The pure evil penny auctions came to Belgium. It’s called Flipz . They are as evil as Swoopoo and everybody should stay far away from this gambling site and read Penny Auctions: They’re Gambling. If you read the article by Jeff Atwood you will notice it is gambling. Even when the Flipz contract states: Art [...]
Filed under: ranting, writings on September 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m’ actually happy we are in a economic downturn. For years now accountants are running companies. In MBA courses there is a big chunk of reading and interpreting the numbers. Change a few modifiers and get a instant result. They forget the most important part of doing business: the customer. They trim quality, customer service [...]
Filed under: ranting, writings on January 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
I installed Sweetcron and started lifestreaming. It won’t be my default start page until I re-branded the theme. See it in action!!!
Filed under: life, thissite, work, writings on August 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
Internet is a nice medium where everyone can get a site up and running. Most people use it to bother us with trivial day to day life, not important to most. But the beauty is you can do it for a relative cheap price. Even hooking your own webserver to the internet is not that [...]
Filed under: writings on May 26th, 2006 | No Comments »
Seems people don’t understand patents very well. I have found a very good explanation of why they are bad and aren’t the same as copyright: Patent absurdity.
Filed under: writings on June 22nd, 2005 | No Comments »
Like most people that program perl I know from experience that use strict on top of every perl script is the way to go. I got reminded again that this is very important. I had to add piece of functionnality to a existing pm running in mod_perl. This big pm had no use strict. I [...]
Filed under: writings on April 28th, 2005 | No Comments »
I was reading a article about the new 64bit processors. They where saying that only 64bit applications will take real advantage off the 64bit cpu. But they also add is that only good coded 64bit programs will take advantage. This last statement shows that people know there is a ‘bad’ trend in programming. With all [...]
Filed under: writings on April 24th, 2005 | No Comments »
Like most people I use the popular search engine google. It’s a very good one and most of the time you can find everything you need. But when you start thinking that not everything is indexed by google, so there must be more internet than we know. I never goo deeper from google then 6 [...]
Filed under: writings on October 22nd, 2004 | No Comments »