Serendipity and a farmer’s daughter…
Photo by lenia. I often talk about Serendipity. People sometimes call me lucky and I don’t like that. Being lucky means sitting at home hoping that one day you win the lottery. Serendipity is more subtle and requires more effort than luck. Anyway, here is the earliest use for the word from the Wikipedia entry for Serendipity: “I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest...
read moreSpunk: even Loïs made it to the video!
Check this video by Spunk.nl. They partycrashed the Web2.0 awards party and made a funny video. They even interviewed Loïs! Spunk — Incest 2.0 And no, the title doesn’t relate to Loïs!
read moreBoris, Loïs and Faye playing Pinball…
Boris, Loïs and Faye. Photo by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten. This is me with Loïs and Faye playing Pinball at the Innovation Factory party of Han Gerrits which took place last...
read morePersonal Harddisk History
My first Macintosh (Apple Mac Plus ED) had 2 diskdrives and 2.5 MB internal memory. It was considered a luxury because the Macs in school had only one disk drive and 1 MB internal memory. After two years I bought a 40 MB removable Harddisk. I figured I would never buy another Harddisk because I could always buy extra cartridges. Another 2 years later I bought the Iomega Zip drive which offered 100mb per disk cartridge. The next Harddisk had 500 MB on it and I used it as a portable Mac. It contained my important files and I just hooked it up to...
read moredutch web 2.0 awards
dutch web 2.0 awards. Photo by Tonie. It was a great evening! You can find a few photos on Flickr by Tonie and a post on BlueAce about who won. After the ceremony we went to Patricks house and played poker until 4 in the morning. I won 40 euros. Then I had to wake up at 7:30 because the kids woke...
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