Archive for the category 'en-US'

P*mp your Gamecube!

My brother (biologically ;) ) Jan is a strange guy in some ways. One of which is the irresistible urge to toy around modifying all sorts of consumer electronics. There are days on which I have the impression that his screwdrivers and soldering iron are his best friends. Which of course is very convenient when […]

Merry Christmas :)

It’s quite… odd to spend the evening of December 24th on watching Doom with friends with such timing that the Rock and some other guy try to shoot the crap out of each other just in the first minutes of Christmas day, but I guess the nocturnal walk I made after made that up for […]

www sucks

Double-yoo double-yoo double-yoo. I really pity those that need to utter this acronym in english on a regular basis. The dutch, such as myself, usually get away with “waywayway”, roughly one third of the syllabes. But it is equally annoying and of course the english language is by no means to blame for its name […]

Akismet: battling comment spam without captchas

Comment and trackback spam is a pain. A while ago I had a captcha, something not so nice for the visually impaired. Later on I tried a “secret question” plugin. Some people reported that they couldn’t post a comment even if they had the answer right. On top of that, neither of these could do […]

Visualizing documents

One of the courses I’ve been following the past few weeks was Scientific Visualization. The course mainly consisted of lab sessions in which we played around with a 3D visualization tool called Amira in which we’d load several data sets in order to produce nice pics. I must say that the course wasn’t particularly hard, […]