The First Principle of Adultery

General — 22 November 2008, 15:17
 

 
The first principle of adultery:
Never make out with a liability 
 
 
To answer the obvious question: No, this is not inspired on personal experience but on a recent conversation. 

Export Article

General — 14 August 2008, 15:35

WIRED seems to think I am an export article:
 
 Olaf Kolkman, a Dutch networking export, says there's no time to waste. The only way for DNSSEC to work is for the top-level zone file -- which lists the specifics for top-level domains like .gov -- to be signed by a trusted authority.

Design your own life

General — 19 February 2008, 18:16


The other day I received a brochure from IKEA, the last page featured an advertisement by "DELA" a dutch funeral insurance company. Even though the disclaimer at the bottom of the add that the advertisement was not an initiative by IKEA it made me think about the essential missing products in the IKEA "design your own life" philosophy.
 




Design your own life


URN
Aska
Swedish Urn


colors
€ 149.00


URN
Kista
Swedish Pine Coffin
 
 
€ 349.00

Off course this is all parody and the marvelous IKEA company is not associated with any of the above.
 

BubbleBable

General — 10 February 2008, 22:05

Seems like I was mentioned... I hope in a favorable context.

Q12 最近メインで使っている言語は? なぜその言語に引かれたのですか?

Perl。それまではawkやCを使っていて、今でもたくさん使っているけれど、PerlはCでやりたいことをプロトタイピングするのに実は便利。システムコールとかよく似た名前で扱えるしね。後、よいライブラリがそろっている。DNS関連では、オラフ・コルクマン(Olaf Kolkman)のNet::DNSなんか結構素敵

 Cは知っておくと困らない。おかげで今もなんとかメシが食えてます。別に簡単な統計計算をCでやったっていい。32ビット同士のかけ算で、結果が64ビットであってほしい、というのをアセンブリ言語以外で書くのって結構面倒だからね。

 オブジェクト指向的なものにはイマイチ慣れなくて、使わずにいるんだけど、データや実行しているコードの流れさえつかめば、どういう言語でも対応はできると思う。Concurrency(同時に複数のコードが走っていること)を考えると、順番が書かれている通りに実行されるわけじゃないから、難しいけど。

 言語オタクにはなれなかったというか、劣等感があります。Prologとか、全然分かっていない。LISPのS式は、素晴らしいと思うし、教養の1つとして知っておくべきだと思うけど。JavaとCommon Lispが近縁なんだよな、そういえば。

 ツールというか、ゴチャマンとした処理系としては、Rは面白いと思ってます。プログラミング言語というよりは、統計処理関連アプリだけど :-)


XN--BLAFOO

General — 10 October 2007, 09:36
 
Yesterday the following data appeared in the root zone... 
 

XN--0ZWM56D.

XN--11B5BS3A9AJ6G.

XN--80AKHBYKNJ4F.

XN--9T4B11YI5A.

XN--DEBA0AD.

XN--G6W251D.

XN--HGBK6AJ7F53BBA.

XN--HLCJ6AYA9ESC7A.

XN--JXALPDLP.

XN--KGBECHTV.

XN--ZCKZAH.

 

in Amsterdam Zweegers was found death in a bath tub and the statistics on child death did not significantly change.

 

  


Debating technique

General — 28 September 2007, 17:53

 What is the name of the debating trick that starts with making wide sweeping statements about the community of your opponent, like in:

Our 61st Febember blog post on Chocolate Cookies has generated significant attention. It is gratifying to see culinary experts like Cookie Monster respond. Not so gratifying is that Cookie Monster's response reveals that even experts in pastry can fail to understand the dietary implications of the recipes they work with daily. This has been a longstanding problem in the culinary community.

 

 


GNU wins!

General — 12 September 2007, 08:11

You probably thought this was about an open source license. (These are probably not even Gnus, but I know more about GPL than about African animals.).


300 Chocolates

General — 2 July 2007, 11:15
I watched '300' yesterday. I have an idea for a graphic review of that movie but for now I cannot resist the urge for chocolates.

Sopranos ....

