Wherever I go, my iPod nano goes. With a “smaller” disk like on the nano, it’s sort of important to make sure you are carrying the tracks you’ll want to hear. I have a couple of smart playlists, and leave the rest to iTunes. Syncing takes less than a minute, is fully automatic and I’m very happy with the results every time.
Author: rolfje
We need more lolcats!
From wikipedia: “A lolcat is an image macro featuring a photograph of a cat with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption”.
You can find good lolcats all over the web, and I just found out that you don’t even have to have photoshop to do this. Make your own lolcat with the lolcat builder. Go with Impact and outline, this will give the best “real lolcat” feeling.
Have fun!
TomTom One v2 earphone modification
TomTom decided to remove the earphone plug from their newer version One. This blog entry will describe how you can add your own.
Why would TomTom remove the earphone plug? There are a few simple reasons, one being that the new version has a slimmer formfactor with less room for plugs, and the other being that they probably don’t want it to compete too much with the XL and Rider versions.
Movie: The Worlds Fastest Indian
If you like motorcycles, wrenching and racing, you’ll probably like this movie. It’s the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle to help him set the land-speed world record at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
The movie is nicely done, good quality video and audio with very good clean and calm cinematographics (much unlike you see nowadays). It’s really a feel-good movie and makes you want Burt to succeed, even if you know that Burt really did so in real life. Anthony Hopkins really plays a very fine Burt Munro, and the producers have gone great lengths to make everything look like the real Burt Munro (the real story). The movie is a “bit besides the truth” every now and then, but not much and only to keep the story interesting.
Very nicely done, and a must see in my book.
Think Before You Post
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Programmer Personality Test
Just found this funny page where you can take a Programmer Personality Check.
My programmer personality type is DHTB, which is explained as follows:
You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.
You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.
You work best in a Team.
A good group is better than the sum of it’s parts. The only thing better than a genius programmer is a cohesive group of genius programmers.
You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.
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iChat saves the day
So you are on a nice forum, discussing stuff with people you don’t even know, or even don’t care to get to knowing. They’re just there to exchange thoughts with, and you don’t even care that he’s called “g0d1s.4.f4g” (or worse), and you even don’t know if he is a she. Then in comes this guy and actually uses a readable name, tells you who he is, and talks like he talks in real life. No shorthand, no l33t sp33k, just plain English with typo’s, like any normal, sane person. Even worse, he claims to be a celebrity, wanting to talk to some of his fans without all the security, press and other stuff.It sounds too good to be true, but for Die Hard fans out there, it has really happened!. Complete with screenshots of a video iChat session where Bruce Willis prooves who he is to non-believers.
The thread itself is rather lengthy (more than 1000 posts) and contains a lot of off-topic childish crap before the iCat moment, and after that contains even more crap with people posting useless “Oh my god” messages. But there are some funny comments if you have the time to skim through.
Technology does not sell
Seth Godin did a talk at Google campus in Februari last year. I recently stumbled upon this video of his talk, in which he explains to the Google people why Google sells.
He is very clear in explaining to technology people that technology does not sell. It’s technology that gives you a shot at marketing, nothing more. He makes some very good points which I’ll try to summarize, because the video takes 48 minutes to watch 🙂
Stuff to think about
Normally I try to steer clear of any politics, beliefs, or war on this blog, but I could not resist to link to this google video I found, where Arab-American psychologist Wafa Sultan has some strong words to say to (extremist) Muslims on Al-Jazeera. Although broadcast in February 2006, I just noticed it, and I think she has some good points.
Personaly I don’t believe you should interfere with people’s lives if they’re more than 10km away from your home (and they shouldn’t interfere with yours). Say hello to your neighbour and ask how his/her day went. You’ll notice that you can often help or solve your neighbours problems easily. Stop worrying about those people 10.000km away. If their neighbours follow your example, soon the world will be an even better place!