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Hard work, talent, luck, and a bit of education -- A primer about my career
"I was working at a big government organisation, and we had a huge pile of application letters for a job opening. The hiring manager divided the big pile in ...
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Good resolution
I've noticed I've wasted way too much time recently waching tv, without deriving very much pleasure from it, as that is how television goes. Time to ban tv f...
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Why I want Joost to succeed
Last week we had a lot of meetings about what we need to do with regard to content ingestion and distribution at Joost, and it has been interesting, very int...
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Geolocation
Just started reading in Spook Country from Gibson. Must say it's pretty nice, but not the easiest read. Quite interesting how he spotted the upcoming obsessi...
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So much
My life has changed so much in the past year that I have a very very hard time to put it into words. I'm working at Joost for over a year now, and the most s...
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Great piece of photoshopping
Just ran into a great image (and Obama rightly deserves this criticism).
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The big black blogging hole
I'm sorry folks, haven't blogged for ages, but I will post something longer soon, I promise. Up to then I'll show you one thing that I've been investigating ...
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Past midnight thoughts
I was in my bed, couldn't sleep and was thinking, so what does one do? What I did? 2. Write a rather thorny email that contains constructive criticism too. 3...
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(re)touching images
I just discovered this website, a portfolio of a professional retouching artist, and the images are weirdly fascinating. Check it out! Just look at the image...
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Thedailywtf posts a non-WTF story
Like many other IT people I'm an avid reader of thedailywtf, a site about all kinds of things that go wrong in and around IT in companies, and where the only...
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