7 Rules for Traveling
I haven't blogged in a long time. I promised a further explanation about why my blog went away for two weeks, but now I am thinking, who...
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Near Death Experience
Frequent visitors to this blog might have noticed - it was gone for a good two weeks. Sigh. Things are better now - but probably still not ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
27
I just claimed my blog at technorati. I did it a long time ago, but something had gone wrong back then and now I saw that they had something...
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Learning languages 4 at a time
I wrote a program that scrapes a database of languages to calculate how many you need to learn to be able to speak with most people. Dependi...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Pets.com 2.0
What goes around comes around. Pets.com, the company selling dogfood over the internet became the poster child of the previous dot com bubb...
Sunday, October 1, 2006
Genocide and Freedom
The Dutch are often proud of their freedoms and tolerance. Gay marriage, tolerance of soft drugs, abortion and euthanasia laws paint a pictu...
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Cheaper Airfares
I wonder whether any economist has ever studied the prices of public toilets. The prices are of course usually pretty low, but there doesn...
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Life expectancy of famous people
First of all, I must say I am a little disappointed in either the intelligence of my readers or my ability of explaining the abracadabra puz...
Monday, August 28, 2006
Typing monkeys
A long time ago a good friend of mi ne told me this puzzle. Let’s say there is a monkey hitting a typewriter at random. And let’s assume...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Astrology and Pluto
Astronomers just voted and alas, Pluto no longer has the status of a planet. A sad day for the Pluto fans, but as we find more and more Plu...
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Zurich, Sweden
In the US it seems quite common to confuse Switzerland with Sweden. Visitors to the Zurich office kept remarking how that town was the prett...
Saturday, August 5, 2006
The rich getting richer
Bill Gates has been the richest man in the world since for forever of course, but the last years it sometimes seemed like he could lose that...
Monday, July 3, 2006
Finally being someone
Google Alerts are an excellent way of keeping track how something is doing on the Internet. Any self respecting blogger probably has one wit...
Thursday, June 29, 2006
The last train to Milan
One thing I am not particulary good at, is to accept things that are not very logical. Last weekend I was in Milan and I needed to get back ...
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
The rumors of this blogs death are exaggerated
From the looks it seems this blog might be nearing its end. Postings are further and further apart and are much lacking a uniform theme. It ...
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Helping a brother out
My brother is a writer and created an innovative way to promote his latest book. Read a fragment here (in Dutch) Dit is fragment nummer 5...
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Google Trends
Every now and then the Economist publishes interesting graphs where they show how the count of the word 'Recession' in selected news...
Thursday, May 4, 2006
Foosball
The first time I heard the term Foosball it was during an episode of Friends. I thought it was some sort of joke, the Americans using the Ge...
Monday, April 24, 2006
The stolen Böögg and the Nazis
Back in the day when Usenet was the place to go for a good flame war, Mike Godwin came up with what has been called since, well, Godwin...
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Who is Heinz supporting?
During a ski trip last weekend I came accross a bottle of Heinz ketchup. It had an interesting label: Excuse the bad quality I had the setti...
Thursday, April 6, 2006
The cost of mobile data
Long time no blogging, I am afraid. I don't know. Anyway, I am still playing around with my cell phone . GMail works pretty well, the st...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Life imitating art, eh Dilbert
So we're back in Europe. And even though we booked a flight on Swiss, we were actually transported on American Airlines. Oh boy. You can...
Monday, February 27, 2006
Big City Mountain View
I'm currently at the Googleplex in Mountain View California. It is interesting to be back at headquarters; it is so big compared to the ...
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Read-only Chinese
With the Chinese economy showing no signs of slowing down, it seems everybody is trying to master their language, whether from a general int...
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Music Everywhere
This is one of those blog posts where I am going to complain about how something doesn't exist but at the same type hoping that somebody...
Monday, February 6, 2006
Are you there God? It's me Mohammed
Yesterday I was watching an old South Park episode with the title 'Are you there God? It's me, Jesus.' It is quite funny. Jesus ...
Friday, January 13, 2006
The Heidi Song
At the end of every Friday at the Google campus in Mountain View, Larry or Sergey present TGIF. A nice look back at what has happened last w...
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Ikea hacks
A lot of the furniture in my home in Amsterdam was more or less self build. I like working with wood and designing something and then actual...
Sunday, January 8, 2006
Penguins and children
Long time no blogging. I switched servers - which was more painful than I thought, because basically everything stopped working. Plus I had ...
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