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By Bruce van der Kooij on December 16, 2011
For quite some time now I’ve been contemplating a blog/homepage relaunch. I’m working things out and I sure hope this time I will manage to get something which with I’m satisfied enough to relaunch.
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By Bruce van der Kooij on December 16, 2011
I like WordPress but what I hate about it is that: I have to actively go to the blog to post (I’ll give Press This another shot) The process to attach an image (e.g. from a screenshot) has so many steps that it’s just tedious In the past I’ve tried using desktop blog editors, but [...]
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By Bruce van der Kooij on December 16, 2011
For the last week I’ve actually been evaluating/using Wikispaces. It’s a pretty decent wiki overall, though now that I’ve added quite a bit of content I am already starting to run into problems organizing it efficiently. Or maybe it’s just that my skills in finding things are lacking. I’ve actually been documenting my evaluation in [...]
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By Bruce van der Kooij on December 10, 2011
I’m going to try and see if I can publicly document my adventures into setting up a wiki environment on this blog. I’m posting this announcement because I think doing so will force me to really do this.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged announcement, project |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 4, 2011
Yahoo Pipes is an interesting project/application, but I’m having a hard time finding interesting / inspirational pipes. The first popular pipe I tried (The Bigger Picture) I couldn’t figure out what it was supposed to be doing and the second one (Top 10 Movies Trailers) is broken because the title attribute in the feed is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged mashups, microblog |
By Bruce van der Kooij on November 1, 2011
Today Google rolled out the new design for Google Reader. Apart from the design, the first thing I noticed was that the keyboard hotkey to like an item has been removed (‘L’). In fact, the entire Google Reader sharing functionality has been dropped in favor of some rudimentary Google+ integration (read what Alex from the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged technology, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 20, 2011
When I renewed my internet subscription I received a € 30,- gift certificate to spend at the online retailer BOL.com. I’m considering using it to (among other things) buy Settlers 7 (€ 9,99) but after downloading the demo (which comes in at a whopping 2,9GB) from GamersHell.com (first Google result), installing it, patching it twice [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged frustration, video games |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 10, 2011
Barnes & Nobles Newsstand Amazon.com Magazines Google Magazines Magazines.com
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By Bruce van der Kooij on April 19, 2011
Get to your favorite sites quickly – even if you don’t remember the URLs. Type your term into the location bar (aka the Awesome Bar) and the autocomplete function will include possible matches from your browsing history, bookmarked sites and open tabs. The Awesome Bar learns as you use it—over time, it adapts to your [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged pure awesome, technology, the little things, usability |
By Bruce van der Kooij on March 29, 2011
I doubt there’s anybody out there reading this but just in case. You may have noticed that the blog had removed for some time (I replaced it with a blank page that said “Nothing to see here, move along”). I removed the blog because I lost my motivation to blog (/didn’t see the purpose anymore). [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged announcement |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 5, 2010
From the Wikipedia article on the issue: On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from her position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture after blogger Andrew Breitbart posted video excerpts of Sherrod’s address at a March 2010 NAACP event to his website. The NAACP [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged journalism, ouch, that's not ok, this is some serious stuff, usa-number one |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 4, 2010
Found through a comment at this article in Trouw.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cycling, fashion |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 3, 2010
(The news report above is from a WJW, channel 8, a Fox-affiliated television station in Cleveland, Ohio. You can view the security footage by itself on YouTube, posted there by The Akron Beacon Journal) The officer involved in the incident, deputy Jason Kline, alleges in his report that the prisoner, David Malcolm, swung his head [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged be better than good-be great, media, news, that's not ok, usa-number one |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 3, 2010
No Pressure is composed of scenes in which schoolchildren and office workers are summarily and gruesomely executed for not pledging a reduction in their carbon emissions to participating educators and employers. The film ends with the words “Cut your carbon by 10%. No pressure.” So if this isn’t a “false flag” effort (which would really [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged don't believe the hype, false flag, what the fuck |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 2, 2010
Als je geen geld en tijd hebt om op vakantie te gaan, maar toch verlangt naar het geluid van de rits van de tent en de geur van gemaaid gras, ga dan op avontuur in je eigen stad! Een week lang kampeerden we in de binnenstad van Utrecht, in parken, bermen, hofjes en op onbestemde [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged funny, real-life |
By Bruce van der Kooij on October 1, 2010
I’m trying to figure out what I want to achieve with this blog.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged announcement |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 29, 2010
Martijn Kieft, Pieter van der Wielen en Chris Vijn onderzoeken op een actieve manier waar ons geld terechtkomt of waar het blijft hangen. Door zelf deel te nemen aan het economische verkeer ondervinden zij wie de winnaars zijn en wie de verliezers. Volg je de meute dan wordt je gepiepeld, dus wat kunnen de verslaggevers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged documentary, journalism, linkdump, media |
By Bruce van der Kooij on September 29, 2010
Rondeel heeft aan alle facetten aandacht besteed, dus ook aan het eierdoosje. Het blijkt dat consumenten bij eieren door de bomen het bos niet meer zien: allemaal verschillende eieren in uiteindelijk ongeveer hetzelfde doosje. Rondeel heeft deze boodschap opgepakt en heeft gekozen voor een opvallende, ronde verpakking, gemaakt van het biologisch afbreekbare materiaal ‘restkokosvezels’. Het [...]
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