should i stay or should i go

No, this is not the terrible Clash song, but my doubts about moving over from Blogspot to
WordPress.





Pro's :

• nice layouts
• snappy reaction (vs. long loading and crappy rendering of Blogspot)
• not surrounded by spamblogs
• more user tools

Con's :

• no "foo-fu" as a userid, nor in the url, only letters and numbers
• moving over effort
• losing link (or silly forward pages)
• how reliable is the export/import ?

This requires some sleeping over ...

too good to be true ?

Suppose these guys are right ...
Suppose they get the funding (Bill, this is were your truckloads of money would come in handy) ...
Suppose it turns out to work ...

Just imagine the revolution!

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

close, but no sigar

New kid on the block in the world of online library sites is Shelfari.
Assuming things could only get better (after my initial search for a book version of last.fm), I checked out Shelfari as recommended by Lifehacker, but alas ...

I tried

But the result was not great. The import of my miserable 76 books on Librarything failed to the extend that only 23 of them were loaded on my shelf.

The sad thing is that I couldn't even bring myself to find out why it didn't work.
Maybe in better times?

Skype TV (3)

Where the project previously ran under the name "The Venice Project" the child now has a new name :

Joost

I'm curious whether they managed to solve the upload hungriness of the program.

intercrastination

We all know procrastination i.e. when you start pushing your tasks forward and end up doing little or nothing.

Over at Lifehacker a reader popped the question about a similar phenomena: procrastinating your spare time in between to tasks or parts of a task.
(Like taking a small sanitary break and ending up reading the entire newspaper or more familiar: just checking your mail and finishing your evening still behind the screen reading all wonders of the internets.)

As this is a procrastination alike issue but then in between tasks the proposed term is "inter-crastination".

For those curious about the relation to the image : "Thief Of Time" should suffice.

and phone has site

Now we have it official on apple's site :

• iPhone
• Apple TV

Be warned, site is slow. I guess everybody is watching this now.

we have phone

Finally the ghost is out of the bottle : Apple just announced it's long awaited phone (referred to as iPhone) on the San Fransisco 2007 MacWorld.

Basically its a widescreen iPod with full calendar syncing and a new touchscreen alike interface. Syncs with iTunes, 3.5 inch screen ,...

More over at MacRumorsLive ...

Ohh... and also AppleTV (former iTV)

the future of 2007

Like every year around this period, Robert Cringely posts his predictions on IT for the coming year.

Apart from the fact the a lot of these predictions are spot on - which is rare in the IT prediction world, some analysts even manage to make no correct prediction at all for one quarter, let alone a year- he is the kind of guy who's not afraid to look back and evaluate his last years predictions.

With an average prediction rate of around 75% I'd say he does a great job.

Here's one that, IHMO could also happen here in Europe :

10) The year the net crashed (in the USA). Video overwhelms the net and we all learn that the broadband ISPs have been selling us something they can't really deliver.

(via /.)

frist postH^^^^ photo

Inevitably I now created a flickr account to post my photos.

The camera in itself is quite intuitive and insofar as I could check at this time of day (night photography is not my best) the picture quality is good.

Anywho : here's my flickr account and my 2 first photo's.

toys for boys

Finally I got myself so far as to purchase a digital photo camera.
A bit to my surprise my requirements for the machine pushed the boundaries of the compact cameras :

• a decent lens
• a decent optical zoom (a bit more then x3 or x4)
• flash override
• Lithium-Ion batteries in stead of the dreaded AA batteries
• USB connection and no proprietary memory sticks (like Sony)

I turned out the Samsung NV7 OPS was as good my type of camera as I could find.
On top of that it has a certain slick yet serious look.

The only drawback was the lens sticking out a bit, but the etui that comes with the camera covers this up nicely.

Now it sits here loading in it's dock. As soon as we have power you will suffer the first of my photo's.

Skype TV

The long announced IPTV /VoD /webTV /whateveryouwantocallit project of the Skype founders - the venice project - has announced it's full beta stage.

You can now apply for beta-tester status, probalby among a crowd as this is currently headlining on about any tech site out there.

If succesfull this may well be a shot across the bow of all those in pursuit of IPTV happiness.

start

After eight years of looking onto the intarwebs with a minimum of interaction from my side, I decided it was time to improve upon my presence in this general area .

While adding to the list of numerous blogs already launched by other people (and most of them abandoned over the years), I cannot concede whether I will be able to restrict myself to some carefully selected topics or if I will sling around my posts in the general direction of any subject that comes to mind at the time.

Considering the fact that I tend to be interested in nearly anything thrown at me I fear the latter. Hence the "foo" in "foo-fu".

For you, readers (if any), I fear the worst, as my goal is to make at least a bit of a presentable effort of this blog. That's where I hope the "fu" will come in handy.

Anywho, off we go ...