Ever wondered if you can go to bed and fall asleep with some iTunes music on the background without having the music play all night long? Ever wondered if you can be woken up by your iTunes music or an internet radio station? Ever wondered if you can do both of this without having your […]

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 […]

Heh… I wonder if these sheep are being payed for their services. Is this the new form of advertisement? Maybe they can breed cows that have black-on-white text instead of black-on-white spots?

I feel ashamed, hurt, frustrated, ripped-off, dumb, betrayed, angry… Why? Because yesterday somebody shamelessly ripped me off for 65 euros… I had seen an advertisement on a Dutch equivalent of eBay (www.marktplaats.nl) that said they were moving their store so they had spare iPods Nano’s 4GB for 130 euro. That was pretty attractive obviously since […]

Here’s something that should relieve the women among us… The models you are so familiar with from televisions and magazines are (in case you didn’t know this yet) not what they seem to be… Here’s a modest example of what Photoshop can do. I call this quite impressive :|. And it makes me wonder how […]

After two years of investigation, police officers from Morlaix in France have discovered they were investigating a murder that took place in the Middle Ages.
In December 2003 a fisherman had found the skeleton of a woman on the beach of Finistère. When the police was informed, they immediately started a criminal investigation because there was […]

In case you weren’t really convinced yet that Internet Explorer is an incompetent browser concerning international web standards, then check out this demo page showing an eagle and a sun which you can move around, causing the shadow of the eagle to dynamically change.
In Firefox it looks like the top part of the picture on […]

China’s tyranny has the best hi-tech help
You can find anything you want on China’s Internet: sex, fashion, business, travel, entertainment, romance. Anything, that is, except democracy, Tiananmen, Taiwan, human rights, Tibet and hundreds of other subjects.
I guess I’ve known for quite some time now that China doesn’t only have a huge brick wall, but also […]

Found these pictures with my StumbleUpon plugin on cuteoverload.com. So cute :P… If you’ve ever seen a cat stuck to a sweater by the tongue, this is why. ;)
Btw… keep your fingers crossed for today… I’ve got my exam on Radiative Processes today…

You know… I’ve always liked internet… the World Wide Web. It can be very time consuming and it can easily waste your time, but it’s one of the very best places to wander around in if you want to learn about our world.
There’s no place like the WWW, where I am confronted with people from […]

www.grotegriepmeting.be
This is a post particularly for Dutch people… In Belgium and the Netherlands for the third time in a row there is an initiative to track influenza (’griep’) from around now till somewhere in April next year. So if you want to help the researchers out in getting a clearer view on how influenza develops […]

The Oldest Creature On Earth
Lol… imagine… blowing out 175 birthday candles on your latest birthday cake. That’s what Harriet is supposed to do today… While my mom is turning 52 today, Harriet is turning a staggering 175… Claimed to be the tortoise that caught Charles Darwin attention in 1835 on the Galapagos Islands, she’s a […]

Ok, I don’t get this… Why is the picture ‘raped.jpg’ in one of my posts the fourth picture that turns up when you search for pictures on google with keyword ‘raped’? I think about 50 % of the traffic on my site is from people who looked for ‘raped’ on Google… :|
A few months ago […]

Rioters shoot at police in France
Quite surreal this all seems. It feels more like some riots in North-Ireland or Israel gotten out of hand… Not in a ‘civilized’ country like France… It clearly can happen anywhere :-/…
Apparently there’s a lot of social abuse in the ‘banlieue’ where a lot of deprived foreign people live. […]

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 […]

Just found an interesting thingie online. A website on which you can check the countries you visited in your life and which then shows a map of the world with all the countries you visited highlighted.
I’ve visited 13 countries: the United States, Egypt, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and […]

This is quite an interesting weblog about personal development. I got linked to one of its subpages by StumbleUpon! and read the ‘How to become an early riser.’ article.
“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” - Aristotle
Pretty interesting! In a pretty long article he advises […]

For those that are using or have used Messenger Plus! in the past and for those that would like to defend the rights of free harmless programs, please read and sign the petition started by Patchou, the creator of Messenger Plus!, a very good MSN Messenger add-on used on almost 7 million computers worldwide.
Microsoft recently […]

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 […]

This is funny… An ASCII movie showing a scene from the Matrix. Now that’s one situation in which it’s handy to be myopic :P. I can make the characters go fuzzy without having to stand back too much :).
I found this using the ‘Stumble!’ extension for Firefox. It’s an extension that adds a toolbar to […]

CNN.com - $68 million stolen in Brazil’s biggest bank heist - Aug 8, 2005
Lol… An unknown number of thiefs broke into a Brazilian bank by digging a tunnel underneath two city blocks. It was dug right underneath the vault. When the bank opened the day after the theft, 52 million euros seemed to be gone… […]

Lol, this is one funny car advertisement… Turn on your speakers though or you’ll miss the joke. :)
Here’s the link: Funny Car Advertisement
Btw… does anybody know how to make the link such that the browser automatically plays the file and not just asks to download it? Hmm… it seems to work in IE, but not […]

After finding this one on Settlers I did this Jung Typology Test.
Turns out I’m a Counselor Idealist also known as INFJ (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging).
Introverted: 78%
iNtuitive: 50 %
Feeling: 31 %
Judging: 11 %
Here’s an excerpt of one of the many INFJ descriptions online which describes one of my main characteristics:
But the INFJ is as genuinely warm […]

“Your Brain is 53.33% Female, 46.67% Male
Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female
You are both sensitive and savvy
Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed
But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve”
- What Gender Is Your Brain?
I guess that confirms what most of you have been thinking for […]

Hmm… Well, that’s a first-timer. I woke up this morning realizing I had just been dreaming about FireFox. For some reason I was working on several computers at the same time or on several computers after eachother, and each time I frantically looked for a FireFox browser on it. Sometimes I found it, sometimes I […]

Mr Bob mentioned this hilarious blog to me this evening. It’s a journal of Darth Vader himself about his life at the head of the Imperial Order. It really gives the whole Star Wars universe a more humane and real feel :).
Extract:
“Big day. Storming the rebel ice fortress.
Took a nap first so I would be […]

TypingMaster Online Typing Test
Found this test online while browsing some blogs. I did the ‘Tiger in the Wilds’ test for 1 minute and got a net speed of 83 words per minute. Next I did the ‘Fishing in Finland’ test for 3 minutes and got a net speed of 396 characters per minute :). I […]

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

“To take the test, select an answer for each of the questions below, then click Score Results. There are no right or wrong answers, merely virtues and traits you most adhere to. You will then be matched with the fantasy or science fiction character that you have the most in common […]

Healthspan Calculator
Just did this one… I’m supposed to become 82.5 years old. I can live with that ;).Anybody going to cross the 100 here? :p

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 […]

I thought I’d share a picture of my room with my friends, as well as a picture of a sunrise taken out of my room about two months ago. :)
Here’s my room:

And here’s a nice sunrise above the buildings across the street:

And if you’d like to know what my desktop looks like usually, see here. […]

**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 […]