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Normally, I don’t post remnants of ‘old’ internethypes, yet today is different. Lolcats, who does not know them. They’ve got their own sites, goodies and even a programming language. An internet-hype pur sang. One of the most hilarious is ceiling cat, who now has got his paper equivalent. I found it here, and all props go to the author.
Continue readingWhat a little bit of snow can do to mobility. 888 kilometres of queue on our highways, no trains going in or out of Rotterdam and to make matters worse: the snow did not even stay long. It melted almost directly after it touched the ground. No fun ánd all the hassle. Whoever thought the issues concerning mobiility and specifically
Continue readingIt’s Easter, so here’s a bunny for you. 🙂
Continue readingAbout 40% of my visitors (and not including me) to my blog agree: FireFox is better to browse. At least, it is used in 40% of the times people read here. This leaves 60% of the readers using Internet Explorer (IE), where about a quarter is using ‘ye olde’ IE6 and more than half the amount of the IE-users is
Continue readingSaturday, and the bigger part of yesterday, my blog fell out of the air. It was planned maintenance, and I would like to apologize for the fact it happened unannounced. On the bright side: it brought some new hardware to the server, and it now runs a newly configured install of the OS. You’ll probably don’t notice it, but the
Continue readingTomorrow it is that dreaded day in the year. At least, for the man. Every year the 14th of Februari is the day you cannot do anything well for your partner. If you buy her a gift, it probably is not what she expected and she’ll let you know, and if you do nothing on this ‘special’ day, you’ll be
Continue readingTaken from the 07:33 intercity Rotterdam – Leeuwarden, somewhere between Gouda and Utrecht Centraal Station at speed and through the glass. Edit: Now with original EXIF-info in the picture.
Continue readingI’ll start with the pictures here: All those in Holland probably have heard of the Chinese freighter which drifted ashore last Friday. This Saturday, I went to the ‘Slufter’, which is at the very edge of the Maasvlakte, and saw the thing through my lens. It’s big, it’s bulky and old. Zhen Hua 10, owned by Shanghai-based Crane manufacturing company
Continue readingI knew I had to post it when I found it:
Continue readingSince this monday, we’ve been forced to vacate the flexplekken that have been my workspace ever since I started working on my thesis. Now, we have moved to the first floor in the buidling, and have taken up residency in what is called a ‘loungespot’. Yes, productivity is as high as usual. 😉 Take a look, and be amazed at
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