Archive for December, 2000

You can read a Dutch translation of my CSS Overvie

Thursday, December 28th, 2000

You can read a Dutch translation of my CSS Overview on the excellent site deLijst.net

Er is nu ook een Nederlandse vertaling van mijn CSS inleiding beschikbaar op deLijst.net

This year wired.com gives the vaporware awards awa

Thursday, December 28th, 2000

This year wired.com gives the vaporware awards away for the 3rd time, and in this years top 10 you can find bluetooth, black an white, tribes 2 and some other interresting titles . Read the entire article here

Whohoo :) I just had an snowball fight at my work

Wednesday, December 27th, 2000

Whohoo :) I just had an snowball fight at my work :) And it was great fun. Throwing snow at fellow workers can indeed be very much fun… too bad TT wasn’t here.. ;)

Well This is an kinda odd post because it’s specia

Saturday, December 23rd, 2000

Well This is an kinda odd post because it’s specially made for one person: my dad. It is for his sinterklaas surprise. Well Rob You’re almost there but not quite yet, please push your browsers back button…

This post will be deleted on 25 december…well after thinking about deleting this post for a while I thought: lets keep this (weird) post :)

Honda Aims to Make Research Pay with Robot Rentals

Friday, December 22nd, 2000

Honda Aims to Make Research Pay with Robot Rentals (12/21/2000) Honda aims to make research pay with robot rentals
TOKYO (Reuters) - With its squeaky, mechanical voice, limited vocabulary and stiff demeanor, Honda Motor Co.’s diminutive humanoid robot “Asimo” may not be most companies’ idea of a perfect receptionist.
But the automaker is hoping the walking, talking result of 14 years of research will finally start paying its own way late next year when Honda plans to begin renting out the robot to museums, showrooms or events seeking a novel attraction.

TheDeal.com Consumer and business e-commerce start

Friday, December 22nd, 2000

TheDeal.com Consumer and business e-commerce startups may weigh heavily on the books of European venture capitalists this year. But that’s not expected to deter them from investing hundreds of millions of euros next year on the next emerging new-economy sector - wireless software and services technology.

Why Iraq’s buying up Sony PlayStation 2s “Two gove

Friday, December 22nd, 2000

Why Iraq’s buying up Sony PlayStation 2s “Two government agencies are investigating the purchases because the PlayStations can be bundled together into a sort of crude super-computer and used for a variety of military applications, say intelligence sources.”

Doesn’t this sound suspiciously like the “ps2 can’t be exported because it’s a weapon” bullshit PR stunt they pulled a few months ago… The PS2 isn’t powerful it’s just a a crappy old PC in a shiny new box.

Its the the agressively boring film festival!

Friday, December 22nd, 2000

Its the the agressively boring film festival!

In the Beginning… was the Command Line From the

Thursday, December 21st, 2000

In the Beginning… was the Command Line From the “New York Times” bestselling author of “Cryptonomicon” comes a hilarious commentary on computer operating systems and what they reveal about our culture. “(Stephenson) is the hacker Hemingway.”–”Newsweek.”

It’s also a book by Stephenson. And yes, it is very good indeed.

ZDNet: News: Hackers caught in security ‘honeypot’

Thursday, December 21st, 2000

ZDNet: News: Hackers caught in security ‘honeypot’

“When a group of suspected Pakistani hackers broke into a U.S.-based computer system in June, they thought they had found a vulnerable network to use as an anonymous launching pad to attack Web sites across India. But what they had done was walk right into a trap known as a honeypot…”

Exciting stories about nerds ;-)