Douwe Osinga's Blog: 2007

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Airline Security

Airlines like to start sentences with ‘for your own safety…' even if they don't mean it. It is pretty common knowledge by now I gues...

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Beenda.com

Of all the projects I've done on this site, Visited Countries no doubt is the most popular. People have over the years requested all ki...

Monday, June 25, 2007

Little Big Cloud

Here's a fun little tool my brother seems to be involved in Little Big Cloud . Each url on the domain is a tag cloud - if you go there ...

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Amtrak discounts

We're in the US . Among other things, the US in the country of coupons – pieces of paper you can cut from a newspaper that get you a di...

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Social Markets

Unemployment insurance is a tricky thing. You want to give people something they can fall back on when they get fired, but at the same time ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Americans

American bashing is one of the least attractive European habits. I guess the US is too successful and too much like Europe and then again ...

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Back from the dead

Casual visitors to this site were in the recent weeks greeted by cheery ads for real estate, dating, travel and used cars. The good things i...

Monday, April 9, 2007

Why Rumsfeld was right

By now Rumsfeld has probably gone down in history as the worst secretary of defense ever. But I was thinking whether we shouldn't have a...

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Simpler Taxes

It is that time of the year again (though to be honest I usually don't get around it until much later): the tax man cometh. The only wor...

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Taxis

To the carless traveler taxis are a distinct mixed blessing. They are often the only practical way to arrived at a destination especially wh...

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Rental skis

This week saw the European Google Ski trip. The Google Ski trips go back quite a bit and over the years have grown from a few dorky engineer...

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Ecuador Notes

Back from Ecuador. I took my phone and made random notes. I am not sure how interesting they are to all of you, but I figured what they hell...