Direct Marketing
Direct marketing anoys the hell out of me. With surface mail even more than with e-mail based spam. One of the Dutch loteries hired an actor who personally signed a mail that was addressed personally. "Dear Mr. K, I am …
Category: General
Googlalphabet….
Surprised as I was to find a hamburger restaurant for the letter “s”… I worked out the googlalphabet; the “I feel lucky” match for one-character queries. a Apple b Physical Review B Homepage c CNET.com d D-Link e Welcome to …
Voting Statement
Tomorrow the Dutch will have to cast their votes in an importantreferendum about acceptance of a European constitution. I will vote “Yes”; in favor of the new constitution. But I ham nothappy about it. Most of the discussion and propaganda …
Episode III
White dresses, black dresses and a muppet with a speech impediment is.
Plaster Casters
I recently bought "The Real Frank Zappa Book", the autobiography ofa musician I admire for his music (I will probably blog about thatanother time). On page 104/105 the Plaster Casters are introduced: The way the Paster-Casters worked was, one of …
RSI
The guy in the picture shows that postitioning your keyboard to high and using an HP730 can lead to severe repetative strain.
Waste of time
I hope Virtual Bert catches on. Virtual Bert has been on the Bert site for quite some time but it just doesn’t catch on. Maybe this Virtual Bert is a bad idea. A waste of time most certainly. I also …
Vancouver Test
The next IETF will be in Paris, the one after that will be in Vancouver. I just found this list. You know you’re from Vancouver (BC) when…. Your coworker has 8 body piercing and none are visible. You make over …
Bonjour… Au revoir!!!
Apple renamed Rendevous to Bonjour. I do not understand marketing people. Rendevous has a much classy sound than Bonjour and covers what the protocol does. Bonjour just doesn’t work for me. What would have worked is "Ça Va". Has a …
WFH
Finally a site dedictated to “Willem Frederik Hermans” 10 years after his death. Next year a start will be made with the publication of his complete works. For those that do not read Dutch, I am sad to see that …