Category Archives: Bloggen

Another day, another TV show that inspired me. Recently, in Reyers Laat, a late night show on Belgian television Maurice de Hond was invited. Never heard of this man, but apparently this Dutch guy is famous for his sharp political analysises. Anyway, the main topic was Belgium still without a government after a whopping 500 [...]

I just came back from watching new movie In Time. The trailer was so kick-ass. I was blown away by the idea of time as a currency and the additional element of genetical engineering: you don’t age after 25, but everyone has just one year after to live. And the movie really lived it up [...]

I hadn’t fully realized the implications of moving from ExpressNet to a GoldsHake ComfortNet XL subscription at Telenet. The thing is, the ExpressNet subscription comes by default with free webspace (I believe some 50MB). This is a pretty standard offer, common practice among ISPs since the early Internet days. Across the years, I had once [...]

I am reading Charles Stross award-winning book Accelerando. My very first encounter with the popular science fiction theme called the singularity, in which human intelligence is surpassed by technological advances. Pretty heavy stuff, yes, not just highly entertaining, but an impressive piece of literature. Accelerando describes how three generations of the Macx clan try to survive and [...]

For three consecutive days now the RIM network is suffering from an outage. The consequences are vast to say the least. People are missing meetings,  are unreachable by family & friends because BlackBerry Messenger is broken down. And a PR disaster for RIM of course. By the way, it doesn’t seem to get much better, [...]

The world has lost a man of vision with Steve Jobs passing away. Although I think it is kind of exaggerated, some even say he was a genius or a messiah – intended cartoon below and extra link (in Dutch). Nevertheless, it is a big loss and very sad, not for the tech industry alone. [...]

On Google+ I stumbled upon an interesting theory by Nova Spivack about how the social media landscape will look like. He argues that Google+ is a very different service from Twitter and Facebook and that the social media landscape is going to divide in different territories. Facebook is for social networking, LinkedIn is for business [...]

Yesterday I ran into a very clever and sophisticated attempt to install a virus on my machine. What is more interesting though is that it all happened on Facebook. At random a friend starts talking to you. It goes like this: Hi. how are you? Good, I’m fine, you think by yourself. That’s what you [...]

This weekend I went to Nijmegen and happened to try out my very first real Dutch pancake in ‘t Hoogstraatje. The simple guy in me likes to call it a Dutch pizza, as a pancake to me is all about sweetness, sugar and syrup. And in fact, it does taste similar to pizza! Quite remarkable [...]