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 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 [...]
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 [...]
What’s with the precautionary principle? Lomborg discusses the Precautionary Principle in his book, but none of his critics seem to refer to this discussion. They seem to ignore it, because they do exactly what he warns about. Lomborg essentially argues that the Precautionary Principle is being abused by scientist to attract unjustified large amounts of [...]
Debunking Cool It Critique My short answer to the critique on Cool It is that it is mostly right about the details, but completely wrong about the big picture. The most comprehensive resource of critique on the book can be found on http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/. Kåre Fog and others have spent many years creating an inventory of [...]
Startup camp Last weekend I participated in the first edition of the Melbourne Startup Camp. What happens when you put twenty five people, who may or may not know each other, in a room, divide them into three teams and tell them to start a company within less than 48 hours? What if you also [...]
September 1, 2008 – 12:54
One of the questions in the student evaluation of the Google Summer of Code reads: If there was one thing you wish you had known before getting started in Summer of Code, what would it be? It is a very typical evaluation question and we all sortof know what it means and how to answer [...]
In een poging mijn versnipperde online identiteit aan elkaar te lijmen heb ik WordPress geinstalleerd op ‘mijn’ server. Op dit moment kan ik er al mijn weblog op bijhouden, die dan automatisch ook op Livejournal komt te staan. Comments kunnen alleen op mijn homepage en je kan ze ondertekenen door ‘in te loggen’ met je [...]
* hij kan met een klein zonnepaneel werken (2 WATT!!!)* hij deelt Internet met z’n vrienden* hij draait Linux* hij weegt 1 kilo* hij is knalgroen* je kan ‘m buiten bij vol daglicht gebruiken Check de review. Hij kost 100 euro, maar is helaas (nog) niet te koop hier. Echter, er gaan geruchten over een [...]
