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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 latest 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 be found in the about section. Then, there is, of course, also a page with contact information. And that basically covers it. ;)

Recent blog posts

iPhone OS 3.0: internet tethering met Vodafone

This post is in Dutch as it concerns enabling iPhone internet tethering on the Dutch Vodafone network.
iPhone OS 3.0 is gisteren dan eindelijk losgelaten. Van de vele nieuwe functies, vind ik persoonlijk internet tethering één van de meest interessante. In Nederland staat T-Mobile dat niet toe op hun netwerk, maar Vodafone, waar ik een abonnement [...]

Web site responsible for Google summary

Well, in the Netherlands, that is. This is what happened.
Klup.nl is a Dutch web site for people looking for a house. It apparently once posted some text about a car dealer named Zwartepoorte, and somewhere on the same page, another text about the bankruptcy of a totally different company. The two texts had nothing to [...]

Internal combustion

After a few years riding around on a scooter, I’m pretty sick of it. Not only because of bad weather, but mostly because time and time again, someone doesn’t see me, or someone sees me coming but doesn’t care, or I don’t know. But I’m tired of being almost run over virtually every day. [...]