Category: Spam

Besides the commonly understood disadvantage of size and weight of a dSLR, there’s another one: money. It seems to be an endless route: every time there’s more money to be spent on accessories, lenses and cleaning. I can hear you ask: cleaning? What? My reply will be: the sensor. Every time you change lenses, there’s the possibility of dust or

After being tipped by a colleague, I started to look into the apparent lack of skills applicants for programming jobs. With me (and many at E&I) being trained to write code, and think in code, I asked around and found out that a lot of applicants (even self-proclaimed senior programmers and Bachelors from a university) do not have the basic

This time of year, it should be Winter, although the temperatures outdoors do not exactly lead you to believe so. It’s about 8 degrees Celsius right now, and I thought it would be a nice idea to put some new wintery headers in place. So here they are, 9 new additions. See them all, including the old ones on my

Since a couple of days I’ve been noticing an increase in spam-comments. Historically ranging from the infamous penis enlargements to comments telling my how to buy cheap medication, spams have been pretty straightforward. Usually, a spam comment exists of several links, very little text and all sorts of different spellings and synonyms of the words medication, penis and bigger. This

Today can be considered to be the very first day of the Winter of 2007. I woke up this morning, and directly froze off a limb when I exited my nice warm bed. The view here in Nieuwegein can only be described as foggy & cold, luckily the temperature has not dropped below zero degrees Celcius, it probably will soon

We’ve got a new Vista-based computer at home, to do the all-important financials and some random surfing. As our house is also equipped with a pc dedicated to be the media-server, and it runs on XP. (I know, I’m too lazy to set up a Linux-based, Samba enabled box 😉 ) It is running quite steadily for quite some time

There are some advantages with living near to our coast. After you take away the hard wind, the warm winters and cold summers, the near complete absence of snow & ice, the large quantities of German’s taking over entire villages, the big amounts of Polish, Romanian & Bulgarian workers wreaking havoc in supermarkets and electronics shops and the fact that

I’ll let the image do all the talking: I’ve hit 1K of spam comments! Yay! Update: (14:00) Two more! 😉