I saw some of my friends using gowalla one of the location based services. They have a nice iphone app that lets you create locations where you can checkin. Gowalla is also known as Alamofire who creates game-like experiences on the social web. First I thought it was nice to find locations nearby. Especially restaurants, [...]
Filed under: ranting on February 16th, 2010 | No Comments »
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 a happy apple macbook user and I didn’t mind to pay the apple tax to have a nice designed laptop and a decent OS. By all means I’m not an apple zealot thinking that every product from apple is the best and the greatest. I think the shiny display sucks and off course you [...]
Filed under: apple, ranting on March 24th, 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 refrained myself this year from buying a PS3 to play GTA 4. The promises for the PC version where to good to be true with online gameplay, modding, improved graphics etc. I pre-ordered it from steam and downloaded as soon as it was available at a blazing speed of 1.7mb/s. I started the game [...]
Filed under: ranting on December 3rd, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After updating my monster resume I got a lot of emails from recruiters. But this morning I got an odd one. It was for a project manager role in Brussels. But the recruiter was someone based in India. I have experience in off shoring development teams to different locations on the globe. We used recruiters [...]
Filed under: ranting, work on November 20th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
WordPress upgraded smoothly but Gallery2 didn’t. Needed to install Gallery2 fresh importing all my pictures. This meant I lost all pictures in my old posts… Well…
Filed under: ranting, thissite on April 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Looking at some new features for wordpress and gallery I felt like an upgrade would benefit me. The wordpress upgrade went smoothly. But I use gallery2 to publish my pictures. To incorporate them in my posts I use WPG2. I had to upgrade WPG2 to be compatible with the latest wordpress. WPG2 was not compatible [...]
Filed under: ranting, thissite on March 6th, 2008 | No Comments »
In LinkedIn there is a blossoming section named Questions and Answers. Sometimes it is genuinely used to ask real questions and most of the time it is used by open networkers to increase their visibility so they can connect to more people. I can live with the latter issue. But there is a more annoying [...]
Filed under: linkedin, ranting on May 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
Last week we used British Airways to travel to Dubai. I was very happy with the service. But returning from Dubai we needed to transfer in London Heathrow. In Dubai British airways allowed 2 pieces of hand luggage. We bought some things in the tax free shop and we where on our way. In transit [...]
Filed under: life, ranting, travel on March 19th, 2007 | No Comments »