Category Archives: Hyperlinks

Every couple of weeks, I check the Mother of all Email accounts to discover that all these hundreds of e-mails in that inbox are all just spam. It makes no sense. The more spam, the less I check that e-mail … Continue reading →

I watched the October 30th show of Pauw & Witteman (Dutch only), for which I apparently have to thank the IT department of the Dutch broadcasting crew for. The show featured the guests Henny Vrienten (earlier at xsamplex), JunkieXL, politician … Continue reading →

Maybe I missed the big announcement, but since when are Microsoft SDKs freely available? I needed the ADO/MDAC SDK (I get tired of reading stuff online too), et voila et la the SDK1. Not completely: it’s obviously hidden behind the … Continue reading →

I downloaded Firefox 2.0 yesterday, but noticed that I still see the same problems: random hangups, most of time in the middle (or after) processing a recently clicked ‘hyperlink’ 1. I don’t recall having problems like this bad in Firefox … Continue reading →

I know of Google’s Notebook (Notebook), but I was obviously surprised to see it completely integrated in my search results (look for the Note This link). I think this is new, because I never noticed it before. Plus, it does … Continue reading →

I decided to give McAfee’s Online virus scanner (requires IE5 or higher because of ActiveX component) a run only because they have been pretty persistent with their ‘Please, we need your money to survive in this rocky business market of … Continue reading →

I‘m both mixed pleased and skeptic about the Qualcomm’s decision to open source that legendary e-mailer Eudora. I have no problems with the open-sourcing part, but more or less with the plans to use Thunderbird as the base for the … Continue reading →

Earlier, Google announced that it is taking over YouTube1, the popular video sharing site. There was a lot of speculation last week and rumours were abound about what would happen if Google bought YouTube, with many ‘experts’ expecting lawyers readying … Continue reading →

For no particular reason, I came across the word ‘stane’, which M-W says is Scottish for ‘stone’. I thought that was silly: the Dutch word for stone is steen, which is pronounced exactly the way Scottish people would say ‘stane’. … Continue reading →

Ze Frank had a brilliant commentary on the US Detainee bill issue. You can watch the full show right here. Since it’s both sad and funny, I quote: In recent years, Mr. Corpus’ tactics of trying to protect the innocents … Continue reading →

I think I found the following via Digg: M&M’s ‘Find The Horror Movie’ game. While I’m generally not into horror movies (my eega, in fact, is), I was still able to find 27 out of the 50. Probably peanuts for … Continue reading →

Deep buried somewhere on the Toshiba site the following (official) announcement: Sony is one of the suppliers of battery packs used in some Toshiba notebook PCs. We have investigated with Sony whether those PCs that employ the subject batteries are … Continue reading →