I’m getting SICK just THINKING of eating the cake above, I have direct flashbacks to a certain scene in the most disgusting movie I saw ever: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) (if you ever want to see a movie you will never ever forget again in your life, then download or buy this one).
p.s. and 10 more disgusting cakes here!
De letters in onze naam hebben een grotere invloed op ons gedrag dan we in eerste instantie misschien denken.
De letters in onze naam hebben een grotere invloed op ons gedrag dan we in eerste instantie misschien denken. Zo blijkt uit onderzoek dat mensen vaker verhuizen naar een stad, kiezen voor een partner, een beroep en een straat waarvan de namen overeenkomsten vertonen met de eigen naam.
Synology Inc. – NEW NAS Experience – Producten :: Case Study :: Synology
Interesting, Synology uses its own products to manage its own infrastructure including websites.
I’m thinking again on how to expand my home storage and computing capacity in an economic way. That uhm… means the cheapest way possible, let’s call it the Google way. It will not be my primary “working network”.
One interesting thing I found was the http://www.addonics.com/ NAS adapter range. For about 40 euro it can click in e.g. an usb disk in the network along with even having some linux functionalities. It means that I could have e.g. a 1 TB WD disk for 80 euro. A usb HD case for 25 euro and presto for 40+80+25 euro = 145 euro I have a NAS disk of 1 TB.
But… since 8 of these will require a GB switch I will have to add 50 euro (cheap 8 port GB switch) / 8 = 6 euro to the cost making to total let’s say 150 euro per TB NAS.
Let’s it make it a challenge to find a cheaper NAS solution / TB or rather… the cheapest (if shipping costs are involved to the Netherlands I need to take these in account too).
WHO FINDS A CHEAPER SOLUTION?
UPDATE 1 (128,69 euro) :
| € 17,84 | Conceptronic GrabNGo CHD3SU SATA-300 | azerty |
| € 67,00 | Samsung HD103SI SpinPoint 1TB (bulk) (3,5” / SATA II / 5400rpm / 32MB): | redcoon |
| € 41,00 | Addonics NASU2-EU | interngeheugen.com |
| € 2,85 | TP-Link TL-SF1005D 4 poort Switch 10-100 (E 11,40) | komplett |
| € 128,69 |
We always wine, face it. But this website shows you some reflection on your position against the rest of the world. It’s good to reflect on this once in a while.
According to the list I belong to the 0.5% richest persons in the world. I don’t think it’s completely fair though because it probably didn’t take into account the COSTS of living in an area where the income is higher.
Although realizing that “$73 could buy you a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans in Uganda” is good.
I think you only realize the real difference in wealth if you travel around the world (and NOT to the US or Canada but e.g. to Africa). Then you suddenly get an awareness of the real situation, you will never realize this by just reading newspapers or watching TV. You must “feel it” to make the mindshift. It happened to me when I visited an African country and really thought “this can not be true in 2000+”. The bad thing is that the feeling slowly fades after returning.
Eergisteren besloot ik maar weer eens met de TomTom te gaan spelen. Ik installeerde het nieuwe TomTom Home en vond de 3 jaar log data waarover ik eergisteren blogde en ging wat verder…
Somewhere in 2006 I installed http://web.tiscali.it/macri/Event_Logger/ on my TomTom Go.
It’s a cool and very useful application: it logs all your trips and includes a wealth of features for usage directly on your TomTom. Back then I had the idea to use it for mile/fuel usage reporting. (I installed version 5.9a but I noticed it is now on version 8.2 !) (I also have the problem that my TT remote control stops working after the moment the logger kicks in, I wonder if that is fixed now) (anyway).
After that I pretty much didn’t touched the thing anymore and just used it to drive around. Once in a while the eventlogger kicked in but I forgot about it during the next 3 years. I sometimes thought: what if it really stored all my trips*) during the past 3 years?
So today, for the first time in three years I took it out the car and connected it to my laptop. There were 398 .gpx files on it and 273 .itn files! wow.
*) only the trips for which I turn on the TomTom, which is, I think, about 150 times. So not during daily travel.
So what is in there? No idea!
First I have to find software that can combine 398 .gpx files into one. I think GSAK may do the trick! (for experienced trackers probably well known but I had to Google for it). GSAK got 816 waypoints out of the collection after I just entered Load *.gpx as you can see on the left.
Apparently I was on 1-1-2008 in the Osakastraat !! 
(as on the example on the left).
Wow. Pretty cool to just backtrack my history and see where I was!
Ok. Now… how can I combine all of this in one nice overview chart? Via GSAK I exported the collection to 1 gpx file of 1.5mb, which is actually not that big. Hmmm…. If I compare the content of the original GPX files and this combined one that can never be true. The original files contain each a long array of locations, maybe 100 a piece, so I estimate 39800 waypoints. So why does this only loads 816 waypoints?
Let’s try Google Earth, I simply choose “open file” and then selected all GPX files. I then had to manually click 398 times on “OK” (!!…) but … here is where I was the past three years (blue lines):
What would really be handy if I would see routes that I travelled more often in a darker color. But anyway, it shows me the business trip to the brewery and my two vacations in the Ardennen.
It also shows the trips to Remco in Apeldoorn and the countless of locations (Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht) I visit for my work and ofcourse the trips to my parents in Maastricht and Esmee’s parents in Heerlen.
The cool thing is that I can actually click on a dot and see where I was at that exact moment of time and how long I did over a certain distance.
Nice! If I have some more time I will datamine somewhat more in this collection. Maybe I can even export the dates with the routes as blogpostings in WordPress.
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| The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for over 4000 years and this is what was left physically.
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The ancient USA civilization lasted for over 500 years and this is what was left physically.
Although it still has a large influence on our day-to-day language, religions and culture. |
Peter R de Vries blijft steengoede televisie maken.
Vanavond ging Peter achter een oplichter aan die motoren stal. Dat op zich is niet zo opzienbarend, wat wel opzienbarend was, was de wijze waarop de politie agent van het betreffende bureau hier mee om ging. “Een aangifte weet jij hoe dat moet?”. Vervolgens komt de klant zelf terecht in een onterechte “achterstallige boete” dreigement (waanzin) en dan… de aangifte inclusief het huisadres van de verdachte verdween gewoonweg in de *void. Na weken wachten en vele telefoontjes werd er absoluut niets mee gedaan. De “klant” werd zelfs wijsgemaakt dat de agent buiten huis was of niet bereikbaar en het gegeven telefoonnummer was onbereikbaar.
Ik denk dat Peter hiermee een nieuw concept te pakken heeft. Waar andere “consumenten programma’s” zoals Kassa en Radar een controle functie uitoefenen op de commerciële markt gebeurt dat hier bij de overheidsmarkt.
Dit lijkt me een braakliggend terrein op televisiegebied en daarnaast nog behoorlijk nuttig ook.
Ik ben benieuwd naar de reactie van het bureau uit Soest naar aanleiding van deze uitzending.
(ik denk dat half Nederland van zijn stoel gevallen is door deze uitzending)
Lees meer: http://www.peterrdevries.nl/
De betreffende uitzending: http://www.peterrdevries.nl/programma/textprogramma240509.htm
p.s. : meedoen als figurant in een reconstructie? –> http://www.peterrdevries.nl/tekst/textfiguranten.html
Lees ook dit stuk uit 2004: http://www.peterrdevries.nl/tekst/penmad24012004.htm “HET POLITIELOKET ALS ‘AFPOEIERCENTRALE”
