Uit het maandarchief: september 2005

30/8/2005

op 30 september 2005 door

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 [...]

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24/8/2005

op 24 september 2005 door

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?

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21/8/2005

op 21 september 2005 door

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{}

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17/8/2005

op 17 september 2005 door

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, [...]

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14/8/2005

op 14 september 2005 door

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.

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11/8/2005

op 11 september 2005 door

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 [...]

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1/8/2005

op 1 september 2005 door

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?

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