...it's the way that you do it. Last week I noticed a funny thing in an application I'm involved in as a developer. For logging in to the application, the term "Log On" was used. However, for logging off, "Log Out" was used. This did not feel right, so I searched a bit on the use of these terms. It …

To every photo-editing, image-manipulating, red-eye-reducing software developer on the planet: Sharpening photographs by default is NOT a good idea! If images aren't sharp directly from the camera, there was something wrong with them to begin with. Most camera's nowadays make fine pictures which don't need sharpening. …

Vorig jaar heb ik mij aardig druk gemaakt over de abnormale manier waarop steeds meer mensen met dodenherdenking omgaan. Dit jaar was mijn ervaring gelukkig een stuk prettiger. Ik heb een klein stukje van de herdenking op de dam gezien, en dat was duidelijk een stuk beter dan vorig jaar. De taptoe werd foutloos en …

Of all inventive minds, the religious mind must be the most inventive. It can justify a massacre by refering to a book that essentially says "Thou shall not kill".

For those that can read Dutch. This is a nice example of Dutch gasstation owners wanting to be compensated for the fact that gasoline (or any other fluid you can sell) schrinks when cooled. What happens is, that the delivery trucks cary the gasoline at the normal outside temperatures. When pumped into the underground …

This article is about selecting a new phone contract. Since this article describes a specific Dutch situation, it will be in Dutch. Sorry. Dit jaar lijkt een constant "blijven of wisselen" jaar te zijn. Wil je de nieuwe zorgverlof regeling of blijf je spaarloon houden? Wil je een nieuwe Zorgverzekeraar of wil …

Wikipedia is not as good as you might think. Things written on Wikipedia are copied "verbatim" by other sites. By the time somebody checks the wikipedia story, he finds the verbatim copies and sees them as confirmation of the wikipedia story. And so the story stays on Wikipedia, spreading wrong ideas to …

Lately, I've been collecting race circuit locations using Google Earth. It's really nice to see the sometimes very detailed satelite images of race circuits. You can actually see the seperate kerbstone blocks of silverstone, and see how many cars there were parked at the time the picture was taken. You should try it. …

Ben ik nou gek, of word dodenherdenking tegenwoordig een beetje "afgeraffeld"? Iedere Nederlander zou toch moeten weten hoe belangrijk het herdenken van de tweede wereld oorlog is (en zou moeten blijven). Toch lijkt het erop dat er steeds meer gemorreld wordt aan de gedachte, en de uitvoering van de …