Douwe Osinga's Blog: March 2005

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Income distribution and the cost of living

One of the first things visitors notice about Switzerland in general and more specific Zurich, is that it is expensive . It happens to be al...

Friday, March 18, 2005

Summer's here

Zurich is a very pretty city. Especially if you walk around in the old time during the winter with snow covering the old city, it is like wa...

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Seinfeld teaching French

I like watching old Seinfeld reruns. I like it to the extend that I have a complete collection of them on my hard disk. You know, for when I...

Sunday, March 13, 2005

100 dollar is too much for a computer

A while ago Negroponte presented a plan on the World Economic Forum to supply everybody in the third world with a 100 dollar laptop . It...

Tuesday, March 1, 2005

Philosophy Hacks

I recently received a message from O'Reilly that they are indeed going to use one my hacks in their upcoming book 'Mapping Hacks....