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] Ps: one of my photos made the news 😉
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 […]
White Trash Beautiful
I had to share this song with you all. I’m not a huge fan of Everlast (I liked a couple of their hits though, but never bought downloaded any of their CD’s. I just stumbled upon this song while browsing some videos at YouTube. Universal Music has an official channel there, but does not allow embedding (assholes). So here is a live version taped from VH1 video channel. It actually is just as nice as the full version that you can watch here. I just love the title of the song and the lyrics are dark, dramatic and very well […]
Polonium-210
Dead ex-spy “It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong”. A famous quote by French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist Voltaire (1694 – 1778). And still true as Alexander Litvinenko, ex-KGB agent and FSB lieutenant-colonel found out the hard way. Before his death on November 23rd nobody had probably ever heard of something called “polonium-210”. In fact it sounds like something from a bad spy movie. However, the truth seems more bizarre than any scenario from a cheap cloak and dagger novel. Litvinenko left Russia for the UK in 2000 after severly criticising his superiors on crime […]
ZionWiki has arrived
Just to let you all know: this Friday I added my own Wiki to my webserver. After I tried PHPwiki (which was very hard to configure and looked real ugly) I decided to install the #1 Wiki: MediaWiki. This is the same software that they run for Wikipedia and lot’s of other Wiki sites. I am going to dedicate my ZionWiki to the Serendipity (s9y) Blogging software and a bit about Ubuntu Linux. The Serendipity website has its own Wiki, but I think it doesn’t look good like a Wiki and I find it hard to search and find stuff. […]
When looking back one is always right
When looking back one is always right Nothing is easier than looking back on things and analyzing them. Such is also the case with the war in Iraq. People that were against the war (like me) are afraid that many innocent people will get hurt. But now it seems it’s a walk-over for the US. I wonder how much longer the war will last.
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action – J. Von Goethe (1749-1832)”
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action – J. Von Goethe (1749-1832)” With the war going into another day, this is a truly interesting quote that popped into my mind. The Iraqi’s seem to be able to hold back the US and British army more than we expected and this will make it more and more difficult to tell when this war will be over. Just a dream? In the night the war started I woke up in the morning from a dream I had. Well, actually it was more of a fragment of a dream. The fact […]