March 2009

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• ict / computers

  Ten steps to a killer app

  03.16.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Guido Jansen has written an interesting post on the (European) Open Source Network blog, entitled Ten Steps To a Killer App, a User Point-of-View. It’s not a technical treatise for coders but rather a good overview on everyting aside from the coding: how to make actually choosing, installing and using an app as easy as possible [...]

• books

  Sometimes you just find great things…or seven of them!

  03.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I wrote some time ago that some friendly and creative Twitter direct marketing got me on to podiobooks.com, a service that provides free (or better: optional-donation-based) audiobooks. And recently I have found a true gem there: J.C. Hutchins‘ “7th Son” trilogy, a truly ripping read. I really raced through the chapters, and finished book 2 today so [...]

• life, work

  Fishing for nuts…

  03.12.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Send a balding, bulky IT guy (i.e.: me) to a data center to install his brand spanking new firewalls, then make sure you provide him with the wrong type of rack mounting nuts, and then put the box of spare nuts, screws etc. on the wrong side of a fence…then watch the fun as he starts [...]

• gadgets

  24 SSDs linked together for solid speed

  03.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Funny and instructional too: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

• life

  Was I really ever that young?

  03.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I had a big ol’ lump of nostalgia yesterday when I found a very, very old class photo online of my first year in high school (Dutch high school that is, which starts around age 12). Oh! My! God! I look sooooooo young! I must have been 12 years old at the time this photo [...]

• movies

  Behind the scenes at Coraline

  03.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I bumped into this very interesting article on the making of Coraline at CGsociety (the Computer Graphics Society). I loved the book (another great one by Neil Gaiman), and am really looking forward to seeing Henry Selick’s stop motion movie. The makers even used a rapid prototyping system to produce some of the parts for [...]

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