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Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos

By Kris | Published: May 20, 2012

Somewhere in the summer of 2008, I bought the HTC Hero. This is one of the first HTC smartphones that appeared on the market with Google Android on it. Back then it was an excellent phone for my needs. It came with some amazing features such as touchscreen, built-in camera, GPS and so on. I [...]

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How to publish an InfoPath form

By Kris | Published: April 5, 2012

In a previous post, I already briefly touched on how to publish an InfoPath form to a SharePoint 2007 server. However, there is much more to it. In this post, I dive into the details. Here are the main steps one has to follow. Under the assumption you make a change to an existing form [...]

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Outage over the weekend

By Kris | Published: March 5, 2012

You might have noticed it. An outage occurred as of last Friday (March 2nd), which continued over the weekend. The reason was that I didn’t update my configuration script properly after a server migration. So how could this happen? There was nothing miss with the migration itself from the old server to the new and [...]

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So You Think You Can Dance Theater Tour Rotterdam

By Kris | Published: February 4, 2012

Het vierde seizoen van So You Think You Can Dance is kort geleden afgelopen. Gelukkig kunnen we nog nagenieten dankzij de Theater Tour. Ik was er bij op 31 januari in het Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam. Dansers Nina, Anna, Meysam, Anthony, Celine, Yuvat, Sedrig, Stephanie, Gianni en Marissa gaven het beste van zichzelf. Het [...]

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Saint Carr

By Kris | Published: February 3, 2012

Yesterday Facebook filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). The company is seeking to raise a whopping $5 billion. That is pretty massive and one of the greatest IPO filings ever. Facebook is so valuable because it has 850 million active users, of which half returns every day. As part of [...]

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The threath of Information Thieves

By Kris | Published: February 2, 2012

You know what’s cheap in the 21st century? Compute time. You know what’s expensive? Human judgment. And they’re not interchangeable. Humans are good at understanding things, computers are good at counting things, but humans suck at counting and computers suck at understanding.  – Cory Doctorow, Pester Power This blog is becoming increasingly an asylum for [...]

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The movies of 2011

By Kris | Published: February 1, 2012

I have watched many movies in 2011. But because I have such a bad memory, I decided to keep track of them – it should be fairly complete. Some I saw in the theater, some at home. Here an overview and some words on each of them. The American. With George Clooney: thoughtful story, but [...]

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Live music in Ho Chi Minh City

By Kris | Published: January 28, 2012

I have always enjoyed music. And especially live music. I just love shredding guitars and pounding basses. Raw. All the shit we hear on the radio is sometimes just too overly produced, soft, and licked. And I can really appreciate a live concert when everything just feels right. While staying in Ho Chi Minh, I [...]

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Vung Tau (i)

By Kris | Published: January 25, 2012

One of our first trips in Vietnam was to Vung Tau. This is not so a touristic city, wouldn’t it be for the 32m-high statue of Jesus. You do find foreigners there for a different reason: the crude oil. Vung Tau as a petroleum extraction center is economically very important to Vietnam and situated near [...]

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Karaoke on Lunar New Year

By Kris | Published: January 25, 2012

It was getting late. Lunar New Years’ day had almost ended. I hear some very loud Karaoke music coming from a house. We go there. I see two beautiful daughters energetically dancing and signing, a proud and caring mom and pop. The dad is filming the in-house karaoke event with my Canon 500D.  The guy [...]

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