Douwe Osinga's Blog: July 2004

Thursday, July 29, 2004

I took my bike from Amsterdam when I went to the US. It makes a surprising amount of sense to have a bycicle in Silicon Valley; distances ar...

God may be dead and there is not truth out there, but everybody agrees that driving under influence is Very Bad, right? But is it, or is it ...

Google is an engineering driven company of course and it shows. And with such a large concentration of engineers at one spot, you get to see...

Finally a band that gets it. And one of my favorites on top of that. They Might Be Giants opened a shop on their site where you can buy th...

Anybody who's played with Google Talk has probably noticed that it sometimes got stuck in a loop. Sometimes that'd be funny, like i...

My regular readers have noticed that I post rather more infrequent than back in the day I averaged 29 a month. Work takes a lot of time and ...

Poor countries usually have a hard time to maintain their democracies. Democracy doesn't necesarily make a country rich, though most dem...

A popular meme these days seems to be that Americans are stupid . Come to think of it, the meme is older than the latest block buster, at le...

Life at Google is to some extent like being on a tropical island. There has been a huge storm, the dot-com bubble bust and left and right pe...