Category Archives: xsamplex

I remember that I was in doubt how to call you: Elsie or just ‘mom’. We were talking on the phone. I remember my staggering English, but eventually we both concluded that calling you mom was fine: I was going … Continue reading →

While cleaning up the harddrive I bumped into a couple of old RAM files. Most of them were snippets of old recordings, once used for a webpage from the olden times. Some of them were of pretty good quality, actually … Continue reading →

Earlier I was talking about the perfect English as spoken by Alfons. Over at kottke there’s a thread about bilangual conversations in which I mention the near-perfect institutionalized English of the Dutch people. It reminds me of a phone call … Continue reading →

Two years ago, when we lived in the other part of Truro, I tried to log-on to the regular news sources and noticed that they were either jammed or clogged up. There was a notice that something had happened in … Continue reading →

Now from within your browser: delete any web page (or website) with the click of a button. Remember those days of handcrafted HTML pages? Now you can finally start your Internet presence with a clean sheet! No more laughing relatives, … Continue reading →

Earlier this night, I dissected an SO.Big virus a couple times, the last time in front of my collegue-professionals, which went without real ‘accidents’.

Recovered from the Internet, the first communication between me and my (later to be) wife. That was 1995 and I had been on-line for a couple of months. Gayle had been tinkering with BBS-es too and decided to try the … Continue reading →

My dad barely survived the camp. In the earliest stage of ‘purification’, he and his older brother were separated from his mother and younger brothers and sisters: he was eleven and was considered to be an adult. At that time … Continue reading →

It was a memorable day. We had worked all summer, the summer of 1985, 1986 or 1987 (I truly don’t remember), saved money and we were ready to buy our first homecomputer at the local mall. We had no idea … Continue reading →

Over at Slashdot a link to an essay about the forthcoming “Browser War”. Or I mean, the “Browser War” that has never ended. Either way. I was not impressed with the article, but there is one section that attracted the … Continue reading →

Over in the LiveJournal universe [sic], Joel pushes me to get started on Ireland. A couple of years ago (8? 7? 9?) I hopped on a plane to Dublin. I was young and brazen, and foolish, the latter naturally comes with young … Continue reading →

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.

This fragment has been taken from my LiveJournal after I found the third earwig on the cupboard in the kitchen. PG 14+.