Cemetary Oud Kralingen
My grandfather will be buried on Tuesday, 2pm, on the Begraafplaats Oud Kralingen. It is a really old burial site belonging to the former village of Kralingen, originating in 1550. It's now part of the greater Rotterdam area.
October 12, 2008
DIY Mac & iPod Repair
Apple is relatively closed about its products, how they're made and repair must be done at 'authorized dealers'... Riiight. That would be true if it weren't for the Internet!
Check DIY Mac & iPod Repair from ifixit.com. They have every Mac product in the universe dissected, illustrated with clear photos and howtos. So if your iPod is bricked or your iMac won't boot or you just want to replace the hard disk and add more RAM, read their site, get the parts and do it yourself! Genius!
October 9, 2008
Subversion clients for OSX and Finder
CollabNet Community has an up-to-date subversion client for Apple OSX 10.4+ as a universal binary. Other svn clients for OSX are RapidSVN, svnX and Xcode. SCplugin is an extension to the Finder, much like tortoise does with Explorer on Windows.
October 8, 2008
Tilt Shift Cameras and Lenses
A posting on Pownce today started this venture into "tilt-shift camera" techniques. A selective blurring of the scene, controlling the depth of field as well as the plane of focus, to guide the eye where you want to go. At the same time, pictures get the sense of being miniature photos. The shift of focus and the plane of focus, mimic what we often see in macro photography. So we think they're miniatures.
Anyway, turns out Nikon invented it for its SLRs in the 60s (!) and Canon followed in 73. O_O It's ancient! Not old, but ancient, antique! So I'm shocked to find this whole wikipedia page on it with a link to Vincent Laforet who did a great piece on this for the New York Times. :) Cool!
PS3 needs a price drop
I agree with T3 when they say that the PS3 needs a price drop. I just saw an add for the Xbox 360 for €149! :shock: The PS3 is still €350. I don't want to pay more than 300, tops! I know my friend Imro is waiting for me to buy one and I could, could I'm afraid it will cost me too much time or that I can't put in the time that I'd want to. In between work, life, wife, partying, Wii and cooking there simply isn't too much left. :(
Maps+Books mash-up: Why didn't anyone think of this before?
Readers can browse sample book pages and click on highlighted locations, which then display satellite images along with relevant info, audio or video. The developer says OnScene is the "bridge" between the novel and digital media. He hopes the convergence can capture a younger demographic of book worms...Or how about walking along the path of the book's prima character in historic novels?!? Da vinci code "walk-throughs" or Carcasonne and so on... genius!
read more | digg story
Opa Peper dying
After 94 years and shortly after their 67th (!) marriage anniversary on Sept 11th, my grandfather is in the hospital of which he won't be released alive. He seems to want to die as they found him on the floor last weekend, severely dehydrated and malnourished. It seemed to refused to eat or drink. After the weekend they took him off of life support, medication and IVs leaving only morphine against the pain. He has tons of tumors all over his body.
Everyone has been to visit him, even my father who was plagued by strikes in Belgium and France. So now he can hopefully accept the idea and let go. My grandmother came in on Sunday one last time. My uncle took this picture of them holding hands one last time...
/me chokes up
October 7, 2008
Five second boot mod for ASUS Eee PC
Intel engineers have modded the already modded Linux installation of the Eee PC! They managed a Five second boot mod! And that is all the way to an idle CPU and disk... O_o Wow!
It was so fast that the splash screen was removed. You probably couldn't see it anyway. LOL
Earth was destroyed last night
A small asteroid, 3-4 meters in size, hit the sky above Northern Sudan last night around 3am. There was a chance of 99.8% of it hitting Earth and exploding with a force estimated at 1 kiloton TNT (1000kg of dynamite). See CNN too.
Asus S101 Eee PC netbook details leaked
Just bought the Eee 900 when T3 tells me the S101 Eee PC netbook details were leaked. However, there's no confirmation yet.
I'm not too sad. The 900/901 are the perfect form factor. 9" screen is just big enough. Bigger means more more power, means heavier, means less battery life. 1024x600 resolution is fine for browsing. While the S101 looks cooler and is ultra thin, I'm fine with mine. Besides, all those features cost extra money and I'm not paying €500+ for a midget sized laptop. I can get a regular for that money!
WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress
CenterNetworks has a video of Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress taken at WordCamp NYC. He talks about the current state of Wordpress, a walkthrough of the upcoming version 2.7 and the future.
October 6, 2008
Asus Eee PC 900
While at Correct in Rotterdam, saturday, I bought myself an Eee PC! W00t! Comes with Xandros Linux, uses KDE 3.4.2 for a very Windows-like appearance and boot incredibly fast! I liked the interface they made but hated that I can't change anything easily. So needless to say I'll be experimenting with various Linux distos to see which one suits me the best. :) (Because I can!) That's what I'll use unetbootin for... There even is a torrent out there with the WinXP image, if you like. Heard that is boots very fast too and works just great too, if you prefer Windows over Linux.
Check the Eee PC specs, if your curious. I wanted a 901 series, but they are hard to find here and would be overpriced. The 900 is sweet and small and works fine.
UNetbootin
Quickly and easily install any OS on any machine that can boot off of a USB drive. Use UNetbootin to write the boot files to your favorite USB key/stick/drive and reboot. Windows and Linux clients, both worked well for me. Highly Recommended™!
HOWTO build a data center
Google is showing the world how to build a data center using Sustainable Computing. Simple tips can significantly reduce the amount of energy it takes to power and cool a modern data center. Very interesting read!
October 4, 2008
October 3, 2008
kooklokaal.nl
Today is my first day at kooklokaal.nl, a cozy cooking studio in the Houtrustkerk in Den Haag. It for groups of people who'd like to eat out but get involved too and exists for 8 years already, 3 years of which in the basement of a small community church. You pick a menu, maybe get a wine tasting as well and show up. I'll be one of the head chefs ;) who welcomes you, explains the deal, leads you to the cooking islands where all the necessary ingredients are already waiting for you and then I tell everyone how to start... It's great fun to cook as well as host!
October 2, 2008
That's Not My Name
Heard this song for the first time months ago on TMF. Forgot about it until this week. Then I heard a similar song on last.fm and found it The Ting Tings’s Music Videos – That's Not My Name
/me jumps around the office shouting... :bounce:
October 1, 2008
Dolphins play "bubble rings"
Checkout these dolphins making air rings in the water and then chasing them... :D WTF How the hell do they make these and why do the rings keep traveling with them?
Earth's Air Divided by Chemical Equator
Scientists have found a temporary "chemical equator" that separates the heavily polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the cleaner air of the Southern Hemisphere over the Western Pacific — only it isn't where they expected to find it.
read more | digg story
September 30, 2008
Pretec unveils 64GB and 100GB CF cards
Speaking of CF, Pretec now has 64GB and 100GB CF Cards. O_o DPReview lists "Pretec today releases 64GB and 100GB, 233X CF cards with access speed of up to 35MB/s", so they're not the fastest but the largest. Great for multi-booting several unstable OSes with or carrying your choice of instant VMs with you!
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