From the musical “De Engel van Amsterdam”. It’s actually frightfully actual, still, since as much as we think we can make our own decisions, we’re usually steered from above without really noticin...

Wij zijn de tuin van het echtpaar de Bondt Aardige lui dat gaat best Wij staan in redelijk vruchtbare grond En krijgen steeds volop mest Maar dat is tevens een ernstige grief Onze ideeën zijn alter...

After upgrading the blog to WordPress 2.7, the Now Reading1 plugin didn’t work very well anymore. The developer is also kinda busy right now, and hasn’t updated his plugin yet for 2.7. No fear! H...

Once again, Belgium is the laughing stock of the EU. Once again, we’re without a government, due to their own inability to follow the constitutional division between the powers in the country (jus...

Yesterday I had some good old fun trying to replace the backup battery of an Acer Travelmate 8?03 laptop. I thought that since this is a part that should be replaceable by the user, it should be r...

‘t is niet den auto, ‘t is de reis niet de tafel, ‘t is de spijs niet den oven, ‘t is de koek niet het meubel, ‘t is het boek niet de potten, ‘t is de pap niet het lopen, ‘t is de stap niet de lett...

Because I keep forgetting them, here’s a list of buttons you can press during a Mac’s boot to change behaviour: Key Action C boot from CD or DVD ...

At work we regularly have to send over files to $vendor. $Vendor has two ways of accepting files: FTP, and Webdav (over https). Since our company’s policy is to not send things out unencrypted, we ...

… waking up at 6 in the morning, because you hear a certain sound you associate with water that’s coming under high pressure from a tap. Upon closer inspection, the tap in the shower was spraying ...

So true… ;) (thanks to Gh0sty)