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Monthly Archives: May 2011

Het gebruik van Internet in de klas

By Kris | Published: May 23, 2011

Clo Willaerts ziet alleen maar voordelen in het gebruik van draadloze netwerken en gsm’s op school. De Raad van Europa wil echter een totaalverbod op elektromagnetische velden doorvoeren omdat uit een rapport bleek dat het de gezondheid van kinderen kan schaden. Clo zegt dat het argument gebruikt wordt door leerkrachten in heel Europa om de [...]

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The Serendipitous Web

By Kris | Published: May 20, 2011

Ethan Zuckerman describes in his latest blog post exactly why I love to live in the big city: It may not sound intuitively obvious to people living in the developed world, but a city like Lagos – with a population of 8 million, over 4% growth a year, living in a dense, crowded, traffic-choken sprawl [...]

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Kseniya Simonova’s zandanimaties

By Kris | Published: May 19, 2011

Sommige mensen hebben echt talent. Een goed voorbeeld is Kseniya Simonova. In 2009 won ze de got Talent wedstrijd in Oekraïne, nadat haar business instortte omwille van de economische crisis. Daardoor is ze zeer bekend geworden. Maar wat is haar gave dan precies? Wel, ze maakt zandanimaties! Ik ben bekend geworden met haar werk op een [...]

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The Interpersonal Communication Breakdown

By Kris | Published: May 18, 2011

As my girlfriend was writing an intriguing piece about Facebook and its detrimental effects on society, a spark of interest was immediately there. That’s why I want to outline some of my thoughts in this blog post. No doubt that Facebook is an amazing tool for communication. However, excessive Facebook usage might potentially bring serious health, economic and [...]

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On licensing

By Kris | Published: May 17, 2011

In his latest Guardian column, Cory Doctorow writes about the miraculously drama-free life he has discovered by buying ThinkPads with extended warranties and running the Ubuntu flavor of GNU/Linux. He raises a fairly good point about how in the commercial software world, we depend on serial keys amongst others. Ubuntu is way less dramatic as [...]

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Towards a borderless society

By Kris | Published: May 16, 2011

He goes to the kitchen window and seems to be looking out, but then he points to the round transparent ventilator fan set into a six-inch hole in one pane of glass. “We don’t have those things. They’re everywhere, here. Always have been. I’m not even sure what they’re supposed to do.” “They’re part of [...]

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How to make a change to an InfoPath form

By Kris | Published: May 14, 2011

Lately I have been fiddling around a bit with Sharepoint and in particular InfoPath. In this post I will describe the process of making a change to an Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form. What you will need is Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007. Extra software needed is Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications if you want [...]

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Batavierenrace

By Kris | Published: May 12, 2011

Afgelopen weekend deed ik mee aan de prestigieuze Batavierenrace. Met AIESEC hadden we ons namelijk  ingeschreven voor de grootste estaffeteloop van de wereld. Vrijdag was het dan zover en of ik er zin in had! Er nemen dan ook niet minder dan 7500 atleten deel aan de competitie, en de totale loopafstand is een indrukwekkende 175 kilometer. [...]

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Gedichtje

By Kris | Published: May 12, 2011

Ik heb kort geleden een mooi gedichtje ontvangen van iemand waar ik jammer genoeg haast geen contact meer mee heb. Het doet deugd om het nog eens te lezen. Ik wil het ook graag hier delen, alvorens ik het verlies. Zo blijft dit gegeven in mijn geheugen gegrift. Warm en knus lonkt je bed. ‘t [...]

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On e-mail encryption

By Kris | Published: May 11, 2011

Upon receiving an e-mail from Cory Doctorow, I noticed that he happens to encrypt his messages. To accomplish this, he is using OpenPGP through Enigmail.  In the first place, I thought it was very cool to see that. You know, it is something different, something I had not seen before — especially considering that I am [...]

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