The Mix Up
My brother in law gave me a late birthday present: The latest Beasty Boys album: The Mix-UP. I have had a weak spot for the Beasty Boys for many years. I am not particularly fond of their rap style, …
NAT too Smart
EDITED July 12 2007 The text below is an update from the original post (June 18, 2007), that original post turned out to contain a few errors. We have an asterisk server installed back at work and for the teleconferencing …
300 Chocolates
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 ….
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 …
TPS Reports
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 …
Wonder goo
We recently bought a house and we are now in the proces of painting it. Some walls need a little more than just a bit of paint. They need patching and fixing and, and that is really bad, removal of texture. …
ID/Loc Scotch Bof
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 …
Martin Scorsese’s Sesame Street
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 …
From OpenCola to Bin Laden
I just stumbled upon a Wikipedia lemma on opencola. The recipy contains a fair amount of Gum Arabic. That reminded me of a book by Dorrit van Dalen that recently appeared at Bert Bakker publishers that is high on my …