This an interesting issue (also adressed by Ton). In a world where things are getting more and more digital and computerised, it is becoming increasingly hard to judge what’s real and what’s not. Watching James Bond doing some amazing stuff and you know that it’s not real; but you can hardly see it. Good tools [...]

I have been thinking about this before, received some encouraging feedback, and now I finally got myself one: the iTrip. Installation was a breeze and now I’m ready for my holiday trip. Also, this should be a great solution for listening to podcasts. I’ve played some music in the car but havent’ been driving around [...]

Yesterday I was surprised by a visit from my colleague Vincent. The visit itself wasn’t the surprise, but Vincent’s new means of transportation was: the Segway. This really is an amazing piece of technology. There is no gass handle whatsoever; when you lean forward, it re-establishes balance and rolls back underneath you, sort of. So [...]

Guido pointed me to this little article on weblogs in KPN‘s newspaper “de Breedbander” that quotes me. Of course I knew about it since I gave an interview for it, but I didn’t find the result in the mail (snail). Now I figured out why: I’ve got this sticker on my mailbox that prevents unsollicited [...]

Bloglines, my favorite RSS reader, seems to be under construction. Nine in the mornig is a bad time for such a service to be offline. At least they’ve made a nice under construction notice.

Yesterday we had our InterimIC meeting at Nieuwspoort in The Hague. Afterwards we paid a visit to the political section of the RTL Nieuws desk, hosted by Frits Wester. He had some great stories about the way he gets his news and scoops via sources that he of course could not reveal. Nice to have [...]

People that I see regularly know that I always have my BlackBerry around. (Actually, most of them carry one too.) On the other hand, I meet quite a lot of people that never have seen one before or even worse, don’t even know what it is! “Is that thing handy?” they ask, to get the [...]

The Kryptonite case is famous. (The story where someone showed on video how to open a $100 lock. The video was distributed very fast using blogs; Kryptonite offered to return the locks, causing a loss of a lot of money.) Now there is a new lock case: Kensington. This time it’s about the famous notebook [...]

I noticed I’m not the only one who’s struggling with the language issue. After I redesigned this web site I explained my choice a little bit – and I’m still satisfied with it – but not completely. Hans received some very useful comments (like the idea of bi-lingual blogging). Given the fact that we’re both [...]

I finally made it to get elected ‘man of the match’ of the infamous JOS4 soccer team. Given the fact it was the last match of the season I get to stay on the front page of the JOS4 website for a couple of months;-) By the way, despite my hard work we lost the [...]