Category Archives: xsamplex

(1930-2006)

It strikes me as ironic, that I’m trying to read up as much about cancer after finding out that another loved one has been diagnosed with the same disease as the one who succumbed to it a couple of years … Continue reading →

The latest popular ‘programming article on a blog’ is “Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus”, which, mind my language, is a piece of crap, obviously written by somebody who is an application developer. It is so full of … Continue reading →

Dear neighbourhood astrologer: Recently, the International Astronomer Union (website) decided to downgrade Pluto’s planetary status to ‘dwarf planet’ after a lengthy voting process (results). You may have heard about this via the regular channels, since it has caused quite the … Continue reading →

Donuts 2 hands of milk, approximately the size of adult hands 1 gravel sized yeast. The size of your pink finger’s nail will do. 1 rock size amount of Flour. Find a good size (medium) rock in your yard. 1/2 … Continue reading →

On the eve of V-J day, I was going to start a rant about the Dutch resistance in The Netherlands and particularly, the armed fight of the Dutch (remarkably lead by Communists) against the German forces. The funny thing is … Continue reading →

During breakfast, English pronunciation came up (yeah, we tend to have endless discussions early in the morning). This time it was the word ‘adjective’ (Webster has a neat ‘pronunciation’ sound file there too). It’s a word I keep pronouncing the … Continue reading →

This afternoon, Alfons forwarded a couple of pictures of the Anti-war demonstration in Amsterdam he ran into today (for him that will be yesterday)1. I ended up making a joke about the possibility of intelligence services monitoring these kind of … Continue reading →

I have been watching my e-mail accounts closely and I noticed that I’ve been receiving a lot more sapm per day since July 1st. Most of them target my domain registration E-mail’s address. However, noticably, I’ve been receiving e-mails from … Continue reading →

Reading games reviews on the Internet reminds me of the days (way back) when I literally ate car reviews for breakfast. Numbers, average ratings, I was obsessed with averages. However, reviews based on average (numerical) ratings don’t work: take for … Continue reading →

It’s Alfons’ birthday! Who would have thought.

Soon you can buy these 8 MP cameras with built-in GSM capable phones: why do you want to have a crappy 1.2 MP fuzzy-camera-phone, while the real-deal is just around the corner. Soon available with keyboard and extra wireless mouse. … Continue reading →

Back when I was younger, I walked to school through 10 foot of snow, in -30 degrees Celsius, 10 miles each day (that is 100 kms in your puny metric system). And back. 390 days a year. When I was … Continue reading →