Links of the day
Why not publish some links today: Table of Condiments Basic Travel Needs Notebook Think of a vegetable 404 File Not Found Aruba Shirt "Show me your books links and I know who you are"
Kurz and Sin City
Yesterday I went to see Miller’s and Rodriguez’ Sin City. I like graphic novels in general and I like Miller’s rough and morbid edge. I have a few comic books from his hand, notably the Batman Returns series and "Hardboiled". …
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 …
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.