What’s with these whistles when the train leaves? Have we not evolved AT ALL since the steam engine? Why don’t e just apply a repelling force field to the doors or something? Hey, I’m not the inventor. Jeez. How hard can it be?

Exhausted. onAir Paris was great though. Photos here

I was working on a way to generate unique file names for files I write using an application. I’m using MD5, since security is a non-issue. But I wandered what the odds were of 2 files getting the same md5.

As it turns out, the chance is 1 in 2^128. But I wanted to see [...]

Although I prefer movies that excel in various aspects at the same time, it can be refreshing to watch one that’s really well at a single thing: ‘Il y a Longtemps que je t’aime’. Director Philippe Claudel is so focussed on the actors that for instance image composition suffers. The story, by his hand, [...]

They’ve done it again. As a faithful returning reader, you remember me posting about my providers email newsletters and how the topics in the header form a story of their own. Today it reads: Win some real fun in the snow – Pictures of Carla Bruni naked – too much flashing. Respect: this does make [...]

A few days ago, the Christian Womans Association positioned itself in the Central Station to make commuters aware of the fact that women still don’t get equal pay for equal work. Easter eggs they handed out to men were accompanied with: ‘If you would had been a woman, you’d have gotten a bigger [...]

Where does my love for Ben Stiller come from? Watch the trailer for the upcoming Tropic Thunder” (which he also directed) and say that’s not solid comic gold.

Tom: don’t actually send me an email saying ‘That’s not solid comic gold‘

2 huge bags of spinach, half a kilo, all fitted into one bowl once I steamed it. One does appreciate the nice frozen cubes for sale upon cooking spinach. Good thing I opted for fish fingers instead of decapitating and gutting fresh cod fish.

Today, I was lucky enough to have the bird start singing at 5AM; yesterday it was 4. I tried again to ignore its chant, but, admittedly, the bird sings lovely. Its song is complex and unpredictable, all I can do is listen and lie awake. Or shoot it with my BBgun, but I couldn’t locate [...]