I’m going to TED India! My application has been accepted (you have to apply in order to attend) and I’ve booked my flight. Only one minor detail remains: paying for the conference ticket. I “should” be able to “afford” this conference, since I’m a software engineer in a fairly rich country. So it’s really a [...]
I decided to keep track of my weight for a month, as a 30 day trial. I weighed myself first thing every morning on a cheap digital scale. The result is the blue line in the chart below. I knew there’d be some variation, but I wanted to figure out what is causing that. My [...]
Op de Spoorzone Overvecht website heb ik zojuist een artikel geschreven waarin ik probeer uit te zoeken wat nou eigenlijk het kostenplaatje van sloop en nieuwbouw is en hoe dat zich verhoudt tot niks doen. Wat me vooral opvalt is dat buitengewoon triviale en cruciale informatie niet (of in ieder geval niet makkelijk) te vinden [...]
Let me explain in a non technical way why Google Wave is a breakthrough. I argue that it doesn’t just revolutionarize the concept of email (only a few decades old), it changes the very concept of mail (thousands of years old). Let’s go back in time and imagine the Romans had Wave. First of all, [...]
Nu ik opzoek ben naar een baan, is het begrip scheefwonen – in een huis wonen dat te goedkoop is voor je inkomen – ineens weer relevant geworden.Als ik straks een baan heb, ben ik dan een scheefwoner? En is dat erg? Sommige van mijn beste vrienden zijn tenslotte scheefwoners. Vandaag werd er weer klakkeloos [...]
Back in February I watched Travis Metcalfe’s talk about the Pale Blue Dot project, where you can adopt a star for $10 and sponsor scientific research. And not just any star; the recently launched Kepler satellite is looking for planets around these stars. Now that’s a cheap price to pay for so much fame and [...]
December 18, 2008 – 21:06
I guess the reason Jobtorrent is just sitting there not being used – even though it works – is that it needs a bit more explaining. It’s very different from Job Feedr, even different from Odesk or even Mechanical Turk (although that gets pretty close). The thing that frustrated me about Odesk is that even [...]
December 13, 2008 – 12:20
Steve Sammartino – author of Start Up Blog – just listed ten reasons for outsourcing digital work and why it’s ethical. My personal ethics were easily satisfied with reason 9: The outsourced work is not dangerous – we are not sending kids down a mine or employing child labour. So I don’t see any ethical [...]
All good things come to an end and worse still: you sometimes need to plan that end. I figured I might as well make that end as interesting as possible, so here we go!
I would love to share my Internet connection with my neighbors as a way to reduce cost and increase speed and I’m pretty sure a lot of companies would love to do the same thing. Nowadays everyone with a wireless router and an ADSL modem can share and even sell their bandwidth. Except for a [...]
