Martin Bril heeft zich niet helemaal aan mijn voorspelling van gisteren gehouden. Vandaag schrijft hij over de kans op rokjesdag vandaag. Misschien moet Martin Bril eens de Uithof in Utrecht bezoeken waar het volgens mij toch echt al gisteren rokjesdag was.
2008-03-25 (#)
De spoorwegen in Nederland blijven altijd een paar jaar achterlopen op die in Engeland, en nu is volgens reizigersvereniging Rover eindelijk het excuus van the wrong kind of snow gebruikt door Prorail.
Bronnen: Reizigersvereniging Rover: “Ontwrichting treinverkeer door sneeuw is blamage”, nu.nl: 'Ontwrichting treinverkeer regelrechte blamage'
2008-03-13 (#)
Indexed also has a nice view on the 7 new flavors of sin.
2008-03-13 (#)
The Vatican has published a modernized version of the 7 deadly sins (over 1500 years old). Toronto Star article: Thou shalt not pollute or clone. Still no listing for installing microsoft windows or connecting microsoft windows to the Internet...
2007-12-13 (#)
Google maps: oversteek van hoogspanningsleiding die vanmorgen beschadigd werd.
2007-12-12 (#)
Major bad weather in Oklahoma at the moment. Some pictures and videos at TornadoVideos, normally for other extreme weather happening in Oklahoma. Link via Randal Bradakis.
2007-11-14 (#)
Peter Ludlow has written 95 Theses on the Religious Right discussing the way the religious right (in the US) abuses and misinterprets the bible and religion.
2007-10-12 (#)
The Register: Windows update brings down TV newscast. This reminds me of the local infochannel we saw on our 2007 wintersport holiday: every morning at 09:00 the infochannel changed to a screen of Windows 2000 rebooting and starting up and starting Scala Infochannel for images, short clips, commercials, snow heights and weather reports. Lots of possibilities for error-message like this screengrab from 2002 showing that the local cable channel in Utrecht did something likewise. From what I hear, it is possible to run software like Scala on a secondary video adapter that will just go black or freeze when the system fails, and not show the Windows error popups.
2007-10-03 (#)
It seems Eircom broadband missed the news about WEP being dead (pdf) and WEP being really dead. From The Register: Eircom wireless security flaw revealedEircom's director of communications Paul Bradley defended the protocol, however, saying "WEP is an industry standard protocol used by telecoms providers around the world."Well Paul, just because all the stubborn kids do it, does not mean it is the right choice.
2007-06-13 (#)
On the Internet, nobody cares you're a good athlete. Story from The Washington Post: Teen Tests Internet's Lewd Track Record about a young athlete, Allison Stokke, getting a lot of attention because of one picture being spread. Source: Usenet newsgroup comp.dcom.telecom, the telecom digest.
2007-05-30 (#)
Robert Soloway was taken into custody today on several charges. Everybody with an e-mail address has probably received his spam. Good to know that justice gets served on spammers eventually. Also published in the Seattle Post Intelligencer: Feds: Notorious Seattle 'Spam King' indicted. Original source: Usenet posting.
2007-05-05 (#)
From The Onion: Prince William Fells Prince Willem-Alexander Of The Netherlands In Crucial Joust. Back to old times? Or international tension all over.
2007-02-08 (#)
Big Media DMCA Notices: Guilty until proven innocent by Ben Maurer shows how BayTSP does very little 'research' in trying to find 'illegal filesharers' on bittorrent networks. Sounds like nothing was learned since the letters representing Microsoft asking for "Office" to be removed from an ftp-site because OpenOffice was available for download. Via: Slashdot article "To Media Companies, BitTorrent Implies Guilt"
2007-01-23 (#)
After the big news about the tower crane collapsing in Utrecht (Dutch) which was two buildings down from where I work. I had to be in a building right next to the remains of the crane today. Weird sight: everyone gone from the site (I saw a few people which looked like they were from the building company that owned the crane). And I saw at least two people with yet another job I don't want to swap with: guards who made sure nobody entered the closed off area. From what I hear from others, the location is guarded 24 hours per day.
2006-12-13 (#)
Doing the rounds: an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail: Why online should be off limits in the bedroom. Strange to me as I have stacks of books to read which I usually read before bedtime. The article looks like it is written from the perspective of a woman with her own hangups about this subject. The wired article 'You and Me and Laptop Makes Three' has a great comment by 'The PeopleGeek': Even Eve had an Apple in her hand when she went to lay down. Adam took a byte or two with her..
2006-07-12 (#)
Interresante assoicaties bij nu.nl in artikel McDonald's haalt omstreden urinoirs weg als je de foto rechts met Mick Jagger bekijkt... schermgrijp.
