For those of you who are using the almighty Firefox browser, here’s a little tip for more convenient browsing…
When I’m browsing the internet, I like to be able to check my favourite bookmarks quickly and easily with as little clicks as possible. When you start your browser, it opens on the site that you configured […]

A Troubled Mind
Last Friday I went to a forum evening at my university about ‘Cosmology, Evolution and Intelligent Design’. It was supposed to be a discussion between three panel members, a moderator and the public (about 300 - 400 people I think) about the relation between these three concepts.
Unfortunately the only defender of Intelligent Design […]

Because of the fraud incident (see my previous post), I think I’ll chicken out for now and buy it from an official seller. I found out that you can buy iPods from the Apple store with about 10 % discount if you’re a student, so then the black 4GB iPod Nano would be 238 € […]

Like everybody else I suppose ;). Although I have a good reason **cough**. I’ve been using a portable car cd player for years now which is I think about 10 years old, and it’s starting to die… The sound quality isn’t very good anymore and falls away at times.
I’m also a bit tired of burning […]

Earlier last month, as some of you might know, I bought a new computer :). I bought Age of Empires III (AoE3), the long-awaited sequal to Age of Empires II, and I used it as some kind of excuse to warrant upgrading my computer to something that could run AoE3 at highest settings. My old […]

Can anybody explain why my television experiences interference every time I close my fridge? I get interference every time the light of my fridge goes out. But I don’t really understand why… Anybody an idea?

Well… they’re there ;)… Transparent screens for your laptop. Of course they’re not really transparent. You just have to be a little handy with a camera, and set up a ’scene’ ;)… But it’s still pretty impressive lol. I found a site with all kinds of computer screens with ‘transparent’ desktops… Funny! Click the picture […]

The late Carl Sagan once asked the following question:
“What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old… an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we […]

God, I hate modems… We’ve been having trouble with internet for the past two days now… The DSL connection seems to be fine, but every time I reboot the modem, we can only access the internet for one minute or so… if we’re lucky…
After four calls to my ISP, they’re now going to send a […]

Cool, I just made my Denon DVD player region free. All I had to do was download a file from the internet, burn it on a cd, plug it into my dvd player, have it update the firmware and it was ready to go :). Easy piecy and free ;). Now I can finally watch […]

Again with the ‘Stumble!’ extension for Firefox, I found a 3-hour mini-series called ‘The Elegant Universe’ from NOVA about the quest for a Theory Of Everything (TOE), about finding an elegant theory for an elegant universe. It’s about Maxwell and Einstein finding general theories for Electromagnetism and Gravity, and about Einstein’s dream for a theory […]

Did you ever think about it, that every second 700 trillion neutrinos fly right through your body? That’s about equal to the number of sand grains carried by roughly 30 trucks. It also happens to be about equal to at least 7 times the number of cells that you have in your body… Every second, […]

Well, as you could read in my last post, I bought a stand-alone dvd player a few days ago, but I didn’t get any image. I went back to the store yesterday to discuss this with the person that sold me the dvd player. It was a pretty draining argument because while I realized that […]

I bought a stand-alone cd/dvd/mp3 player today to be able to listen to cd’s and mp3-cd’s and watch dvd’s without having my computer on. The audio works great, but when I tried to connect the dvd player with my screen via the dvi cable, I got nothing but black screen :(. Turns out the dvi […]

I just installed a program on my computer yesterday called ‘PowerOff‘. With this program you can shut down, hibernate, log off, power off,… your computer immediately or on a scheduled time etc. I configured it yesterday to shut down after 15 minutes when I went to bed. I had put on some Philip Glass music […]

Yesterday evening I watched the slides of my trip to New York with a slide projector and wow, they look so much better than on my screen! Now I remember why I prefer taking pictures on slide film :p. Maybe my screen isn’t as good as I thought it was either… Hmm… :)
Anyway, a lot […]

It was a tough job, but all pictures of New York and La Palma have been scanned, cropped and contrast enhanced with the aid of the excellent Minolta DiMage Dual Scan IV slide scanner and Corel Photo-Paint ;).
I hope you’ll enjoy them :).

Samsung 243T Widescreen LCD
**sigh** I really need to get myself some filter that prevents me from checking on big screens… I have a crush on those things :P. The thing has a resolution of 1920×1200, widescreen and a diagonal size of 24″…
Price tag: 1,700 euros :(.
I’m seriously thinking that I’d better just get myself a […]

Most of you won’t believe it, but… I got myself a mobile phone! I bought a Siemens C60 from a friend (about which I’ll tell you some time later probably ;)) for 20 euros two weeks ago. Now I finally got myself a SIM card and a PrePaid package. Yesterday afternoon I sent the first […]

I came across this funny picture today on space.com.
It shows an astronaut in the International Space Station that let a blob of water float around, another one made a picture of it, just as it crossed the line of sight between the camera and the astronaut’s face. Thus the water formed a nice lens, showing […]

**grins**
I knew it…
“Failing to make your bed in the morning may actually help keep you healthy, scientists believe.
Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.
A Kingston University study discovered the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions […]