[EN] Voices from the Past

I decided to join LinkedIn yesterday. I’m not too big a fan of social networking sites (I was on Facebook, but left it due to increasing privacy concerns, and I’m still on Hyves), primarily because most people I know are not on them and refuse to join them.. I’m quite amazed by how many people [...]

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[EN] R.I.P. Miepje

Miepje, my cat of twenty-two years, is no more. On Saturday, her health deteriorated rapidly, and it became so bad during the night that I decided to ring up a vet to have her put to sleep. I have just returned from there. Miepje died Sunday morning, at 3:30. (picture taken in Leiden, around 1993) [...]

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[EN] Last Days?

After years of dreading this moment, I think it’s time to face the fact that my cat (well, pussycat) Miepje, who’s been with me for well over twenty years (probably around twenty-two), is slowly approaching the end. She’s become thinner and thinner these last few months, and she’s slowly losing the power to move around. [...]

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[EN] Google Chrome

Today, Google’s supposed to make its own web browser, Chrome, available for testing. Here is the comicbook story behind the design choices they made. Makes for very interesting (and easy) reading. The new browser was built from the ground up, which made it possible to handle the way the browser works in, and interacts with, [...]

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