Douwe Osinga's Blog: August 2004

Sunday, August 29, 2004

A typical scene from a household in moving. Some stuff is already in boxes, a lot of stuff is not and more and more stuff is just randomly l...

I made it to the conference and the first day was a bit of challenge, with the minimum amount of sleep I had, but after that it got a lot be...

So I changed the perfect weather of California for the more questioniable variant of North-Western Europe to go to the Readme festival in D...

Every party got the end sometime. This Friday I'm flying home. Google Zurich here I come. Google Headquarters is a wonderful place to wo...

Sundays at the Googleplex have a distinct post-apocalyptic feel to them. Three quarters of the population wiped out, with the rest trying to...

Happiness is a tricky thing. Not only being happy, but also measuring happiness. Robert Frank has an essay about money and happiness, How no...

Once every so long, Google would push out a new algorithm to its servers and the rankings of sites would vary for a while, depending on whet...

I was playing around a little with Google (what else is there to do on a saturday night?) and I wondered what a top 1000 would look like if ...