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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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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

Until now, I always made sure that the XHTML and CSS for this web site would be 100% valid. Writing valid XHTML and CSS is an important step in ensuring consistent behaviour amongst different platforms. Even though every platform has its own quirks and bugs, making sure your code is valid is a good way … Read more

Since I acquired the Virtual Private Server (VPS) this web site is hosted by, it has run Debian Etch. I know that Lenny is available for over half a year now, but I never felt like upgrading. I do regularly update, though. Wouldn’t want to miss any security fixes. So why didn’t I feel like … Read more

This morning, I saw a Google Street View car driving around in my home town Oosterhout (map). I it was a black Ford Focus (if I’m not mistaking), and it had a German license plate from Hamburg (HH). Unfortunately, I was unable to take a photo of it. However, I might encounter it some more … Read more

I’ve made some minor tweaks to this site during the last few weeks. The displaying of comments has improved, most notably the comment time, as opposed to only the date. I didn’t go as far as to implement threaded comments in my theme, because as they are now, with a fixed width, I don’t really … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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. So, … Read more