Archive for the category 'Tech Thoughts'

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, […]

Back/forward buttons in browsers: why not use graphs for them?

Everyone who has used a browser is probably familiar with the buttons to go back and forward through one’s browsing history for the given window (or tab in these days ;) ). This is great stuff, as it allows the user to go back to previous pages he has visited if he has forgotten something […]

Feed me Spread Firefox points ;)

Please click this button so that I earn Spread Firefox points. I know this is a shameless plug and I don’t quite know what to do with those points yet (just signed up… ), but hey, I guess it won’t hurt ;) . And I read they’re perhaps looking for developers for a new site, […]

Seagate to the rescue in an Orwellesque world…

This morning I read the newspaper. I read about the dutch police that slowly compromises our privacy. Sure, crime is a problem, but among the things I read were about face recognition (i.e. having yourself photographed in your car everytime you pass certain checkpoints), license plate recognition… keeping track of someone’s internet activities, mobile phone […]

I hear you, Richard!

There are times that I’m ashamed to be a European. Especially today. European politics are a fraud, pretending to represent the people. Pretending. Those with real power aren’t the voters. Real power comes with money. The mantra of the free market is still omnipresent in European politics and the only ones really benefitting are large […]