Bullshit Can SOMEONE please explain to me what the hell is going on here in Holland with all the damn political bullshit that’s going on around Ayaan Hirsi Ali? After all the political debate about her (potentially) loosing her Dutch citizenship, because she lied about her name and montivation when asking asylum in The Netherlands, everything is taking a new twist. Minister Verdonk survided all the debates so far. Parliment forced her to find a way to let Ali keep her passport and so she did. According to Somalia law you can choose what last name (family name) you want […]
Linux vs Windows
Dual Boot or dual split? [CONFESSION MODE] The more I work with computers and software, the more appreciation I get for Microsoft and it’s Windows OS.[/CONFESSION MODE]. There: I said it. And you know what: I really mean it… So what triggered this confession? Well, I have some new (old) hardware since this weekend (Friday night) that I try to turn into a dual boot server running XP and Ubuntu (yeah again: Ubuntu). The hardware is an old Pentium III that runs at 866Mhz with 640mb ram (133mHz ECC), has a Elsa Gladiac Nvidia MX200 videocard with 64mb and a […]
It’s over
Ok, that was it. Game, set and match. We just got f**** over by the Portugese in the weirdest match of the whole World Soccer Championship so far. My God what a historic match! In one word: INCREDIBLE! I have never seen anything like this before. Almost 19 (!) yellow cards and 4 red cards! 2 for the Portugese and 2 for the Dutch. That never happened ever before. We started off with a big chance right in the first 60 seconds of the match. But then the Portugese scored 1:0 and after that it all went downhill. Just before […]
Soccer D-Day
Another Soccer D-Day today: our national soccer team has to play against Portugal. If we win whe are through to yet another round of finals (1/8th). If we loose (which I predicted a 1-2 loss) then we go home. So far I am number 3 in our soccer pool at work. But I don’t hink I will be number 3 on Monday anymore. Number 3 in the soccer pool To be continued…
Hey, what is this switch for?
Oops! For those who doubt that Murphy’s Law is just a theory, I would jus say: read on. Some poor chap in Canada did something that he probably will regret for the rest of his natural life and surely will not put on his curriculum. He flipped a switch he shouldn’t and that costed 11 million dollars. Yeah, you read it right: 11 million! Oops! My bad! Apprantly the guy, who was working on installing a structural steel platform at an ethylene plant in Corunna, Ontario, mistakenly activated a process shutdown switch on this Monday afternoon thus halting the complete […]
del.icio.us
Ok, I’ll be honest with you. For a long time I did not see the point of the whole ‘community’, ‘sharing’ and ‘social web 2.0’ and ‘tagging’ thingy. So all that stuff went right past me. Until now. One of the things I found is sharing information is a neccesity in the line of work I’m in. Sharing links that point to good webresources for instance. So after visiting the Adobe 2006 Live event yesterday, I decided to finally set up a del.icio.us account. For good measures I installed the del.icio.us plugin to my blog, so now you guys can […]
The Dutch invade Germany
We don’t call it “het Oranje legioen” (the Legion of Orange) for nothing 🙂(Stuttgart, Germany Friday, June 16th, before the match against Ivory Coast)
Two down, one to go
Orange galore! I’m not a huge soccer fan, but when it comes to the World Soccer Cup or the European Soccer Cup, I do get a bit more exited. I guess I’m a bit more chauvinistic than I thought. Last sunday we played against Serbia – Montenegro and won 1:0. Last night we had to play against the Ivory Coast and it was a very exiting match. We scored 2:0 in the first half of the game and it looked like we were going to have a easy match. But just before the break, the Ivory Coast scored a goal […]
Mentos and Coke
Sometimes you wonder how people find out stuff. Like: who would try to see what happens when they combine Mentos candy with Coke? And more mind boggling: why? I confess I never knew about the whole Mentos & Coke thing, until a couple of weeks ago when my collegue told me about it and showed me a video. For those that just crawled out from under a rock: combining Mentos with Coke has an instant ‘geiser’ effect. So off course there are a lot of videos on YouTube for instance, that show the results of such dumb experiments. But there […]
Ok/Cancel
(click image) If you’re in the IT-business – especially anything web-related – and you have a few years under your belt dealing with projects, requirements, IT-staff, customers etc., you get to a point where you probably have many anecdotes for just about every situation: Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. Still, it is nice to see there are websites around that succeed in touching things that matter in our profession (wether you’re a designer, projectmanager, programmer etc.) AND are funny at the same time. Today I came across a prime example of this: Ok/cancel. I feel I would do […]