Archive for June, 2006

World Cup 2006 Roos on top!

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Who would have thought after one game, Australia would be leading the table!!!! Hiddink has to be a footballing genius.

Why don’t we carry on the conversation at the sports club in the forum?

Apple Key-NOT-es

Friday, June 9th, 2006

How to make a successful keynote? I think you’ve learned the lesson few posts ago, when SJ presented the iPod for the first time ever. But there’re many more ways for a keynote to go wrong. So, here’s a compilation of the troubles Apple had during the last years… pure fun, but still, no blue-screens […]

Nederlands 1 - Australia 1

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Hot last sunday afternoon here in Rotterdam’s stadium, when Oranges met the Aussies. Not technically a superb game, but the skilled Dutch and the tenacious Australian entertained pretty much. It will be a pleasure to see them playing ‘for real’ during the WC.
The astonishing part, anyway, was the stadium itself: completely orange, everywhere!!!
To see the […]

666

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

6th of June 2006.
Today is the day of the beast. It’s also my birthday. Yep.
Care for of a piece of cake before the army of the darkness will take over this world?

Vista: working get’s safer

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Apparently, too much… I already get pretty tired when working on a Windows machine, since every step needs several other steps of confirmation (”you really want to click on it!?”, oh come on…) and a final reboot. And then, viruses can do whatever without being bothered. It’s definetely not fair (*).
Vista should be the Windows […]

How to write a scientific paper

Monday, June 5th, 2006

Definetely not a guide.
But you would better have a look at this paper on the papers.
Brought to you through “Improbable Research”, if you’re in the environment you’ll have something to laugh about (and some colleagues to recognize in it)! If you’re not in the environment, remember that the most important discoveries have been made looking […]

Space: 1999

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Not even the Talibans could have think about all this! Blowing up the moon from its own orbit, making it lost in space with the Moon Base Alpha and hundreds of people living on it…
It was the best sci-fi serial after Star Trek, and for only 2 seasons became a cult!
The site space1999.org celebrates the […]