It wasn’t me that made the old Chassidic jew tremble, prey vigorously from his little book and look intensely through the window. At least I hope it wasn’t. Sure, I shouldn’t have eaten my burger and fries on a the train, but I was in a hurry. I guess a burger isn’t kosher. Or did I represent the general free-fall of moral in modern youth? Let’s just say it was a coincidence; the man was preying intensely. Yet there was gratitude and relief in his face as I got off half way. I should have offered him a fry.

Brussels North Station is pure genius: hallways wide enough to let 12 people walk besides one another should suffice to process the zillion commuters every day. So why the hell do they block half of it every day at 8 30 to wax the floors?

My spare time is split up between finally reading a Harry Potter and programming realistic fireworks in Flash. So at night my mind wanders off and combines. Perhaps wizards should be able to add variables to spells, like function calls:

• spell Patronus(target erson, strength:Number):Number{}
• spell Aparecium(inkColor:Color):Void{}

That it should come to this. I’m writing a lengthy manual for some application I just finished and I’m discovering many usefull Word features, that weren’t in the version I used back in the days I wrote lengthy documents. The document map in a sidepane, automatic table-of-contents. I may ditch Indesign all together! Kidding Sven, kidding.

Pieter saw them first. A set of delicious sandwiches left from a meeting. Kenny followed the trail, Axel and me followed Kenny’s trail. In 33 seconds, our entire office had cleaned the pile. I kinda understand these ants who marched to our sugar-jar.

Sometimes it’s a mystery how a technology can find it’s way to so many people. I just tried to install Adobe Reader, de facto standard for printed documents. This is what the website should have read:

You just download the installer downloader disc image(0.5Mb), mount it, open the installer downloader package, install the installer downloader which will automatically download the installer disc image (20Mb) and mount it, open the installer and install Adobe Reader. After installing, Adobe Reader and the Adobe Update Manager will open to let you download the most recent updates (34Mb), which will automatically be installed after you quit all browsers and the newly stared Reader. Was it so hard?

Your partners shit you put up with in a relationship is likely to scary you away upon first meeting him/her. But the thought of showing only the nice side of yourself while dating is… lying?