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With the launch of Windows Vista today I was reminded of a nice video I came across a while ago:

The widget/gadget thingy kept me thinking…. I just had to look it up! Here are the definitions from the Oxford Dictionary:
widget: noun, informal, a small gadget or mechanical device.
gadget: noun, a small mechanical device or tool. […]

I’ve been following the processing framework framework for quite a while now. Processing can best be seen as a DSL to ease the task of programming interactive computer generated images and animations build on top of Java.
Most of the time examples are quite straightforward, but last time I checked a noticed this ‘invention’:
PixelRoller
(–update– I […]

Yesterday the 3voor12 website, architected by yours truly, won the second price in the category ‘BEST DUTCH APP’ at the Dutch web 2.0 awards.
Erwin Blom (the man with the plan) went there to collect the price. Congratulations!
Hopefully the upcoming release (don’t hold your breath, might take a couple of months), in which I’m involved as […]

Finally, I got a call about the fact that my laptop was ready for pick-up! I Jumped in my car and endured 90 minutes of traffic jams… but it’s back!
The service center managed to ’solve’ the problem by replacing the entire logic board… still don’t understand why Apple didn’t just replace the unit when I […]

I’ve had plenty of problems with laptops in the passed year. I’ve alway thought that the service provided by Dell was reasonably, and probably comparable to service provided by others. How wrong could I be.
My MacBook Pro was accompanied (which is company policy) by a quite expensive (440 euro) Apple Care plan. For this […]

During the company meeting yesterday we where introduced to the Butterfly Works foundation. Ineke Aquarius (Stategic thinker and Social innovator) gave a short presentation on the type of projects they do.
Most projects are related to educating people in various difficult topics like personal healthcare, sex and violence. Education is mostly done using modern media like […]

Today Tibco and DWR announced the sponsorship of TIBCO of Joe Walker’s popular DWR (direct web remoting / ajax) library; from now on TIBCO’ll be sponsoring the project and they’ll start working on ‘popularizing’ TIBCO GI by proving an easier service model using DWR.
I’ve used DWR extensively on my previous project and am really charmed […]

They actually did it. If you go through the comments over at slashdot you’ll find tons of people explaining how Apple couldn’t possibly have a product called iPhone. Well now they have.
It’s not only a phone, it’s an WIFI enabled, widescreen video iPod and PDA as well.
The pictures of the device reveal a stunning looking, […]

Last week I discovered a rather serious problem with my MacBook Pro: the battery doesn’t charge anymore. I’ve tried all sorts of yoga magic on my keyboard to reset the NVRAM/PRAM but nothing helped. So I called Apple for support. They decided to sent me a new battery…. which has arrived today.
I really hoped this […]