#English

I bought (the Dutch translation) this book almost a year ago at the local supermarket (hey, it was cheap, and it looked better than the other cheap books, and it was next to the waiting line for the cash register :)), but until recently I’ve never read it. Only on the trip to Prague I started to read it (I also took ‘Managing Software Requirements’ [Leffingwell, Widrig] with me, but that book was a bit too heavy for a holiday). [Read More]

Last week I was on holiday in Prague, mainly to meet my family there. It was a nice week, although Kreslice (where we stayed) was a bit too far from the centre and the weather was not that nice (the first day was about 30 degrees, but after that it became colder and it started to rain). But anyway, I was both happy to see my family again, and to relax for a week after 7 exhausting weeks of working hard combined with moving to my new apartment (as of this week, I just have to work hard again :)). [Read More]

Almost a year after I blogged about my fourth birthday of my old camera, I bought a new one: a Canon 350D. What a nice camera it is! The difference between a compact camera and a SLR is huge. The speed, the non existing shutter lag, the control, the range of the lens (ok, this is more a comparison of the lens and a compact camera), the feel, the … everything. [Read More]

It has been a while since I posted on the blog, and with good reason. I was very busy moving to my new home. Two weeks ago I finally stayed here for the first time overnight, and since then I’m completely moved. I’m still unpacking everything and trying to give everything it’s own place (never knew that I could collect that much stuff in just over a year…), so the house will be a mess the next couple of weeks. [Read More]

I was just browsing around a bit, and on one page I noticed something weird: an ad.

Not that noticing an ad is weird, but the content was. Well, maybe not even the content, but the link beneath the ad. It was a link to a Google search… I’m curious who placed the ad (Google itself?), and I’m even more curious why? It completely makes no sense to me. But maybe it’s just me…

Zef talks about the difference between webapps and ‘normal’ apps. One interesting statement that he makes: They have stored your data more redundantly and safely than you’ll ever be able to (within reason). Having lost my e-mails and data by a hard-disk crash (or faulty Linux installation) several times, I no longer trust singular storage of data. Companies like Google have these facilities. Personally, I’d prefer to store important data such as mail myself. [Read More]

I just read in the Computable that Telfort (one of the telcos in The Netherlands) will start rolling out an UMTS network using Huawei equipment, as the first one in europe. A few months ago, Telfort said that the in the current state UMTS is worthless and that until the arrival of HSDPA with its 8-10MBit bandwidth, it doesn’t make sense using it and that they will use EDGE instead. At that time I wrote that the CEO of Telfort was overestimating the speed of HSDPA and I didn’t understand why he made that statement (but that it made sense to use EDGE as a temporary solution). [Read More]

While half the world is talking about Konfabulator, I don’t really see why. Ok, it looks good (ok, even better: great!), but what about the usefulness? My desktop is hidden by the programs I run all the time, so I don’t see the nice clock on the background anyway. Another thing that I disliked was that it wasn’t linked to Outlook. Sure, I’d like to see my to-do list, but no, I don’t want to keep two to-do lists… [Read More]

Today, I updated my weblog to WordPress. Mainly because I am really tired of having to manually delete spam-comments, and I hope that WordPress can handle these better than b2. The upgrading process was quite simple: downloading the .zip, unzipping, inserting the database connection settings, uploading everything, pointing to an URL, pressing next a few times, and that was that. After that, I tried to import my b2 posts. This should be as simple as opening a certain URL, but for some reason that didn’t work too well. [Read More]

Gizmodo talks about a SIM card with 256 MB of memory on it, and they like it. I wonder why. I can imagine that a SIM with storage-space for 20 phone numbers and 5 SMSes is lacking space (although, it would be large enough for me :)), but what to do with 256 MB of space? With something like 1 MB one can store a huge amount of phone numbers and SMSes, even ignoring the fact that these items can of course also be saved on onboard memory in the phone itself. [Read More]