Archive for July, 2006

Google Founders Big Party Plane

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

You know those movies where the villain (or the leader of the top secret anti-crime organisation) flies around in a jet only touching down now and then to meet with the flabbergasted leads of the same movies. T’is all true!

WSJ reports: Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders’ Big Private Plane.

Will they fly around the world day and night to rule the world in this baby, what do you think?

Friendster gets US patent

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

News today: Friendster gets a patent on social networks US gets more retarded. I guess a .eu domain will become a good investment as the US is becoming a harder market to target every day. Start working on your internationalization skills people, english won’t cut it anymore.

Piraten

update: and of course let’s make sure europe does not get just as retarded. There are a lot of big companies successfully persuading politicians to introduce software patents to europe but that battle has not been won yet. As far as software goes patents only gain is short term and for huge companies.

update2: Zweden heeft ondertussen zijn eigen piraten partij welke ten strijde gaat voor het aanpassen van copyright en patent regels naar een vorm die innovatie vriendelijk wordt.

When vlogs boom

Friday, July 7th, 2006

When news of vlog anchors leaving gets printed in the washington post and some kid who made two or three youtube fanvideos gets signed by a hollywood studio you know that vlogs are booming. I guess TV is pretty starved for talent.

ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Stemcomputers

En Rob Gongrijp gelukkig ook niet: Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet

Amsterdam is cheap

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

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At place 41 Amsterdam seems to have dropped considerably in the most expensive cities list. Top 50 cities. I seem to remember we were up way higher once but i could be wrong… Anyways, good news for Dutchies.

Elastic tabstops

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Would be nice if this no longer was an issue: the solution to the tabs-versus-spaces issue

PCL 3 muchos fun

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

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from our reporter: here and there; katielips’ photos tagged with pussycatlounge

Tweede blog kermis online

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

Met onder andere een artikel van ondergetekende. Read all about it @ Enthousiasmeren.nl

I just got a Nano

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

And found they have more uses than advertised; Eight Ways to Kill Someone by Using an iPod Nano, According to Ex-Marine Brad Collum