March 2012
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February 2012
1 post
November 2011
3 posts
What's in a noun?
Recently I received this in my inbox, source unknown. Now, I am not going to put up all kinds of office-humour mails here (I do that in dutch at zegdanwat.nl). However, I do enjoy the intricasies of languages; hence this post.
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with: a Herd of cows a Flock of chickens...
October 2011
8 posts
Past Pleasures: My articles on 4GuysFromRolla.com
As the first post about the things I did in the past, how better to start with the oldest stuff I can still link to? In 2000 I was working in an internet startup in Santa Rosa, California. For that company I wrote a browser-based content creation tool. Very meta, eh? Using your browser to create pages that someone else can see in their browser. Nowadays, everybody is doing that. However, at the...
A fresh start
If you have visited my site before, you know it looked differently before. The layout was nice, but it looked like a magazine blog, but without the proper content. That’s why I have decided to have a fresh restart with the site. Simpler, cleaner layout the puts the focus on the content. Now, I will still not update this every day, or maybe even every week, but visitors will be able to...
November 2008
1 post
“The mind is like a parachute; it only functions when open!”