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Here in The Netherlands, our political landscape is made up of four hierarchical layers: city councils, provincial government, national gove...

Since a year the iPad is on the market. It's been available here for slightly over eight months. And still I get lots of questions about...

So last week, I finally decided I needed a photo camera. I've never ever in my life owned a photo camera before, so this is a bigger dec...

Just cleaned a pineapple and I had to throw away about half of the pineapple on accord of it being inedible. Why can't they invent a mor...

AWTException You are using AWT, which means your GUI will be ugly. This exception is only a warning and can be ignored. Tell it like it is! ...

I just watched a rerun of the 2007 Macworld Keynote, the one where Steve announces the iPhone. Since that time, Steve's weight has been ...

Just recently, the EU announced that the number of allowed pesticides in the EU will be drastically reduced. On first sight this seems like ...

I just logged an incident at our facility management about the lights in our department. And because they have a nice system, I got a direct...

Hi all, Just a small note to inform you that I've compiled a new GNU Emacs for Mac OSX 10.5 for x86. You can find the .dmg here . It...

A few days ago our team went to a day long offsite meeting. And since no one at work has a laptop, I was charged to bring my trusty MacBook ...

I just read the news that the US government bailout of banks has risen to $8.5 trillion. This seems like a very large number. So large in f...

Apple made a good move by announcing that their upcoming version of Mac OS X will be named Snow Leopard. The snow leopard is already earning...

Just a quick post to let you know my 2 cents. Because of all the voting rigging that is going on, I think that John McCain will win the elec...

(Yet Another American Politic Post) I don't trust Senator Barack Obama, somehow I think he's to glib. The way he seems to convince m...

In the US presidential race, there are six primary candidates. However, somehow only two have access to the presidential debates on televis...

Another reason for the drop in oil price could be that the powers that are in control want to punish the government of Iran. The first step ...

What in the world is going on with the price of oil? Just a few months ago, in June 2008, it was $140 a barrel and now it's less than $...

Apple's application store for the iPhone and iPod Touch has some nice things about it: One central point for the developer to promote hi...

In a recent article , ars technica suggests that Apple should reduce the prices of their products in order to gain market share. In my non-s...

The past year or so, I've heard plenty of reports on UK institutions losing data to the public. This latest article is of a bank sel...