General — 25 June 2007, 08:29

 

I am a big fan of the Sopranos. However, Dutch television fails to broadcast the show on prime time so it never made it really popular in the NL. That leaves me nothing but SOBT (Stealing over BitTorrent) or waiting for the DVD series to come and pay 60 Euro.

Anyway, I am watching series 6 and the first episode started with a long scene, with a William S. Burroughs track accompagnying the images, that introduced in what state of life the family and their friends are. The William S. Burroughs track I didn't know but it sounded remarkably like the work he did with the "The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy" (Michael Franti's old band). A plesant goosebump experience.

I try to understand why I like the Sopranos so much, one of the reasons is that the show is pure commedy. For instance, I couldn't stop laughing when one therapist, Eliot, was talking to the other, Melfi, and said, without a trace of cynicism: "This Omerta concept comes from a pre-therapeutic culture".

I fail to understand why the broadcast of the last episode made the Dutch news. They had to first explain that the Sopranos is a popular series in the US and then broadcasted the plot spoiler! 


TPS Reports

General — 20 June 2007, 21:10

Remember the stapler... That and those damned TPS reports lead to the fire that destroyed Initech.

It seems that Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton might have inspired the developer of the Corporate Ipsum Dashboard widget.

What would life be without TPS reports filled with paragraphs of texts, see below, that can only be found on those callendars with pictures with big black frames and 'Big Words' in big white fonts. Now... there is an idea for a Dashboard Widget. If only  Despair wouldn't have had a "parody generator" of their own. 

Uniquely streamline 2.0 information via pandemic alignments. Distinctively transition client-focused services after superior niches. Monotonectally seize web-enabled web-readiness for market-driven "outside the box" thinking.

Intrinsicly engineer go forward infrastructures whereas cross functional total linkage. Dramatically conceptualize maintainable initiatives vis-a-vis user-centric e-markets. Uniquely underwhelm distributed networks via cooperative experiences.

Enthusiastically drive sticky functionalities after timely results. Professionally architect future-proof methodologies before functionalized action items. Monotonectally productivate standardized metrics without holistic benefits.

Authoritatively iterate team driven e-tailers for multidisciplinary "outside the box" thinking. Distinctively enhance effective vortals and premier interfaces. Assertively incentivize enabled services for resource-leveling web services.

Dynamically syndicate highly efficient imperatives rather than next-generation intellectual capital. Collaboratively maximize open-source methodologies rather than highly efficient supply chains. Appropriately empower stand-alone manufactured products before cross-platform vortals.


ID/Loc Scotch Bof

General — 27 March 2007, 21:41

The secret-wg's contribution to the Scotch BOF:

There is this mess that is almost a soap
About addresses, routing, called ROAP
Heat your box, if you dare
or your wire, I don't care
Drink a Scotch and there will always be hope

 (for the universal deployment .... &c &c) 

 See www.secret-wg.org/Secret-Archive/ for more geeky limericks.


Martin Scorsese's Sesame Street

General — 13 March 2007, 20:39

 

I have this thing with Sesame's street "Bert". I am also a fan of Scorsese's classics such as "Taxi Driver" and "Casino". 

Today I received a link from a dear friend with a pointer to The Trailor for Martin Scorsese's Sesame Street 


Appartement te koop/Appartment for sale

General — 15 February 2007, 13:47

 

June 1 edit: The appartment has been sold.

 

I have not been blogging much. I have been having problems with my server and the interface to the blogging software Only recently I found time to look into those. Besides, I am to busy to write coherent and thoughtful blog entries. What I am busy with?

Well for one, we bought a house. The main reason is that we grew out of our appartment; so now that is for sale. So, if you happen to stumble on this page and you are looking for a nice appartment (90 sq m) at 20 minutes distance from Schiphol airport and 20 minutes distance from Amsterdam center, then contact my real estate agent.

See www.nijenrodeweg.info for details.



(This is the kind of posting I probably should have written in Dutch)

 (20-feb-2007 edited to add pictures)


Agenda quote

General — 13 July 2006, 16:27

Inspired by a comment made at the IETF dnsop meeting:

It is less efficient to swing a big clue-bat than to shoot a round of clue bullets.


Gerard Reve died.

General — 9 April 2006, 10:00

At 82 years Maria called him into her arms. I am sure they will make love today.


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