Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Personal 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....

dutch 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...

Dutch Web2.0awards.nl – TONIGHT, my place

Yep, just a few more hours and the ceremony starts. We are having pancakes with the children near my house now. If you want to join us check the Dutch Web2.0awards website (I don't know how to add a link to a mobile post yet.) (Posted with a Blackberry Pearl, sponsored by Blogads.nl) ...

Ceci n’est pas une Powerpoint!

Huub Koch pointed me to this fantastic presentation by Clemens Kogler. It is beautiful and I watched it with my mouth open. I haven't used Powerpoint (or Keynote) for years now and try to just tell stories when I have to do a presentation but if I could only make something like this... Watch Le Grand Content or read about the it here: Clemens...

Free: Expensive or Cheap?

One of my favorite quotes: The big difference between sex for money and sex for free Is that sex for money usually costs a lot less! -- Brendan Francis It applies to all sorts of situations you encounter while doing business. Investments that seem cheap, government grants that look like free money but come with all sorts of restrictions or people that want to work for shares instead of money. Each time you have to think 'Is this really cheap or will it turn out to be expensive in the...

Got in a fight today…

For real... I was picking up Faye at the daycare center and as I was parking my bike I heard a loud noise, the sound of breaking glass and then an alarm going off. Without thinking twice I ran towards the noise and noticed a hooded guy on a bike, with a leather bag under his arms approaching me, fast. Before I knew it I threw myself towards him and hit his body with my shoulder. He had picked up some speed so we both fell. He hit a brick wall and I spun around and landed on my knee. I got...

Repressive Tolerance

The term Repressive Tolerance was coined in 1965 by Herbert Marcuse. He was a controversial philosopher who criticized capitalist society and whose idea were adopted by the 1970s leftist student movements. Although his original ideas are controversial he had great influence on popular culture. I found out about him because my father mentioned the term Repressive Tolerance to me and I decided to look into it. It turns out that Repressive Tolerance, or cooptation as it is more know today,...

IPAN – De bron voor interactie

On February 6 you can demo and promote your new product, project or company at the IPAN Launch Event. It is free for start-ups! More information at the IPAN.nl website. IPAN - De bron voor...