Direct Marketing
Direct marketing anoys the hell out of me. With surface mail even more than with e-mail based spam. One of the Dutch loteries hired an actor who personally signed a mail that was addressed personally. "Dear Mr. K, I am …
Year: 2005
Googlalphabet….
Surprised as I was to find a hamburger restaurant for the letter “s”… I worked out the googlalphabet; the “I feel lucky” match for one-character queries. a Apple b Physical Review B Homepage c CNET.com d D-Link e Welcome to …
Voting Statement
Tomorrow the Dutch will have to cast their votes in an importantreferendum about acceptance of a European constitution. I will vote “Yes”; in favor of the new constitution. But I ham nothappy about it. Most of the discussion and propaganda …
Episode III
White dresses, black dresses and a muppet with a speech impediment is.
Silent Computing
I would love to build myself a very silent computer. But I’m affraid that in my hands such machine would become a little messy.
Postfix errors (GSSAPI) after migrating to Tiger.
I reckon that other people might run into this problem as well. So why not document my workaround for googlersto find it. I have configured postfix on my laptop to act as a smart relay. My mailclients use localhost as …
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Plaster Casters
I recently bought "The Real Frank Zappa Book", the autobiography ofa musician I admire for his music (I will probably blog about thatanother time). On page 104/105 the Plaster Casters are introduced: The way the Paster-Casters worked was, one of …
RSI
The guy in the picture shows that postitioning your keyboard to high and using an HP730 can lead to severe repetative strain.
Waste of time
I hope Virtual Bert catches on. Virtual Bert has been on the Bert site for quite some time but it just doesn’t catch on. Maybe this Virtual Bert is a bad idea. A waste of time most certainly. I also …
Spoiled and not so spoiled…
After last weeks debacle with the Saint Émilion Grand Cru we decided to open yet another 1996 wine this weekend.This week’s “Craves” (Château Lagupeau) was fortunatelly not spoiled and although we cooked a normal dinner we did enjoy it. Its …