Maand: juli 2003

Interview met Bill Gates. All praise billg.

M-Kids naakt: de zoekopdracht waarmee vandaag 11 mensen op deze site terechtkwamen. Zucht.

Spam is set to account for 50% (!) of all e-mail-related traffic within weeks.

Good grief. Baby tattoos. En het ziet er niet naar uit dat het om te lachen is.

A 13-year-old boy whose bizarre ailment has a fly-like insect emerging out of him is far from being cured as doctors struggle to detect the source of the parasite. The fully-grown flies, as doctors described the parasites, have been emerging out of Chandan Goswami’s genitals and flying off for more than two weeks now. [Indo-Asian…

Proto-weblog van Edsger Dijkstra. De mens die Goto Statement Considered Harmful schreef. En ook: I have learned to be very suspicious of ideas I cannot express well in both Dutch and English. As nice as it is to have the union at one’s disposal, it is wise to confine oneself to the intersection.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. [Goering]

Ik weet het niet hoor, maar what the hell were they thinking? Microsoft heeft geen lelijke sites normaal gezien, takkoord niet altijd echt enorm mooi, maar zeker niet lelijk. En dan nu http://www.tabletpcdeveloper.com/ en http://www.gotdotnet.com. Urgh! Zo vies! Zo jaren 90! Zo “ik heb juist ontdekt dat Photoshop drop shadow kan doen”! Zo “eens kijken wat…

Well, what do you know?

Am I correct in thinking this weblog is now public? (he said, frantically looking for potentially embarassing content)

I’ve collaborated on a wiki or two in my life. It struck me as being somehow more rewarding than “regular” HTML. Doesn’t make sense, I know. Perhaps it’s the [square brackets]? I remember back somewhere in 1991, writing up whole reams of hypertext, for no-one’s pleasure or use except my own. I remember writing all…

Somehow, and I have no clue as to why or how, I think I may have stumbled into beta2. Weird.

DirectX 9.0 * Introducing the New Managed Direct3D Graphics API in the .NET Framework. Get the lowdown on the Managed Direct3D Graphics API [MSDN: Visual C#]

Om het met Stijn te zeggen: what the fuck??

Jazeker. De kat is uit de zak: TypePad weblogs die naar beta2 gaan, zijn tegenwoordig publiek. Ik mag, veronderstel ik, nog altijd niets zeggen van NDA en alles. Dus zeg ik ook niets.