New blog theme
As you can see if you are visiting this blog in a regular browser I have updated the design. The last time I spent some time on the design was more than a year ago and recently I received a few friendly suggestions that maybe it was time for a change. The design you see here is based on a very popular WordPress theme titled “Bluebird” designed by Randa Clay. I only changed some colors and the header image. Because of Twitter and TwitterMail I spend a lot more time micro blogging than writing regular, and longer, post here. But that...
read moreMy presentation at Sprout ChallengerDay 2007
Last year I did a presentation during Sprout ChallengerDay on November 1, 2007. I talked about innovation, big companies and told an anecdote about how hard it is for big companies to innovate. More than 500 people were there and it was the first edition of the ‘Sprout ChallengerDay’ event. I just received the video and uploaded it so you can watch it too. It is a Dutch presentation but the main story is one I blogged about before in a post titled “Big Companies VS Small Companies on Innovation” so read that if you...
read moreThe Mouse & The Elephant
In 1995 I remember seeing a documentary where they interviewed Bill Gates. He was asked if he was fearing competition from other big software companies. His answer was that he didn’t fear any of the big companies around. He said that the threat to a big company is not in the other big companies, but in the smaller companies slowly undermining the foundations of the business that his big company was built upon. He pointed out the window at the lawn down below and said something like “Up from here it is hard to see the really small...
read moreKill your darlings…
This post was written for the Fleck.com blog where I posted it on March 16, 2006. I’m posting it here so it is more easily accesible. The original post can still be found here, including some comments and pingbacks. This last week I have been trying to finish the layout for the main user interface screens. And I just couldn’t finish them. I kept postponing my work, checking my mail, staring out the window and finding reasons to do other things instead. At first I thought I just had a (code)writers block but after 3 days I still...
read moreHow do you paint a white rabbit?
This post was written for the Fleck.com blog where I posted it on April 16, 2006. I’m posting it here so it is more easily accesible. The original post can still be found here, including some comments and pingbacks. On Sunday I was visiting my parents house to celebrate Easter Day. As we drove there we noticed a perfect white rabbit sitting by the side of the road. I stopped to show it to our children and told them it must have been the Easter bunny. My parents hid painted real eggs and chocolate ones in the garden, which the kids had to...
read moreShower Interview
I did an interview for a Dutch student association while taking a shower. Yeah, that is not a typo. Check out the result (Interview in Dutch, sorry) here: This frame shows Tessa leading the interviewer to our bathroom…
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