March 26 blog called Norton Goback, Go Away) and this wasn’t going to be any different. First I just tried to upgrade. This didn’t work well. Then I tried to uninstall all Norton stuff. That didn’t work well either. After going to the usual registry hell, I […]

Check out this cool blog:DUTCH HOPTO. Its about some Dutch guys that plan to travel through the US in the ultimate pimpmobile (my own personal favourite car): a Lincoln Continental Mark V. Peace brothers!

Just some Dutch Blog I spotted and like:Zomaar uit verveling …. Some Dutch female Blogger (“Ladyhawk”). I’m thinking about linking to more blogs that I think are interesting. Blog u later!

Ok, I just finally (after a lot of shit) got my FTP working again for my Bloggers@large. So, I decided to also put up my profile. You can see it by clicking this link:Blogger: User Profile: Henk. Not that it is very interesting, but hey: one needs to fill ones pages 😉 Anyway: I will probably post some more stuff today. I have a lot of stuff to write/contemplate on.

I just realized that Blogging (before it was called like that) has been around for quite a few years. In fact, they were called .plan files (“dot plan”). A .plan is basically a file which a user on a UNIX system (well, generally UNIX or Linux systems) can put into their “home” directory. This file is there so that the user can describe themselves, write a log, keep a list of things they have to do etc. Using a utility called “finger” it is possible to have a server return the contents of this file by passing it the user’s […]