Coping with public and private transport since 2001
This being an unwritten law in the world of retailing, I came to experience it first hand. My desktop at home, is built with silence in mind. It nowadays houses 1.3TB in data, and my newly added DVD-writer. It is all built into one of the nicer cases around: The Antec Sonata. Yes, the original, not the Sonata II or
Continue readingThis time, I’m forced to replace my old and trusty Ricoh DVD-burner. You never even knew they made DVD-writers? Neither did I, until I saw mine. 😉 Going for the cheapest writer out there, I found myself in the position to buy a Nec drive, for no more than 20 euros. It is made by Sony and NEC in their
Continue readingI’ve been browsing my pictures lately, and found 3 in the same series as one of my headers. You’ll quickly figure out which one 😉 These photo’s were taken on the 17th of June 2007, on a beach near the Maasvlakte.
Continue readingTemporary migration seems to be hot nowadays! After Guy leaving for China for 6 months, another friend of mine is going abroad: Lourien is about to embarque on a journey to and in Australia. She’s going backpacking for 6 months with her best friend and neighbor Saskia. They’ll be touring the country visiting all big cities and generally doing what
Continue readingTo search my music-collection via my browser, I’m currently browsing and searching my webbased interface with the browser itself. I head my Firefox to http://fileserver/music/, and I get the FancyIndexed list of music on the M-partition. As this list is growing to be quite large nowadays, I can still search for albums by ctrl-f’ing to my desired destination; yet this
Continue readingThe first of November is a milestone date for me. It’s only 2 short months away from the deadline for my master thesis, and I’m kind of shaky acknowledging this. So far, I’m still going as planned, with my thesis progressing as scheduled. My portal quality framework is taking shape real quick and the validation stage is near. I’ll be
Continue readingAt some point in your life, you have to decide whether to rent a home, or to buy a house. For 54% of us Dutchmen the choice has been to buy a house, as CBS shows us, about 43% of the estimated 6.9 million houses is rented. For me, the choice is not that hard: I like the idea of
Continue readingAs many of you would have noticed, almost directly after changing my layout, I also changed the default image at the top. I made a list of header-images, for you all to gleam upon without you having to f5 20-ish times before all headers would have taken their turn at the top. So: enjoy! I will be adding some more
Continue readingJust when you thought it couldn’t get worse, it happened. The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 has been awarded to a guy dedicated to telling us how bad we are for the environment, and what disasters we have spelled upon us. Each year the Nobel Prizes are awarded to people and organizations who have made considerable contributions to their field of
Continue readingIn contradiction to what you may think, I’m not going to fulminate on how people living on a pay equal or slightly above minimum wage are not putting in enough effort and as a result only get low wages. I am going to talk to you about this group of people though, yet the lower effort comes not from the
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