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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 — 1937 ~ 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 below — is probably the most interesting part of this site for most people. Not in the menu, but present nonetheless, is some stuff that I want to have online for some reason. And that basically covers it. 
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
Dopey is a newborn robot Camarasaurus. That’s right, I got myself a Pleo. Not a Xmas present (otherwise I’d have unpacked it too soon), the timing is purely coincidental. It has actually more to do with the fairly generous end-of-year bonus from my work, in spite of the financial crisis.
So Dopey has [...]
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Just a post to commemorate that 40 years ago today, Douglas Engelbart held The Mother of All Demos (video), introducing concepts such as the computer mouse, hyperlinks and e-mail. Taken for granted today, back in 1968 those were things no one had ever heard of.
Just think, without the mouse, graphical user interfaces probably never would [...]
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
This post is in Dutch as it concerns Dutch politics.
Als het goed is heeft ieder huishouden afgelopen zaterdag een brief van minister Ab Klink ontvangen over het Elektronisch Patiënten Dossier (EPD) dat op stapel staat. Ik, en met mij vele anderen, zijn het totaal niet eens met deze gang van zaken. Niet alleen vanwege de [...]
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