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Betutteling in Nederland duurt voort

Posted on 2006-08-04 By rolfje No Comments on Betutteling in Nederland duurt voort

We zijn al redelijk ver in Nederland met de regelgeving. Steeds meer regeltjes die dingen regelen waarvan je zou kunnen bedenken dat als je normaal gezond verstand hebt, dat zelf ook kunt bedenken. Gordels om bijvoorbeeld. Als je dat niet doet, wie heb je er dan mee? Jezelf! Moet de regering nou echt gezonde, volwassen mensen tegen zichzelf beschermen? Ik zeg: natuurlijke selectie toepassen.

Het word natuurlijk wat anders als het gaat om situaties waarbij mensen iemand anders in gevaar brengen. Hard rijden op een motor? Prima, op een lege snelweg. Hardrijden op een motor door een woonwijk? Rijbewijs en motor kwijt. Korte metten. Het probleem is niet het apparaat, maar de bestuurder. Kijk, net zoals die leuke minibikes. Als je daar verstandig mee omgaat, zie ik het probleem er niet van. Maarja, de Nederlandse regering zou de regering niet zijn als ze er niet iets aan doen.

Zelf heb ik zo’n leuke electrische step gekocht een jaar of wat geleden. Als ik er op rijd, word ik lachend ingehaald door kleine kinderen op kleine stepjes. Toch vind de regering dat ik het ding zou moeten “goedkeuren voor de openbare weg” en “verzekeren” en het liefst zien ze vast ook nog dat ik een helm, scheenbeschermers, gebruik. Naast de airbags die op de scooter moeten zitten natuurlijk. Tegelijkertijd kun je met een normaal auto-rijbewijs zonder helm de snelweg opduiken met een trike of quad. Dan moet de quad wel gordels hebben. Lekker nuttig. Over krom gesproken.

Nederland is het gezonde verstand voorbij.

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Free Beanbag!

Posted on 2006-07-21 By rolfje No Comments on Free Beanbag!

When you are using a (digital) camera and need to place it on an uneven surface to keep it still long enough for your long shutter speeds, or you want to make a shot on the release timer (or both), you’ll need a tripod, or a beanbag. A beanbag is an ideal option, you can tuck it into your backpack, take it everywhere you need and it fits all camera’s.

Sure, you can buy a beanbag from a nice company like this, and spend about 30 euro’s or more. But, If you’ve got a needle, thread, a T-shirt or linnen bag, and some rice, you can make one for free!

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Sharpening, denoizing, smoothing, enhancing, vandalizing!

Posted on 2006-07-17 By rolfje No Comments on Sharpening, denoizing, smoothing, enhancing, vandalizing!

To every photo-editing, image-manipulating, red-eye-reducing software developer on the planet: Sharpening photographs by default is NOT a good idea! If images aren’t sharp directly from the camera, there was something wrong with them to begin with. Most camera’s nowadays make fine pictures which don’t need sharpening.

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Google Blogoscoped Monitor Chain

Posted on 2006-07-17 By rolfje No Comments on Google Blogoscoped Monitor Chain

I noticed the start of a “Monitor Chain” on the “Google Blogoscoped” blog. I liked the idea, so here it goes:

Monitor Chain

Please photograph this blog post (including your monitor and its immediate surroundings), and post the resulting pic on your blog. Then the next person photographs your blog post and posts it, and so on. Leave your post URL in the comments of the blog you photographed so people will be able to follow the chain back up (zoom out), and link your image to the post you photographed… this way people will be able to zoom into the monitors by clicking. (Use rel=”nofollow” on the links, this is for fun only.) Post these instructions in your blog post as well.

Have fun!

Note 11 November 2007: This post has been migrated from blogger.xs4all.nl, the original chain is probably now broken. Sorry.

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Rolf in Chinese

Posted on 2006-07-13 By rolfje No Comments on Rolf in Chinese

According to about.com, my name in chinese is spelled as:

Rolf in Chinese

Funny to see that in Chinese, my name is only 1 character shorter.

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Nice Apple applications

Posted on 2006-07-11 By rolfje No Comments on Nice Apple applications

All listed in one nice page on “Guide to OSX software for switchers”. Have fun!

Apple, Software

brain down for days

Posted on 2006-07-10 By rolfje No Comments on brain down for days

Yup, you’ve guessed it. User error. There I was in my last post complaining that gmail was down, while actually my ADSL modem needed a good reset. At work, I could access gmail, and when I got home, I had the same problem as yesterday. I cleared the browser cache, still no result. Then I resetted my ADSL modem, and presto: I could log in again. Really strange error…

Sorry gmail, my mistake. But yes, I am going to back up my mail now 🙂

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iTunes alternative

Posted on 2006-07-09 By rolfje No Comments on iTunes alternative

I really like iTunes. When you have 1 computer (an apple, that is ;-), and 1 place to store your music, it’s all you’ll ever need. It is easy to manage your music with, it puts your files in reasonably understandably locations (artist/album/track), has nice smart playlists and there are a lot of plugins available.

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gmail down for days

Posted on 2006-07-09 By rolfje No Comments on gmail down for days

Great, gmail is down for days now. I really hope it will return soon, so I can back up that mail to my server. By going down, Google showed me how much I came to rely on them, while they’re actually unreachable when something happens, and I don’t even have backups of my own mails! I really like gmail and the way it organizes your mail by -ehrm- not organizing it (when it’s up, that is).

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Want Security?

Posted on 2006-07-05 By rolfje No Comments on Want Security?

According to Sophos security, the whole world should switch to macs to get rid of the security problems. This would be great for business! Currently I do not order with companies who put up Word or Excel formatted price lists, simply because I can’t (and to some extent refuse) open them.

In the long run however, this would shift the security problem to the Mac side of the world. Why do Microsoft machines get attacked so often? Simple: because their user base is large, which means there are more Microsoft (black hat) hackers out there. Additionally, the targeted audience is large in numbers. When the whole world uses Macs, the black hat hackers will turn to OSX as target.

But then again, the security model of OSX is (luckaly) a lot better than that of a Windows machine so the damage done largely depends on how the system is secured by the user. At least on a Mac you have the means of securing stuff properly.

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