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He has a special place full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish
where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry
for ever and ever till the end of time — but he loves you!

George Carlin — May 12th, 1937 ~ June 22nd, 2008

Welcome to the home page of Colin Helvensteijn, aka raptor.

So what can you find here on this web site? Well, the menu above points you to most of it. My blog — of which the three most recent posts are shown below — is probably the most interesting part of this site for most people. There are also a bunch of files that I want to have online for some reason. I’ve got some links to other web sites, too. Information about me, my computers and this web site can also be found. Then there is, of course, a page with contact information. And that basically covers it. ;)

Latest blog posts

Color swap

I’m still thinking about a major redesign for this web site, but I just can’t seem to come up with the right idea. I’ve gone trough numerous mockups, but decided that it just wan’t good enough with each of them. I will think of something, eventually…
In the mean time, I totally had it with green. […] Read more »

Rekeningrijden: red onze privacy!

This post is in Dutch as it concerns Dutch law and politics.

In het bezit van een auto en gesteld op privacy? Lees voor de grap eens de informatie op redonzeprivacy.nl (en als je tijd en zin hebt, de achtergrondinformatie waar zij naar linken). Als je je daarna nog niet geroepen voelt om de petitie aldaar […] Read more »

GlimmerBlocker

Web ads, a controversial subject. While they’re useful for making things free (as in gratis) that would otherwise require payment, many people outright hate them. In general, I have nothing against them. Take Google AdSense for example, those things don’t bother me in the slightest (unless some page has them randomly and prominently littered throughout […] Read more »