2004 news archive

Apple U2 Ipod considered harmful

gear Apple releases the U2 ipod. Why?

Iñtërnâtiônälizætiøn

website On problems with multiple language websites.

Do you like games?

journal Allen is holding a bit of a contest.

Sinterklaas

journal Sinterklaas has arrived in The Netherlands again. Actually, he already arrived last week. Today his advance continued with a visit to my village. In the spirit of festivities I provide you with the Sinterklaas Layout.

Ion drive probe reaches the moon

journal The European Space Agency's Smart-1 probe is powered by a new 'ion drive': it accelerates slowly but over long distances attains high speeds, and offers a promising technology for future interplanetary missions.

Off to Luxembourgh

travel Repeating 2002, I'm off to Luxembourgh, to join my dad at Eurostat. Update: got back, got snow. fun.

Geekmeeting

journal Yesterday afternoon we enjoyed a little geekmeeting in the city centre of Utrecht.

November 6

journal November 6, 13:30, Utrecht Centraal Station. Be there.

21st century mobility

gear Got my new cellphone today. Apparently, I missed a couple of steps in mobile phone evolution.

XHTML, HTML, media types

rant While the webdesign has been immersed into the newfound beauty of standards based design, People in the higher echelons are discussing the merits of XHTML versus HTML and media types.

Sports and geeks don't mix very well

work Strangely, I found a way in which the two dó mix. A couple of weeks ago an old schoolfriend invited me to come and watch the training of his American Football team.

Time for a quicky

work The latest release..

What people will be or are talking about

journal The World wide web in the last couple of days.

Back from éire

travel Three weeks of goodness come to a close.

Work. work. vacation!

work About a week after concluding my work at Zappwerk, I got an offer to help out one of the largest ad agencies in the Netherlands.

Surveillance results from the Leiden meeting

journal Secret surveillance turned up the following evidence of a plot to take over the known world.

The making of a documentary

video When my group delivered the dvd documentary about Paleiskwartier in Den Bosch, we added this little making-off short on it.

Gmail. Fusion. Work.

journal So like all bloggers out here, I finally got a Gmail account. Apparently, this raises my Cool with +5. Update: All invitations spent. Better luck next time!

Cosmopolitan

travel I've been travelling a lot the last 12 month. A week ago I returned from a little trip to Carhaix, in France.

Weblogs definitely suck

work Or, probably the reverse, I suck at weblogging. Therefore, only a small update.

Hayobethlehem.nl: reloaded

website Finally the wait is over. Coinciding with the May 1 reboot and the expansion of the European Union, this could be as good an occasion as any to release V3 of HayoBethlehem.NL!

May1st reboot and roundup

website Needless to say, we returned from london unharmed, though Zef was stripsearched once.

Off to london

travel Oh yeah, you know, school projects are such a drag. You have to go to London to interview people.

Bobsleigh stuff, or lack thereoff

travel This weekend I was away on a little trip to Winterberg, Germany. We were supposed to go watch the Bobsleigh World cup.

Busy little bee

work Just a quick update. I've been (and still am) rather busy. Started this week with the final project for school. In a group we're going to make a documentary, in a very short timeframe.