Archive for 2003
I’m nearly famous
My PhD research is being sponsored by the NWO Council for the Astronomical, Mathematical and Computer Sciences (Exacte Wetenschappen), on the Computational Science programme.
A year ago, we had the Kick-off meeting for this programme, at the CWI in Amsterdam, and last week we had the second meeting, at the TU Eindhoven this time.
Someone was being very active with his digital camera, and a lot of pictures were taken during the day.
On the Computational Science site, a gallery has been set up with a small number of photographs from both of these meetings.
Among these 12 pictures, yours truly has found himself twice already!
Miserable failure
Try this: search google for “miserable failure”. If you click “I’m feeling lucky”, you are sent directly to the first search result, being (at the time of writing) this page!
Yes, that is the Biography of President George W. Bush at the official White House site.
Update: Well, apparently, this is called google bombing.
A new action has already been started, directed towards the Dutch prime minister.
van16hoog.nl
My good friend Vincent has been blogging for about half a year now, and he pointed me to the new weblog of one of our mutual friends, Arjan, who launched his weblog Van16hoog.nl just a week ago. Enjoy!
I’ve been Revolutions
Last Friday, my girlfriend and I went to see The Matrix Revolutions.
Yes… well… what can I say?
I had to see it, of course. I had seen the other two, so I wanted to see this one too. But it’s disappointing! No, not the special effects, those are great, as expected. But the story – it’s just too easy… It’s a shame, maybe they should’ve just stopped after the first one.
Six parents?
A strange news item on nu.nl (in Dutch): “Redhead women threatened with extinction”. It says in the article (translated by yours truly): “To get red hair, 6 specific genes are necessary, of which each parent has to provide one.”
A simple calculation tells me you would need 6 parents to get red hair! I can imagine why they’re threatened with extinction, now…
(BTW, I found an English article here.)
Your life under version control
A nice article, linked to by slashdot: how to put your life in a CVS repository. Well, actually just your entire home directory, but still…
Wow!
I mean, I like CVS, don’t get me wrong. I too use it for my documents, my sources, my homepage, but my entire home directory? Why would I want everything under version control? Why would I keep my mail in CVS? And why would I like to retrieve the files I deleted two years ago? I didn’t delete them for nothing, now, did I?
And what else would be the use of the Recycle Bin? Ha ha, no seriously, you just have to know what you’re doing if you type ‘rm’. Think twice before you press Enter. It’s not much fun if you can recover everything from your CVS repository!
Anyway, in the (unlikely) case that you would want to do the same as Joey, just read the article. Have fun!
Concessions
I’ve often seen the term “Concessions” in combination with entry fees for a museum, zoo, or cinema. Usually, this means you get a discount if you are a student, or a senior citizen.
But in the IMAX Theatre-at-Bristol, you also get a discount, if you are unemployed! Not having a job, does have its advantages!
I only wonder, how do they check that?
Do you get some sort of pass if you don’t have a job? Or do you get a certificate if you’re unemployed? But you mustn’t forget to put that in the shredder when you get a job! And will you get a new one when you’re fired?
One thousand!
Earlier today, I looked at my Nedstats, and noticed I’d had exactly one thousand page views on my weblog.
Mozilla 1.5
Mozilla 1.5 has been released, yesterday!
I haven’t seen that news yet, anywhere. Well, I mean, not on slashdot, and not on tweakers.net.
Update: Hmpf, sorry, it was on slashdot, I just missed it…
Now, let’s quickly download it, and try it out. I’m curious to what’s new…
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