It seems Scotty got beamed up himself. James Doohan, Scotty in Star Trek, passed away. Now the real beaming can begin…

Now this is something I’d like to have. What a beautiful keyboard! And useful as well, being able to map the keys and not even that, also to map whatever the key says! Very cool! I’m sure it’s going to be expensive, but if it’s not *too* expensive I might actually get one.

The last week I’ve been playing around a lot with the javascript xmlHttpRequest functionality that is these days better know as AJAX (what a name!). A client requested me to implement it, or at least look at the possibilities of implementing it, in their intranet. And I must say, there are tons of possibilities where…

So, for the past few days, Justus was at our place. He’s travelling through Europe for months and we planned on meeting eachother while he was in The Netherlands. He ended up accepting our offer of a place to sleep for two nights. It was quite nice. Justus is a really cool guy. On friday,…

It seems I missed out on another fun Internet thing lately: The puppy poo girl. A girl who had her dog with her on the subway, and her dog dumped some crap right there. She only had a a few words to spare for the elderly people asking her to clean it up: “fuck off”.…

In the category ‘cool and useful’, I’ll today present you with a nice Firefox extension called ForecastFox. Using this nice plugin, you can get your local weather forecast as nice little icons in your firefox Statusbar (or in various other locations in Firefox!). Very cool, and pretty useful if you want to know what kind…

You better believe it. Sauron exists. The hubble telescope brings us the proof. Quite scary, huh?

Packt publishing, quite an interesting publisher with books very specific (open source) software, has released a book about phpBB. Now that alone is worth a mention. I’ve had the honor of being a technical reviewer for the book. I received the book about two weeks ago from Packt, but I haven’t really had time to…

Today I wanted to comment on an entry on Livejournal to find that they had a new identity system implemented. They now support OpenID. When taking a closer look, this system looks mighty interesting. I think I’ll have a look at how this works, see if I can somehow implement this using PHP.

Now this is cool. If you have no phone line, no electricity, but you still want to use the phone, what do you do? Of course! Get a computer, modify a bike, and create your own electricity and a wireless connection to phone over IP.