Archive for the ‘ rants ’ Category
Apple, as puritan as any US company, has pulled all sexual apps from the iTunes store after “complaints”. Mysteriously, all the violent games remain. A MacRumors reader put it very succinctly: So boobs are bad, but murdering cops is ok. Got it. Mind you, these apps are all rated for 18+. So you have to wonder how these [ READ MORE ]
Strong words? Yes, indeed. Though I have the SMTP-headers to prove the fact that NS (Dutch Railways) actively hates their customers and wants to annoy them as much as possible. Case in point: e-mail newsletter. [ READ MORE ]
With a newborn in the house, it starts to become quite clear that many of the food we eat is in fact not very healthy. Case in point: breakfast cereals. [ READ MORE ]
When you need to resort to using Flash to handle something, you know you’re in a mess. Yet that is the case when dealing with file uploads. For some inane reason (omg it’s haaarrrrrrrrd) file uploads in browsers are teh SUCK. So it falls to us, web developers, to deal with that shit in a [ READ MORE ]
You heard it here first: Sony TriStar (the movie distributor) wants you to illegaly download their latest film: District 9. Why? Because there are two months between first release in USA and release in Europe. [ READ MORE ]
A security vulnerability was discovered in Wordpress 2.8.3 recently. If you look at the flaw in question, I can’t believe people are still using PHP to publish websites. If you still do, you should be beaten with a stick. Let’s gloat about why Ruby (on Rails) is better, point by point. [ READ MORE ]
As an Amsterdammer, and soon to be living-in-the-center-of-Amsterdammer, a trend of our city’s municipality worries me. This is the trend to make Amsterdam squeeky clean, disallow anything fun, noisy and dirty and turn this old town into an amusement park. This is why I endorse Ai! Amsterdam which aims to change some of the absurd [ READ MORE ]
Time for a vague problem. Yesterday I splurged on a new MacBook Pro 15 inch. But I had huge problems getting it to connect to my wireless network at home. And I am not the only one. Turns out it is incompatible with Time Capsule’s default setting! Argh! [ READ MORE ]
I love parodies. I especially love parodies where big, slow and dying industries are mocked. So I saw this Downfall subtitle-parody. See it, it’s hilarious. The real kicker is that Apple, one of the companies briefly featured in the parody, has refused to publish a link (!) to a blog post showing this video in [ READ MORE ]
Sometimes I wonder if there are any sane people left. This week, a fundamental Christian organization will deliver a leaflet disclaiming Darwin’s Theory of Evolution to all households in Netherlands. All of them! [ READ MORE ]
