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Twelve minutes of your time

Posted on January 18, 2012 by joost
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Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly this decade, maybe further back than that. It explains a new proposed law in the US called SOPA and it explains very, very well why technology people and companies are opposed to this law.

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Twelve minutes of your time

Posted on January 18, 2012 by joost
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Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly this decade, maybe further back than that. It explains a new proposed law in the US called SOPA and it explains very, very well why technology people and companies are opposed to this law.

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Twelve minutes of your time

Posted on January 18, 2012 by joost
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Please spend twelve minutes of your time and watch this video. It is a very important video to watch, certainly one of the most significant videos of this decade, maybe further back than that. It explains a new proposed law in the US called SOPA and it explains very, very well why technology people and companies are opposed to this law.

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Z@ppelin iPhone/iPad app

Posted on May 11, 2011 by joost
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Now online: the Z@ppelin iPhone/iPad app. I am involved in the back-end of this application, which in this case means most of the content. If you have children in the ages 2-6, try it out!

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Smalltalk best practice patterns

Posted on April 19, 2011 by joost
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If you’re programming along, doing nicely, and all of a sudden your program gets balky, makes things hard for you, it’s talking. It’s telling you there is something important missing.

Yep. Great book (ht: dhh).

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Radio 1 gadget

Posted on January 21, 2011 by joost
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For listening to (Dutch) public radio, you can now grab the gadget code here and use it in your Dashboard. (click the down arrow for Google/Hyves/HTML embed codes)

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Fixing MySQL encoding issues with Ruby 1.9.2

Posted on December 23, 2010 by joost
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There have been tens, hundreds, thousands blogs posts related to Latin1/UTF8 encoding issues. So here is yet another, this time related to upgrading from Ruby 1.8.6 + mysql gem to Ruby 1.9.2 + mysql2 gem. Continue reading →

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Geocities

Posted on October 29, 2010 by joost
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Most of geocities.com has been released as a torrent. All 900 GB of it. I can’t decide what intrigues me the most: that apparently I could put all of geocities on a spare harddisk or that some clown board member destroyed fifteen years of internet culture without even blinking.

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I want

Posted on October 12, 2010 by joost
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an Urban Arrow. It will not only replace my second car, but also my first!

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Office Mac 2011: incompetence nor malice

Posted on October 7, 2010 by joost
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I have played with Office for Mac 2011 lately and noticed one of my personal annoyances still present. I am talking about the Microsoft User Data folder inside ~/Documents.

Continue reading →

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