YouTube rocks! Ok, here is a cool new service: YouTube. It lets you put all your video’s (with a maximum upload of 100mb per movie) online and converts them into Flash movies. You can then view them from anywhere in the world or you can add the video’s to your own webpage (like I just did), e-mail them etc. etc.. I think this is going to be the next cool thing that will sweep the web. This really rocks!! Check out the video that I attached here for fun! It is a spoof on the Dutch Scarlet One commercials that […]
DVD rot!
Rotting away! For the first time since I have started to buy and use DVD’s I have come upon a DVD (a Dutch documentary called “I’ts magic time”) that doesn’t work anymore because of oxydation (aka “dvd rot”)! A scary thought because this DVD is from 2002 and it’s 100% legit. It is a welknown fact that DVD’s (or CD’s for that matter) that you burn yourself, have a shell life that is less than a regular DVD. Since I have over 375 DVD’s (about 90% I burned myself) it makes me wonder what will happen the next few years. […]
“Get the checkbook. It’s Domino’s”
$5000 delivery? Ok, I don’t know what PR genius came up with this contest, but apparantly someone at Domino’s Pizza’s thought that it would be fun to sell a hypermodern “Ultimate Man Cave Couch” to the first person “to call 1-800-521-8274 (ask for Scott Senne) between 12-2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Dec. 14, so devotees of this divan should work on their dialing dexterity. All major credit cards are accepted.” Now, the couch will set the “lucky” owner back for a mere $30,000 (I would say; about a life-time supply of Pizza). But, the clincher is: “Some nit-picky details: The […]
Making the Web “2.0”
AJAX: enabling Web 2.0? Recently I wrote about my last 10 years online. When I wrote that article I felt that, in comparison with those first 5-6 years (’95 – 2001), nothing ‘radical’ or really ‘new’ was going on. Well, I need to revise my opinion because I completely left something out: Web 2.0. I guess it completely skipped my mind because a lot of what is hyped to be “Web 2.0” has been around in some way or form, but was pretty dormant, so to speak. But with something like AJAX popping up all around us, it seems that […]
Frits Philips (100) dies
Frits Philips: 1905-2005 Frits Philips, son of inventor Anton Philips, died last night at the age of 100. Frits, or as he was known by most people “Meneer Frits” (Mr. Frits) played a key role in the development of the Dutch Multinational Philips. Although he wasn’t known for his excellent management skills, he was a beloved and respected person in Holland espcially because of his social involvement. During WWII he didn’t leave Holland (the rest of the Philips management fled Holland) and managed to save many Jewish people from being deported to German work camps.The German occupiers even threw him […]
USA, CIA becomes its own worst enemy
Wrongful imprisonment How do you become your own worst enemy? Basically by doing the same things you accuse your enemy of doing. That is the paradox that the CIA is facing now, as it has become clear that they are using very questionable methods in the war on terror. Abduction, torture, keeping people in prisons without any trial (Guantanamo Bay): it’s just a short list of all the things the USA is doing. Dana Priest from The Washington Post has literally pulled the lid of some covert operations with her article on November 2nd called “CIA holds Terror Supects in […]
14.800 lawsuits later
RIAA: suck my **** Apparantly it takes the RIAA 14,800 lawsuits in the last two years before someone stands up against these morons. Before now not a single one has gone to trial. That’s about to change because Patricia Santangelo, a divorced mother of five living in Wappingers Falls, New York, is taking her case to trial. According to the report at the Arstechnica website, she recently found herself the target of an RIAA lawsuit and vowed to contest it, claiming that she knows nothing about downloading music online. The RIAA, however, is quite sure that she does. As they […]
The only thing worse than flying…
Flying sucks! Some times you come across an article in which the author just points something out that you can relate to completely. Such is the case with the article that Otto Stern from The Register wrote about flying and the open source community.It has been written in a humoristic way and at the same time he points out the funny relationship between flying and software (open source to be exact). I am going to quote the funniest part here. (some parts have been edited to shorten them) (…)I’m after progress, while these others are happy to wallow in the […]
A trip down memory lane: “crashed roses”
FedEx down My collegue reminded me last week of an incident that took place back in July 2002 when we worked together the first time at my old job at (then) VGM. For whatever the reason was (I can’t remember: I guess I’m getting Alzheimers), I ordered a dozen red roses online with 1-800-Flowers for my girlfriend Carrie. Since it was an overnight delivery it was going to be handled by FedEx. As usual I got a tracking number so I could see where the package was. I always liked this feature and the way you can see where your […]
Real kiss of death
Kiss of Death: for real! I guess most of you must have heard of the saying “kiss of death”, meaning that you seal someone’s faith with a kiss. Throughout history a lot of examples are around of people betraying one another with the infamous “kiss of death”. But for a 15-year old teen in Canada the kiss of death became a gruesome reality: she died after kissing her boyfriend. So reports Associated Press: By PHIL COUVRETTE, Associated Press Writer Mon Nov 28,10:31 PM ET MONTREAL – A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had […]