Ancienne Belgique rocks
28 Feb 2006
I’m in the restaurant of the Ancienne Belgique and it’s only a few steps away from heaven:
I’m in the restaurant of the Ancienne Belgique and it’s only a few steps away from heaven:
Joey from “Friends“, as we all know, is very interested in bio-mechanics, certainly the topic of female movement on beaches:
This song has bothered me from the first time I heard it:
Ever since I saw the new ‘import from Blogger’ functionality in WordPress 2.0, I’ve known I would eventually migrate my main blog. Blogger is a great way to start blogging , but I want categories, easy template updating (without republish) and all the WordPress plug-in sweetness. As a dress rehearsal, I migrated my Dutch poetry blog first: Zo helpt Poezie ….
The ‘top model’ Heidi Klum presents a TV show: Germany’s Next Top Model, basically a contest for a bunch of girls who want to become a top model (date actors, eat carrots, spend hours getting your hair done, dress lightly and get paid a whole lot of money while doing that). Recently one of the candidates was dismissed and the reasons were somewhat controversial:

(post seems to have disappeared when I migrated to WordPress
I have what is proving to be an expensive habit: I’m subscribed to over 30 podcasts (including e.g. Diggnation at 300MB/week), I regularly download software to try out, I use BitTorrent on a regular basis, I buy stuff on iTunes. All that adds up to more than my allowance my ISP subscription gives me (20GB per month). Most of the months I pay an extra €8 per 10GB.
Since the CISC processors were invented some decades ago, companies like Intel and AMD have tried to follow some form of Moore’s Law: double the number of transistors on a chip – or the corresponding CPU clock speed – every 2 years or 18 months (there’s more than 1 version of the law).
Good tip for the Lexmark All-in-one inkjet printer owners (mine is the X6170):
Dave Hornik recently explained to his 8-year-old son what his job entailed (Dave’s a VC) and the response was as follows: