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During the weekend I attended a super cool company event: we went flying in a hot air balloon. I really enjoyed the experience!
We went up in Utrecht (near Ikea) and landed about 35km (measured in a straight line) in south east direction. During the flight I took about 160 pictures, I selected a couple of […]

At the end of September Finalist will organize an event called: Battle of the Geeks.
Main concept of the battle is to convince the audience of the usefulness coolness of the tool/framework which you are presenting.
Initially I was asked to pitch Spring. I like Spring… but is it cool enough to convince Ruby/Rails zealots that […]

I came across the following video on the Computer Music website:

Although they claim that we have come a long way, I’m not so sure… The demonstrated C64 software looks like it is really fun to use!

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 […]

A colleague of mine pointed me to UPF’s reactable site:
http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/?media
During my Masters year I was in a project with a team from UPF, and we worked on something a bit similar (but, which never got finished and wasn’t as cool as this).
This sort of intuitive interfaces make me think, maybe I should get myself a […]

Some weeks ago I spend a lot of time building a new bathroom in my house. I promised people to put some snapshots online… but till now I wasn’t satisfied with the pictures I made. This was basically due to the lack of a wide-angle lens; I just couldn’t get a nice overview.
So, while have […]

The release of the Intel version OSX a while ago kept me thinking about running OSX on my Dell notebook. Yes, I do have G4 iBook …. but I just wanted to know if it is possible.
While searching I found some excellent tips on http://www.osx86project.org/.
Testing applications in Safari would be the main purpose, so I […]

Today I finished 33% of my holiday. 66% more to go!
I’m rebuilding my bathroom. I managed to hide the plumbing, central heating and electricity neatly under a solid slab of reinforced concrete. Coming week: create a small wall for the build-in toilet, and start putting in the tiles…!
Working with a certain material makes me more […]

Today the Canon EOS350D we ordered arrived. During the day Danielle mailed me some nice shots she made while experimenting… soon Sjoerd’s weblog will be packed with hi-res 8 megapixel SLR pictures
But after dinner I had a go, and took a couple of shots of my espresso machine. I think some of them […]