Public Secrets

Picture of the ‘prosessierups’ in an oak tree. Since a couple of year the Netherlands is being plagued by this creature. High temperatures during the winter and early spring didn’t help eradicating this creature.

Picture of the Genneperpark Eindhoven.

A backstreet view. Zutphen, hanzestad in the Netherlands [link].

I am afraid that the French have no balls!
Read this article [link] in BetaNews. The French have watered down the original bill which would ban the use of DRM formats that are closed down for third parties. Or easier said; A person who buys a DRM protected piece of data should be able to play [...]

Check out the FosFor Gadgets website for a very cool USB stick (link).

Oh my god, I do love the Internet.
I am watching the Le Mans 24 hours race on the Internet. RTL7 is streaming the live coverage and at the same time I am listening to radio Le Mans. All the TV channels are only broadcasting small bits of the race.
Audi is running first with a R10 [...]

This has been quite a week for Microsoft; Scoble leaving, share prices going down and than now Gates leaving!

Robert Scoble; http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/
I have been reading Roberts’ Blog for some time. Him leaving Microsoft was not really a suprise to me. There were some signals in his writing; the time he stopped blogging, the moment he unsubcribed [...]

The European parliament has two seats in Europe; Brussels and Strasbourg.
Since years, every month the parliament picks up its bags and moves from Brussels to Strasbourg. There it stays for a week and goes back to Brussels. This is costing the European taxpayers €200.000.000 a year (direct cost). The indirect cost due to inefficiency is [...]

Some time ago I blogged about the then to be released D200 from Nikon. I was speculating about the specs and whether I would buy one. At the moment I have an analog F90x which is still very good. I also have a film Nikon filmscanner so I already made a move from film to [...]

Recently I moved one of my sites from PHPnuke to Mambo. I did not know whether I made the right move and instead of Mambo I should have moved to Joomla as it is a split off of the Mambo CMS.
The last couple of weeks I have been looking at the development around both CMS’s. [...]